Anybody know a Lolita?

[Two and a Half Inches of Fun]

Another thread about an unfortunately named bed got me thinking, does anybody know any little girls that go by Lolita? Or is that just one nickname that is out the window when you name a girl Dolores?


http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=453999

[OtakuLoki]

The only times I've heard the name have been people using it for a nickname to appear sexy, or to describe Amy Fisher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Fisher), the so-called "Long Island Lolita."

[Throatwarbler Mangrove]

I don't know any little girls, the one Lolita I knew was in her 40s. Presumably she went by that when she was younger too.

[Fiddle Peghead]

Nope, never known a girl called, Lolita. But thanks for bringing it up, because I'm now gonna go and watch Kubrick's "Lolita", with the great Peter Sellers, and the even more great James Mason: "I guess it was your cherry pies". And of course lust after Shelley Winters. Yes, she was hot at one point.

[Thudlow Boink]

Loleta Didrickson was Comptroller of the state of Illinois from 1995 to 1999 and ran unsuccessfully for U. S. Senate in 1998 (she lost in the Republican primary to Peter Fitzgerald). (cite (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E2DB1539F935A25750C0A96E958260))

[jjimm]

When I was younger I was friends with (and had a major crush on) British TV actress Lolita Chakrabarti (http://www.hamiltonhodell.co.uk/page.asp?partid=9).

[John DiFool]

Heck even the name of the original Lolita wasn't her original name (Dolores).

[Millit the Frail]

My husband has a cousin Lolita. I've never met her, but that's her given name.

[askeptic]

I don't know any. But I hardly think the name is off limits because of the book. A little girls bed set on the other hand probably should not be called by that name.

[Fiddle Peghead]

Heck even the name of the original Lolita wasn't her original name (Dolores).

She was Lo in the morning...

[Colibri]

I've known a few Lolitas here in Panama. The name doesn't have the same association here.

[Speaker for the Dead]

She was Lo in the morning...
Yeah, and Lola in socks. She was only Dolores on the dotted line. Jeez! :rolleyes:

[jnglmassiv]

It didn't hurt Lolita Fatjo's career at all:
http://www.lolitafatjo.com/
...And she has two unfortunate names.

[aruvqan]

The younger sister of a guy I knew in Norfolk VA was named lolita... and she was probably just under 20 in the late 80s when I was down there.

[flickster]

In the classic sense, I think it's more of a name earned than given.

[Cheez_Whia]

My husband's older sister is named Lolita. She goes by Lita. His younger sister is named Estella. He's just plain old Edward.

Thank goodness!

[Sage Rat]

I knew some goth lolitas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_lolita) in Japan.... Not quite the same.

[bufftabby]

We've got a Lolita Dr in town. It's one of those subdivision roads named by the developer, so who knows what the motivation might have been?

[RoniaBorkason]

I knew a Lolita in college. She was a cook at the dining hall. Mid-forties in 2000, single mom, short, fat, mustachioed. We were friendly, but her name never came up.

[Skara_Brae]

I work with a women named Lolita. She pronounces it "Lo-Lisha," and normally goes by Lisha. I was quite surprised the first time I saw it spelled out.

[Santo Rugger]

There's a restaurant frequented by my officemates and me at lunch called Viola's, which we affectionately nicknamed Lolita's. Then again, we nicknamed one of the diners the Statutory Cafe, due to the number of under age waitresses working there.

[Chez Guevara]

The name Lolita (http://www.thenamemachine.com/baby-names-girls/Lolita.html) reached its popularity peak in the 1960s with 127 girls per million births so called in the US.

Stanley Kubrick's movie Lolita was released in 1962.

[TheLoadedDog]

I know a Lalita. She's Fijian Indian. She's in her 50s, and decidedly shy and conservative.

[11811]

When visiting the Floating Gardens of Xochimilco in 1985, a friend and I saw the name Lolita on one of the tourist scows. I'm sure the name didn't have the same connotation among the boat's owner that it had for us.

[Audrey Levins]

I thought this thread was a query concerning the Dopers' acquaintance with precocious teenage girls.

I am relieved that it is not.

And yet it is not as interesting as it would have been were I correct.

[Kalhoun]

Loved the original, and LOVED the Jeremy Irons version. Anyone see it?

I don't know any Lolitas.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Didn't know her personally, but when I used to work for the Government of Nunavut (I think Nunavut... places I've worked are starting to blur a bit now), there was someone named Lolita who also worked in government. Every time somebody mentioned that they'd been in a meeting with Lolita, or whatever, I'd do a bit of a double-take.

[IvoryTowerDenizen]

My mom's name is Lola (not short for Delores- which I hadn't even known it was a nickname for until today). She NEVER went by Lolita!

[Ephemera]

When I was younger I was friends with (and had a major crush on) British TV actress Lolita Chakrabarti (http://www.hamiltonhodell.co.uk/page.asp?partid=9).

She's gorgeous.

[DrDeth]

Its not uncommon amoung Filipino girls. I knew two who had that name- one used it and the other went by Lolly.

[jjimm]

She's gorgeous.Tell me about it (http://posters.imdb.com/gallery/hh/0149808/HH/0149808/iid_976583.jpg.html?path=pgallery&path_key=Chakrabarti,%20Lolita). We last wrote each other 20 years ago, and due to my crapness I don't think she ever knew how I felt about her. I've learned my lesson since...

[Fiddle Peghead]

Yeah, and Lola in socks. She was only Dolores on the dotted line. Jeez! :rolleyes:

I assume there's a point buried in there somewhere.

[Lucky 13]

Whatever happened to the actress Lolita Davidovitch?

[kellner]

I assume there's a point buried in there somewhere.In the "lolita bed" thread someone made the same reference half an hour earlier. I guess if you read both in parallel it seemed more redundant than it was.

[Fiddle Peghead]

In the "lolita bed" thread someone made the same reference half an hour earlier. I guess if you read both in parallel it seemed more redundant than it was.

Thanks, Kellner for the explanation. As to Speaker of the Dead, I can do without the :rolleyes: , thank you very much.

[kittenblue]

I, too, have never heard of Lolita being the nickname for Delores or Dolores or Doloris ...and I know several women named some variation of Delores. But then I've never read the book, either. Maybe it didn't become a nickname until after the book came out...you know, sort of a misunderstanding. I mean, many people have nicknames that are not related to their first names.... maybe that was the case in the book, but people just didn't read it right and assumed and started nicknaming their Delores' that.... Maybe it's just me...I've never gotten the correlation between Peg and Margaret, either...and my mom is a Margaret (but never Peg...)

[Siam Sam]

There is a chain of blowjob bars in Thailand called Lolita's. No, I am NOT kidding, not at all. Although I myself no longer frequent such places, my friends who do frequent them assure me that there are no underage girls there. They used to have a website, whIch I've posted a link to elsewhere on this board, but it seems to be down now. I've heard there's some sort of squabble withing upper management but don't know if that's responsible for the website being down. And there does not seem to be anyone there actually named Lolita.