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Brand names: Some Americans are naming their children after consumer products
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| 11/15/03
| Gene Edward Veith
Posted on 11/08/2003 3:43:15 AM PST by rhema
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To: rhema
Johnny Cash: "My name is Sue" --- In honor of lawyers all across the plains!
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posted on
11/08/2003 7:14:44 AM PST
by
TRY ONE
(NUKE the unborn gay whales!)
To: rhema
PS. The strangest name I've heard in a while: Latrina.
Obviously her dad was never in the Army.
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posted on
11/08/2003 7:14:55 AM PST
by
Half Vast Conspiracy
(There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?--Dick Cavett)
To: rhema
I know of a girl named Chlamydia. I'm not joking.
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posted on
11/08/2003 7:15:56 AM PST
by
squidly
To: rhema
As the pop culturethe world of entertainment and commercialismdrives out traditional culture... To say nothing of self-centeredness.
Don't tell me, let me guess.
This new practice is most prevalent among the segment of society that never left the tribal mentality.
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posted on
11/08/2003 7:16:11 AM PST
by
Publius6961
(40% of Californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks.)
To: rhema
For the teacher's sake, let's hope little Courvoisier Hennessey (why stop with one cognac?) prefers to be called C. H. The thing that really gets on our nerves is when the students get MAD because we don't know how to pronounce the name their mother invented....
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posted on
11/08/2003 7:17:40 AM PST
by
Amelia
To: Grit
What makes the author think that this name has anything to do with cameras? Are you suggesting that they also might be spelling challenged?
For shame!
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posted on
11/08/2003 7:18:48 AM PST
by
Publius6961
(40% of Californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks.)
To: rhema
I guess the parents of these poor unfortunates are counting on the either the government largesse to continue with the next
generation, or they think the job market will value the 15 minutes of attention the parent(s) get for naming people like this.
I do hope it builds character - and job motivation, because these kids will certainly need it.
"No, President Condombroke, that went out of style in the Oval Office with the President Clinton..."
To: redlipstick
In Costa Rica I met a fellow in a small eastern village with the name of Usnavy. Pronounced: Oosnahvee
128
posted on
11/08/2003 7:24:53 AM PST
by
Publius6961
(40% of Californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks.)
To: boris
I was hoping after Pachelbel's.
Perhaps the child was conceived on a Canon color copier at an office party?
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posted on
11/08/2003 7:25:07 AM PST
by
aruanan
To: BlackRazor
The name that really bugs me every time I see it is Washington Redskins wide receiver Laveranues Coles. I have both him and LaDainian Tomlinson on my fantasy team.
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posted on
11/08/2003 7:25:23 AM PST
by
Mark Turbo
(Safety: The official state religion.)
To: Publius6961
With apologies to all, I am saving this thread under "Humor".
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posted on
11/08/2003 7:25:47 AM PST
by
Publius6961
(40% of Californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks.)
To: laredo44; Qwinn
I graduated with a boy named Pete Moss. No kidding.
Becky
To: rhema
Huh! I should have named my sons Ruger and Winchester.
To: rhema
I wonder what the demographic breakdown is on these names? Is naming your kid "Celica" any goofier than N'Tarsha?
To: rhema
In other tribal societies, people are sometimes named for animals ("Sitting Bull") or for something else in nature ("Red Cloud"). Nowadays, with parking garages and walkways between buildings, there are probably people living up-to-date lives who haven't been outside in years.
Hyperreality has replaced nature, so the naming trend is to be expected. One would think the parents could arrange for an endorsement fee from the companies. Probably the next big thing.
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posted on
11/08/2003 7:31:55 AM PST
by
monkey
To: laredo44
"I knew a kid whose family name was Pullen. The parents named him Peter."
I think I posted this on another thread but there was a story in the local newspaper about an industry a few miles from here and one of their executives was named "Dick Puffer".
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posted on
11/08/2003 7:33:29 AM PST
by
RipSawyer
(Mercy on a pore boy lemme have a dollar bill!)
To: drlevy88
There oughtta be a law that you can't give a kid an obscenity for a name!There's a law you can't put an obscenity on a vanity license plate.
To: Xenalyte
So THAT's why my parents named me Backseat Dodge!
I wonder if that explains the "Sandy Fields" I once met.
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posted on
11/08/2003 7:36:24 AM PST
by
RipSawyer
(Mercy on a pore boy lemme have a dollar bill!)
To: Mark Turbo
I have both him and LaDainian Tomlinson on my fantasy team. At least "LaDainian" is pronounced the way it looks!
To: randog
Garret, Connor, Mason, Taylor, etc.We call them soap opera names.
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