Posted on 01/13/2011 8:05:07 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
OUR WAITRESS was named Jennifer, and at some point between the soup and the salad, she’d eavesdropped on the conversation enough to learn that it is my name, too.
"Wow!’’ she chirped. “I never met anyone your age named Jennifer before!’’
The poor child probably never figured out why she got such a lousy tip. Note to wait staff everywhere: It’s never wise to suggest that the person paying the check is somewhat long in the tooth.
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With Hollywood naming their kids after fruit and inanimate objects, and the black community adding “La-” before and “-onda” after all of their names, is it any wonder why traditional Christian names are falling by the wayside?
A lot of Lakweeshas and Latifahs and Lakwondas out there. Traditional African tribal names, you know.
Every generation goes through a change in popular first names. I’ve felt much of it is derived from whichever names the most popular soap opera characters of the day have.
When I was young, it was John, Robert, Thomas, Mary, Virginia, etc.
A generation later, the boys names sounded like surnames (Tyler, Preston, Morgan, etc.) while the girl names had simply become more exotic (Tiffany, Paris, Bethany, etc.).
It’s not really a big deal. Eventually, they’ll come back around to what they were when I was young.
One of my daughters is a teacher. A couple of years ago she was reading the attendance list on the first day of class and came to someone named Shithead.
She paused, and inquired, “How do you pronounce that?”
The girl replied, as you say, “Shi-THEED.”
Most people think I’m being racist or joking when I tell that particular anecdote, but it does happen.
Typical woman tipper... ;^)
Not gonna happen. The population base in the U. S. is changing so rapidly that the old popular names will never return in big numbers. Besides, kids are being taught that people with those names were racists, crooks, or worse.
Snooty bit¢h, I can’t stand this type that carefully scans a waitresses every move, waiting for an excuse to stiff them. I’ve seen my older sister do that. Embarrassing,,,
La-ah
Best one I’ve seen personally was a checkout clerk in Ohio at a Kroger named “LaTreen”.
My wife had a student in her second grade class named- Shi-theed. She though it was a joke when she got the class roster. When i taught in Chicago, I had a student named Qevin and another named Tea-Juana.
I concur about the tipping. if you don’t give a good tip for good service because of a perceived non-slight, you are just a cheap-ass looking for excuses. Disgusting really.
The latest trend that I have been hearing about from school teachers is the use of symbols in the names. For example: La-sha. How would you say that? Most would think it was Luh shah. They would be wrong. It is pronounced, “Luh Dash uh”
“Unintended Consequences” by John Ross is a very fine book. However, it does have a number of sections which are crude and which detract from the overall value. I wouldn’t give it to my child to read. One of the unecessary parts involves a BATF agent with an unfortunate name. It kind of rhymes with “Gloria” but is spelled Gonorrhea. She prefers to go by “GG”.
And people made fun of Prince. :-)
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