Open Editorial: You Named Your Baby WHAT???

Onyx Magazine ^ | March, 2006 | Josephine Hammond

[stands2reason]

I never heard that one. I knew a girl named Lady Brown though.

What kind of person gives their kid a dog's name?

[jocon307]

"I've never read The Great Gatsby...is it worth the read?"

It's very short, you can read it in a day, easily.

[nopardons]

Yes, I know a LOT about Leslie Howard, as he is one of my favorite actors, of his time. And yes, he was THE perfect Ashley Wilkes!

[colorcountry]

He sounds like a wonderful man. You must have been wonderful, inventive parents.

[jocon307]

"doing battle with a gigantic blancmange"

Blancmange, it's about time we saw that as a name!

[toomanygrasshoppers]

here's one: the twins, Formica and Formosa. True story.

[Petronski]

I don't disagree, I just know I'll need to get used to it.

"Jyovanna?"

"No, I don't wanna!"

[Foxfire4]

And then every so often you get the exception that proves the rule...I had to check up on somebody's car insurance once, phoned the office that they had listed, and was greeted with a perfect, polished, not-a-hint-of-Ebonics "Thank you for calling Allstate. This is Shaniquia, may I help you?"

[jocon307]

"We were thinking how that name would sound in the NFL (we decided it was great)."

Don't bogart that name my friend, what is it?!

My fave NFL names (as of recently) are Lawyer Molloy and Priest Holmes. I always imagine Mr. Holmes mom is very religious, but I probably just made that up in my own mind.

And of course hubby and I have fun with the LAST names of NFL guys, like Thrasher, etc.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

You have to wonder about some people.

Knew a girl named Wheat and a boy officially named Moonshadoe (no I did not misspell it) however he decided at a tender age that he wanted to be called George and beat tar out of every kid who addressed him by his legal name.

[RebelBanker]

Larry the Cable Guy?

Look for "Daniel Lawrence Whitney" on imdb.com

[Verginius Rufus]

Chapter 13 of Daniel is one of the additions to Daniel in the Septuagint which is not in the Hebrew Bible...so it doesn't appear in Protestant editions of the Bible which follow the Hebrew canon. It's included in Catholic and Orthodox Bibles...I think it used to be included in Protestant editions in "the Apocrypha" which was placed between the Old and New Testaments, but in the early 19th century it became common for Protestant editions to omit the Apocrypha entirely.

The passage in The Merchant of Venice where Shylock says, "A Daniel! A second Daniel!" is probably an allusion to the story of Susanna, which was probably still familiar to most people in England in Shakespeare's time.

[jocon307]

Fascinating, I never heard of HIM before. I'll have to pass that info onto my friend. I still wonder how irritated Ali's mom might have been with him for dissing his given name. Not like the gracious Miss Placenta discussed on this this thread.

[pookie18]

Thought of that joke when you mentioned Beethoven...coincidentally, there was one for Mozart there too ;-) So, you liked the GMU toon?

[antiunion person]

Bill Cosby nor the person that wrote this article is black enough. That's the crap we hear from the democratic party when they speak of Condolezza or any other Black, not African-American, person who is a republican or conservative. My biggest dream, just to piss off the democrats, is to wake up the day after the presidential elections in 2008 and hear Candidate elect Condolezza Rice just received a congratulations call from Democratic Hillary Clinton. Can I get an AMEN??? AMEN!!!!!

[SittinYonder]

Personally I think family names are the best, it gives the children a feeling of continuity and identity.

Exactly. I'd never given it much consideration beyond what I'll call instinct - I was named after my father, my brother was named for our 8th great-grandfather and our grandfather. When my first son was born 10 years ago my wife and I looked for a name in our families.

Ironically, considering the topic of this thread, it was a black man, Alice Walker's brother, who articulated to me the importance of using family names.

If children "have a name to live up to" they stand a better chance of being successful, he said.

[jocon307]

LOL, Thanks pookie, they're GRRRRREAT! Esp. like the cute little train, that was so much their attitude, the team was so sweet on the bench!

[jocon307]

"Hillary Clinton."

Sticking to the topic here, even though Hillary was most certainly NOT named for Edmund Hillary who scaled Mt. Everest, I always thought Chelsea Clinton was a very nice name. And if they really named her for that Joni Mitchell song, that's really nice too.

[pookie18]

That's supposed to be The Little Train That Could...

[Beagle8U]

"Cy, you really haven't read the posts, lots of humor here to go around, for all kinds. The Mormons in particular seem to be coming in for it."

I saw plenty of humor here, and I'm not exactly white.

I used to get about a dozen adds a week to fill out questionnaires for free cigarette coupons.

I got tired of it so I filled out every one using the name Jack Meaoff.
A few weeks later I started getting all sorts of things addressed to...Jack Meaoff.

I even got coupons for free cigarettes with that name printed on them....lol