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To: ChildOfThe60s

“SWAT members were looking for Jashavious Keel”

How in the hell do people come up with these names? Do they take a hand full of scrabble tiles, throw them in the air and just copy down the letters no matter what order they are in?


43 posted on 09/14/2013 8:53:41 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Mastador1

Holder’s people are to damn ignorant to figure out scrabble tiles.


44 posted on 09/14/2013 8:59:28 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)
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They invent these wacko one of a kind names so their precious child is unique and stands out. Same reason people get tattoos, saying I am me, I stand out from the crowd, I am a free thinking rebel and my tattoo is proof of this


46 posted on 09/14/2013 9:15:36 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Mastador1
Jashavious Keel

Almost sounds like a villain in a Dickens novel...

58 posted on 09/14/2013 11:27:12 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Mastador1
How in the hell do people come up with these names? Do they take a hand full of scrabble tiles, throw them in the air and just copy down the letters no matter what order they are in?

You made the mistake of asking.

From John Ross' novel Unintended Consequences:

    G.G. Jackson was one of many women employed by agencies of the
  federal government. She had been born in Chicago's South Side in
  1963. Her mother, Shavonna Jackson, had been fifteen at the time.
  Like many 15-year-old single mothers, Shavonna Jackson had not
  thought much about the realities of motherhood, including the
  immediate problem of what to name her offspring.

    Concurrently, overworked interns on rotation in ghetto hospitals
  did what they could to entertain themselves amid 20-hour days in
  depressing surroundings. In 1963, as in all other years, one of the
  standard gambits among interns assigned to inner-city delivery rooms
  was to see who could cause the most outrageous name to be printed
  on the birth certificate of children born to ghetto teenagers.

    The second week of February, 1963 saw some serious competition among
  interns in south Chicago. In a five-day period, there were Chicago-area
  births registered for Madison Avenue Washington, Epluribus Wilson,
  Nosmo King (inspired by a waiting room sign), Simian Cook, and Anus
  Brown. The award that week, however, went to a young doctor from
  Grosse Pointe, Michigan, who hated working in the Chicago facility.
  He had suggested to Miss Jackson that she give her infant daughter
  a distinctive, happy-sounding name, and offered one he thought
  appropriate. He pronounced the first name with the accent on the
  second syllable, and Shavonna thought it sounded nice. Like 'Gloria',
  only fancier. People who read the name would pronounce it differently,
  but Shavonna could not read, so the impact of the intern's joke was
  not felt for some time.


But that is fiction, of course...or is it?
83 posted on 09/15/2013 1:53:57 PM PDT by Peet (Oderint dum metuant)
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