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[viscousmemories]

Grats Uth!

[Smilin]

Grats Uth!

You will be missed during the daytime here...

Hopefully, I'll get a transfer soon myself....

[Angakuk]

One small step for Uthgar. One giant leap backward for civilization as we know it.

[Caligulette]

Congratulations, Uthgar. I hope it's everything good you hope it will be.

[ms_ann_thrope]

Woooo! Go Uthgar, go Uthgar!

[Uthgar the Brazen]

Congrats, KA! And welcome, Inara!

[Pan Narrans]

Congratulations Uthgar!

Aren't you afraid that the name Inara might influence her future career choice?

[Crumb]

Congrats, KA!

[Sock Puppet]

[Dingfod]

Integra, Bey? Beats what I'll be driving soon, a 1986 Chevy Astro minivan.


:jetson:

[Watser?]

Congrats Kyuss

[Caligulette]

I like the name Inara.

[LadyShea]

Congrats Kyuss and Mrs KA

Originally Posted by Caligulette

I like the name Inara.

Me too, may we have the story or meaning behind it, if there is any beyond "it's pretty"?

[Plant Woman]

It's a girl.

Have a cigar!

[Watser?]

Inara is a character from Firefly.

[inland wave]

KA- Congrats on baby Inara, I love the name!

Uthgar--Congrats and much success!

Bey----Sorry for the car trouble, glad it was fixable.

[Kyuss Apollo]

Actually, Mrs. KA found it on the internet and I agreed that it was great name. Then afterwards we remembered that it was the name of the courtesan on Firefly. (we aren't too concerned about the Inara Serra connotation actually, since we already figure that her older sister Ellie will quite likely strip her way through college. So having already come terms with that...)

As it turns out Inara also means "illuminating, shining" in Arabic. Then there was also a Hittite goddess named Inara, she's kind of a combination of the Greek goddesses Artemis and Persephone.

We chose it because it is a very pretty name, it's not über-popular but unique while not being ridiculously so, and probably most of all it doesn't sound like any of our other kids' names.

We still haven't settled on her middle name(s). Initially I wanted to name her Quasar, but that got the kabosh from the boss for first name though it's still a contenda for middle name. There are several Quenya/Numenorean names I really like, like Silmariën, Elentári, and Rían.

And then there's my grandmother's name, Julia.

Maybe a combination. I like Julia Rían...not approved by yet though

Have to figure out something soon though, the paperwork must be submitted before she leaves tomorrow morning.

[Uthgar the Brazen]

Originally Posted by Kyuss Apollo

(we aren't too concerned about the Inara Serra connotation actually, since we already figure that her older sister Ellie will quite likely strip her way through college. So having already come terms with that...)

I didn't want to be the first to mention the Firefly angle, but I did think of that right away. I adored the character, so it's not biggy. That, and it is an absolutely beautiful name.

[Uthgar the Brazen]

Grats on having a fixable problem, bey. Aren't timing belts kind $$$, though? Ouchies...

[viscousmemories]

Congrats KA!

I'm a fan of Joss Whedon's Inara too.

[Uthgar the Brazen]

Smilin'

[Crumb]

good luck, Smilin!

[Watser?]

Sounds good Smilin, much better than Alaska (which is the Siberian's Siberia).

Good luck.

[Chris Porter]

Inara is a lovely sound, and so is Julia. I rather fancy names that are just beautiful to say. I don't know how one says Rían, but a number of words in High Elvish are pretty, too.

I've never had a lovely sounding name, so when I was a kid I used to imagine names that I would have preferred instead.

[Ensign Steve]

How about Serra for a middle name for Inara? Too Firefly? I always figured I'd name my daughter Kira Nerys if I had one. To tie in the "first and last name of a sci-fi character as first and middle name of child" theme.

Smilin, congrats! But I'm sorry it wasn't California. Sorry for me, I mean.