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| From | "Michael Coxe" <audities@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: A terrifying thing happened during dinner tonight (O/T) |
| Date | Sat, 3 Jun 2006 11:03:43 -0700 |
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Farrar Hudkins wrote:
> floatingunder wrote:
> > You may be missing out on the fact that this split is not just the
> > loss of a Hollywood couple. It is also the loss of a future special
> > child with a special name like Sirius or Citrus or Transcendence or
> > maybe Jehovah-star. It's crushing, really.
>
> Just what we need, more ridiculously named people. Last night I met a
> girl called Squish. Is there no end? Pretty soon we'll have to invent a
> whole new form of self-control for the teachers who have to call the
> roll with names like Nythra, Kaikynturno, Fruit Basket, and who knows
> what else. My favourites are the ones who don't know what they're naming
> their offspring after. "And this is my daughter Gorgonzola."
The yuppies & celebraties stole the concept from poor folk. Some 30 years
ago a friend worked for the Wake County (Raleigh, NC) welfare department.
She was interviewing one destitute lady, and when it came around to
her kids names,
the lady responded (deadly serious) "Lavoris & Listerine" -- which if you sound
them out are quite pretty. There were other product instances, pulled from the
store shelves, or TV or magazine ads, and one named their child Pajama
(pronounced Paj'-a-ma). When my friend sputtered "What!?", the response was
"You know, pajama, like in the Sears catalog".
Yet another sad case of the rich ripping off ideas & art from the poor...
- michael - who promises to follow up later today with an actual dancing about
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