almost your name

[certainthings]

Do you know what your name would have been had you been born the opposite sex? Mine was going to be Christopher Michael.

What about what you were almost named? I was almost Crystal. I'm really glad my mom changed her mind on that one. And then at one point she was going to name me Jericho (as a girl) ... at least I'm fairly sure it was that name. That might've been kinda cool.

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[gretazreta.livejournal.com]

Awesome question. And Jericho= quite cool, but imagine all the "walls tumbling down" jokes you would have had..

If I was a boy I was going to be Alexander (yes, after the Great). My Dad's a Classics man.
I was almost... Meredith. Which was of course well before Grey's Anatomy but I have to say (with no disrespect for the Merediths out there...) the Meredith in Grey's is exactly the whiny prim pain-in-the-ass I would expect from that name.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

The "walls tumbling down" reference is lost on me. :/

Eee, yeah. Meredith ... is well, it's a bit of a fuddy-duddy name. *nods*

[gretazreta.livejournal.com]

It's in the Bible. Some chap wanted to take on the city of Jericho because there were sinners or some-such and God gave him the mighty POWERRZ and he blew a trumpet and the walls fell down! And all the sinners were CRUSHED because you know, they LIVED in the walls of cities back then. :(( Poor little sinners!

And I have enough fuddy-duddy tendencies without any help from being called Meredith. :D