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Jocasta

31 replies

KerryMmmmkay · 31/10/2008 19:44

Love the name, but is it too "sullied" by it's associations (mother and wife(!) of Oedipus)?

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minko · 31/10/2008 20:17

Isn't that one of the 'Modern Parents' in Viz?? That alone would put me off.

expatinscotland · 31/10/2008 20:09

it's a woman who married her son and then gouged out her eyes.

don't go there.

name her Medea or Clytemestra or Regan or that.

CuppaTeaJanice · 31/10/2008 19:51

Jocasta Innes - where do I know that name from?

....might be something to do with paint?.....

artichokes · 31/10/2008 19:51

I am not sure many people will get the Oedipus connections.

I would be more worried that every Jocasta I have ever met is UBER posh and sloany. Not in a nice balanced way but in a horrid snobby way.

constancereader · 31/10/2008 19:51

nice but v posh

KerryMmmmkay · 31/10/2008 19:49

ahem its not it's

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