Oh for cryin' out loud!

(heehee)

That's a lot of Jacks.

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I know! Hee.

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Jack is just an awesome name. It can be a manly name, a sensitive name, a scoundrelish name, it's easy to say, easy to read, it can be its own name or be a familiar stand-in for the more proper "John"...

-JD

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So it's all-purpose without being dull. :-)

I suppose that probably explains the phenomenon pretty well!

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Speaking of it, I use Jack as part of a pen name occasionally. :-D

-JD

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*facepalm*

Does this mean I should change my hero's partner's name in my Finish-a-thon fic? I mean, I just changed it to Jack after the character got a complete reworking.

Waaah!

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No! That's not what I mean; it's just intriguing to me that the name seems to fit so many characters, and be used so often.

If it fits? Use it. It really is a common RL name, anyway.

[btw, that is a gorgeous icon. wow.]

Oh, hey, I remembered another Jack:

Jack McCoy (Law & Order)

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This happens every once in awhile. About... ohh, six or seven years ago now, the most popular name out there seemed to be "Max". And when I say out there, I mean in tv/movie land.

There's a Jack in Will & Grace, which the fannish-mind in me always things is funny because W&G has a Will and a Jack and an actress named Elizabeth and PotC has a Will, Jack and Elizabeth...

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Hee! Thanks for the reminder--I'd forgotten about that Jack!

And it just shows the versatility of the name: Jack O'Neill, manly military guy, and Jack whatever-his-last-name-is, a flamboyantly gay wannabe actor.

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You forgot Jack Aubrey!

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...aaaand you said you weren't including books, because...yeah. My don't work so good sometimes.

But it is technically a movie now! So ha!

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My brain! My brain don't work so good. Yes. I am going to stop, now, and have some coffee, since I clearly need it badly.

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*giggles at series of posts*

Actually, I just saw your first one, and thank you! Because he was supposed to be on my original list of Jacks but I couldn't remember his last name! :-)

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Dr. Jack Hodgins - Bones

This Jack is smart, has three doctorates, and is a conspiracy theorist.

As for Stargate, it has Col. Jack O'Neill and a Dr. Daniel JACKson. (which is curious because in some ways Jack is a teacher- a father if you will- to Daniel so the name Jack son has double meaning.)

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Ah, excellent. I don't watch Bones, so I wouldn't have caught that one. :-)

And yes, it is interesting about the "Jackson" thing.

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As a side but related note I have now finished season One of SG1 so I will probably be able to joinin the Stargate discusions a bit more. jedibuttercup has also made sure I've watched every episode since 200 so I know the begining and the end of the show. I plan to catch up before the end of the hiatus in March.=)

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Oh dude... so much happens inbetween... how do you possibly understand what's going on?

And what about Season Six?

(like your icon. ::loves young floppy-haired Daniel::)

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Well, I've read the episode summeries at Gateworld.com and when something happens that needs explaining, jedibuttercup pauses the tape and answers questions. (I read her season six Buffy fanfic with out ever watching the show with just her explinations so this is not unusual for us to do things the hard way when sucking me into fandom.)=)

I like floppy hair Daniel too.

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Good luck with that catching-up thing. :-) I've been watching the DVDs for not quite two years now (give it through the end of November), and the last disk of season 8 is arriving in the mail from Netflix today. Of course, I have a lot of other shows to watch and a decently active RL.

Hopefully I'll catch up through season 9 (once it hits DVD) before the last hurrah begins in March.

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I watch while I do other stuff.=) I went throught the entire Buffyverse saga from October till just before Christmas last year.=) I'll catch early season 10 on iTunes.

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LOL! That's funny...I hadn't noticed that. Sometimes it *is* just coincidence, though.

Case in point: the Buffy/Angel writers admitted that they named a bunch of characters Bill (or some variation thereof) without meaning to. The only two I can remember offhand are William the Bloody (Spike) and Liam (Angel)--the two main vampires of their shows. It's Bill vs. Bill! LOL! The writers mentioned a whole bunch of others, but that's all my sleep-deprived brain can think of at this point.

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Our friends Moose and Amanda just had a baby boy, and guess what they named him? Jack!
Hee!
Jack Skinner. Kinda has a nice ring to it, eh? ;)
Y'know, the food services bigwig manager at Hershey Park back in the summer of '91 was named Jack. The joke between my supervisors, me and a few of my coworkers was of course - "Hey, is Jack working today?" "Nah, Jack's off."
*snorfle*
The memory still makes me giggle.
-----}-@

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There are too many jokes possible, really. There's a character in the book The Eyre Affair named Jack Schitt. *eyeroll*

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