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.
The name Lolita 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.
I know a Lalita. She’s Fijian Indian. She’s in her 50s, and decidedly shy and conservative.
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.
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.
Loved the original, and LOVED the Jeremy Irons version. Anyone see it?
I don’t know any Lolitas.
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.
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!
She’s gorgeous.
Its not uncommon amoung Filipino girls. I knew two who had that name- one used it and the other went by Lolly.
Tell me about it. 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…
I assume there’s a point buried in there somewhere.
Whatever happened to the actress Lolita Davidovitch?
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.
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…)
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.