Here's a headline you don't see every day

[mamajoan]

Nun Faces Jail For Drunk Tractor Driving

LOL!!!

Also, the "what do you call me" meme:

If you call me Joan, you're almost anyone who knows me.
If you call me Jooooooooooooooan, you're my coworker R or my coworker L.
If you call me Chief, you're my coworker T.
If you call me joan the english chick or JtEC, you probably know me from some form of fandom.
If you call me pumpkin or honey or hon, you're my mom.
If you call me Joanie, you're any member of my family over the age of 60, except my mom.
If you call me El Joan, you're my brother.
If you call me D-----, you haven't seen me in a REALLY long time.
If you call me chlaal, you know me from online but not very well.
If you call me Dinah, you're someone who used the Oberlin College online bbs between approx. fall 1992 and spring 1996.
If you call me Kevin or Ryan, you're xochiquetzl.
If you call me The Naming Of Cats, you're my friend J.
If you call me Mama, you're my chorus director, or you're a kinky pervert*.
If you call me Mommy, you're a kinky pervert*.
If you call me "dadadadadada" or "nananananana," you're Isaac.
If you call me Ms. [my last name, probably pronounced wrong] or worse, Mrs. [last name], you're a telemarketer.

*not that there's anything wrong with that(tm).

Comments

[tiggrrl.livejournal.com]

Hey, how come you never told me about the Great Boston Molasses Massacre? How could you let a piece of weird history like that pass me by?

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

umm, non-sequitur much?

[tiggrrl.livejournal.com]

No, see, it's all connected. You post a weird story about a drunken nun on a tractor, I ask why you did not share another weird story. See? Connection!

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, it all makes sense now!

Anyway, I don't know why I never told you about it. I guess molasses-related catastrophes just never came up in conversation.

[mishaslair.livejournal.com]

If you call me Dinah, you're someone who used the Oberlin College online bbs between approx. fall 1992 and spring 1996.

Is this an unintentional revelation of the dreaded "D" name?

[tiggrrl.livejournal.com]

Ha, you wish!

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Heh, nope. On that bbs, everyone took a nickname that was a character from Alice in Wonderland, and I took Dinah because it was the name of Alice's cat.

You'll notice that the mysterious "D" name has six letters, whereas Dinah only has five. ;)

[mishaslair.livejournal.com]

Heh, nope.

Drat! ;-)

You'll notice that the mysterious "D" name has six letters, whereas Dinah only has five.

Hmmn, Deedee? That's the only D name I can think of off the top of my head with six letters. Damn! ;-)

[kenboy.livejournal.com]

I was going to guess "Dorris," but that was before I typed it out and realized how badly I was misspelling it in my head.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

As I've told many a curious friend, my mom made the name up out of thin air. So it isn't very likely that you're going to guess it. It's not a name you'll find in most baby-name books.

But that hasn't stopped many a curious friend from continuing to guess, so why should it stop you? ;)

[ww1614.livejournal.com]

OMG, I forgot that my friend Sara-Ellen calls me "Chief." Cracks me up!