Why Pond Water?

  No, this isn't a nature organization.  No, I'm not in a mental institution (also that could ne debated.)  This is a website designed for fun, fanfiction, and anything else that begins with the letter "f"...  Wait...  Nevermind.  Make that "fun, fanfiction, and stuff like that."  I refuse to make this site unfriendly to the masses.  Ha.

  But why this title?  Why not something else?  Well, if you didn't already know, a nickname of mine is Ponder Stibbons from
Discworld. "So what?" you might ask.  "What the heck does 'Pond Water' mean?"  Well, thanks to one of the best Discworld fanfics I have ever read by Am-Chau and Raven called A Most Unlikely Family, you have your answer...:

Rosie smiled. "It's a boy." Neville seemed to be trying to nod. "What's his name?" she asked gently.
"I� ugh, I'm drunk. Drunk as aaaaneeewt," Neville slurred. "Drunk� noot� huh� ditch wa'er. Mebbe pond wa'er. Pond. Ponder�"
Rosie grabbed the only part of that which seemed plausible. "Ponder? His name's Ponder?"

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"Never mind that now," Rosie told him, slightly sharper than she'd intended. "Sandra's taken the boy�Ponder�over to UU, to the girl she knows there�"
"What's her name?"
"Sandra?"
"No, the girl."
"I'm not sure. Mary Stibbons, I think. Something dull Stibbons, anyway, or maybe Gibbons. Jane? Judith? Susan? One of those. Does it matter?"

                                                     --
A Most Unlikely Family


  Anyhow, there you have it.  That's- supposedly- the origin of Ponder's name.  Supposedly.  And that's my answer.  Happy now?


- Sirius Orion Black II (and Ponder =P)
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