"major wow factor"; "Anandra"

[Jonathan Lighter]

You mean it's generic? Like all women have that name now?  Hmmm.....

BTW, Anandra isn't "ethnic" looking, in case you're thinking along those lines.

Maybe it's "Anondra," as in, "I used to be Sandra or Sondra but now
I'm not telling you who I am."

JL



On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> A name that might mean, in some Greekoid way, "not a man"?
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> The same ad features a woman named "Anandra."  Her real name? Who
> knows? But if it is, she looks to be about 30.
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> JL
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