When Gloria and Klaus has their first, and as it turned out their only, baby – a girl – she was the cutest new-born on earth. She was so cute in fact that they called her Little Bo Peep.
“Oh what a cute baby!” people would say. “What is she called?”
“Little Bo Peep!”
“What a perfect name for someone so cute!”
By the age of five, Little Bo Peep had grown ringlets in her hair. She was even cuter.
At high school, Little Bo Peep dropped the “Little”. It was too babyish.
In her early twenties, Bo Peep began to spell her name B-E-A-U Peep. Then later she changed the spelling of Peep to P-E-P-Y-S. Quite frankly, she’s grown out of her cuteness.
These days, Beau Pepys is head of a gigantic international corporation. There’s the occasional snigger, but it’s always followed by a head roll.
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Sounds like Little Bo Peep has lost her chic!
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It’ll come back – wagging it’s tail!
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Head roll or rolling head?
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The head roll is the largest (presumably) in the package of supermarket buns.
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Provided it stays on its shelf, there’s no issue.
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From sweet to deep six. Ouch. Goes to show, you can’t tell what goes on behind a cute face. 😀 😀 😀
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Things get over-balanced…!
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I think someone already said this, but….”What’s in a name?” Beau is such an appropriate masculine name for the female CEO of a giant corporation, isn’t it?
Next, she’ll be paying someone at Ancestry.com to concoct documents that show her in a direct line of descent from the famous British diarist, Samuel Pepys.
It’s not so hard to create an imaginative story of one’s provenance or past. Our American presidential candidate,Hillary Clinton, claimed that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, until it was discovered that the man who conquered Everest did so in 1953 and Ms. Clinton was born in 1947.
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When Bill (Clinton) came to NZ on a State Visit, the official dinner had Hillary to sit next to Edmund Hillary. Hillary didn’t turn up – she sent her mother Mrs Rodham!
On another point altogether – and possibly a little bit of a “discourteous” one… Do you pronounce your surname as “Joe-bin” or “Job – rhymes with knob – in”?
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Not discourteous at all.. Until I left the small town where I grew up, I didn’t realize there were so many pronunciations of those two simple syllables; we always pronounced it as in “joe-bin.” In my travels I have often encountered “jobbin.” The French Canadians pronounce it as “job-ainh” and the South Americans as “joe-bean” or even “joe beam.” Go figure. I won’t go into the possible pronunciations of Cynthia.
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Thanks – the Jobins I have known have been Joe-bin but the Joblins have been Jobblin. And each time I type your first name I have to double check. Twice it has been mistyped and I dread to think the send button could so easily be pressed…
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Silly mumsy and popsy!! I don’t blame Ms Pepys for changing her name – I certainly could not have lived life comfortably with that appellation attached…….!
Bruce, I don’t know what a ‘head roll’ is either.
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Gosh – I thought “head roll” was a universally known phrase. “Tidy up your act you lot or heads will roll!” Get the sack! Get the boot! Off with their heads! After the terrible fiasco of misreporting in the paper, you can be sure a few heads will roll…
Thanks for pointing it out, Pauline. Does anyone else know the expression?
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Oh,oh! Maybe it’s just me being obtuse Bruce! [Too early in the morning, not enough coffee etc etc] I know ‘heads will roll’ of course – but not ‘head roll’ – isn’t that an interesting omission in my eddikation!!
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I Googled it and I seem to be the only one that uses the expression “head roll”. Unlike Shakespeare, I am clearly not adding much to the richness of the English language!
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I have heard the expression “head roll” used when I was studying Qi Gong. It is an exercise for loosening the muscles of the neck, rolling the head in a slow circle, first clockwise then counter clockwise as one of several relaxation techniques….of course I’ve also heard of rolling heads, coming hot off the guillotine.
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It seems that the expression “heads will roll” does not greatly allow for different tenses and parts of speech.
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But if I hear that expression again I shall know who to credit it to!!
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Yup. Heads will roll. That’s what her crazy parents get, giving her such a silly name!
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Indeed!
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My head has never rolled or been shot out of a cannon or set to by a flame but the expressions are known to me.
Beau Pepys, however, I am sure I have met and married but only under the impression she was still Bo Peep (if not little anymore), so it didn’t last.
Great story Bruce.
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Most things surrounding Bo Peep seem to get lost.
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Beau Pepys sounds suspiciously like Vlad Tsepes. Maybe they met up at some point.
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We should be glad Vlad wasn’t called Bo Peep – or the sheep would’ve lost their tails for sure!
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Parents have such a responsibility – some celebs offspring’s names are just plain daft
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😀 They seem to equate creativity with stupidity!
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Beau Pepys is a funky name
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I wouldn’t mind it!
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Might be better for business if she’s made it Beau Pep!
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I can empathise with Beau Pepys. Is there a metaphor here?
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Metaphor? I gave it a “like”!
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