# 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:** 17
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### Author:  [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2008, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/21 "2008-02-03T06:46:05Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2008, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/22 "2008-02-03T06:50:59Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2008, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/23 "2008-02-03T08:47:06Z")
I know a L **a** lita. She’s Fijian Indian. She’s in her 50s, and decidedly shy and conservative.
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### Author:  [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2008, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/24 "2008-02-03T12:57:45Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2008, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/25 "2008-02-03T13:31:15Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2008, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/26 "2008-02-03T13:34:31Z")
Loved the original, and LOVED the Jeremy Irons version. Anyone see it?
I don’t know any Lolitas.
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### Author:  [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/27 "2008-02-03T16:59:19Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/28 "2008-02-03T17:04:18Z")
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!
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/29 "2008-02-03T17:15:46Z")
[QUOTE=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).
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She’s gorgeous.
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/30 "2008-02-03T17:58:41Z")
Its not uncommon amoung Filipino girls. I knew two who had that name- one used it and the other went by Lolly.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/31 "2008-02-03T18:08:57Z")
[QUOTE=Aesiron]
She’s gorgeous.
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[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…
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### Author:  [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/32 "2008-02-03T18:24:36Z")
[QUOTE=Speaker for the Dead]
Yeah, and Lola in socks. She was only Dolores on the dotted line. Jeez! :rolleyes:
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I assume there’s a point buried in there somewhere.
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### Author:  [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/33 "2008-02-03T18:59:08Z")
Whatever happened to the actress Lolita Davidovitch?
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### Author:  [@kellner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellner)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/34 "2008-02-03T19:11:45Z")
[QUOTE=Fiddle Peghead]
I assume there’s a point buried in there somewhere.
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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.
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### Author:  [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/35 "2008-02-03T20:21:45Z")
[QUOTE=kellner]
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.
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Thanks, **Kellner** for the explanation. As to **Speaker of the Dead** , I can do without the :rolleyes: , thank you very much.
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### Author:  [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2008, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/36 "2008-02-04T02:48:34Z")
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…)
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2008, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-a-lolita/436003/37 "2008-02-04T02:55:20Z")
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.
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