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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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posted on
11/08/2003 3:43:15 AM PST
by
rhema
To: rhema
Another reason to kill your TV.
Six boys were named "Cashmere.
I'd sue my parent to change my name if they named me that.
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posted on
11/08/2003 3:49:30 AM PST
by
Fzob
(Why does this tag line keep showing up?)
To: Fzob
Yeah, fzob is much cooler than cashmere.
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posted on
11/08/2003 3:51:26 AM PST
by
ovrtaxt
( http://www.fairtax.org **** Forget ANWR. Drill Israel !)
To: rhema
"Courvoisier." Talk about "stump the teacher"
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posted on
11/08/2003 3:51:45 AM PST
by
drlevy88
To: rhema; Fzob
This has got to be one of the most disturbing articles ever posted. It reminds me of Hannity or Leno doing a 'man on the street' interview-- ignorance on parade.
The people who named their baby 'Del Monte' are allowed to vote! Gee, I wonder if think Dan Rather is telling the truth?
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posted on
11/08/2003 3:55:54 AM PST
by
ovrtaxt
( http://www.fairtax.org **** Forget ANWR. Drill Israel !)
To: rhema
I wonder when the first chidren will be named "Big Mac" or the "Whopper"
Son: "What's your full name" ?
BigMac nopickles Smith
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posted on
11/08/2003 3:56:50 AM PST
by
JZoback
To: ovrtaxt
Yeah, fzob is much cooler than cashmere. I think so to. : )
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posted on
11/08/2003 3:58:16 AM PST
by
Fzob
(Why does this tag line keep showing up?)
To: rhema
Velveeta, Dinty Moore, Nabisco ... I like it!
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posted on
11/08/2003 3:59:25 AM PST
by
BunnySlippers
(Help Bring Colly-fornia Back!)
To: Fzob
"Cashmere" just doesn't have the cachet of "Butch," does it?
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posted on
11/08/2003 4:00:40 AM PST
by
rhema
To: rhema
Cleveland Evans, a psychology professor at Nebraska's Bellevue University and a member of the American Name Society, studied Social Security records for the year 2000 and found that many children today are being named after consumer products. Social Security??? I didn't know they even kept a publicly viewable list-of-citizens.
10
posted on
11/08/2003 4:01:24 AM PST
by
drlevy88
To: Fzob
What is wrong with people?
Rayon? Del Monte? Naming your kid after liquor? Good grief.
Sounds like that Seinfeld in which George wants to name his kid Seven.
How about the natural, Oscar Mayer. Having a song about him could really boost his self-esteem, which is most important in school these days.
My offspring has a first name,
It's O-S-C-A-R,
My offspring has a second name,
It's M-A-Y-E-R...
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posted on
11/08/2003 4:01:29 AM PST
by
kenth
(All I wanted was a Pepsi... just one Pepsi)
To: rhema
Just call me 'Cash'!
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posted on
11/08/2003 4:02:03 AM PST
by
drlevy88
To: kenth
I'm glad I'm not an Oscar Meyer wiener,
That is what I'd never want to be-ee-ee,
For if I were an Oscar Meyer wiener,
There would soon be nothing left of... me.
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posted on
11/08/2003 4:03:52 AM PST
by
drlevy88
To: drlevy88
For the teacher's sake, let's hope little Courvoisier Hennessey (why stop with one cognac?) prefers to be called C. H.
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posted on
11/08/2003 4:04:16 AM PST
by
rhema
To: Fzob
Forty-nine boys were named "Canon," after the camera. What makes the author think that this name has anything to do with cameras?
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posted on
11/08/2003 4:06:21 AM PST
by
Grit
(Tolerance for all but the intolerant...and those who tolerate intolerance etc etc)
To: rhema
Soon the Jones' family will be naming their little boys Dow.
The matriarch of the Lynch family will be named Merrill.
And they'll go to school with best friends Miramax, Toyota and Mickeydees.
By the way: True story. My sister knew a family by the last name of Tissue. Now that's unfortunate enough. If you could think of the worst realistic name to give that male child, what would it be? Yes, believe it or not, in their eternal wisdom, they named their child Scott. Personally, I think it would make a Menendez brother out of me.
Qwinn
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posted on
11/08/2003 4:06:22 AM PST
by
Qwinn
To: rhema
Is this trend really bad? What if the Sauer family named their son Sigfried? His nickname would be fine with me.
Isn't the German spelling of "Walter" "Walther"?
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posted on
11/08/2003 4:06:52 AM PST
by
rudy45
To: rhema
"Cashmere" just doesn't have the cachet of "Butch," does it? Future Metrosexual. :)
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posted on
11/08/2003 4:08:56 AM PST
by
Grit
(Tolerance for all but the intolerant...and those who tolerate intolerance etc etc)
To: All
I guess you could name the kid who never leaves home and spends all your money Drano. And the kid who never quite completes toilet training is named Hallmark.
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posted on
11/08/2003 4:10:49 AM PST
by
DeepDish
(Depleted uranium and democrats are a lot alike. They've both been sucked dry of anything useful)
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