December 09, 2004

• Your friends of a friend of a friend are setting themselves up for a visit from the folks from Childrens' Aid.
• Something to be said for planning, birth control, self control... if they think that covering the cost of the birth will take care of them, they haven't even looked at the cost of raising a child (recent estimates of about $190,000)...
• Eight grand for the middle name only? No way. I want total control -- the whole name, from first to last. I'd call him Alastair Linus Fortesqueue Goatse Nipplelicking Motherfucker Turkey Creek Jack Johnson. Esquire.
• This is why you're not allowed to breed, MCT. well, it's one of the reasons.
• Name it Funny Looking, cos something tells me... [Joke, by the way] Call it Captain Wow.
• I vote for "Fucktard." "Nigel Incubator Jones" is also appropriate in this situation. And while I realise these are friends of friends of friends, etc, ad nausem, it is really disgustingly opportunitistic of them to do this. If they need the money that badly, perhaps they should have re-thought the whole procreation thing.
• Too bad it's middle name only. I would have gone with Jacqueline Bouvier if it's a girl, and Lee Harvey if it's a boy.
• Your friends of a friend of a friend are setting themselves up for a visit from the folks from Childrens' Aid. Unlike in some European countries, right or wrong, in the US there is no oversight on naming.
• And unlike most European countries, many average people have no health insurance. If you want to get all moral, you could start there.
• I'd have to go with a Biblical name, like Cain or Leviathan. Tetragrammaton has a nice ring to it as well.
• Bildad. You can't go wrong with Bildad. Oh, and what jb said.
• James "Bringer of Death" Smith Seriously though. Osama. If I was a rich asshole, I'd buy it right now and demand Osama.
• "Mind your manners, Malachai!"
• Hmmm, the timing seems suspicious to me. Matt, is that you?
• Well, duh! MONKEY! /looks around in change pocket for $8,000... $1.00 found
• I'd buy it if they put it in a jar.
• "Nimrod" is Biblical.
• I knew a girl who narrowly escaped "Dorcas." I knew another girl who was actually called "Twosie" (she was named after her mother, hence "Name" the second... Twosie... ick.)
• Wait, Europeans have governmental regulations on what people name their children? How does anybody end up with the name Nigel then?
• There was some news a few weeks ago about a kid in Denmark or Austria the authorities didn't allow his parents to be anmed Superman...
• A good friend of mine's mom's name is Dorcas.
• what is the going rate on dignity? i'm thinking of auctioning off somebody else's.
• The Czechs have a relatively short list of names you're allowed to choose from. That's why there are so many Vaclavs.
• I wish them luck. My guess is that any couple willing to face public embarrassment to raise the money will likely be good parents. Any one who thinks having children should only be a luxory for those who can afford it -- fuck you. Oh, and name it Beaudreaux (my wife would not let me name our son that.)
• Looking at everybody's handles here, I'm not letting any of you name my children.
• My son's name is Ethan; half of my family wanted his middle name to be "Asia".
• Gurn Blanston.
• I went to school with a guy whose first name is Mister.
• Twin girls: Polly and Esther.