# No...with a K! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 11, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-with-a-k/528578 "2010-02-11T19:10:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-with-a-k/528578/21 "2010-02-11T21:49:23Z")
> [@shantih](#): > > I’m also with a K and two I’s. (Well, technically four, but I usually wear contacts.) Oh, I love those beautiful I’s! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-with-a-k/528578/22 "2010-02-11T21:52:50Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Je ne sais quai, I suppose. Nitpick: _quoi._ So, uh, how do you feel about guys who correct your idiomatic French? ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-with-a-k/528578/23 "2010-02-11T22:09:55Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Oh, I love those beautiful I’s! Blushing! I’m blushing! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-with-a-k/528578/24 "2010-02-11T22:12:00Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Nitpick: _quoi._ > > So, uh, how do you feel about guys who correct your idiomatic French? My idiomatic French is just fine! I know it’s quoi, and don’t know why I typed quai. The guy makes my brain mush even when he’s not around! ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-with-a-k/528578/25 "2010-02-11T23:25:22Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > […]Je ne sais quai, I suppose. > [@MeanOldLady](#): > > My idiomatic French is just fine! I know it’s quoi, and don’t know why I typed quai. The guy makes my brain mush even when he’s not around! I thought it meant that you were intrigued by the thought of his dock. ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-with-a-k/528578/26 "2010-02-12T01:36:47Z")
> [@Aries28](#): > > So what is it about that name? Did you know a Kristin that was awesome or what? > > I was the ONLY Kristin growing up and you never ever could find those cute personalized things with it spelled K-R-I-S-T-I-N. It was ALWAYS with an e. > > I distinctly remember my Dad would buy things and take a black magic marker and make the e into an i for me. I still have one of the bookmarkers where he did this for me. > > Now there are Kristin’s all over the place. > > My mother named me after a soap character on Young and the Restless. One K, two I’s. That’s the only correct spelling! 😉 My grandmother suggested the name for me, so I might be named after that soap person. And when I was a kid, NO ONE was named Kristin. Then when I was in middle school there was the whole "who shot JR?’ thing. \ ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-with-a-k/528578/27 "2010-02-12T01:40:42Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I don’t know. He has a very pleasant voice, but so do a lot of people, and I don’t… wait, no, I do actually. Half of my love for Kevin Spacey is due to his voice! I’ll have to explore this theory later. Seriously, in the middle of typing my post, a tiny light bulb went off and it occurred to me that finding someone’s voice to be extremely pleasant increases my attraction to that person _a lot_. > > Anyway, I’m still pretty sure that’s not it entirely. My friend theorizes I like him because he’s very tall, and I’m attracted to people who most others find intimidating. I suppose these can all be factors. I’m trying to put my finger on why this man turns me into a blushing school girl, and I cannot. Je ne sais quai, I suppose. [modulated baritone with Barry White breathing]So. . .how you doin’ baby. . .?[/mbwbwb] ---
**Author:** ![Tess\_Trueheart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Tess\_Trueheart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tess_Trueheart)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-with-a-k/528578/28 "2010-02-12T02:19:41Z")
Another Kristin with two I’s (aka the only balanced-looking way to spell it) here who had barrettes, stationery, etc. fixed with ink or paint by my parents for quite a long time. Now I see the right spelling everywhere. Lucky grade-school Kristins! Wonder if the precious-mc-unique-name girls care that they won’t find anything personalized at all? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-with-a-k/528578/29 "2010-02-12T03:55:51Z")
> [@Aries28](#): > > I am thrown for a bit and like a moron I say, “No, with a K!” Not so bad. I know someone who spells it Cristin. And, apparently it’s not that uncommon, because Firefox did not mark it wrong. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-with-a-k/528578/30 "2010-02-12T04:10:03Z")
I know a girl named Krystn. Suck it, all of you! ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-with-a-k/528578/31 "2010-02-12T04:13:41Z")
We had a pest control guy that used to come in for our monthly service (commercial kitchen) that would turn us all into babbling idiots. I’ll never forget the one day there were three of us there, all very attached, yet we were giggling and utterly brainless. Ah, the good old days. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-with-a-k/528578/32 "2010-02-12T06:08:32Z")
Don’t you love that feeling? And it’s always when the guy is totally WRONG for you. That’s how I get around **Bmalion** LOL…just kidding! ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-with-a-k/528578/33 "2010-02-12T06:38:32Z")
I have a secret girlie crush on a kid (late teens I think one class left in highschool) who works night shifts on weekends in the all night gas station nearby. Cute and um, dreamy. Ever since he started working I have stopped complaining about going on late night cigarette or chips runs for my boyfriend. (who hasn’t asked me yet what gets into me when i go on these runs, just I think appreciates the mood Im in) Except one time when he asked how’s it going I said " Great, we’ve got cigarettes and shits and we are ready to rock" He looked puzzled, said… “well have a good night then”, as I left babbling. Only to go :smack: when I got into my car. ---
**Author:** ![Audrey\_Levins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-with-a-k/528578/34 "2010-02-12T08:57:39Z")
I work at a bar, which means I meet all kinds of people every day, and 99% of the time, regardless of who they are or what they look like, I’m cool, together, friendly, etc… But every once in a blue moon a guy will come in and just make me…flustery. Like all of a sudden I’m an awkward giggly teenager. It takes an extraordinarily good-looking guy to do this to me, but it happens every once in awhile and it always surprises me, cuz I like to think I’m too cool to be flustered simply by SPEAKING an incredibly handsome guy. It happens, OP. It happens. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-with-a-k/528578/35 "2010-02-12T12:12:59Z")
> [@Tess\_Trueheart](#): > > Another Kristin with two I’s Damn! I’m surrounded by beautiful I’s! That is officially the sexiest name ever. Resisting. Urge. To call. Ex. > [@](#): > > I know a girl named Krystn. I’ll be in my bunk. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-with-a-k/528578/36 "2010-02-12T12:25:48Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Possibly a Leo? Definitely not Virgo though. Unless Mercury is on the cusp. ---
**Author:** ![zelie\_zelerton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/59ef9b/32.png) [@zelie\_zelerton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zelie_zelerton)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-with-a-k/528578/37 "2010-02-12T15:43:14Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Unless Mercury is on the cusp. He’s dead, **JJimm** … ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-with-a-k/528578/38 "2010-02-12T17:46:51Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I know a girl named Krystn. Suck it, all of you! Aaaaaand she’s back. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-with-a-k/528578/39 "2010-02-12T21:56:14Z")
As a 34 year old that used to live in your city and often visits and has coffee with friends there, I demand to know which Starbucks location!! (just kidding) 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-with-a-k/528578.md?page=1)