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Just Magdalene, sorry, and she only counts if you're a Gnostic or Neo-Gnostic. Joel Send a noteboard - 27/03/2011 03:23:58 AM
Since the Gnostics have been dead for ~1800 years and most Neo-Gnostics are devotees of Dan Brown and/or David Icke, I pray you are neither. :dead:

The whole "I want twelve unique names" is probably doomed to failure, incidentally. Expecting twelve men chosen from any fairly large culture to all have different names is probably asking too much, and in addition to James:

"Peter"s given name was Simon, with "Peter" being a new game given him by Jesus after averring the Rock on which the Church and salvation are founded

Jude is sometimes called "Judas" and

A second Matthew was chosen to replace Judas Iscariot after the latters suicide.

The acknowledgement of Paul highlights the real problem though: It's not strictly accurate to speak of "the Twelve Disciples" OR "Twelve Apostles" because there were far more than twelve of each (and in the opinion of many, still are). It's more accurate (if less common and less convenient for comedy) to speak of the twelve foremost disciples/apostles, though Paul once again illustrates that's not a perfectly accurate statement either (I'd wager a lot more people have heard of Paul than either Philip or Bartholomew).
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Which apostles of Jesus Christ have you known? In the biblical sense, of course. - 23/03/2011 04:52:48 AM 1853 Views
About as close as I can get it is a Mary *NM* - 23/03/2011 04:55:10 AM 396 Views
Yeah... Inequality and discrimination is so annoying! - 23/03/2011 05:10:48 AM 902 Views
most of them don't even have decent female versions to use *NM* - 23/03/2011 01:10:15 PM 417 Views
Slutty. I like it *NM* - 23/03/2011 05:10:03 AM 447 Views
lol, how many apostles do you think is slutty? *NM* - 23/03/2011 05:11:37 AM 510 Views
Depends. How many you been with? *NM* - 23/03/2011 05:12:28 AM 515 Views
My answer. - 23/03/2011 05:14:54 AM 1131 Views
Oh prude! 12 would have been a much sexier answer *NM* - 23/03/2011 05:19:45 AM 1423 Views
Where is the line between prude and slut? *NM* - 23/03/2011 05:34:57 AM 520 Views
Sorry, trade secret. *NM* - 23/03/2011 05:37:46 AM 514 Views
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My challenge to you... - 23/03/2011 06:39:06 AM 1001 Views
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I think it's related to statistical significance. *NM* - 23/03/2011 10:55:26 AM 485 Views
Also, 12 would mean that there was a Judas. - 23/03/2011 05:56:59 AM 869 Views
oh man, i gotta remember dude's names? - 23/03/2011 05:44:06 AM 1109 Views
What do you mean, "maybe"? - 23/03/2011 05:46:54 AM 1098 Views
Yeah, you're winning so far. *NM* - 23/03/2011 10:54:16 AM 509 Views
You know, Joshua and Jesus are the same name. - 23/03/2011 06:54:52 AM 959 Views
Good point. Joshua/Josh counts. *NM* - 23/03/2011 03:55:11 PM 525 Views
How can they have English names, when English didn't even exist yet!?! *NM* - 23/03/2011 08:56:09 AM 529 Views
God must be a forward thinker. *NM* - 23/03/2011 09:34:07 AM 411 Views
Different ethnic versions of the names are fine. *NM* - 23/03/2011 03:12:18 PM 506 Views
Joshua = Jesus. According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal - 24/03/2011 10:08:27 PM 904 Views
Because cleary, God is a Brit. - 24/03/2011 12:40:28 PM 937 Views
My response. - 23/03/2011 10:53:06 AM 1037 Views
1.5 - 23/03/2011 02:43:46 PM 1022 Views
Why? - 23/03/2011 03:15:23 PM 954 Views
lol, I'm sorry, that just got a lot funnier than I had expected it to. - 23/03/2011 03:25:38 PM 1122 Views
Then it doesn't count. - 23/03/2011 03:53:55 PM 1025 Views
Have a John is better than none...? *MN* - 27/03/2011 03:42:09 AM 900 Views
Half a John, hahaha. Classic *NM* - 23/03/2011 03:55:37 PM 500 Views
*NM* - 24/03/2011 01:34:40 AM 451 Views
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In a strictly Biblical sense, it's the men who do the "knowing" and women who are "known". *NM* - 23/03/2011 10:20:34 PM 476 Views
"How many apostles have known you?" Fantastic. *NM* - 23/03/2011 11:05:25 PM 509 Views
LOL. *NM* - 24/03/2011 04:12:21 AM 508 Views
Also, John and Jonathan are not the same name. - 24/03/2011 02:48:49 AM 860 Views
Well Tom, if you've *been known* by both a John and a Jonathan, my hat's off to you. - 24/03/2011 04:11:49 AM 886 Views
I have come into the world, but the world has known me not. - 24/03/2011 01:43:36 PM 991 Views
Nice *NM* - 25/03/2011 10:19:37 PM 498 Views
Which is why "Johnathan", "Jonathon" and the like are such abominable names. *NM* - 25/03/2011 07:41:02 PM 499 Views
I hate it when people of the same ethnicity have different spellings of essentially the same name. *NM* - 25/03/2011 10:20:32 PM 525 Views
Алина, Алена, Елена really bothers me - 25/03/2011 11:42:56 PM 974 Views
Americans still have that "official name vs. everyday-use name" thing to a very large degree. - 26/03/2011 12:08:26 AM 1081 Views
Germans do it. - 26/03/2011 12:20:21 AM 906 Views
I think you'll find they do it rather less these days. - 26/03/2011 12:31:54 AM 1028 Views
I think you may be misunderstanding the concept of nicknames. - 26/03/2011 04:17:09 PM 889 Views
Is it me, or are your first and last sentence in direct contradiction of each other? - 26/03/2011 04:55:33 PM 1005 Views
Possibly; I don't know what their parents intended. - 29/03/2011 01:41:32 AM 827 Views
I have known people who did it - 29/03/2011 05:41:32 PM 832 Views
Actually, all Slavic languages do it extensively. - 26/03/2011 12:29:39 AM 950 Views
My experience with Slavic languages is extremely limited, but... - 26/03/2011 12:44:19 AM 836 Views
But "Tom" isn't a proper name. - 26/03/2011 01:53:38 PM 932 Views
For a lot of people it is. - 26/03/2011 04:52:57 PM 1057 Views
Hoi polloi do a lot of idiotic things. - 26/03/2011 04:58:46 PM 1007 Views
Oh that's not that bad! - 26/03/2011 03:48:05 PM 965 Views
Well, you're in luck! - 26/03/2011 04:52:18 PM 888 Views
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Sure you can - 26/03/2011 05:56:10 PM 898 Views
But... - 28/03/2011 07:28:17 PM 1007 Views
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I guess I haven't gone the apostle route - 24/03/2011 01:48:48 PM 947 Views
Re: I guess I haven't gone the apostle route - 24/03/2011 09:59:17 PM 891 Views
Are there more Peters, or are Peters more likely to get laid? *NM* - 25/03/2011 06:08:51 AM 511 Views
Re: Are there more Peters, or are Peters more likely to get laid? - 25/03/2011 11:10:47 AM 967 Views
I had no idea! - 26/03/2011 04:28:06 PM 998 Views
It's never too late! *NM* - 25/03/2011 06:42:01 PM 495 Views
Ah, I'm probably going to be known by only one man for the rest of my life - 26/03/2011 04:27:41 PM 929 Views
Well then maybe it is too late *NM* - 26/03/2011 05:25:46 PM 453 Views
Yeah, most likely :-) it's actually quite nice to be honest. *NM* - 26/03/2011 05:52:37 PM 520 Views
Just Magdalene, sorry, and she only counts if you're a Gnostic or Neo-Gnostic. - 27/03/2011 03:23:58 AM 920 Views
Best I can do - 28/03/2011 07:01:17 AM 1015 Views
That's awesome. - 28/03/2011 07:25:46 PM 1055 Views

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