Memeage!

[jedibuttercup]

Whee, a couple of memes. Looking forward to Heroes in a couple of hours; still no luck writing, but doing better than this weekend. Everything still tastes wrong, and my sinuses are all clogged, but I don't feel absolutely miserable anymore, yay is me.

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
jedibuttercup goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Maid Marian.
brendanm720 gives you 13 tan grapefruit-flavoured gummy worms.
empressvesica gives you 7 light blue passionfruit-flavoured jawbreakers.
iulia_linnea tricks you! You get a rock.
izhilzha gives you 17 green raspberry-flavoured pieces of taffy.
lisaroquin gives you 13 light green spearmint-flavoured wafers.
lt_kitty tricks you! You get a piece of paper.
maevebran gives you 5 light orange pineapple-flavoured wafers.
sh1mm3r gives you 2 pink raspberry-flavoured gumdrops.
wallbrat gives you 18 light orange grapefruit-flavoured gummy worms.
windandsky tricks you! You get a toothbrush.
jedibuttercup ends up with 75 pieces of candy, a rock, a piece of paper, and a toothbrush.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

(For those confused by my choice of costume, it may help to know that the first VHS I ever owned was "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves", and that I read every Robin Hood book I could find in my elementary school and junior high libraries. The Bold Outlaw was one of my very earliest fannish obsessions; only Star Trek and Star Wars predate it. So you can probably imagine my reaction the day Q transported the ST:TNG cast into one of his tales).

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 4 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Wow, I guess I'm pretty uncommon. But then, I've been told that before. *BOMP*
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Comments

[beatrice_otter]

Well, most Scandinavians didn't have a "last" name as we think of it until the early part of the 20th century. Before that point, most had a couple of names they used as circumstances required. Patronymics (Olson, Svenson, etc), the name of their farm, the name of their village, any cool feature of their neighborhood, etc.

Dad's almost pure Norwegian. Mom's mostly of Scottish extract by way of Canada, but can trace other parts of her heritage back to pre-Revoltionary War America. Ever read the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards? (Bet you did in high school--American Lit, or maybe history.) Anyway, we're descended from him through an illegitimate great-grandaughter.