Posted on 12/28/2002 6:21:39 AM PST by summer
Austin is an old English name.
My experience is that Crystal/Krystyl/Chrystal ... originated from Crystal Meth.
Oh, another trashiest name: Dante. Dantes' moms are blondes, on welfare, and Dantes are multi-racial.
BTW whites ought to stop calling boys "Troy" or "Tracy" for the same reason. "Trey" is unforgivable on a birth certificate, but is permissible as a nickname, only if the child is a "three-sticker"=child given the same name as his father AND grandfather...
Don't confuse this fellow with reality...
His body and mind have been taken over by that extra-terrestrial force, Political Correctness.
A mind like concrete: all mixed up and permanently set.
Smile.
Asian kids have to endure the stigma of being called "nerd" and "geek" (some of the milder names), which for teenagers, is a fate worse than death. But in the end, they get the last laugh.
High school reunions are fun.
Read "where the Red Fern Grows" and Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls. Although I am only 31 I grew up not a lot different than these books portray. That culture is my culture. I am proud of it.
I think there might be some class differences ---around here you only see middle class military black families and they seem to pick those Asian names like Mike, Steven, John, Kelly, Dawn, Karen.
The last few Treys I've seen have been black kids, and it's been short for Deontrey, Shontray, or similar names.
Here I was guessing you named your son after "Jay Berry Gourmet Pizza" (Issaquah, WA).
The 2001 list is here: 2001 list.
Truth may not be stranger than fiction, but it is pretty strange, and it's true! For instance, Destiny was the #22 girl's name for babies born in 2001. And there were 266 girls named Unique.
Shake (pronounced sha-KAY), from an orange juice carton.
Phlem
Mylanta (sounds nice, eh?)
Odiferous (but his friends call him "Stinky")
We had a good laugh - thanks!
I notice that these names have come back in, and not only in Texas.
In the really southern South, "two-name" names are common like something from a John Grishom novel like: Billy-Ray, Bobby-Ray, Jimmy-Ray, Billy-Bob, Jim-Bob, Joe-Bob, Bobby-Lee, Jimmy-Lee...etc.
Also for girls like Roberta-Susan or Bobby-Sue, Lee-Ann, Tammy-Fay, Linda-Lee, Tammy-Sue...etc.
Okay, I'll tell y'all how this came about.
As some of you Southern folks may know, it is a very old tradition among many Southerners, as well as in a few old Northern families, to give a child of either sex its mother's maiden name as a Christian name. For example, if John Smith marries Caroline Rivers, their first child is named Rivers Smith no matter what type of genitalia it has. So when you meet a guy name Armistead Lightfoot, if you know anything about history you know whom he's related to and can peg him right away. If you live in Virginia, where everybody is everybody else's cousin and most people are genealogy psychos, you may even be able to figure out how you're related just by his name. You can even strike up a conversation with him by saying, "I think your fourth great-grandfather served in the Seventh Virginia Cavalry, Company A, with my fourth great-grandfather's brother!" It's very convenient.
Now, folks who don't have kin amongst the Lightfoots and Armisteads think this all sounds very classy. They're not proud and content to just be themselves, the best selves they can be, so they try to give their kids more high-falutin' names and maybe make other people think the kid is from a snazzy background. They give their girls names like "Madison" and "Brett" and "Blaine" because they think that sounds upper-class.
P.S.: I think the use of "Madison" came from that TV show Cybill Shepherd was in in the 1980s. The writers gave her that name to make her sound aristocratic.
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