That's NOT why I named her Lola, you twit!

[Sweet_Lotus]

I put a thread in MPSIMS about my daughter, Lucilla, who we call Lola.
I named her after her paternal grandmother as a gesture of respect. But my fiance (her father) and I found "Lucilla" to be quite a mouthful for such a small creature, so we shortened it to "Lola" (which was also kind of an inside joke because "Lololololo" was her first attempt at speech). "Lucy" was already taken by Lola's cousin, who came around a few years before Lola was even though of. So we did this to avoid confusion.

But my friends and acquaintances, who are aware of my other interests, think that I call my daughter that because Madonna calls her daughter Lola. This, although a little understandable, fills me with rage for the following reasons;
How could they think so little of me? I know better than to name my child on a whim, after someone I have never met. Do they really think I am so unoriginal and dogmatic? I am so insulted when people just assume this. How could anyone think I was that bubbleheaded? GRRRRRRR! :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Coldfire]

For a second there, I thought this thread would at least contain the name Nabokov. But alas. Madonna it is.

[pepperlandgirl]

*Sings*
Boys will be girls and girls will be boys, it's a lesson we learned cuz of Lola. LoLoLoLola LoLoLoLoLoLa"
Not sure who sings the song, but I'm sure you all know it! Come on everybody, sing a long!

[Osip]

I dated a Russian woman named Lola. It is the diminutive name for Olga. In fact she is the woman in the picture with me on "men of the SD" web page.
I can understand the distress you feel. Your friends think you are a closet Madonna fan. So are they still your friends?

Osip

[jcgmoi]

Pepperlandgirlm,that would be Ray Davies and the Kinks. And the Lola they sang of was a guy, much to Ray's consternation.

[Rysdad]

Great. Just great. Now I've got Manilow on the brain:

"Her name was Lola. She was a showgirl...."

Now I'll have "Copacabana" circling around for hours.

[DRY]

I put a thread in MPSIMS about my daughter, Lucilla, who we call Lola.
I named her after her paternal grandmother as a gesture of respect. But my fiance (her father) and I found "Lucilla" to be quite a mouthful for such a small creature, so we shortened it to "Lola" (which was also kind of an inside joke because "Lololololo" was her first attempt at speech). "Lucy" was already taken by Lola's cousin, who came around a few years before Lola was even though of. So we did this to avoid confusion.

But my friends and acquaintances, who are aware of my other interests, think that I call my daughter that because Madonna calls her daughter Lola. This, although a little understandable, fills me with rage for the following reasons;
How could they think so little of me? I know better than to name my child on a whim, after someone I have never met. Do they really think I am so unoriginal and dogmatic? I am so insulted when people just assume this. How could anyone think I was that bubbleheaded? GRRRRRRR! :mad: :mad: :mad:


Could be worse. You COULD have called her Madonna. :)

[Shirley Ujest]

Truth be told, I thought Lotus was Madonna!

And Pepper, thank you very much, now I have Copacabana stuck in my head and it is causing flash backs to when I wa 8 years old in dance class and we danced to that song. I'm now suffering through Post Traumatic Tutu Syndrome.
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And not Desmond Tutu either.:P

[Johnny L.A.]

Boys will be girls and girls will be boys, it's a lesson we learned cuz of Lola. LoLoLoLola LoLoLoLoLoLa"
Not sure who sings the song, but I'm sure you all know it! Come on everybody, sing a long!
I think it's:
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It's a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world
Except for Lola
La-la-la-la-Lola...

The band was The Kinks.

[Fenris]

Great. Just great. Now I've got Manilow on the brain:

"Her name was Lola. She was a showgirl...."


Which, of course, made me think of Gwen Verdon in "Damn Yankees" singing "Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets)"

Picturing Gwen (sexiest woman of the '50s) Verdon singing that, is, any way you look at, better than having Barry Mantilo on the brain.

Fenris

[Mojo]

I think it's:
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It's a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world
Except for Lola La-la-la-la-Lola...

Are you sure? I thought it was "She lived in a swamp down on Dagobah,
where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda, S-o-d-a, Soda..........."

[ReservoirDog]

Well I'm not dumb but I can't understand
How he lifts up my ship just by raising his hand.
Oh, my Yoda. Y-O-D-A, yoda.

[Esprix]

Not to interrupt this silliness or anything... ;)

Lotus, why not just introduce your daughter by saying, "This is Lucilla, but we call her Lola for short."

I, for one, had no idea what Madonna called her baby, nor that she was a showgirl with yellow feathers in her hair and her dress cut down to, well, about there...

Esprix

[pepperlandgirl]

I think it's:
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It's a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world
Except for Lola
La-la-la-la-Lola.
Well, whatever. I was paraphrasing. All I could really remember was the "LaLaLaLaLola" part, and something about Cola or Soda or something.

[Ukulele Ike]

Ah, yes. Every new parent's nightmare.

You call your kid "Hepzibah," and one year later the Schlockola Recording Group presents its latest mega-selling teenybopper lip-synching sensation, Hepzibah MacGillicuddy.

Or a Hepzibah Smith in East Assboink, Idaho, cuts loose with an AK-47 and mows down thirty-four adorable dimpled schoolchildren. And then cooks and eats them.

[Mojo]

Or John Corrado could use her name in his thread.... (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=25575)

[I fixed your url tag -- Alphagene]

[xekul]

Coldfire: That's what I thought, too.


She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

[Ayesha]

I think it's:
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It's a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world
Except for Lola
La-la-la-la-Lola.




Lola was an Eric Clapton song, of course that was manny ,manny moons ago.

[annalamerino]

Take my daughter.

I liked "Amber" and was reminded of it on a trip to the Baltic, where a lot of the semi-precious "stone" is found and for sale in jewelry.
And I was on the lookout for a traditional, but uncommon name, with only beautiful connotations. I thought.

Then people said, "You named your girl after Forever Amber, the old novel about a courtesan (read loose woman) in the French king's court? How could you do that to her?"
Jerks.

Then Amber was the first familiar name in a popular book called "The New Age Baby Name Book". (I think this book is responsible for the increase in Ambers in the world.)
People said, "Why a hippy name? You're so sensible."
Jerks.

Then, "Why did you pick a common name?" I didn't, but you can't prove it now. I'm always turning my head at the mall when some mother yells "Amber, put that toy back."

The latest? "Why did you name her after Internet sexpots?"
Impossible. Do the math, jerks. She's too old for that.

Fortunately, she has never noticed, and likes her name a lot. I just hope my luck lasts.

And I hope Lola never notices either.:) Mothers deserve all the luck they can gather up in both arms.

[Rysdad]

[/B][/QUOTE]Lola was an Eric Clapton song, of course that was manny ,manny moons ago.
[/B][/QUOTE]

Layla? Or was there also a "Lola?"

[Ukulele Ike]

annalamerino:

You named your daughter after "Lil' Abner" ?

[Alpha]

Li'l Abner didn't have any kids, did it?
(Except the lady who carried her pig under one arm and her bare baby facing backward under the other.)

Did Mammy have more kids? Cousins?

Maybe you mean Sadie Hawkins, but she was never called Lola or Anna.

[DoctorJ]

"Layla"=Clapton. "Lola"=The Kinks. By the way, if Ray Davies ever tours again with his solo show, I highly recommend it. It's more of a 3-hour performance piece than a concert.

I also think that which song pops into one's head upon hearing the name "Lola" says a lot about someone--the Kinks, Barry Manilow, or "Damn Yankees".

Dr. J

[Sweet_Lotus]

I can understand the distress you feel. Your friends think you are a closet Madonna fan. So are they still your friends?

I am a Madonna fan. I just wasn't thinking of that at all when I started calling my daughter Lola (actually, it was my fiance who started it).

[Ayesha]

Lola was an Eric Clapton song, of course that was manny ,manny moons ago.
[/B][/QUOTE]

Layla? Or was there also a "Lola?"
[/B][/QUOTE]

OK, I was wrong, blame it on that Lionsob I'm married to. I should know better than to ask him a question before he is awake.

[UpperUS]

Osip, Good one!

[Dinsdale]

If going the Lil Abner route, it would be hard to pass up Hogfat Gooch or Tornado Ike.

[Ukulele Ike]

...or Lonesome Polecat or Hairless Joe or Moonbeam McSwine or Sir Cedric Cesspool ("A Cesspool is nothing to be sniffed at! There have ALWAYS been Cesspools!")...

Yes, there was at least one kid in LIL' ABNER...somehow, Abner and Daisy Mae managed to procreate by the mid-1950s, despite their total unawareness of the basics of human biology. Their offspring was named Honest Abe Yokum.

Abner also had a younger brother named Tiny, who was even larger than Abner himself.

[aha]

somehow, Abner and Daisy Mae managed to procreate by the mid-1950s, despite their total unawareness of the basics of human biology. Their offspring was named Honest Abe Yokum.

I believe Daisy Mae said I does in 1950.

[monkeylucifer]

To find out more about "The Kinks" try your local library...or head on over to http://kinks.it.rit.edu/

[Marvel]

Mojo wrote:

Are you sure? I thought it was "She lived in a swamp down on Dagobah, where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda, S-o-d-a, Soda..........."

**********

Ah, another "Weird Al" Yankovic fan on this thread! Yippee! I dig him so much I did a two hour radio special about him back in April (as close to April Fool's Day as my Wednesday show could get).

Speaking of "Weird Al" and Madonna influences, am I alone in thinking his spin on "American Pie" was far superior to hers? Even when I hear the original song in a store, I can't thinking...

"My, my, this here Anikan (sp?) guy.
May be Vader some day later
now he's just a small fry..."

[Marvel]

That should read, "can't HELP thinking..." Sorry about that!
Back to lurking I go...

Patty

[InsanityIncarnate]

Madonna ruined the song. She destroyed it. Even Wierd Al(who is very cool) Showed the song more respect than she did.

[thudain]

Mojo wrote:

Are you sure? I thought it was "She lived in a swamp down on Dagobah, where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda, S-o-d-a, Soda..........."

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"My, my, this here Anikan (sp?) guy.
May be Vader some day later
now he's just a small fry..."




http://www.myths.com/pub/lyrics/weirdal_x.html
contains WAY's best lyrics side-by-side with those
of the songs being parodied.

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I met him in a swamp down in Dagobah I met her in a club down in old Soho
where it bubbles all the time Where you drink champagne
like a giant carbonated soda and it tastes just like cherry cola
S-O-D-A soda C-O-L-A cola

**

Oh my my, this here Anakin guy
May be Vader someday later - now he's just a small fry
And he left his home and kissed his mommy goodbye
Sayin' "Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi"
"Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi"

**

i bet those lines don't break right . . .

ok
dpm

[Themistocles]

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I'm sitting here, enjoying this Lola thread, when suddenly guess what I hear on the radio? (Lola - The Kinks)

Well, I can tell you this, it's a good song!

-Mist

[Saxifrage]

Down on a planet in Dagobah, where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbanoted soda, S-O-D-A, soda...
I met a little frog sitting there on a log, I asked his name, in a rasty voice he said Yoda, Y-O-D-A, Yoda...
I know Darth Vader's got you really annoyed, but if you kill now you'll be unemployed and it'll be over, oh-oh-oh-over...

[Saxifrage]

Down on a planet in Dagobah, where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbanoted soda, S-O-D-A, soda...
I met a little frog sitting there on a log, I asked his name, in a rasty voice he said Yoda, Y-O-D-A, Yoda...
I know Darth Vader's got you really annoyed, but if you kill now you'll be unemployed and it'll be over, oh-oh-oh-over...

[dropzone]

My wife and I had twins daughters about ten years back. She had always likes the names Sarah and Diana, but the unpleasant, semi-royal associations prevented her from using either name. Well, Diane for one middle name but we ended up naming one after me and one after a squirrel.

[SoapBoxMessiah]

we ended up naming one after me and one after a squirrel.

Please tell me it wasn't Screwy.

[Olentzero]

I really, really, REALLY hate to break the magic of this thread, but didn't Madonna name her daughter Lourdes? Not Lola?

[Shayna]

Olentzero quote:
"I really, really, REALLY hate to break the magic of this thread, but didn't Madonna name her daughter Lourdes? Not Lola?"

Yes, but like Sweet_Lotus, Madonna calls her daughter Lola. :)

[PTVroman]

[quote]we ended up naming one after me and one after a squirrel.[quote]
You named your daughter Rocket J.?

[Lamia]

Olentzero quote:
"I really, really, REALLY hate to break the magic of this thread, but didn't Madonna name her daughter Lourdes? Not Lola?"

Yes, but like Sweet_Lotus, Madonna calls her daughter Lola. :)



I'm surprised that no one has mentioned why Madonna calls her baby Lola -- it's after Marlene Dietrich's character Lola Lola in "The Blue Angel".

Oddly enough, the Kinks song "Lola" still makes sense if you imagine that it is about Dietrich instead of a drag queen.

[foolsguinea]

As I recall, Annie Lennox's daughter is named Lola. I remember some reporter asking if the child was named for the Kink's "Lola." Annie humoured him, laughed, and said something like, "well, partly."

Of course, I may be getting the story confused.
It's amazing how many pop-culture Lola's there are. I usually think of the Kinks song myself, but "Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets" is better catchy fun--if I knew a girl named Lola, word-association would have me singing that until she slapped me.

[Merneith]

For the interested, and those with lots of time on their hands,

you can hear the Yoda & Annakin Guy songs on LucasRadio - a streaming web radio that plays music from the movies and games of LucasArts. As I type this the Pirate Song from Curse of Monkey Island is playing.

There doesn't seem to be a play list, but you don't usually have to listen long before one or the other comes up.

their web address:
http://lucasradio.mixnmojo.com/

their IP: 216.32.166.87:7542

works w/ winamp & realplayer, any shoutcast palyer.

enjoy!

[BigGiantHead]

An interesting point you make, doctorj (and with a further-back nod of the head to Fenris). I fall with other posters into the Kinks genre, but - always looking for an opportunity to expand the mind - I popped open Napster to have a listen to Damn Yankees, with which I'm unfamiliar. Much to my suprise, for every Kinks hit there's an equal number from the soundtrack of the movie Run Lola Run. Now I can't stop hearing that flame-haired lovely (how appropriate for the BBQ Pit) screaming "Manni!!" while racing to the pulsing rave-punk beat. "And then..." :)