My Two New Favorite Names...

[pickle47]

From the Men's NCAA 100m - Mookie Salaam (Brooklyn meets the mid-East?)
and
from the latest T&FN HS section - Turquoise Thompson. Beautiful.

[bambam]

Re: My Two New Favorite Names...

From the Men's NCAA 100m - Mookie Salaam (Brooklyn meets the mid-East?)
and
from the latest T&FN HS section - Turquoise Thompson. Beautiful.

While reading the latest issue this evening, I said the same thing to my wife about Turquoise Thompson - beautiful name and beautiful young lady.

[Brian]

Re: My Two New Favorite Names...

From the Men's NCAA 100m - Mookie Salaam (Brooklyn meets the mid-East?)
and
from the latest T&FN HS section - Turquoise Thompson. Beautiful.

While reading the latest issue this evening, I said the same thing to my wife about Turquoise Thompson - beautiful name and beautiful young lady.

I agree, very nice sounding.

And my birthstone! [As if anyone cares.]


Cool sounding names always have balance. The Tuquoise wouldn't work as well without the Thompson!


In the 1974 Commonwealth Games wrap-up story (issue after the coverage issue; one of my personal keepsake gems!), T&FN made mention of some of the cool sounding African names in the meet. "Silver Ayoo" and "Fatwell Kimaiyo" come readily to mind.

[gh]

Re: My Two New Favorite Names...

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And my birthstone! [As if anyone cares.]....

What month has Thompson as a birthstone?

[tandfman]

DECember?

[The Atheist]

I liked the pole vaulter with the last name "Woepse"

Lol, any time he screws up, his coach can both yell his name and mention that he goofed up his vault, all in just one word!

"WOEPSE!!!"

[Half Miler]

From the NCAA Decathon,

4. Gray Horn FR Florida 11.05 850

I used to play one of these back in the day..

[bad hammy]

I liked the pole vaulter with the last name "Woepse"

One of the original PVer Woepse's kids just won the CA HS state meet PV this past Saturday.

[mike renfro]

[quote=bad hammy]

I liked the pole vaulter with the last name "Woepse"

One of the original PVer Woepse's kids just won the CA HS state meet PV this past Saturday.[/quote:74yxu2mk]

We saw Greg compete at SJSU a loooong time ago, and yes, the all time name for pole vaulting. Our middle daughter was involved with mangagement at the Togo's chain, and she and Greg got franchises in SoCal and moved down here. His two older kids vault for UCLA, and the eldest scored at the PAC10 meet. Apparently, there are more kids in the system, so lotsa PVers is my guess. Probably a bit like Jan Johnson teaching Chelsea (sp?) Michael, CA HS champ is a junior.