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Thank you for the belly-laugh. So nice that I had to see it twice. Plus, quoting the entire post (especially if it ends up directly below your original post) is bound to piss off someone and possibly spark some real action here today.

edited: damn G to the three.

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You said you wouldn't out me to the fb for this. Bitch.

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Something that pisses me off is that my fucking hairdresser has partied with the Cup and I haven't. I don't think he realizes that the only reason I stick with him is the conduit to hockey players (he cuts their hair). It's really paying off (not).

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Note to all on the FB:

I am not currently pregnant. I have no plans to become pregnant anytime soon. I may never get pregnant again.

But Butterworth Ogden Osama bin Brazen IS a lovely name.

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Anytime, my dear. Although I should note that I am actually a Rangers fan. I was just trying to provide slave with a bit of moral support.

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Somehow, I never pictured you with a mullet.

And speaking of mullets, there was a band that practiced down the street from my old house called Camaro Hair. They rawked. They had a van that looked like the Mystery Machine, except that it said "Camaro Hair" instead.

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The FCC rejected complaints from the Parents Television Council and more than 200 people, most of them associated with the council, who accused dozens of television stations of violating restrictions on obscene broadcasts by airing portions of the awards program last January.

The complaints objected to Bono's uttering the phrase "this is really, really, f------ brilliant."

The FCC, using the F-word more often to explain its decision than Bono did on the air, said the word "may be crude and offensive, but, in the context presented here, did not describe sexual or excretory organs or activities." That distinction is a key test to measure whether a statement meets a federal standard for broadcast indecency.

David Solomon, chief of the FCC's enforcement bureau, said in the ruling that Bono used the vulgarity as an adjective or to emphasize an exclamation and that "the use of specific words, including expletives or other 'four-letter words' does not render material obscene."

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/1003/07bono.html

First: since when can you use fuck to describe excretory organs?

Second: you can say fuck as an adjective or to emphasize and not get into trouble. WTF? I thought fuck was a no-no, period.

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ha. Yes, it's a beautiful flowing mullet.

Actually, and I ain't even lying, styled correctly, my hair will look exactly like Martin Brodeur's. (picture him without receding hairline).

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Given past discussions, this may be the unintentionally funny POTD. Or maybe it was intentional. In which case, good work.

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Oh Ok:

:fuckyou: :smack: :bang2: :chew:

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I'd advise you to focus on the 9 months of carrying the kid without having adequate alcohol intake. There is a potential problem with focusing on birthpain as the reason for superior naming interest. An unexpected c-section with 3 days on morphine could leave you without hand on the issue.

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First my avatar and now this. Mayhap Leagl likes me. Happy Dance.

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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

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Major surgery instead? Hell, for that you should get to rename your husband!

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I am talking about people who name their children for "exotic" names they hear on television shows and soap operas.

Edited to add: one of the Not Amusing traditions in Texas is naming a girl child after the father by adding "a" or "ette" to the end of the name. Like Michaela and Alana (pronounced Alan-a) and Johna and Johnette.

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I was not saying it's inappropriate in all circumstances. For example, when I mentioned the name "Hunter" I was thinking of the young daughter of a friend of mine. They are very WASPy, and have a last name that goes quite nicely with it. That's cool, I have nothing against the names themselves (except for things like Brittany, Ashley, Kayla, Amber etc. that sound "fake fancy" (almost classy, if you will...) -- and as someone aptly pointed out, that demand institution of a fund for all the eventual plastic surgery bound to be required).

In sum, Hunter (or Kendall, or Madison, or Graeme or whatever) can be a great name, but not if your last name is Wolfowitz (or anything that ends in "ski").

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if this is indeed accurate, how come these names are only trendy now when the person for whom the white trash brat is named for died in 1865 and the interceding peole were named Billy, Bob or Billy Bob?


and what exactly is the difference here besdies the fact that one ethnic xerox is in the form of a name and the other is in the form of a man skirt?

it is a recent trend that screams "self loathing wannabe". Have you read the Nanny Diaries? It is all about social climbing women who finally marry some cash and give their kids the most rEdiculous names.

Some of the women in my family are named Edith, Beatrice and Roxine. I am totally naming my future daughters Edie, Bea and Roxy. However, I will not be naming any sons for my Uncle Marvin. I think I will just stick with the classic names of Charles, Henry and James. Simple, classic, lovely.

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I'm actually betting they make they playoffs this year, since they aren't expected to do anything.

Besides, the top 2 lines are really good on paper, and the Poti-de Vries defensive pairing should be damn good.

Slave4(who the fuck am I kidding)Ever

PS - At least they're wearing blue at home again

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Yes. This is it exactly. That's the point I was laboring to make, and should have scrolled. (Thank you e/o.)

I guess I won't win any pith awards today -- such a disgrace.

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Disagree. Hunter is a bullshit name. I dont care if the surname is waspy. its trendy. its a Caitlin, a Brandon, a Dylan, a Taylor.

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Of course I like you.

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You think so? Somehow, it just fits her. Come to think of it, her first name is Jane, but Hunter is her middle name, and that's what they call her. She's actually not so young anymore, she's probably about 10.

I have met only one other person with that name, so it's not as "nails on a blackboard" sounding as Taylor and Brandon {{shudder}}.

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Not to be confused with Tyler which is my son's middle name and thus is automatically exempt from being "nails on the blackboard." And hey, how was I supposed to know that people were gonna start naming girls Jordan too -- I thought it was a name only for boys.

My son attends school with a boy named Justice. I am not sure on this one yet but I am leaning towards trashy after meeting his mom and dad.

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I have not seen that movie. Though I do generally like Goldie, I won't say thank you because I suspect this is intended to be an insult.

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A German bar is offering women who want to go shopping without their partners the chance to park them at what it bills as the country's first kindergarten for men.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,99363,00.html


"Whether we keep it going depends on who comes when the buzz dies down," Stein said. "Some of our regulars have put their head round the door and recoiled in horror."



And here I am trying to figure out why people seeing men in the bar would recoil in horror. Are the men in diapers? Was it formerly a lesbian bar? What?

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You don't need a spree disclosure if there's no link, brainiac. Also, there would be a problem only if your link was not to an expected news story, but to a graphic shot of Dwight Thomas Roth Jr. being squeezed out into a sewage-filled toilet on a "hot women giving birth in sewage" fetish site.

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That was you?!?!?!? I had no idea you practiced in NYC.

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The name Candace, while beautiful, should simply never be shortened. A physician in my church, Dr. Dick, unfortunately did not get the memo.

It is not uncommon for Dr. Candy Dick to read the lessons. There is also an older couple (not related to Dr. Dick) who sponsor the bulletin several times a year. His name is Hank. Hers? Delite. "Today's bulletin is sponsored by Hank and Delite Dick in honor of their 57th wedding anniversary." Good Grief.

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Its not as bad but its up there. Brandon, Dylan and Taylor have to be the top three most nails on blackborad boy names and Caitlin, Dylan and Taylor have to be the top three girls name. Though Caitlin is awful in that Tiffany kinda way, not the pseudo wasp name. It is the Ashley or Brianna of the late nineties. I would love ot see a list of the top fifty baby names.

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Uh, does this mean you have a small dick?

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You sound fairly familiar with those sites, dear. Maybe IT should be sent to check out your favorites list?

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The Hunter I know is a 26 year old guy. Waspy last name, fits him perfectly.

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So, you're saying there are a lot of dicks in your church?

Even(8th post to make this joke?)Odds

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They weren't, it's been a family name for 6 or 8 generations. You forget, the trailer trash are the people in this country who have real history here.

I've now interested myself in how many "bubba" first names I've heard that I can trace back to confederate generals.

Anderson
Archer
Armstrong
Ashby
Baldwin
Barton
Beauregard
Benton
Brandon
Brantley
Buford
Butler
Campbell
Carter
Clark
Clayton
Cooper
Forrest
Gibson
Gordon
Gray
Grayson
Hanson
Hardy/Hardee
Harris
Harrison
Jackson
Lawton
Lee
Logan
Lovell
Marshall
Morgan
Northrop
Palmer
Perry
Preston
Price
Ross
Shelby
Taylor
Tracy
Tyler
Walker
Wayne

In retrospect, that was a boring exercise. And that's just generals, I didn't bother with colonels, also popular. I even left out names that I think were probably introduced here as surname-conversions around this time but were not-unheard-of first-names abroad, like Vaughn, Scott, & Marmaduke. I'll bet you are somewhat surprised that (i) some of those names are such recent innovations as first names and (ii) some of those names have been around as first names as long as they have. I was.

It's that the guy is under the impression that it is "his clan's" tartan. There are honorary tartans for all Americans, regardless of heritage, and may for state residents, too. But the Lipschitz are not a sept of the Lamonts, no matter what the clerk in the kilt shop told him.

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THAT'S IT!!! Brianna is the quintessential "fake fancy" name. I was racking my brain trying to recall it, but kept coming up only with Brittany. (Sort of like the Kay Jewelry thing...)

And Thrasher's Fan (I should mention here that I never even heard of the Thrashers until you came along... not a big hockey fan, as you might have guessed, but now I hear about them all the time!), I meant no disrespect to your son's name. Anyone on this board with offspring having any of the offending names is, of course, exempt from my censure.

(It's a facts and circumstances test...)

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Brianna? That's a celtic name. Feminine form of Brian. Strikes me as about as fake fancy as Pauline.

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Boys need a name with at least a hint of testosterone in it. I am afraid that boys named Hunter end up associating with women of outrageous character as an overcompensation.

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Like Lindsay and Leslie. Alas, how times change. ;)

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Oh geez, did I come off bitchy? Not intended. Just saying that while Taylor is on your cheezy list people should not mistake it for Tyler which apparently is not. I would apologize for offending thou but as everyone knows I am saving my one good apology in case there is a God.

The facts and circumstances are such that my son is way cooler and much less trashy than I am

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Rank Male
name Number
males Female
name Number
females
1 Jacob 30122 Emily 24262
2 Michael 28119 Madison 21546
3 Joshua 25859 Hannah 18559
4 Matthew 24831 Emma 16324
5 Ethan 21949 Alexis 15411
6 Joseph 21766 Ashley 15217
7 Andrew 21696 Abigail 15155
8 Christopher 21676 Sarah 14564
9 Daniel 21186 Samantha 14540
10 Nicholas 21148 Olivia 14481
11 William 19904 Elizabeth 14391
12 Anthony 19429 Alyssa 12747
13 David 18452 Lauren 12246
14 Tyler 18086 Isabella 12091
15 Alexander 17823 Grace 11912
16 Ryan 17573 Jessica 11789
17 John 17364 Brianna 11384
18 James 16709 Taylor 11337
19 Zachary 16406 Kayla 11184
20 Brandon 16150 Anna 10275
21 Jonathan 15436 Victoria 9772
22 Justin 14826 Megan 9120
23 Christian 14753 Sydney 8936
24 Dylan 14728 Chloe 8822
25 Samuel 14418 Rachel 8780
26 Austin 14353 Jasmine 8740
27 Jose 13603 Sophia 8613
28 Benjamin 13351 Jennifer 8500
29 Nathan 13069 Morgan 8338
30 Logan 12828 Natalie 8311
31 Kevin 12421 Julia 7911
32 Gabriel 12325 Kaitlyn 7908
33 Robert 11924 Hailey 7873
34 Noah 11917 Destiny 7677
35 Caleb 11517 Haley 7332
36 Thomas 11196 Katherine 7149
37 Jordan 11005 Nicole 7086
38 Hunter 10975 Alexandra 7031
39 Cameron 10206 Maria 6544
40 Kyle 9962 Savannah 6495
41 Elijah 9889 Stephanie 6320
42 Jason 9871 Mia 6250
43 Jack 8914 Mackenzie 6194
44 Aaron 8895 Allison 6189
45 Isaiah 8792 Amanda 6165
46 Angel 8762 Jordan 6072
47 Luke 8606 Jenna 5592
48 Connor 8342 Faith 5424
49 Luis 8339 Paige 5417
50 Isaac 8245 Makayla 5408
Note: Rank 1 is the most popular, rank 2 is the next most popular, and so forth.

First off, we have a lot of classy, hooker types in the girls side. A lot. Destiny? Savannah? Jenna? Brianna?

Second. "makayla" ? It is Michaela. Texan for Michael. these makaylahs must live in the deep south where names are famously misspelle.d

third. Isaac?

Fourth: I am disappointed by the showing of Dylan and Brandon. Perhaps they peaked inthe late nineties, along with 90210? And Taylor as a girls's name should be stronger but I am sure it is still moving on up. Apparently, it is still a safe Wasp name for a boy. My ex with the palace on Bellevue can breathe a sigh of relief.

Fifth. Hunter is 38 on boy's. Which makes it a de facto bullshit name for a girl. Sorry dtb.

Sixth. Surprised and bummed to see one of my favorites, Abigail, make it inthe top ten. better put off having kids til the populartiy declines.