OT: I have a question for you.

May 28, 2006 264 Replies

I'm curious to get other's thoughts on this VERY unimportant matter and I guess this is mainly for residents of the U.S., but anyone is free to answer.



It has come across as a newsflash that Brangelina, Angelie Jolie and Brad Pitt, have named their new baby girl Shiloh Belle.



My question: What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word Shiloh?



Lucille


A cartoon? Oh sorry, an animated movie?

Dannielle

Shiloh has lots of associations, but Shiloh Belle sounds to me like a riverboat.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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Why I asked this question is because with Angelina being such a peacenik you would think she would realize that a lot of people would associate the name with the Civil War.

I thought it a strange choice, even though I was told it's a biblical name.

Lucille

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How about the Bible? Not certain of the context but a road near me when I lived in Shad Bay was named Shiloh Road and some people didn't think 'It was proper" but I didn't really get what exactly was not proper. Better look it up now. lol

"Lucille" ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

I heard this baby was born in Namibia and she has adopted African children so I would think somehow the connection is to this

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guessing mind you, haven't a clue who she is etc. Though I doknow him, he was in Titanic wasn't he?

Neil Diamond Song is the first thing to my mind - though being an Australian none of the intricacies of the Civil War names are overly meaningful. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Joanne in Perth (where it has finally rained- albeit slightly)

My question: What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word Shiloh?

Lucille

IIRC, the civil war battle field was named for nearby Shiloh Church.. I had always heard the biblical name meant peace - rather like Shalom. It apparently means rest or quiet, so her name translates literally as "quiet new" (although the spelling of nouvel is masculine, feminine would be nouvelle).

Marg

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Pat > I'm curious to get other's thoughts on this VERY unimportant matter and I

Shilo , A [Biblical] city on Ephrayim Mountain, existed in the Mid and late Bronze time, Bible situates the city , North of Beth El , eastern to the road that goes from Beth El To Schem And from the south To Levonah. Judges 21, 19 . Ohel Moe`ed The sacred tent was there for a while. The story Of Samuel etc,,,, mirjam

Sorry Marg Shilo Doesn`t Translate into any word related to Shalom or peace .... It might be a mistake in translating another word Shalev [that is written with same letters , when words aren`t punctuated -we have no vowel letters in Hebrew- and that it must be read Shalev which means indeed the Male Singular form of tranquil , calm, But if they wanted her toi have this meaning in HER name they should have called her Shelva Female singular of Shalev ,,,, or Shalva, =Calm,Tranquility mirjam

First thing I thought of was the song Shilo by Neil Diamond.... Marie and the cats

Lucille wrote:

Joanne in Perth (where it has finally rained- albeit slightly)

My question: What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word Shiloh?

Lucille

A tite for a Disney animated movie, about a shetland pony named Shiloh.

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A Sea shanty! "Johnny come down to Shiloh" (although, originally, it was "Hilo") and was a capstan shanty.

Pat P

I wish them all the privacy they can muster and that people stop referring to them as Brangelina.

I can't stand this trend. Merging two famous people's names into one generally crappy one.

That and the way all the celebrity driven shows and magazines now refer to a woman's pregnant belly as a "baby bump."

A coworker leaves her People magazines on my desk when she's done, and during slow times at work I leaf thru it (mostly because it's there! lol) and these two trends just make me cringe.

Caryn

I can't stand it either. I think it's nobody's business what they do in their private lives, just like it's nobody's business what I do in my life. And that whole "with fame comes the rest" don't fly when it concerns children of famous people. Calling them Brangelina is participating in a behavior Americans are famous for being.

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