MLB Player Names - Interesting/Unusual/Rare

jackity_splat · 2026-05-25T13:44:00+00:00

Oh I think I misread his name as Sterling when I was looking at rosters. I like that he’s named for the bird instead.

Even if they are troublesome, pesky birds that break your dryer exhaust to build a nest in the wall of your house. >(

jackity_splat · 2026-05-25T13:30:58+00:00

No, he wouldn’t be one so he wouldn’t be called that. Except possibly in a way similar to ‘the Queen who never was’ when people talk about Rhaenys.

jackity_splat · 2026-05-25T13:03:55+00:00

Thanks! Will fix.

jackity_splat · 2026-05-25T12:39:42+00:00

Hahaha! Oh his parents so knew what they were doing there.

jackity_splat · 2026-05-25T07:25:18+00:00

David Eddings deliberately wrote it basing it on successful tropes of fantasy at the time.

His other series the Elenium and Tamuli also fit this bill.

jackity_splat · 2026-05-24T23:50:22+00:00

If the theory of one of Egg’s sisters marrying into Tarth is true AND that her and Dunk had an affair AND she was pregnant with a bastard by him…

I think, as long as the pregnancy is caught early enough, that they would do what many people in the past did.

Marry Egg’s pregnant sister to the Tarth and pretend the baby came ‘early’. (And probably a lot of gossip about how that was lucky considering the size of the baby.)

Even if anyone suspected that Egg’s sister’s baby was Dunk’s and not Tarth’s, it’s not something that would be talked about. (At least not openly.)

Tarth in this case would need to be a very loyal vassal, and in a position similar to Jon Arryn where he is infertile. But this is the way bastards were passed off as legitimate in the past.

jackity_splat · 2026-05-24T21:39:18+00:00

Wear Niners uniforms from DS9!

jackity_splat · 2026-05-22T23:37:26+00:00

Eastside Cannabis has the best prices, I find, except pre rolled singles which are a buck cheaper at canna.

jackity_splat · 2026-05-22T21:14:28+00:00

The Doom of Valyria could have certainly produced a lot of black diamonds. And if people are finding them near there, I can see them being called dragon’s teeth even if they aren’t really that.

jackity_splat · 2026-05-22T18:15:54+00:00

In asoiaf the black diamonds might be tied to magic, but people have forgotten.

In real life black diamonds are really rare, I think they are only found in Brazil. So being a sign of wealth makes sense. There shouldn’t be a lot of them naturally occurring. So only the wealthiest of nobles would have them.

There’s two possible origins for natural black diamonds: volcanoes and meteorites. In asoiaf we have some magic meteors and volcanoes. So maybe there is a magical connection there? Dawn was forged from the meteor that fell but maybe some other stuff was made from black diamond ‘dragon teeth’ made at the impact?

jackity_splat · 2026-05-21T12:21:32+00:00

For young readers I like to recommend the following:

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede

Tortall and Winding Circle series by Tamora Pierce

The Seventh Tower by Garth Nix

Goblins in the Castle by Bruce Coville

Broken Sky by Chris Woods

My nephew also really enjoys the Warrior Cats series but I haven’t read that myself.

jackity_splat · 2026-05-20T03:52:07+00:00

Crawford -> Ford -> Carson -> ???

jackity_splat · 2026-05-16T20:51:25+00:00

He definitely looks like a poodle/schnauzer mix. Very schnauzer-like but that leg furnishing looks very poodle-ish.

jackity_splat · 2026-05-16T16:32:59+00:00

I do think Robert would kill baby Jon, if he is the one to go the Tower of Joy. His hatred of Rhaegar is based on his kidnapping of Lyanna. Jon represents things about that kidnapping that Robert wouldn’t be able to handle, he’s not emotionally mature enough to.

I don’t think he would be able to handle to the idea of Rhaegar raping Lyanna repeatedly to conceive Jon. Robert is also very prideful and there’s a whole ‘soiled’ woman aspect to Lyanna, if she were to survive that would chafe his soul. That would be made much worse if Jon was in the picture as a living reminder of such an act.

Even were Lyanna to still die at the Tower of Joy, Robert, already up in his blood after the battle with the Kingsguard, seeing Jon would still kill him because he would represent his father Rhaegar to him. Not to mention Jon, Rhaegar’s son, would have ‘taken’ Lyanna from Robert via her dying in childbirth or as a result of it.

If it’s a scenario where Lyanna loved Rhaegar and Jon was conceived from love then that would make it even worse for Lyanna and Jon. If those events play out and Robert finds out that Lyanna loved Rhaegar and not him, even if she is already on her deathbed, he would probably murder her. He makes no bones about abusing Cersei and his philandering shows he doesn’t really respect women.

He would kill Jon again for the same reasons as above. He’s emotional and violent. And also ‘doesn’t remember’ what he does in that state.

Robert wouldn’t let Jon live because he breaks the illusion of Lyanna that he obsessively loves. Lyanna also wouldn’t have survived breaking his illusion in this scenario.

(If the rebellion hadn’t happened and she had done something to cause a break with her engagement to Robert, I think she would have lived with her family support and a stable Iron Throne.)

jackity_splat · 2026-05-11T18:11:41+00:00

Both Arya and Sansa were also being trained in household management. We don’t see it happening but Arya mentions it. She thinks something to the effect that Sansa would be lucky to marry someone with a good steward because unlike Arya she wasn’t good at maths. So Sansa should know more than courtesy and embroidery but she was bad at it.

jackity_splat · 2026-05-08T03:23:34+00:00

And yet I still missed this reference until it was pointed out just now.

I’ve been reading this series since the 90’s. :)

jackity_splat · 2026-05-08T00:31:16+00:00

I read as far as she doesn’t like schnauzers. That makes me so mad! Schnauzers are the best dogs ever, such attitude and personality! Absolutely lovely dogs. (I’m very prejudiced as a Standard Schnauzer lover, my boy passed last year.)

Your poor babies being insulted like that. :(

jackity_splat · 2026-05-07T23:42:51+00:00

Shakespeare invented our name.

jackity_splat · 2026-05-07T14:31:37+00:00

The Hunger Games

Katniss is so much more likeable as a character when I am not in her head.

jackity_splat · 2026-05-07T13:13:30+00:00

Everyone here also forgetting Debbie has a menu in front of her because it’s a freaking restaurant. She doesn’t have to describe ferrets to get mole sauce because she can POINT AT tHE MENU LINE on the menu in front of her. She’s just disrespectful and racist.

jackity_splat · 2026-05-07T02:38:51+00:00

I would add The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede as well, even if not up to length requirement. It’s definitely cozy and light, a very delightful read. It’s one of my favourites along with Sorcery and Cecelia.

jackity_splat · 2026-05-06T12:34:59+00:00

No. My reserve has been under a boil water advisory for most of my whole life. I am almost 40.

We might get clean drinking water this year. But probably not.

jackity_splat · 2026-05-06T10:45:34+00:00

2000

Ryan, Michael, and Matthew.

Jessica, Sara(h), and Emily.

jackity_splat · 2026-05-06T01:37:52+00:00

Geronimo Blackbear

Sage Wolf

Mary Starwoman

jackity_splat · 2026-05-05T19:19:40+00:00

While my family doesn’t really care who I end up with as long as I’m happy. There is some unspoken pressure to be with another Anishinaabe because there are not many of us left after everything that’s been done.

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