[ SECRET POST #3255 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3255 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Paul Walker, Fast and Furious movies]


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03.
[Inuyasha]


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04.
[Z Nation]


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05.
[Hugh Dancy (and Claire Danes)]


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06.
[Jessica Jones]


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07.
[The Oatmeal]


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08.
[Star Wars: The Old Republic]


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09.
[Harry Potter]










Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 020 secrets from Secret Submission Post #465.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Annoying names in fiction

[(Anonymous)]

I was just remembering a horrible case of this today. I saw the movie Catch Me If You Can in the theater, and all these years later the only thing I remember about it was a scene where Leonardo DiCaprio's character was flirting with some random older lady and asked her her name, and she said "Ashley."

The movie took place in what, the 1940s? Ashley wasn't a girl's name until the 80's! There aren't any middle aged female Ashleys yet in 2015; there would be zero chance of any existing back then!

Re: Annoying names in fiction

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, claims of "zero" are tricky.

Actually, both Ashley Jensen and Ashley Judd were def middle-aged in 2015 (born 1068/69)

The name as spelled "Ashleigh" wasn't unknown in the 30s and 40s, since it's derived from Gaelic Aisling.

Re: Annoying names in fiction

[(Anonymous)]

Uh, no.

Ashleigh is just a different spelling of Ashley. Comes from a surname meaning ash meadow. Nothing to do with Aisling.

Re: Annoying names in fiction

[dancing_clown]

FYI: Catch Me If You Can was set in the 60s, and girls were named Ashley well before the 80s (though it probably is suspect to have a middle-aged Ashley in the 60s).

Re: Annoying names in fiction

[(Anonymous)]

Not that suspect, in my opinion. American women in that era sometimes had masculine names, and both men and women in some parts of the USA have now (and had then) personal names that came from surnames (which is what happened with Ashley).

It wasn't as common a woman's name then, but it's not out of the question.

Re: Annoying names in fiction

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, not exactly. It may not have been a common name for girls, but that doesn't mean there weren't any female Ashleys before 1980:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_(name)#First_name.2C_female

Keep in mind those are just a listing of people notable enough to be in Wikipedia, so chances are there were some obscure female Ashleys born in the 60s and 70s, and perhaps earlier.

Re: Annoying names in fiction

[(Anonymous)]

OK point taken... but still, for an unimportant character who's only purpose is to be in one scene and show that the main character is good at flattery? Not likely they were looking for a character like that to have some obscure name. It's the kind of character who's always called something relentlessly normal and forgettable, so the writers were probably using today's standards for the name when they chose it.

Re: Annoying names in fiction

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, maybe. But since it happens that the name may have been appropriate after all and that even throwaway minor parts don't have to have "normal" or common names, I'm not bothered.