# Anybody know a Lolita?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 2, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003 "2008-02-02T18:48:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_and_a_Half_Inches_of_Fun)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/1 "2008-02-02T18:48:46Z")
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?
> **[The "Lolita" bed for young girls](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=453999)**
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> I don’t know what’s worse, that someone would think Lolita would be an appropriate name for a bed marketed to young girls, or that the staff at Woolworths had no idea who Lolita was and didn’t know what the kerfuffle was about. And why can’t they...
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### Author:  [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/2 "2008-02-02T18:57:45Z")
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.”
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### Author:  [@Throatwarbler\_Mangrove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Throatwarbler_Mangrove)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/3 "2008-02-02T19:00:47Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/4 "2008-02-02T19:04:12Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/5 "2008-02-02T19:44:09Z")
**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))
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/6 "2008-02-02T20:02:04Z")
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).
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/7 "2008-02-02T20:23:16Z")
Heck even the name of the original Lolita wasn’t her original name (Dolores).
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### Author:  [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/8 "2008-02-02T20:28:45Z")
My husband has a cousin Lolita. I’ve never met her, but that’s her given name.
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### Author:  [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2008, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/9 "2008-02-02T20:32:06Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/10 "2008-02-02T20:36:18Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool]
Heck even the name of the original Lolita wasn’t her original name (Dolores).
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She was Lo in the morning…
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2008, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/11 "2008-02-02T21:12:57Z")
I’ve known a few Lolitas here in Panama. The name doesn’t have the same association here.
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### Author:  [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/12 "2008-02-02T21:16:00Z")
[QUOTE=Fiddle Peghead]
She was Lo in the morning…
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Yeah, and Lola in socks. She was only Dolores on the dotted line. Jeez! :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/13 "2008-02-02T21:34:45Z")
It didn’t hurt Lolita Fatjo’s career at all:
> **[LolitaFatjo.com](http://lolitafatjo.com/)**
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> Bringing The Stars To You!
…And she has two unfortunate names.
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### Author:  [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/14 "2008-02-03T01:00:36Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2008, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/15 "2008-02-03T01:23:32Z")
In the classic sense, I think it’s more of a name earned than given.
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### Author:  [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2008, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/16 "2008-02-03T02:00:00Z")
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!
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### Author:  [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2008, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/17 "2008-02-03T03:06:43Z")
I knew some [goth lolitas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_lolita) in Japan… Not quite the same.
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### Author:  [@bufftabby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bufftabby)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2008, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/18 "2008-02-03T06:18:53Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@RoniaBorkason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RoniaBorkason)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2008, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/19 "2008-02-03T06:29:05Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2008, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/20 "2008-02-03T06:41:27Z")
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.
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