Yeah, I know your baptismal name can be different from the name you use in daily life. My own sister Marie was baptised Philomena, which appears on her birth certificate as well as the baptismal certificate.
She recently had her name legally changed (after 50+ years!) because of trouble getting her paycheck correctly processed! It had never been an issue before, at least not an issue that couldn't be easily resolved, but after moving to a new state-university-employer* in a new state, there was no other way to get paid!
"Amber" may not be to your taste as a name, and it is certainly not Italian, but at least it's a plausible name. I'm sure most of us know someone named Amber. (Probably someone under the age of 35 or so.) But Meadow?!?!?!?
Susan,
I'm sorry that you feel the need to "own" this can of worms that you opened.
This is hardly the first time that "thread drift" has occurred here at the Mudcat Cafe, and sometimes the new directions are as interesting, if not moreso, than the original idea. Not necessarily this time; mind you, I am making so such claim.
If there were another ongoing discussion of The Sopranos before you broached the cast-of-kittycats subject, things would probably have been different. However ~ unless I'm mistaken and I missed something ~ this thread appeared as the first and so-far-only place to exchange BS about a very popular cultural phenomenon at a fairly critical point in time (2 episodes before disappearing forever).
FWIW, we've got two cats and like them well enough, but I can't for the life of me come up with a clever riposte along the lines that you suggested...