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Originally posted by evenodds
Now, I cannot use this name for my own children because it has become not just common, but, frankly, trashy. It always reminds me of the simpsons episode when Cletus is calling the kids out of the shack: "Taylor, Sheridan, Dylan, Montgomery, etc"
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Ah, but that trailer trash comes by such names legitimately and by long tradition. I believe most of those white trash surname names are the names of significant confederate officers, and naming one's children after the man under whom their father served is a long, longstanding tradition. There is a reason Beau ("Beaumont" "Beauregard") is a common southern name.
Yes, I know this practice would now result in "Schwartzkopf Jones," but hey.
I guess I don't get as worked up over people wanting their kids names to sound "waspy," any more than I do people wanting their kids names to sound biblical. Do we required ethnic-advertising in child naming now? What is a "legitimate" reason for picking a name? I only get annoyed by the cross-cultural pretention when the guy named "Lipschitz" wears his clan tartan discovered in Glasgow - and then only because (i) he got sadly ripped off by the crafty scots and (ii) he is advertising himself as a fool.
And I don't really mind "creative" names (barring the misspellings) until they get stupid for some objective reason. I am now related to marriage to a child named McKenzie Phillips, and that is just stupid.
BR(also had a teacher whose given legal name was "Candy Ball." Literally. She got married at 18)C
