How many ways has Daria's name been mangled, intentionally and unintentionally?
Beavis and Butthead, of course, called her "Diarrhea".
Mrs. Manson called her "Dara".
Luhrmann called her "Dar-EYE-uh".
Terry Barry Barlow and Mrs. Stoller called her "Darlene".
Val-as-in-Val called her "Dar".
Have there been any others?
M Man
"MMan37x" wrote in message news:[email]...
unintentionally?
Don't forget Robert calling her Darcy in "The New Kid"
Firah
Eep! Can't believe I missed that one!
M Man
MMan37x wrote:
Robert called her "Darcy." Or "Ma'am."
MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")
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"'Thin Thighs For Your Man.' But I don't *like* men with thin thighs" --Daria
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In article , [email] (Gilgad) wrote:
Darcy was the name of a male character in "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, one of Daria's favorite authors, interestingly enough.
Steve Cross
Steve Cross wrote:
heh, that's my favourite book! and my theory is that daria isn't most like elizabeth, she's most like darcy (well, gender aside, of course ;P). i have an essay i wrote (and thoroughly enjoyed) about darcy's true personality being kind and caring, reading between the lines and interpeting scenes. the more i thought about it, it matched daria perfectly. got an A for it too. my prof found it fascinating :).
ja ne hotaru
Hotaru said:
I'd love to see that essay sometime.
I agree with you, btw -- a lot of Darcy's apparent coldness when first encountered is explainable as an overreaction to the damage Wickham did to his family, which was originally made possible only by his being too warm and trusting in the first place. He has retreated into (socially acceptable) snobbishness as a defense (Wickham, after all, was lower status). What we see in _Pride and Prejudice_, in terms of his character development, is his gradually learning to trust again.
... and another! O'Neill calls her "Dorian" in "Caf� Disaffecto" (a bug was crawling across his seating chart, obscuring Daria's name.)
M Man
M Man wrote:
And we know that early on, Mr. O'Neill couldn't remember a name to save his own life! :)
BTW, "Dorian" is the name of the title character of a novel by Oscar Wilde. I think the title is "The Picture of Dorian Grey". The plot has Dorian having his portrait done, and reflecting that his youth and good looks will fade while his picture aged. He wished that he would maintain his good looks while the picture aged. But as they say, "Be careful what you wish for, you may get it." Dorian realized that while he remained young and handsome, his painting became more and more ugly as he was led into a life of depravity. He hid the painting away, but when he feared the painting would "give him away", he tried to slash it. As a result, he died, becoming a wizened old man, while the painting took the form of his younger self again.
Belle Book
On 26 Aug 2001 23:52:38 GMT, [email] (MMan37x) wrote:
...does anyone ever call her "dude?" =)
In article , Xor wrote:
Daria tended to exercise her wit on these idiots in return, ISTR
And was corrected only to reinvent the mistake.
I get the feeling that he was trying to get the rise out of her, hence the retort "is Luhrmann your first or last name?"
Uhhnng... shades of Roseanne! (Mind you, I liked Darlene during her black hair phase. Anyone that went to those lengths to freak Fatty Barr or whatever she calls herself now is fine by me!)
I wonder what might have happened if Daria had gone to New York?
<ring>
Daria: Hi! This is Dar as in Dar!
Jane: So how was the big Apple?
Daria: Who is this?
:)
There was that guy that Quinn tried to fix up with her during that business with the yearbook cut who called her "Darcy"...
"chika" wrote in message news:[email]...
Kevin called her "dude," in "The Big House"(#110).
In article , Xor wrote:
In most of these cases, somebody was just getting her name wrong. It is, admittedly, an unusual name, probably taken from the Barbara Hershey character in the film "Zabriskie Point."
<Daria>
Yeah, I saw "Zabriskie Point" on video. It was pretty lame, except at the end where Daria imagines everything blowing up. That was cool.
</Daria>
I always thought Val knew was Daria's name was and just decided to make "Dar" into a personal nickname for her.
I looked up Daria on Lycos one time and came across a list of Italian saints with a St. Daria in it. The director of ZP was Italian (Antonioni, IIRC).
Steve Cross
Yeah, that's why I said "intentionally or unintentionally". Some, like Val, were sticking her with a nickname, while others, like Robert and Mrs Manson, were mangling her name.
Hmmm. I thought Eichler or someone named her after an actual high-school classmate. I read that somewhere but can't find it now. Does anyone remember? I think the girl was also, against her will, nicknamed "Diarrhea".
Can cartoon characters be canonized?
JUST KIDDING!
M Man
My favorite was Terry Berry Barlow calling her Daria Mogendavid
"GeoBQn" wrote in message news:[email]...
Mogendavid 20/20 for those underage drinkers on a budget. Also better known as Mad Dog 20/20...which you can connect back to Mad Dog Morgendorffer...
Oh lord this could go on and on.
Anyone up for a game of Six Degrees of Morgendorffer?
Firah
Is she the patron saint of sarcasm? :)
(Seriously, what is St. Daria the patron saint of? I can't find her in any of my books on the lives of the saints.)
Cricket
"There is very little known about them... Chrysanthus refused is father's attempts to get him married, finally married Daria, a Greek and a priestess of Minerva, converted her, and convinced her to live with him in chastity. When they converted a number of Romans, Chrysanthus was denounced as a Christian to Claudius, the tribune. Chrysanthus' attitude under torture so impressed Claudius that he and his wife, Hilaria, two sons, and seventy of his soldiers became Christians, whereupon the Emperor had them all killed. Daria was sent to a brothel, where she was defended by a lion, brought before Numerian, who ordered her execution, and was stoned and then buried alive. When several followers of Daria and Chrysanthus were found praying at their crypt, among them Diodorus, a priest, and Marianus, a deacon, they were all entombed alive. Their feast day is October 25." -- Catholic Online Saints ( http://saints.catholic.org/saints/daria.html )
Virgin and martyr, eh? Appropriate :)
<snip info from made4stage>
A belated thanks for the info! (And I'll try to check responses to the ng more frequently in the future!) :)
Cricket
Cricket wrote:
It's probably long expired in the archives, but I posted about St. Daria a while back. Probably more than two years ago. Anyway, it was substantially the same information as Made4Stage posted.
Anyway, I don't think she's patron (patroness? matron?) of anything. On the Roman calendar, her feast is October 25th. On the Byzantine calendar, it's March 19th.
I think we need a patron of intelligent TV. I nominate saint Daria. (Or is that a hopeless case, covered by St. Jude?)
Peace Kevin
I take it there is no St. Beavis or St. Buthead? What a pity.
Mel Parker Allow me to introduce my selves.