Re: OT: Buffy's real name

[Tater <tater@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:39 AM 9/25/2002 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 9/24/2002 10:01:17 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
>mcronin24@xxxxxxxxx writes:
>
>
>> I have no idea if this has been discussed before but I am always 
>> surprised at the number of fic's by the best writer's that insist on 
>> Buffy's real name being Elizabeth.
>> I'm aware that Buffy is a nickname for Elizabeth but I cannot find 
>> one single instance of Buffy being referred to by anything other 
>> than Buffy, (Dan?)including school and by the police. Two official 
>> orginazations that would use her correct name.
>> Because of Buffy never being referred to other than as Buffy, I have 
>> always assumed that for whatever reason, Joyce named her daughter 
>> Buffy legally. Maybe she had a thing for Buffy St. Marie. 
>> Until proven otherwise, I would love to stop seeing any new fic 
>> perpetuating the assumption that Byffy's legal name is Elizabeth.
>> 
>
>I've read a few stories that tried to explain this discrepency, but I don't 
>recall their actual names. One story I read, Joyce admitted that she had 
>planned to name her Elizabeth, but was too doped up after the delivery, and 
>it came out sounding like 'Buffy'. Another one, oddly enough, she admitted 
>that she was a big fan of the old series 'A Family Affair'. Which I watched 
>briefly the other night on WB, and it sucks hard. This is not the Buffy that 
>WB wanted.
>
>Kirayoshi

I think the thing currently running on the WB is the new remake of 'A Family
Affair', not the original. The original wasn't that bad. And now I feel
old because I remember it.


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