Alternate Names for Me, Suggested by My Mother

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  • Esmerelda
  • Japonica
  • Griselda
  • Ermintrude
  • Zebedee
  • Florence
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I have sporadic, email-only contact with my mother, who lives in Swaziland. Recently I wrote to her to announce I am changing my name. These are her suggestions for the replacement.

Umm ... ehhh ... what? Furthermore, why?

You're heeeeeeeeere! Yaaaaaay!

No seriously. Told my mother I was changing my name, and these were her honest-to-goodness suggestions. She thought I might want something "more exotic". Yeeeeeeeah. Put that in your little notebook titled, "Things Not to Do To Mah Behbeh".

Zebedee DooDah or Zebedee Yay? ~; ) ....sorry mom.

I swear I'm convinced it's Zebedee as in 60s acidtrip kids tv show "Magic Roundabout". Hence the Ermintrude.