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Help[Opinions] Re: Ursula
in reply to a message by Sara Sontheil
I don't hate urusula but I don't love it either, it reminds me to much of The Little Mermaid.
Cassie Anne (not Cassandra!)
Fiance to Grant Stephen
Mum to Hayley Anne :)
D.O.B: 8th October, 2004
baby #2 due: 19th May, 2007
Cassie Anne (not Cassandra!)
Fiance to Grant Stephen
Mum to Hayley Anne :)
D.O.B: 8th October, 2004
baby #2 due: 19th May, 2007
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Warning: irrational rant
I'm an Ursula lover and I'm going to pick on you because you're the most recent person to express this "Little Mermaid" prejudice.
I. mean. really.
Have you people never heard of Ursula K LeGuin, author of the Earthsea books? Ursula Andress, the Swedish actress and original James Bond Girl? Saint Ursula, founder of the Ursuline order of nuns? Am I crazy (don't answer that!) or is there no other collective understanding of the name Ursula?
OK, thanks. Got that off my chest.
I'm an Ursula lover and I'm going to pick on you because you're the most recent person to express this "Little Mermaid" prejudice.
I. mean. really.
Have you people never heard of Ursula K LeGuin, author of the Earthsea books? Ursula Andress, the Swedish actress and original James Bond Girl? Saint Ursula, founder of the Ursuline order of nuns? Am I crazy (don't answer that!) or is there no other collective understanding of the name Ursula?
OK, thanks. Got that off my chest.
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I've heard of all of those. Unfortunately, I saw The Little Mermaid long before I knew who any of those people were, so it's still my first and strongest association with this name.
Sorry that offends you, but really... I don't do it on purpose. I can't control what images come to mind when I hear a name. I like Ursula and I don't think it's unusable, but you have to accept that a lot of people do think of the Disney character when they hear it.
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Friendship is more lasting than love, and more legal than stalking.
-Jane, Coupling
Sorry that offends you, but really... I don't do it on purpose. I can't control what images come to mind when I hear a name. I like Ursula and I don't think it's unusable, but you have to accept that a lot of people do think of the Disney character when they hear it.
Friendship is more lasting than love, and more legal than stalking.
-Jane, Coupling
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I'm not offended in the least. It was all tongue in cheek. :-) I'm just trying to see if I can open people's eyes to other possibilities and sometimes (feined) shock works as well as anything else. :-D
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Amen
Magnanimous Despair alone could show me so divine a thing, where feeble hope could ne'er have flown, but vainly flapped its tinsel wing.
Magnanimous Despair alone could show me so divine a thing, where feeble hope could ne'er have flown, but vainly flapped its tinsel wing.
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