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Whats in a name?
That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet, she replies.
Yes, but also no, 17-year-old Claire Danes.
Names are extremely important.
Brooks Rattigans full name is said approximately ten times throughoutThe Perfect Dates full 90 minutes.
Here is how I feel about the name Brooks Rattigan: I love it!
(Everyone wants to go to Yale, these days!
He is tall and looks earnest and endearing, like a J.Crew model from 1999.
Matt Walsh plays his dad, Charlie Rattigan.
Imagine Matt Walsh as Charlie Rattigan welcoming a baby boy in 2002.
Nelly and Vanessa Carlton are extremely popular.
Tobey Maguire is Spider-Man.
Lets go with Brooks Rattigan.
Brooks Rattigan would text me the night before asking for the rubric.
Would I still let Brooks Rattigan copy my history homework the next morning?
Of course I would.
my friend Jianna said.
But I still reply to his Snapchats.
Another friend, Jenny, agreed: Brooks Rattigan asked me to take him home from a party.
Then asked me to drop him off at another girls house, and I did??
But he isThe Perfect Dates protagonist.
Rattigan sounds likerat the famous animal from the last scene ofThe Departed.
(And also like Radegast, my least favorite beer hall in Brooklyn.)
Try saying the name Brooks Rattigan three times fast: Brooks Rattigan, Brooks Rattigan, Brooks Rattigan.
It reminds me of thefat rat stuck in that one manhole, and I smile.
I almosthatehow much Iloveit.
In conclusion: Call me by your Brooks Rattigan, and I will call you by mine.
