# That's NOT why I named her Lola, you twit! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 25, 2000, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565 "2000-05-25T23:39:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sweet\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2000, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/1 "2000-05-25T23:39:59Z")
I put a thread in MPSIMS about my daughter, Lucilla, who we call Lola. I named her after her paternal grandmother as a gesture of respect. But my fiance (her father) and I found “Lucilla” to be quite a mouthful for such a small creature, so we shortened it to “Lola” (which was also kind of an inside joke because “Lololololo” was her first attempt at speech). “Lucy” was already taken by Lola’s cousin, who came around a few years before Lola was even though of. So we did this to avoid confusion. But my friends and acquaintances, who are aware of my other interests, think that I call my daughter that because Madonna calls her daughter Lola. This, although a little understandable, fills me with rage for the following reasons; How could they think so little of me? I know better than to name my child on a whim, after someone I have never met. Do they really think I am so unoriginal and dogmatic? I am so insulted when people just assume this. How could anyone think I was that bubbleheaded? GRRRRRRR! :mad: :mad: :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2000, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/2 "2000-05-25T23:49:48Z")
For a second there, I thought this thread would at least contain the name Nabokov. But alas. Madonna it is. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/3 "2000-05-26T03:09:59Z")
_Sings_ - Boys will be girls and girls will be boys, it’s a lesson we learned cuz of Lola. LoLoLoLola LoLoLoLoLoLa"\* Not sure who sings the song, but I’m sure you all know it! Come on everybody, sing a long! ---
**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/4 "2000-05-26T03:22:06Z")
I dated a Russian woman named Lola. It is the diminutive name for Olga. In fact she is the woman in the picture with me on “men of the SD” web page. I can understand the distress you feel. Your friends think you are a closet Madonna fan. So are they still your friends? Osip ---
**Author:** ![jcgmoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@jcgmoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jcgmoi)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/5 "2000-05-26T03:23:19Z")
Pepperlandgirlm,that would be Ray Davies and the Kinks. And the Lola they sang of was a guy, much to Ray’s consternation. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/6 "2000-05-26T04:13:27Z")
Great. Just great. Now I’ve got Manilow on the brain: “Her name was Lola. She was a showgirl…” Now I’ll have “Copacabana” circling around for hours. ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/7 "2000-05-26T04:41:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > I put a thread in MPSIMS about my daughter, Lucilla, who we call Lola. > I named her after her paternal grandmother as a gesture of respect. But my fiance (her father) and I found “Lucilla” to be quite a mouthful for such a small creature, so we shortened it to “Lola” (which was also kind of an inside joke because “Lololololo” was her first attempt at speech). “Lucy” was already taken by Lola’s cousin, who came around a few years before Lola was even though of. So we did this to avoid confusion. > > But my friends and acquaintances, who are aware of my other interests, think that I call my daughter that because Madonna calls her daughter Lola. This, although a little understandable, fills me with rage for the following reasons; > How could they think so little of me? I know better than to name my child on a whim, after someone I have never met. Do they really think I am so unoriginal and dogmatic? I am so insulted when people just assume this. How could anyone think I was that bubbleheaded? GRRRRRRR! :mad: :mad: :mad: > \*\* Could be worse. You COULD have called her Madonna. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/8 "2000-05-26T11:42:52Z")
Truth be told, I thought Lotus _was_ Madonna! And Pepper, thank you very much, \*now \* I have Copacabana stuck in my head and it is causing flash backs to when I wa 8 years old in dance class and we danced to that song. I’m now suffering through Post Traumatic Tutu Syndrome. . . . . . . … . . … And not Desmond Tutu either.😛 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/9 "2000-05-26T12:30:07Z")
> [@](#): > > Boys will be girls and girls will be boys, it’s a lesson we learned cuz of Lola. LoLoLoLola LoLoLoLoLoLa" > Not sure who sings the song, but I’m sure you all know it! Come on everybody, sing a long! I think it’s: _Girls will be boys and boys will be girls It’s a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world Except for Lola La-la-la-la-Lola…_ The band was The Kinks. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/10 "2000-05-26T13:15:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Great. Just great. Now I’ve got Manilow on the brain: > > “Her name was Lola. She was a showgirl…” > \*\* Which, of course, made me think of Gwen Verdon in “Damn Yankees” singing “Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets)” Picturing Gwen (sexiest woman of the '50s) Verdon singing that, is, any way you look at, better than having Barry Mantilo on the brain. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/11 "2000-05-26T13:40:30Z")
> [@](#): > > I think it’s: > Girls will be boys and boys will be girls > It’s a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world > Except for Lola La-la-la-la-Lola… Are you sure? I thought it was “She lived in a swamp down on Dagobah, where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda, S-o-d-a, Soda…” ---
**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/12 "2000-05-26T13:57:02Z")
Well I’m not dumb but I can’t understand How he lifts up my ship just by raising his hand. Oh, my Yoda. Y-O-D-A, yoda. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/13 "2000-05-26T14:55:43Z")
Not to interrupt this silliness or anything… 😉 **Lotus** , why not just introduce your daughter by saying, “This is Lucilla, but we call her Lola for short.” I, for one, had no idea what Madonna called her baby, nor that she was a showgirl with yellow feathers in her hair and her dress cut down to, well, about there… Esprix ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/14 "2000-05-26T14:56:15Z")
> [@](#): > > I think it’s: > Girls will be boys and boys will be girls > It’s a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world > Except for Lola > La-la-la-la-Lola. Well, whatever. I was paraphrasing. All I could really remember was the “LaLaLaLaLola” part, and something about Cola or Soda or something. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/15 "2000-05-26T19:45:23Z")
Ah, yes. Every new parent’s nightmare. You call your kid “Hepzibah,” and one year later the Schlockola Recording Group presents its latest mega-selling teenybopper lip-synching sensation, Hepzibah MacGillicuddy. Or a Hepzibah Smith in East Assboink, Idaho, cuts loose with an AK-47 and mows down thirty-four adorable dimpled schoolchildren. And then cooks and eats them. ---
**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/16 "2000-05-26T21:06:54Z")
Or John Corrado could use her name in his [thread…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=25575) [I fixed your url tag – Alphagene] ---
**Author:** ![xekul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/838e76/32.png) [@xekul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xekul)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/17 "2000-05-26T21:25:35Z")
Coldfire: That’s what I thought, too. > [@](#): > > ``` > She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. > > ``` ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/18 "2000-05-26T21:47:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > I think it’s: > > Girls will be boys and boys will be girls > > It’s a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world > > Except for Lola > > La-la-la-la-Lola. > > \*\* Lola was an Eric Clapton song, of course that was manny ,manny moons ago. ---
**Author:** ![annalamerino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@annalamerino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/annalamerino)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/19 "2000-05-26T22:35:07Z")
Take my daughter. I liked “Amber” and was reminded of it on a trip to the Baltic, where a lot of the semi-precious “stone” is found and for sale in jewelry. And I was on the lookout for a traditional, but uncommon name, with only beautiful connotations. I thought. Then people said, “You named your girl after _Forever Amber_, the old novel about a courtesan (read loose woman) in the French king’s court? How could you do that to her?” Jerks. Then Amber was the first familiar name in a popular book called “The New Age Baby Name Book”. (I think this book is responsible for the increase in Ambers in the world.) People said, “Why a hippy name? You’re so sensible.” Jerks. Then, “Why did you pick a common name?” I didn’t, but you can’t prove it now. I’m always turning my head at the mall when some mother yells “Amber, put that toy back.” The latest? “Why did you name her after Internet sexpots?” Impossible. Do the math, jerks. She’s too old for that. Fortunately, she has never noticed, and likes her name a lot. I just hope my luck lasts. And I hope Lola never notices either.🙂 Mothers deserve all the luck they can gather up in both arms. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/20 "2000-05-27T13:30:00Z")
\*\* [/QUOTE] Lola was an Eric Clapton song, of course that was manny ,manny moons ago. \*\* [/QUOTE] Layla? Or was there also a “Lola?” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565.md?page=2)