Sibset

[becomingun.livejournal.com]

Marie Rose
Marie Anne
Marie Theresa
Jesus Joseph

I wish I were kidding.

(Edited to add: They don't go by middle names, and looked at my like I was crazy when I called them by their middle names. I've only met the girls, but they call the brother Jesus when they talk about him.)

Comments

[renishas.livejournal.com]

That's actually extremely common in some countries. The children typically go by middle names. About 90% of my mom's family had Maria or Jesus either as a first or a middle name.

[becomingun.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know that, but I work with these kids and they don't go by middle names, they all go by Marie. Two of them are twins too. I haven't met the brother, but they call him Jesus.

[daydream11.livejournal.com]

I was going to echo renishas... I have a hunch that they all go by their middle names. It sounds like names from the old royal families. I'm thinking of Marie Antoinette, whose sisters all had the first name Maria. (And there were actually some repeats, but that's because the first bearers died young.) So, if I ignore the first names, it's a pretty nice sibset. Kinda bland, but better bland than ridic. :p

[becomingun.livejournal.com]

Part of why I think it's weird is that I work with these kids, the girls at least, and they all go by their first names. Two of them are twins, which made it weirder. I expected them to go by middle names, but they don't. I called them Rose and Anne when I first met them and they looked at me like I had lobsters crawling out of my ears.

[daydream11.livejournal.com]

O_o

Now that is truly bizarre.

[smallandneedy.livejournal.com]

how can they all go by Marie? That would be so confusing! :|

[rylee900.livejournal.com]

Maybe they go by Marie Rose and Marie Anne?

[okay-here-i-am.livejournal.com]

Is anyone else reminded of Friends, with Joey's seven sisters including Mary Therese, Mary Angela, and a bunch of other Marys? :)

[morphinae.livejournal.com]

I'm curious why they left Marie Theresa for last. But I think trying to find logic in this entire scenario would probably prove to be pointless :)

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of that Dr. Seuss poem, "Too Many Daves," from his book The Sneetches:

"Did I ever tell you Mrs. McCave
who had twenty-three sons
and she named them all Dave?"

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

Is Jesus pronounced the English way or the Spanish way? I can honestly see it going either way with this set.

[sakuya-baby.livejournal.com]

So confused by them all going by Marie.