1&2. The name, and one Charlotte I know, now in her mid-70s, who changed her name to that from something French (maybe “Solange”) when she moved to the US as a teenager, because her French name was “a maid’s name.” I don’t know whether she meant a specific maid’s name–her family’s maid, for instance–or a name that only a maid would have, in France. I’ve wondered. Too late to ask Charlotte, she won’t remember.
Then the dessert.
As the biggest fan of NASCAR on these boards, I am proud to say I thought of the speedway now known a Lowes Motor Speedway. I still call it Charlotte.
Same for me.
As dinstinct from… all those homosexual rats in the film?
My first thought was that it was about another Doper, then I thought of this woman:
http://theavengers.tv/forever/pnote-rampling.htm
Charlotte’s Web first. Then when I thought that would be unlikely (because it’s just Charlotte without the web part) I thought of Charlotte from Sex in the City.
It’s been on in reruns a lot lately.
The character from the Samurai Shodown series. In particular, the painfully bad Japanese voice over that accompanies it. Charl-lout-to.
Charlotte, Vermont
Like the one in Michigan, pronounced char-LOT
A spider named Charlotte. I guess I thought someone was posting about a new pet tarantulla.
Actually, that’s what mine was named. She was a beautiful Chilean Rose Haired and I had her about seven years. (sniff) I loaned her out for a show last year and she came back with an injured leg and promptly keeled over. Damn!
first: The city in NC
close second: General name for a woman. It is a pretty name and I opened the thread hoping it was about a pretty girl.
I immediately thought of Charlotte the Spider. Charlotte’s Web was one of my dearest favorites as a child, and I have read it out loud to every first grade class I’ve had. I still burst into tears at the end of the county fair.
I usually do this awesome Venn Diagram comparing Charlotte’s Web to Babe. I cry at the end of Babe, too.
That’ll do, pig.
Not exactly. The “-ot” suffix in French makes something diminutive or familiar: “Pierrot” is the familiar form of “Pierre,” etc. It’s a bit like “-y” or “-ie” in American English: Mikey, Frankie, Jimmy. “Charlot” is the familiar form of “Charles,” and was Chaplin’s popular nickname in France, a fact of which Beckett was surely aware, but I think it’s a mistake to assert that Godot’s name was based specifically on Chaplin’s nickname. It’s more likely that “Godot” is (among many other possibilities) simply Beckett’s way of suggesting the interpretation as a “little God.”
It’s by no means set in stone that God + ot is “the” interpretation Beckett had in mind in naming the character Godot, though; among many other possibilities, there’s a play by Balzac called Le Faiseur which involves a character named “Godeau” (homonymous in French with “Godot”) who–you guessed it–never arrives on stage.
And now that my little digression is done, I’ll answer the OP:
In quick succession, I thought first of my sister, whose middle name is Charlotte; then of Charlotte the spider from E. B. White; then of the city in North Carolina.
You see, Templeton emerges in the Spring with a wife and litter, and then suggestively snickers. If you’re old enough to get the sex joke, your’e old enough to realize it’s Paul Lynne.
But to your point; although almost obligatory in today’s jaded cinema, the homosexual rat footage from Charlotte’s Web was left on the cutting room floor (link Not Safe for Work):
Without reading earlier replies (I suspect there will be lots of dups): Charlotte, the spider from Charlotte’s Web.
It was the first book with a “sad scene” I ever read as a child (which I will omit describing on the off-chance that there are people who haven’t read it), I cried and cried in disbelief, and ultimately found it very powerful.
A distant second, the song by The Cure called Charlotte Sometimes.
First I thought of Laura Ingalls Wilder. As a child she had a rag doll called Charlotte, who met a sad end. That thought naturally led me to the spider in Charlotte’s Web.
Nope…that’s exactly what jumped to mind for me…
Sigh…now I’m gonna have Paul Di’Anno’s voice in my head for the next hour…
Charlotte, N.C. - The Charlotte Observer, specifically. I’m waiting for word on a summer internship.
Female name. My first thought was it was a woman; a woman from your past who had recentyl come back into your life with a tragic story to tell. But now I see it was just a poll.
I figured you were offering and/or soliciting opinions on the city of Charlotte, North Carolina.