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odd names in Britain

apparently someone actually named their child
Faithful Cock

someone elses offspring was called Offspring Gurney.

Levi Jeans was married in Padstow, Cornwall, in 1797.

and there are a whole bunch more fun ones

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I love "Strictly Ballroom"
my helpful person said it didn't seem like my kind of film, but I said it goes with all the princess-dress movies
because he's like the handsome prince of his world, and she wins him, and he learns her world too, and there's a happily ever after (or at least a promising start). And also a pretty shiny dress.
its like Cinderella without her shoe falling off. and with dancing being the point.
and the dances all tell the story, and I like the music, and I just love the film.
even without vampires or anything. I like a layer of metaphor between me and the world, but I guess that dance stuff is far enough away from my regular world to serve.