Dada Is My Name: Mini Digest 3

Let’s Start The Naming….

“Could you just call me Pigeon?” he asked the teacher when she read his name.
“Does your mother call you Pigeon?”
“No.”
“Then to me you are Paul.”
...
“Nathan Sutter,” the teacher read.
“My mother never calls me Nathan.”
“Is it Nate?”
“She calls me Honeylips.”
(Brandon Mull, The Candy Shop War)

Name Fact

Second Street is the most common street name in the US

https://www.nlc.org/most-common-us-street-names

Quote of the Day

“There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi.”
(George Carlin, Brain Droppings)

What Name Is It?

a written text that can be published in printed or electronic form

Name: Book

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/book

What’s My Name?

1. I was born in 1947

2. I am known as a singer-songwriter

3. My spouse is David Furnish

4. I have sold over 300 million records

5. In 1973 I released the album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

6. I sang and cowrote Rocket Man

7. Rocketman is the name of my recently released biopic

Yes, Elton John is my name!

Name Fact

Ada, Bob, Hannah, and Anna are all names spelt the same forwards and backwards. These are known as Palindrome names

Name In A Sentence

“That’s a pretty name for a little boy/girl”

(You’re welcome for my beautiful political correctness!)

Dada Is My Name

My Name is Dada

Comments

Unknown Feedback from Unknown Names, Unknown Sources and Unknown Authenticity

“Dada would be rolling in their grave, if they had one, seeing this blog that shares their name with other names. They might even be laughing, crying, smiling and dying all over again. Probably not; they would be indifferent.” (from Dada) “I love Dada!” (From Dada Dada) “This blog is like eating badly tasting junk food” (From Dada Dada Dada) “The writing on this blog is NOT Dada” (From Dada Dada Dada Dada) “These Dada Poems rock! (and break easily, like Dada)” (From Dada Dada Dada Dada Dada) “Dada is the audience and Dada is watching TV instead” (From Dada Dada Dada Dada Dada Dada) “It’s all nothing; it’s all Dada” (From Dada Dada Dada Dada Dada Dada Dada) Cause I ain't got no legs! Or no brain, nice to meet you Hi, my name is... I forgot my name! (Eminem, Rain Man )

Stairs Is My Name

Stairs is my name Stairs is my name, you’ll climb Up and Down me, I layer up to transport and transform you To the top of whatever, Point A to Point B, less likely to slip like my friend Hill. I’m mostly hard, built full of concrete, sometimes I am wood, sometimes I am cracked, decomposing. I rhyme with chairs, not sure why I wrote this, Heaven awaits when you reach me! Stair ways, wells, and cases, however you need me, Stairs Is My Name, Take The First STEP And Embrace ME! Photo by Maxime Lebrun on Unsplash

The Origins, and non-origins, of DADA

The origins, meanings, and beginnings of Dada are shrouded in DADA mystery. The following will alternate published (and on-the-record) Dada origin stories with Dadaismyname’s completely accurate/non-accurate/dadaDadaDADA information on how Dada came about and is still coming... '”Dada means nothing. We want to change the world with nothing.” (Richard Huelsenbeck) The word Dada came from a fourth-wave café in 2030 that served coffee with Dada written in the froth (Dadaismyname) “A word was born, no one knows how, DADA DADA we swore friendship on the new transmutation, which means nothing and was the most tremendous protestation, the most intense affirmation salvation army freedom oath mass combat speed prayer tranquillity guerrilla private negation and chocolate of the desperate.” (Tristan Tzara) Dada came when the world came (Dadaismyname) “It was in the interplay of opposites, whether ideas or people, that the essence of Dada consisted.” (Hans ...

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