Hey! I'm a Snapdragon!

Thanks to Patrick for this.

You Are a Snapdragon
"Mischief is your middle name, but your first is friend. You are quite the prankster that loves to make other people laugh."

I am a Snapdragon What Flower Are You?

From Wedding Solutions:

The botanical name for Snapdragon is Antirrhinum Majus. It originated in the Mediterranean region of France and Spain more than 400 years ago. It is now one of the most popular flowers around. The flowers sit in graduated clusters atop a spike that is between 8 and 12 inches in length and along a stem that can grow as long as 45 inches. Snapdragons are available in shades of red, orange, lavender, pink, salmon and white. They have no scent.

Because of their abundance of color and their vertical shape, Snapdragons are extremely useful in vase arrangements. These flowers are readily available in May and June and then again in late summer until the end of October. Snapdragons can also be found in limited supply in late winter and early spring. Properly cared for, they can last about a week.

Note of warning: these flowers require sufficient water at all times. They are also extremely sensitive to ethylene gas and should be kept away from fruits
and vegetables on food table displays. If kept too close, they will drop their buds on the table.

Very pretty flower, isn't it? I tend to lean toward Carnations and Irises as favorites, but these are really nice. Check out the quiz, why don'cha, and see what kind of flower you are. Then check out Patrick's blog - Born Again Redneck - and enjoy the reading there!

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Also from Patrick - see? I read his blog! - is this:

I had never known another Patrick Conlon until I moved to San Francisco and I was amazed to find that there were three others with my name in the phone directory.

Naturally I had to go check it out, and ...

Jeffrey Keenan

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 62 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Along with this banner, was the following, which I found interesting:

Jeffrey		Keenan
There are 887,907 people in the U.S. with the first name Jeffrey. Statistically the 46th most popular first name. 99.83 percent of people with the first name Jeffrey are male. Names similar to Jeffrey: Geoffrey Jeff Jefferson		There are 20,998 people in the U.S. with the last name Keenan. Statistically the 1664th most popular last name. (tied with 279 other last names)

So, if 99.83 percent of people with the first name Jeffrey are male, who, exactly, named their daughters Jeffrey? From Behind The Name comes this:
JEFFREY
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JEF-ree
Medieval variant of GEOFFREY

Look, this is not a female's name! So figure it out! Jeepers! Almost as silly as A Boy Named Sue! And I wanted to know what the name means, too, so I looked for that and found this:

From an Old French form of a Germanic name. The second element is Germanic frid "peace", but the first element may be either gawia "territory", walah "stranger", gisil "hostage" or god "god" (see GODFREY). It is possible that two or more names merged into a single form. The name was introduced to England by the Normans, where it became common among the nobility. Famous literary bearers include the 12th-century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth and the 14th-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer, writer of 'The Canterbury Tales'.

And Godfrey gives me this:

From the Germanic name Godafrid, which meant "peace of god" from Germanic god "god" and frid "peace". Godfrey of Bouillon was the leader of the First Crusade and the first ruler of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.

So I am God's Peace. Get used to it! Heheheee!

Thanks, Patrick!

PS: Unless it's spelled Joffrey it isn't pronounced Joff-free. Geoffrey is still pronounced Jef-free. Okay? Sheesh!

By the by: Being curious, I checked for my siblings names. My sister's married name garnered the following, which tickled me!

HowManyOfMe.com

There is: 1 person with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?