Kindergartner, Amazing Johnson, severs finger

yahoo ^ | 12-12-13 | Charlene Sakoda

[TurboZamboni]

Parents of 6-year-old Amazing Johnson, were angered when they learned that school officials did not call 911 when their daughter’s fingertip was severed. Latesha Coleman, Amazing’s mother, told KRIV Fox 26, Hughes Road Elementary administrators called her but downplayed the severity of the student’s injury saying, "She told me that the nurse was working with Amazing, that Amazing is fine. She's being loved on by the nurse."

[70times7]

Do a youtube search: Key and Peele east/west college bowl.

[GeronL]

ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS

is that a real name??

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[The Antiyuppie]

I actually LIKE what the Germans do. You can call your kid Trigger, Spaceman, Portentous, #43.2, -!BANG- -whatever - but on the birth certificate, it’s going to be one of these one-hundred something names appropriate for the sex of the child.

[Ghost of SVR4]

You can’t even focus on the story because of the child’s name.

ummmm... maybe its just you.

[GeronL]

lol

[Peter Libra]

My favourite biblical name for a girl and I certainly never dared mention it as a choice of a daughters first name. It was was Hepzibah. Now the novel "Silas Marner" had as a character little Hepzibah. Throughout the novel, she was called using the diminutive of "Eppie". People seem to have a fine way of reducing a name that may not be the best for a child. Eustacia is reduced to Stacy and Thomasin as Tamsie. These were two heroines in a novel by Thomas Hardy.

I have a diminutive for the sweet little girl called Amazing, it is Maisie.

Please excuse the ramble. My wife positively refused my daughters names as Eustacia (fem of Eustace) and Thomasin (fem of Thomas). They are their middle names.

[Kenton]

How is the name any different than the names given to Puritan girls AND boys: Patience, Remember, Surenus, Remembrance, Oceanus, Mercy, Charity, Serenity, etc.?

I have some of those in my family. I had an ancestor (a male) whose first name was "Wrestling".

[Cyber Liberty]

Dagwood: “That’s a pretty odd name, wouldn’t you say Blondie?”

Blondie: “Now you know how my parents felt when I introduced you to them.”

[GeronL]

strange names are perfect for comics though

[coop71]

Or Piper, Willow, Bristol, Track or Trig...

I’m kidding, but I agree with your point.

[SampleMan]

What was normal 400 years ago isn’t normal now.

[Mastador1]

Shouldn’t Amazing Johnson be a boy’s name?

In a perfect world, but then maybe there is something they are not telling us.

[BenLurkin]

Some are innocently amused by it. The others are just hateful.

[Tired of Taxes]

And wonderful middle names they are. :-)

My children were given what most people would consider common names. Before choosing names, we tried them each after titles like “General” and “President” to see how they’d sound. But middle names can be much more fun.

[deport]

Photos of mom and daughter at this link.....

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/oddnews/kindergartner—amazing-johnson—severs-finger-and-school-fails-to-call-911-212310640.html

[NonValueAdded]

linebacker? that sounds more like a cheerleader’s name

[matt1234]

Who’s on first?

[matt1234]

Now they can call her Zing for short.

[Tired of Taxes]

Yes, some of the amusement is understandable. The parents had to know that would happen when they named her. If the newspaper hadn’t focused on the child’s name by making it part of the headline (which is not standard protocol), maybe most people wouldn’t have noticed.

[Rodamala]

Amazing Johnson... Any relation to Gabby Johnson?