Posted on 12/12/2011 8:50:40 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The invitation to an exclusive party at Hollywood's famed Supperclub showed a relaxed, smiling young man welcoming patrons to a birthday celebration for Metta World Peace. At first glance, it appears to be a fundraiser for a deserving children's charity. But read further and it becomes clear that this is a party for the former Ron Artest — the first fabulous bash thrown by the Los Angeles Lakers forward who officially changed his name.
But why Metta World Peace? "Metta is going to be the first name and it means like friendship, love and kindness," Artest told sports journalist Stephen A. Smith. "World Peace is going to be the last name, so everybody can get ready to buy their World Peace jerseys." The first name is derived from a Buddhist term that embodies the traits he describes, and it represents what he hopes is a turnaround from his reputation for arguing and brawling.
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Peace and love, bro.
Oxymoron.
It’s already been done. Remeber “World B. Free” Played for te Cavs?
And Tebow is supposedly the real in your face idiot.
He should change his name to “useful idiot”.
I always give out world peace for Christmas but everybody either loses or breaks it.
Nutz ... I’d also suggest “Scientific Maps”.
Should have change it to: Ima Real Idiot
How about ‘He who shall not be named in a FR thread’.
I think his mother was Asian, she went by the name of I Metta Foo
Hey, whatever happened to World B. Free, anyway?
Who remembers Lou Alcindor and Cassius Clay?
I approve of this name change. I do.
I just wonder why it took him so long to make this change. All those years of living with a white boy’s name must have humiliating.
“Ron Artest”? Sounds like a high school history teacher’s name in some rich suburb.
RE: Who remembers Lou Alcindor and Cassius Clay?
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I was kinda partial to Norma Jean Baker myself.
But Archibald Leach isn’t someone I’d cast as leading man.
Neither is Marion Robert Morrison.
And was John Denver really born in Colorado?
Of course everyone knows who Stefani Germanotta is...
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