# My name has been changed from Jacquernagy to Lamoral **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 30, 2018, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072 "2018-06-30T22:29:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![blue\_infinity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_infinity/32/2817_2.png) [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/41 "2018-07-03T06:34:14Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > In a dream of mine, it was a brand of shampoo. Sounds more like a brand of perfume to me: _L’amour Elle - Give it to her this Valentine’s Day._ ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/42 "2018-07-03T07:06:05Z")
Speaking relatively, this seems like a bit of an improvement. You go from sounding like a gay jaguar to sounding like dandruff shampoo. So, success? ETA: i swear to god i did not read the posts above me saying similar things about it sounding like shampoo. Thats actually funny. Take it to heart, Lamictal! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/43 "2018-07-03T11:27:28Z")
Is a lamb still a virgin after lamoral? ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/44 "2018-07-05T04:04:46Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I read in my dreams as well. I’ve heard some say that you can’t read in your dreams, but I have no idea where that idea comes from. Most people I’ve talked to about dreams seem to be able to read fine. Now getting a phone to work properly or dialing a phone number or not getting a busy signal when I dial 911–that’s a skill I haven’t mastered in Dreamland. I read this thread yesterday (name change noted) and couldn’t remember if I ever read anything in my dreams. And I remember a lot of my dreams. Then last night I dreamed that my name was on a list of speakers for a conference. And I couldn’t find anyone to tell that I no longer worked in that field and had no speech. Then I dreamed about driving on an interstate and looking for my exit. None of the signs were my exit and the last one I saw said “Maternity and OB Gyn”. So I either do read in my dreams all the time and just never noticed or this thread worked its way in to my dreams. ---
**Author:** ![EastUmpqua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eastumpqua/32/6025_2.png) [@EastUmpqua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EastUmpqua)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/45 "2018-07-06T01:02:38Z")
> [@Lamoral](#): > > Taxis in that context actually means “Badger.” > > (Trivia - the Germanicized version of the word is Dachs, which is where Dachshund comes from. Many Americans forget that most of the small dog breeds, which we today regard as merely cute, were bred to be vicious small-game sporting dogs, used to flush animals out from their burrows.) I read in dreams all the time. Usually it’s hard to tell whether I’m reading what’s written or making up what I read. Hey Lamoral why you dis on Americans so much? ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/46 "2018-07-06T02:56:20Z")
Because I look around this country and see a lot of ignorance and backwardness. I was born in Oyster Bay, New York, but when I was a toddler my parents took me along on a trip to Quebec. I’m pretty sure that trip, somehow, caused me to prefer being in Canada to being in the United States. I visit Montreal and the Maritimes each year in August or September and every time, I curse the fact that I have to live in a country that… Has absurd drug policies. Has what amounts to modern day slavery, with the prison industry. Has pointless coins like pennies and nickels and flimsy bills that fall apart, unlike Canada’s convenient one and two dollar coins and durable bills. Elected a president who is hated by the rest of the world. I wouldn’t even mind this one if that president actually _did_ something useful, but he doesn’t. Has a healthcare system that is a complete catastrophe. I don’t hate America, I just wish America was more like Canada. ---
**Author:** ![EastUmpqua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eastumpqua/32/6025_2.png) [@EastUmpqua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EastUmpqua)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/47 "2018-07-06T04:10:05Z")
I hear you bud. I know a lot of stupid fucks. But I also know a lot of really cool, intelligent people. Canada has its problems too… ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/48 "2018-07-06T04:33:40Z")
I mean, I know a lot of really cool intelligent people also, people like that exist everywhere, but in the main, America is lagging behind Canada at this point in time. Also, Canada’s flag manages to have a leaf on it and also be completely symmetrical, which is, essentially, quite badass. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/49 "2018-07-06T05:34:07Z")
> [@pohjonen](#): > > You can read in your dreams? This is unusual. I can’t do anything in my dreams, and nothing ever works. > [@pulykamell](#): > > I read in my dreams as well. I’ve heard some say that you can’t read in your dreams, but I have no idea where that idea comes from. Most people I’ve talked to about dreams seem to be able to read fine. Now getting a phone to work properly or dialing a phone number or not getting a busy signal when I dial 911–that’s a skill I haven’t mastered in Dreamland. > [@GuanoLad](#): > > I have read in my dreams occasionally, though it doesn’t come up often. > > My trouble is finding a toilet that works or isn’t in full public view. I have those dreams a lot. > [@pulykamell](#): > > Oddly enough, last night I was reading in my dream. For some reason, I needed to go to the library and take a Fake Book (it’s a large collection of lead sheets/summarizes sheet music) and had to use a computer terminal to find the catalog number. Unfortunately, every time I tried to type the letters F A K E, something like G H R J would come out, like all the keys were mis mapped. I never did manage to track down the Fake Book, though I woke up right before consulting a librarian to help me. I started a thread about this very topic several moons ago because I had had a dream where I was desperately trying to read something and the words were all blurry, like they were buzzing and moving like hummingbird wings on the page. That isn’t the first time I’d experienced that, either. Perhaps someone more skilled than I could dig it up, I never get good search results on here. It was interesting reading. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/50 "2018-07-06T11:08:54Z")
> [@EastUmpqua](#): > > Canada has its problems too… Only until they build their wall. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072.md?page=2)