DAMMIT! Who wouldn’t?!?
How did they lose it? I suppose no guy would admit to asking directions to the LCoSL. We should just know.
Maybe they took the phrase “Heidi-hole” too literally.
When I went to Thailand, every single one of my Chinese friends emphasized that I had to see the ladyboys. They were full of lurid and largely false tales about the phenomenea. Many border areas also feature drag shows particularly for Chines tourists. I think the fascination is largely because these thing ‘don’t exist’ in China, so people get to satisfy their curiousity and feel superior to ‘foreign excess’ at the same time.
That may be the perfect pun. I don’t know whether to laugh out loud or run away screaming. 
Bravo!
Heidi was Swiss, not Swedish, so points off for that.
It’s not rare for a Swede to be named Heidi.
How can it have a medieval castle if it was founded in 1820 ?
(yes, I’m more intrigued by this than by a horde of sex-starved Swedish lesbians. Where do I hand in my man card ?)
By Freya’s hairy armpits, someone ratted us out! :mad:
(What the HELL kind of name is Chako Paul City?)
That bit’s easy enough to explain. A town could have been founded near a pre-existing castle.
Which bits?
The naughty bits?
Dunno why I got fixated on this but I did a little research, and it’s actually pretty rare. According to data from the Swedish Central Statistical Bureau, there have been less than 20 infants named Heidi born annually in Sweden since 1998. In fact, no girls born between 1998 and 2000 were named Heidi. Extrapolating a little bit for 2008 and 2009, we get probably 140 girls out of a total population of more than 9 million.
Obviously can’t vouch for previous decades, but I’d be surprised if Heidi experienced a catastrophic drop in popularity from several hundred annually to zero in the 1990s.
Missed the edit window and I just can’t let this one go. This list from the SCB shows the top 100 women’s names - not just infants born - in Sweden; #100 - Ingela - checks in with barely 20,000 women (12,000 of whom actually use it). So even if Heidi is #101 we’re looking at about 0.2% of the overall population of Sweden.
Verdict: rare.
Guys who are bright enough to realize that this means they ain’t getting any there.
Seriously, Swedish that name ain’t. I’d have named it Flateby or something, except that name is taken (population: 84).
Olentzero, allow me to introduce you to a part of SCB’s website I think you might like: Namnsök.
Specifically, there are 2999 women and one man called Heidi in Sweden, of which 2224 go by the name, for 0.03% of the population.
And that man is either the wimpiest guy in Sweden, or the biggest ass-kicker in all of Northern Europe.
You think correctly. I was trying to find something like that in my earlier research!
Even rarer than I estimated. I should have been a little more specific and said that 0.2% was a theoretical maximum, but the point still stands.
MEB: Somewhere up there, Johnny Cash and Shel Silverstein are smiling because of this.
Ignorance fought. The name might be rare, but being named Heidi is not going to raise anybody’s eyebrows. Nobody’s going to comment how rare the name is, it’s just a name among many others. I personally know and have known many people named Heidi.
You underestimate the power of voyeurism. And (wishful thinking about) secret bisexuals.