# It's Pat! ....etc.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pat-etc/11801>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 6, 1999, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pat-etc/11801 "1999-12-06T23:20:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 1999, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pat-etc/11801/41 "1999-12-07T22:02:00Z")

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In my family all of us kids (two girls, one boy) have androgynous names:  
Tracy  
Stacey  
Ronnie

If my brother had been a girl, they were going to call him Casey, another could be either name.

I’m not even going to start discussing the trauma of rhyming names. Or that of having a name that nobody spells correctly. Or being constantly called “Amy”…

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**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 1999, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pat-etc/11801/42 "1999-12-07T23:08:00Z")

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My daughter’s name is [Sydney](http://mindspring.com/~vincegonzales/pics.htm), and she’s just the **cutest** little thing!

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“Teaching without words and work without doing are understood by very few.”  
-Tao Te Ching

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 1999, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pat-etc/11801/43 "1999-12-07T23:55:00Z")

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> BTW, Tyler, I like that name. --TennHippie

Why thanks! And what’s wrong with Kent? I like it - nice and strong sounding. If you don’t use Kent, what name do you go by? (TennHippie is a bit of a mouthful…)

:::snort! I just reread that! HA!:::

So tell me you don’t live in Bell Buckle…

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**StoryTyler**  
_I am too in shape! :::muttering::: Round is a shape._

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