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[Opinions] Re: Cleo
This afternoon on the local news the reporter covering a story was named Cleo Green. I almost laughed out loud because Cleo itself has always seemed just plain silly to me, and combined with Green it sounds like a cleanser or hair dye or something.No, I don't like Cleo. It's hard to picture a real, normal, ordinary person with the name, and forget all about Cleopatra. That's a one-off name if ever I heard one.I don't like Hero either. A hero ain't nothin but a sandwich.I do like Margo. It's elegant and different but still familiar.
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A hero is a type of sandwich? I didn't know that. I figured most people would associate it with, you know, a hero like Hercules or Robin Hood or Harry Potter. I love the name because I always heard it like the women named Hero from Much Ado About Nothing and the myth of Hero and Leander. But that being said, I also like names like Perdita and Hermione.
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yes, it's also called a sub or a hoagyAnd there is a famous book by Alice Childress called "A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich" about a teenage heroin addict.
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