Posted on 06/22/2008 5:51:38 PM PDT by 2191dr
I’m pleased that your son and grandson are settling in. Maybe they can get you a cowboy frog!
We’re going to cook steak on the grill, and we have potatoes, corn, and the fruit. Sally’s eating hamburgers with a family across the street, and Elen’s hanging out with a different friend, but will be home for dinner.
My grandson only gets every other weekend with his dad, for now, but I’m sure, once my son has carpet laid and a few pieces of furniture (and a fridge) they’ll be together every weekend.
For now, samdunk doesn’t know he’s getting Spidey...he was hoping for Sponge Bob. :o])
I think SpongeBob is ugly. I’d much rather see Spiderman.
Ditto!
My son said SpongeBob is getting hard to find back there, so maybe there is hope....;o]
Good! There was a kid in the baby pool with Pat the other evening, and when I said, “Patrick, stop that!” (whatever he was doing ...) the kid said, “His name’s Patrick? That’s in SpongeBob!” I said, “I’m sure I wouldn’t know. We have nothing to do with that sort of thing.”
LOL!
I was talking to a gal one day, and mentioned that my son’s name was Kevin. She said, “Kevin?!! That’s a BLACK name!” I said, “No baby-girl...it’s an IRISH name!”
I have a nephew named Patrick, and he was a Patrick LONG before SpongeBob was even a twinkly in the creator’s brain synapses.
As I understand SpongeBob, there’s something slightly feminine in the masculine roles on that show. I’d be just as happy if it does “go by the wayside.”
One of the girls read something in the paper recently about a boy named Kenneth, and asked if that was a real boy’s name. I guess it’s out of fashion, along with Kevin. Sally has two penguins named Kevin - it was a character in a cartoon.
I grew up with a Kenneth! Also a Melvin, which is a “black” name, now, I’m told.
I dunno...folks these days seem to try and invent names by putting sounds together. Who cares if they’re pronouncable or not?
Steve Wynn’s daughter is named Kevin...she was kidnapped quite a few years ago, but has since just gone on quietly with her life.
Strange.
Kevin is a good name for a penquin! Just the right amount of gaelic mystery about it!
I knew Melvins growing up, too. It annoys me when I read a person’s first and middle name and can’t tell if it’s a girl or a boy!
One of Sally’s penguins is a girl, she said, but she named it Kevin anyway. The first one was a boy.
Well, like I said...there IS Kevin Wynn!
PC has turned this country into a bunch of chickens who are afraid to give their kids names befitting their sexes. My daughter is tiny and feminine (when she wants to be) and has a hyphenated name: Jane-Elizabeth. My son, of course, is 6’4” and all guy.
He’s also a good cook, a good housekeeper, he knows how to mend tears and sew on buttons, and he can mend broken hearts in kids. He spent about five years volunteering in pediatric wards at the local hospitals.
My daughter is finally (at 40) learning how to cook! Still, they have lived up to their names, and are proud to be who they are. And their kids have good strong names, too. (No grandaughters, though...)
They’ve overcome drugs and alcohol and learned how to be thankful for self-discipline. I’m proud of them. All I did was give them a few lessons and pointed them in the right directions. They did the rest on their own.
:o])
It’s funny how you never meet a boy named “Sydney” anymore, just girls. We don’t see boys with traditional girls’ names, so I guess it’s an attempt to make girls more “masculine” by giving them boys’ names or last names or place names. But then when everybody’s named “Dakota” or “Taylor,” they just all sound like their parents have no imagination!
I went to school with a girl named Sydney, and one named Joie. (Joey)
But I also went to school with a boy named Golden, and one named Glade.
I like the name Sidney for a boy. And Bonnie for a girl!
(The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra are doing a totally patriotic program, with military bands and honor guards! Even some film clips as they sang the anthems for each of the services. NOW I feel like the 4th of July is really here!!)
I have a CD of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir doing Patriotic Favorites. I love it!
I had a friend at church in Texas, an elderly man, whose even more elderly mother was named “Golden.” His name was Rees. Never met a Glade, though.
*snif*
“High Flight” is being recited.
(The monitor is getting blurry...)
It looks like the band from Hill AFB is playing at the Conference Center, along with the choir. I hope it’s being sent overseas, because it’s sure to give the military and support groups a major lift!!
LOL! With a chainsaw, seriesly? I guess I should use something else for this pineapple, then.
Ohboy. The closing act is a female piper and a soprano from the air force...I think I need to take a break and find my tissues.
A chainsaw would be way too big for a pineapple.
Awwwww! I’m sure I’d be sniffling too.
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