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Named after the pope (vanity)
April 4, 2005

Posted on 04/04/2005 12:01:35 PM PDT by kerouacbal

I was born on Oct-16-1978 without a name. My parents thought I was going to be a girl and never had a boys name for me. The day I was born my mother was recovering after delivery watching Pope John Paul II getting elected as the 264th pope of the Catholic Church. With this strange set of circumstances I was named John Paul.


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Just wanted to see if there is anyone else named after the Pope.
1 posted on 04/04/2005 12:01:36 PM PDT by kerouacbal
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To: kerouacbal

is this breaking news?


2 posted on 04/04/2005 12:03:20 PM PDT by Right Wing It (www.conservativetruths.blogspot.com)
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To: kerouacbal

Hope you're wearing kevlar undies.


3 posted on 04/04/2005 12:03:40 PM PDT by RushCrush (Requiem in pacem, Karol Wojtyla.)
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To: kerouacbal

Aren't you glad he wasn't named Pope Lemonjello.


4 posted on 04/04/2005 12:03:57 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: kerouacbal

Good thing she wasn't watching a Boy George video...


5 posted on 04/04/2005 12:04:00 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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To: AppyPappy

LOL!!!


6 posted on 04/04/2005 12:04:21 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: kerouacbal
Just glad they didn't name you "Pope" ;'}
7 posted on 04/04/2005 12:04:23 PM PDT by rockrr (Revote or Revolt! It's up to you Washington!)
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To: kerouacbal

What a cool thing your mom did for you...and John Paul is a strong, solid name! A "real" name as my mom would say. Lucky you...carry it on.


8 posted on 04/04/2005 12:05:09 PM PDT by ladiesview61
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To: Right Wing It

It was then......


9 posted on 04/04/2005 12:05:57 PM PDT by thag (Notice How They Called it a "Thagline"?)
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To: kerouacbal

Be happy. You were almost named "John Paul George & Ringo".


10 posted on 04/04/2005 12:08:28 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (© 2005, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
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To: thag

yeah, the moderators moved it quickly to bloggers and personal, but at the time it was under breaking news/ activism.


11 posted on 04/04/2005 12:10:46 PM PDT by Right Wing It (www.conservativetruths.blogspot.com)
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To: kerouacbal

Your lucky! We didnt have a name picked out for our oldest either. He got named after a street we passed on the way to the hospital.


12 posted on 04/04/2005 12:10:51 PM PDT by boxerblues
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To: Right Wing It

Do you know why it was under breaking news. I selected vanity for the post not breaking news.


13 posted on 04/04/2005 12:14:26 PM PDT by kerouacbal ("Those who give up liberty for safety deserve neither liberty - nor safety (Ben Franklin, 1759).")
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To: kerouacbal

Makes me wonder what Dad was watching when he named his kids "Dweezil" and "Moon Unit"...


14 posted on 04/04/2005 12:21:20 PM PDT by theDentist (The Dems are putting all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
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To: theDentist

I would guess he was thinking that he didn't want his kids to be "normal". He was quite amused and disgusted with "normal", and I can't say I blame him.


15 posted on 04/04/2005 12:27:48 PM PDT by thoughtomator ("The Passion of the Opus" - 2 hours of a FReeper being crucified on his own self-pitying thread)
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To: boxerblues

So that's why he's known affectionately as "Highway 42?"


16 posted on 04/04/2005 12:35:17 PM PDT by thag (Notice How They Called it a "Thagline"?)
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To: thag

I went to school with a kid born in a cab while his mother was enroute to the hospital. He was affectionately known as "Yellow"


17 posted on 04/04/2005 1:51:15 PM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEd)
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