Posted on 04/24/2006 2:56:24 PM PDT by Paddlefish
Suri, the name chosen by Hollywood couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes for their newborn daughter, is raising more than its share of interest in Israel. It means "get out of here" in the local language, Hebrew.
News of the naming puzzled even those Israelis who thought they had seen it all after pop diva Madonna turned the ancient Jewish mystical tradition Kabbalah into a faith for the famous.
"I really don't know what they were thinking when they chose this name. It's a term that denotes expulsion, like 'Get out of here'," said Gideon Goldenberg, a linguistics professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "It's pretty blunt."
Yaron London, a cultural commentator for Israel's Channel 10 television, had this rhetorical question for Suri's proud parents: "Why didn't you just go back to your ancestors' language, and call the kid 'Scram Cruise'?"
(Excerpt) Read more at today.reuters.com ...
Crazy and jumping on couches is no way to go through life, son.
Maybe she was in labor for a long time?
I swear I think this thing is a huge hoax and there is no baby. I can't be the only one who feels this way.
Tom's mental problems are snowballing and will reach a public crescendo in the not too distant future, IMHO.
(What would Xenu do?)
I keep wondering if the baby has a fringe on the top...
Well, it seemed appropriate when she was giving birth to the girl, but now....
So did Tom eat the placenta?
She's named Suri because the main Scientolgy location (basically, their equivalant of The Vatican) is located in Surrey England.
Crab People...Crab People!!!!
Really? Get outta here! [Sorry.]
But... what about the poor clams! All those billions of clam-engrams infesting us all!
I heard that they didn't know how to pronounce "STFU" so they settled on "Suri".
Tom has turned *gumba*?? Geddouddaheah!!
Their next child will be named "Fuggedaboudit"
Not on board a ship?
Cruise is on the fringe so maybe 'Suri with a fringe for apop'
isn't all that out of order..
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