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Strange obsessions

Lotus

Sometimes I get strangely obsessed about something that would probably sound odd to most people. 

I've recently been doing a Sims 4 alphabet legacy challenge, which is where you play a household for 26 generations and give the sim for each generation the next letter of the alphabet. I thought you started by naming the founding sim with a name beginning with A, then their child a name beginning with B, then B sims child gets a name starting with C, and so on until the Z child is born/adopted, at which point you complete the challenge. It turns out that I was supposed to start the alphabetical naming with the first child, not the founder, so when child no.26 was adopted I had already used all the letters of the alphabet.

Sorry for the long story, but it's to explain how I got to the latest weird obsession. I decided the final daughter of the legacy challenge and her future partner should have names that included all the letters of the alphabet, and I set about obsessing over trying to find two first names and two surnames that between them have all the letters.

Finally got there yesterday - the names are:

Jacquelyn Kempsworth & Alexander Von Fitzburg

What strange obsessions have you had?

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  • I don’t play computer games, apart from Sudoku, Wordle and occasionally chess, but I understand your compulsion to complete all the letters of the alphabet within the names.

    I might have the numeral version of your games obsession as I have spent my lifetime engaged in mental counting and mental arithmetic. The predictability of numbers makes it extremely satisfying, yet higher level mathematics has eluded me.

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    I read the occasional book on numbers and maths. I get all excited by things like "perfect numbers" and "sublime numbers" and the like. I'd love to infodump about them to people, but at my age I know better. I'd only get as far as "num..." before their eyes would glaze over. There was no shutting me up as a kid, though.

    I also like changing the volume on the TV to a prime number. Why set it to 30 when you can set it to 31? I like to live life large like that—you know, out there on the edge. I'm a bit of a rebel.

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  • in reply to ArchaeC

    I read the occasional book on numbers and maths. I get all excited by things like "perfect numbers" and "sublime numbers" and the like. I'd love to infodump about them to people, but at my age I know better. I'd only get as far as "num..." before their eyes would glaze over. There was no shutting me up as a kid, though.

    I also like changing the volume on the TV to a prime number. Why set it to 30 when you can set it to 31? I like to live life large like that—you know, out there on the edge. I'm a bit of a rebel.

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