Suppose you are on the lamb, or recently placed in a witness protection program, and you have to pick a new name? How would you choose your new name?
I'm not on the lamb (or in the witness protection program), but Poseidon thinks I should have a new name, and he's spent a good deal of time thinking about this. Here is his list. I'm trying to picture myself at the DMV, replacing my name on my license with one of these:
Toffee-nosed Ringlefinch - This one leaves me feeling verbally beaten up
Bubbles Maxima - This is not a game, man, this is my life!
Yammyschmidt McStingshine - Saying this outloud feels an awful lot like scraping knuckles on my cheese grater.
Prudence Woolingsworth - Has potential. I'm strangely OK with this name
Eunice G Quattlebaum - This is a mess begging for help up off the floor (and what does the G stand for?)
Felicity Sunshine - this one leaves me feeling boundary-challenged, and I don't really know why
Mrs. Ariel Johannessen - I could never spell this correctly. Never
Travellers Check McLuggage - Sounds like a menu offering at a McDonalds in Edinburgh
Ragnhild Synnove Olson (honoring that Swedish heritage) - That's a troll's name
Trudy "Bubbles" Flowers - See what he's done here? Poseidon has already given this name a nickname
Sandi-Lyn Slavenovich - Hmmm, the pebble in shoe analogy applies to this one. It doesn't seem all that bad when you first give it a test run, but after a few miles? Issues
Virginia West - Nope
Goodwife Snavely - Just makes me feel dirty
I want to be flexible, but honestly, I'm mostly just worried about my capacity for change, at this point.
--Amphitrite
