Re: Dee
in reply to a message by queenv
Dee is just such a non-name to me. Even more so than Kay or Jay. Dee Dee is cutesy and babyish.
Dee just seems lazy. I've known two, one of whom was actually Delores Dorothy and one who is just Dee. The just-Dee has this huge round face that doesn't look like it belongs with her wiry, muscular body; it's like all her fat rises up and sits in her face. She also has a laugh exactly like a horse whinnying. I've never heard anything like it.
The Delores Dee I didn't know very well, but she seemed nice, had a heavy New York accent and rode a motorcycle.
"It's one thing to be open-minded and quite another to be so open-minded your brains fall out."--Dear Abby
"Let other people push you around, and you deserve whatever bad things happen after that."--Lauren Bacall
Dee just seems lazy. I've known two, one of whom was actually Delores Dorothy and one who is just Dee. The just-Dee has this huge round face that doesn't look like it belongs with her wiry, muscular body; it's like all her fat rises up and sits in her face. She also has a laugh exactly like a horse whinnying. I've never heard anything like it.
The Delores Dee I didn't know very well, but she seemed nice, had a heavy New York accent and rode a motorcycle.
"It's one thing to be open-minded and quite another to be so open-minded your brains fall out."--Dear Abby
"Let other people push you around, and you deserve whatever bad things happen after that."--Lauren Bacall
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I knew a DeeDee whose real name was the same as mine, both first and middle, Janice Diane. She was young to have the name Janice, born in 1974, but the explanation for that was that she was named after her mother. So a nickname was needed to avoid confusion, but how DeeDee was arrived at, I don't know. The mother Janice was killed in a car crash when she was in her forties, so DeeDee's brother named his daughter Janice after his mother, but she was called Cissy, by everyone except DeeDee, who called her Little Janice. DeeDee died of a heart attack when she was only 35.
DeeDee had a brief relationship with a friend of B.'s named Ray, but Ray always called her DeeDA. DeeDee never objected, but I sure would have. Look, idiot, get my name right.
DeeDee had a brief relationship with a friend of B.'s named Ray, but Ray always called her DeeDA. DeeDee never objected, but I sure would have. Look, idiot, get my name right.
The dumbest Dee name I know of is a woman named Dindee. Rhymes with Cindy. I used to work with her. She'd be probably late fifties now. She was slightly hard of hearing and I always assumed that Dindee was her childhood mispronunciation of Cindy, or Sandy, or something, or was a babyish holdover nickname for something entirely unrelated.
Turns out Dindee was her actual name. Her parents were something like Donald and Dorothy, and her big sister was Doris, and they wanted the next baby to have a d name too. Even the dog was named Duke. So they came up with Dindee.
All the nice d names they could have chosen? Diana, Dawn, Debbie, Denise, Dana, Darlene, Deanna, even Doreen? And they made one up that sounds like a hearing-impaired kid's mistake.
Turns out Dindee was her actual name. Her parents were something like Donald and Dorothy, and her big sister was Doris, and they wanted the next baby to have a d name too. Even the dog was named Duke. So they came up with Dindee.
All the nice d names they could have chosen? Diana, Dawn, Debbie, Denise, Dana, Darlene, Deanna, even Doreen? And they made one up that sounds like a hearing-impaired kid's mistake.
Donalda, even. I went to school with at least 3 Donaldas. Feminine for Donald, perhaps?
Drusila! a girl I knew as a student.
Doris? harmless name.
Drusila! a girl I knew as a student.
Doris? harmless name.
This message was edited 4/19/2016, 12:13 PM
I am partial to Diandra and Diantha.