Does anyone actually know a living, breathing, sentient being named "Candy" outside of a rock/pop songs?

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"Candy" by Iggy Pop
"I Want Candy" by the Strangeloves/Bow Wow Wow
"So Like Candy" by Elvis Costello
"Candy Girl" by New Edition

....and I'm sure there are others (fill in the blanks).

Okay, so there's CNN correspondent Candy Crowley (who looks like she's put away a lot of candy), but do any of you actually know anyone named Candy?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

I know someone called "Andy" if that's good enough.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

Yes, but she goes by Candace, so I don't know if that counts.

Oh, and I went to school with a Candy Valentine. What were her parents thinking?

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

That's nice. Who did you give it to?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

"Candy" by Iggy Pop
Good grief, it's Iggy!

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and I went to school with a Candy Valentine. What were her parents thinking?

Ditto with some girl who had a season ticket at a swimming pool I managed. Candy Kane.

― George Smith, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Saw an interview with Mike Nichols where he mentioned Candy Bergen. He loved working with her. Apparently she is an absolute dream to work with. Same goes for Bobby DeNiro.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/A.R.Rondeel/bestof.jpg

Not that I actually know her personally you understand....

Does Candi Statton count?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

"Candy's Room" - Springsteen

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

"Candy Says" - Velvet Underground
"Candy O" - The Cars

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

http://www.naafa.org/images/hall_of_fame/john_candy.jpg

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

The girl I'm dating has a dog named Candy.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

I know one..

― Actor Sizemore fails drug test with fake penis (jingleberries), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000059POY.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Will(iam), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

http://www.stu-man.com/90ud/136maldonado.jpg

― mr. drew (mr. drew), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

candy says she's made arrangements for me in the saaaaaaand
candy says she wants me with her down in candyland

― one of the best morphine songs ever (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

dated a Candy for a very short time in college, pretty much reinforced most of the stereotypes you'd associate with someone of that name. she was really attractive, but shallow and not very bright. christ i had shitty taste in college.

― jonviachicago, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

I've known several Candies. Candy, Candi, Kandi, etc.

My dad once said out of the blue to me: "I call her Candy because she makes my peanut brittle." It's still one of the funniest things I've ever heard him say.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

i've known several candace's ... and none of them liked being called "candy."

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

http://eil.com/newgallery/Candy-Flip-Space-141994.jpg

― Sven Basted (blueski), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

I've known a Candy and a Kandi. Two of the dullest people I've ever met,

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

i knew one in college, she was off her rocker.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

I went to Tamil school with one. Definitely didn't fit the stereotype.

― the fucker that will burn you (sundar), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

i got a lapdance from a stripper named Candy a couple of weeks ago in Tampa

― JD from CDepot, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

http://img143.exs.cx/img143/6686/loving25lm.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

It's been 11 years since John Candy died? Time flies.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

I went to middle school with a girl named Candi.

― Lyra Jane (Lyra Jane), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

I knew a girl named Candy in junior high and high school. She had a lazy eye and greasy hair.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Do last names count?

One of my tutors at uni is named Chelsea Candy. No joke. She's round and bubbly and slightly insane.

― Roz, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

I work with a Candi (short for Candida) and went to high school with a girl named Candy Apple.

― mama brain, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

"Oh, Candy"-Cheap Trick

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Candy Clark from American Graffitti (and other selected B movies)

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

DUH, Candy Darling!

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

I do, but it may be a nickname. Either way she's annoying as fuck.

― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

ive known a few candys

― latebloomer: strawman knockdowner (latebloomer), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

I know a Candi

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Actually went to middle and high school with a girl born on the 24th of December with the last name of Caine...her parents HAD named her Candace, but changed it after their friends made too much fun of her.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Candido Maldonado Guadarrama

Otherwise known as Candy Maldonado, who played outfield and DH for the Dodgers, the Rangers, and various other teams over his 14 year career.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

Sadly, yes. Even sadder, she used it as a diminutive for her real first name, which was Cinnamon. It always baffled me that she was not a stripper.

― hypothetical wren (h-wren), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

My boss's wife is named Candi. She worked at a topless bar once upon a time, but she was never topless herself. Just a waitress. She is now one of the higher-ups in a certain successful corporation.

― Lingbertt, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Ash - "Candy"
Mandy Moore - "Candy"

bunch of others with the word "candy" in the title but I don't think they're referring to names.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

"Candy" also gave her name to a Magnetic Fields song: "Candy, they called you a baby, they called you a whore", oh plus J&MC's "PSYCHO" one.

But to answer the question, Candy seems as likely a name around here as, say, Barbie.

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/pubaffairs/newsletter/99summer/condi.JPG

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

i had a girlfriend in college named candy. she wasn't quite sentient, though.

― irrigation can save your people (irrigation can save your peopl), Thursday, 7 April 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

I know a (Candace who goes by) Candy

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 7 April 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)

now i have "I want condi" stuck in my head. thanks a lot, weather.

― Sym Sym (sym), Thursday, 7 April 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)

I know a girl called Candy Matthews. Have known her since I was about 4 years old.

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)

http://www.tvtome.com/images/people/3/1/65-38641-sm.jpg

Khandi Alexander, from News Radio and now CSI:Miami.

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)

i also know a candace who is called 'candy'

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:52 (twenty years ago)

candy dulfer, erstwhile dave stewart collaborator and sax player

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

"Candy" by Cameo. Gosh I love that song.

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

geez ... no mention of LL Cool J?? Bigger and Deffer gets no love from all these hip new jacks. "I. Feel. Good. UGH! About Candy!!"

I had sex with a Candace-goes-by-Candy in high school. Still friends with her to this day too!

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 8 April 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

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