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Last	essay	8-Jun-2000	opinion	FrancesBurget	unsorted	48	14	34.2%

What kind of name is Gilligan anyway?

Where do you think this name originated?

User	Comment
mandy	posted 10-Jun-2000 3:48pm It's his last name doofus!
Zang	posted 10-Jun-2000 5:31pm Onomatopoeia, Sherwood Schwartz.
Richard	posted 11-Jun-2000 8:10pm Some Tv producer thought of it.
romkey	posted 12-Jun-2000 9:21am my impression is that it's a last name, like any other last name
lara	posted 12-Jun-2000 9:38am what kind of a name is romkey anyway?
cpierson	posted 12-Jun-2000 10:03am It's Irish, I'm pretty sure. My editor's last name is McGilligan, so I would assume that someone in his family's distant history was named Gilligan.
Jody	posted 12-Jun-2000 12:03pm From a trivia page: How did Sherwood Schwartz pick the name for Gilligan? He found the name Gilligan in the Pages of a Telephone Directory.
mandy	(reply to Jody) posted 12-Jun-2000 7:10pm I heard that's how he cast the Brady Bunch too!!!
Bloodraven	(reply to FrancesBurget) posted 24-Jun-2000 11:29am i have a gilligan you can have
kirst	posted 6-Jul-2000 9:12pm Sherwood Schwartz
eloradanan	posted 19-May-2006 1:31pm I don't know.
mross	posted 27-Jan-2007 10:21am It's just a name.

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