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The “Name Game” Text Topic!

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We stumbled onto a rather fun topic today, of “names you don’t hear much of anymore” which we put a more “positive” spin-on with “Names due for a Comeback!”

The response to this by text and email was amazing!  Names we don’t hear often contributed include:

Reginald
Gertrude
Mildred
Irene
Gloria
Inez
Verna
Vernice
Melvin
Marvin
Eileen
Hortense
Roland
Herman
Dennis
Millicent
Ellen, Ethyl and Enid
Eunice
Merritt
Lilian
Marjorie
Lecile (male)
Arvilla
Shirley
Regina
Pedro
Phyllis, beulah, Myrtle, Manfred, Manny, Herbert
Hugh,
Delores
Laverna, Georgetta
Waylon, Wilder

Are there others you can think of?  Scroll down and “reply” to this thread or any other thread that interests you by doing the same thing!

Thanks for listening to the J and J Midday Show!

Written by: Jim Carlyle

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