I will never read your story if…

[NoTalentHack]

Ask your doctor if L’ventia is right for you.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's L'ventia.ll

 

[gunhilltrain]

Names become trendy, like Dakota, Brooklyn or Aspen. Doesn't mean they were conceived there, it's just that their parents thought it would be cute to stick their kid with a place name - or even worse, something like Apple.

Of course, none of them were conceived there. Names like Dakota or Aspen convey images of mountains, clear air, fashionable resorts, the "old West" (the image of it, not the way it really was), and other aspects that set off the dopamine in people's brains.

You would never name a girl after a city in the present Rustbelt, like say Akron or Rahway (NJ). Names like that bring up images of actually making things (or they used to, once): hard and probably dull labor, pollution, and so forth. A woman with a name like that, from infancy on, makes people think of auto assembly plants, oil refineries, steel mils, and so forth.

Choose your daughter's name carefully:

 

[alohadave]

It sounds like the name a corporation that changed its name to sound more - memorable, hip? Like if Yellow Trucking ever comes out bankruptcy, they would rename themselves something like L'ventia Transportation Solutions.

Sounds like a drug. A unique name that can be trademarked.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Sounds like a drug. A unique name that can be trademarked.

Yes, sounds likely. Nobody can pronounce the generic names.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Because the name was popular in the early 1900's when polio was prevailent for the masses. It's called a joke. Imagine it's about forty or so years from now, and the name is some popular name from now, I'd have made the same joke, but with covid.

Okay, now I see what you meant. It's a bit of stretch, because that's not what I would think - but that's just me. To me, Gertrude brings up images of women working in World War II-era factories. "Trudy the Riveter." Marilyn Monroe was originally named Norma, another disappearing name, and she worked in an aircraft plant.

Now we know what she really looked like; the girl next door who who happened to work in a factory.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/07/27/article-2380152-1B054062000005DC-244_634x791.jpg

 

[gunhilltrain]

What exasperates me is that you'll have no consequences for that, whereas I'm doomed to be banned.

Just saying, some people are wondering if you are merely a piece of "AI" programming. I doubt that is true, but I can understand why they think that.

HAL would have been banned here too.

"My mind is going."

 

[Britva415]

To me, Gertrude brings up images of women working in World War II-era factories

Right within the polio era. No vaccine was available until later.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Right within the polio era. No vaccine was available until later.

All right, I knew that already. The first mass vaccinations in the United States were in early 1955. That just happens to be around when I was born: May, 1955.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Because the name was popular in the early 1900's when polio was prevailent for the masses. It's called a joke. Imagine it's about forty or so years from now, and the name is some popular name from now, I'd have made the same joke, but with covid.

Forgive me, but there are over 200 posts on this thread and I lost track of what is going on. I won't go back and read all of them; I didn't even read them the all first time around. If fact, if I see a thread that is new to me and it already has a lot of posts, I usually just skip it.

 

[MediocreAuthor]

Ask your doctor if L’ventia is right for you.

If you have an erection lasting more than 12 hours, L'ventia may be to blame.

(Honestly, if your doctor recommends L'ventia, you should probably seek out a new physician)

 

[JaxRhapsody]

Okay, now I see what you meant. It's a bit of stretch, because that's not what I would think - but that's just me. To me, Gertrude brings up images of women working in World War II-era factories. "Trudy the Riveter." Marilyn Monroe was originally named Norma, another disappearing name, and she worked in an aircraft plant.

Now we know what she really looked like; the girl next door who who happened to work in a factory.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/07/27/article-2380152-1B054062000005DC-244_634x791.jpg

Wow, lol. I remember reading or hearing somebody recant that during her celebrity days, she was an absolute slob.

Forgive me, but there are over 200 posts on this thread and I lost track of what is going on. I won't go back and read all of them; I didn't even read them the all first time around. If fact, if I see a thread that is new to me and it already has a lot of posts, I usually just skip it.

Did you mean to quote me twice? Same, though, I usually avoid threads with more than eight pages or so.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Wow, lol. I remember reading or hearing somebody recant that during her celebrity days, she was an absolute slob.

Did you mean to quote me twice? Same, though, I usually avoid threads with more than eight pages or so.

Whetever was wrong with Marilyn Monroe, fame and money only made worse, or it certainly didn't help. It was her second husband, Joe DiMaggio, who complained about her lack of bathing.

I don't remember trying trying to quote you twice. But if a thread has 100 posts (this one has 220), I may read the beginning and the end. Then if I add another post, somebody probably has already provided a similar response in the middle.

 

[Vintage_DM]

...the story includes I'm CummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmMMmMmMmMmMmMmMm<cough>MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmMmMmMmMmMmMing. anywhere.

Excuse me? What did you say?

 

[MediocreAuthor]

Excuse me? What did you say?

If I heard him correctly, he said:

I'm CummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmMMmMmMmMmMmMmMm<cough>MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmMmMmMmMmMmMing.

 

[Altissimus]

If I heard him correctly

You did.

 

[Abbafan]

I don't think I've ever seen an author say they don't also read.

I know someone who runs a writing group who told me that. Hasn't read much of anything other than a few Dean Koontz novels. He has ambitions to be a professional on some level, but doesn't like reading. It seems a little crazy to me, but they are out there.

 

[Britva415]

I know someone who runs a writing group who told me that. Hasn't read much of anything other than a few Dean Koontz novels. He has ambitions to be a professional on some level, but doesn't like reading. It seems a little crazy to me, but they are out there.

I meant

I don't think I've ever seen a [Literotica] author say they don't also read [Literotica stories].

 

[MetaBob]

Okay, now I see what you meant. It's a bit of stretch, because that's not what I would think - but that's just me. To me, Gertrude brings up images of women working in World War II-era factories. "Trudy the Riveter." Marilyn Monroe was originally named Norma, another disappearing name, and she worked in an aircraft plant.

Now we know what she really looked like; the girl next door who who happened to work in a factory.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/07/27/article-2380152-1B054062000005DC-244_634x791.jpg

Odd that the photo you linked is co-tagged with "U.S. Army".

Here across the deep end of the pond, we know a Rosie the Riveter rather than a Trudy:
https://www.history.com/news/rosie-the-riveter-inspiration

Edit: Ah, now I get it. You posted a photo of Norma Jeane (the future Marilyn Monroe) building a drone at a factory before she became famous. Still not sure how that relates to "Trudy the Riveter", though. A British thing? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...os-young-Norma-Jean-working-WWII-factory.html

 

[gunhilltrain]

Odd that the photo you linked is co-tagged with "U.S. Army".

Here across the deep end of the pond, we know a Rosie the Riveter rather than a Trudy:
https://www.history.com/news/rosie-the-riveter-inspiration

Edit: Ah, now I get it. You posted a photo of Norma Jeane (the future Marilyn Monroe) building a drone at a factory before she became famous. Still not sure how that relates to "Trudy the Riveter", though. A British thing? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...os-young-Norma-Jean-working-WWII-factory.html

I was kidding - there never was a Trudy the Riveter. I made that up because somehow we were talking about the mostly gone name Gertrude. It was always Rosie the Riveter, and it was always an American concept as far as I know. She was supposed to be representative of all the women who worked in defense plants during the war. Thus Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Baker) was sort of a real-life Rosie the Riveter back then.

 

[Athalia]

Because the name was popular in the early 1900's when polio was prevailent for the masses.

For much the same reason, "Monica" fell abruptly out of fashion in America in the Clinton years.

 

[LexxRuthless]

For much the same reason, "Monica" fell abruptly out of fashion in America in the Clinton years.

...and then the TV show Friends brought it back. I had a request for that very name in a story I was writing three years ago.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

I was kidding - there never was a Trudy the Riveter. I made that up because somehow we were talking about the mostly gone name Gertrude. It was always Rosie the Riveter, and it was always an American concept as far as I know. She was supposed to be representative of all the women who worked in defense plants during the war. Thus Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Baker) was sort of a real-life Rosie the Riveter back then.

Came from a song and was basically a nickname for those women doing what was men's work, while the men were away. I guess a comparison would be Joe Blow.

 

[JGittes]

...and then the TV show Friends brought it back. I had a request for that very name in a story I was writing three years ago.

Possibly from re-runs of Friends, but the original broadcast of Friends was in 1994, and the Clinton scandal was in 1998.

 

[LexxRuthless]

Possibly from re-runs of Friends, but the original broadcast of Friends was in 1994, and the Clinton scandal was in 1998.

The last two seasons of Friends (2003-2004) it was the most popular show on television and a global phenomenon. If you said "Monica" at that time, people invariably pictured Courtney Cox, rather than the unfortunate Ms. Lewinsky. Her 15 minutes of notoriety were over by then.