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I would agree, except for the 333rd parent. You shouldn't put any restrictions on someone's ability to reproduce when they can do it all by themselves.

TM

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I think that, for their own reputations in a fairly hetero-centric world, they should avoid forming all-boys clubs as much as possible.

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okay timmy. it was 333 sets of parents.

interestingly enough, last year 666 baby boys were named hugo. i wonder how many of them got locked in the attic for being the evil siamese twin? but at least it wasn't 666 baby boys named lucifer!!!

incidentially, the name lucifer did not make the top 1000 at any point in the last 12 years.

ms. naughty diplomat

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I have spent my entire life with a "misspelled" name. Have heard conflicting versions of the story from each parent. Mom says it was all the drugs they gave her at childbirth, Dad claims it's spelled the same way as a B-movie starlet who caught his eye sometime shortly before I was born.

Either way, I have had to endure the aggravation of spelling my name over and over again for people. I used to think it was a pain in the ass. Now, I note that whether or not someone spells my name correctly says something about that person's attention to detail. Now I kind of like the "misspelling" and sometimes I like to make people feel really, really stupid for not paying attention.

:smash:

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Adam Corolla did a really funny Love Line riff about people who pick common-sounding names and then find "creative" spellings for them, like "Alexzander" (No. 982) or "Jaxson" (No. 851) or "Keven" (No. 749).

He said they're basically condemning their child to a life in which their first interaction with every new person they meet will be an argument.

Maybe that's why the MulletMan is Angry.

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The big list of the top three names for boys since 1900 is stunning for its lack of variety.

In this era, it would be wise for prospective parents to consult this database before naming the kid in order to assess how googleable any given name will be when combined with the kid's last name.

I'd opt for a higher level of anonymity, but that's because I have a shady past.

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maybe that explains all of the weird spellings.

ms. knaughtie diplamatt

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I assume you mean, opt for Joan or John Smith because they're indistinguishable from everyone else?

(We picked our kids' names based on how easy they are to distinguish when listening over a police scanner.)

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Well, true. Yet, a whole lotta secret buttlove happens in frats where half the boys are named Austin,* so maybe the name has less to do with it.

* This is a slam on frats; it's not meant as a slam on men named after municipalities. It's just that I know of one fraternity where nearly every major Texas city is consistently represented by a first name in each pledge class. No word on comparative homosexuality, but rumor held that their initiation ceremonies involved ingestion of, um, each others' guacamole in a competitive session. But they didn't touch each other, so it wasn't, you know, gay. NTTAWWT.

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Maybe. But that doesn't explain why I don't have a mullet and I'm not a man.

Burninate, that, Trogdor!

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Now THAT would be a great board motto. NTTAWWT.

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Look paigow, your constant belittling of people who weren’t raised in relative wealth and education is just a little too condescending for my taste. We get it, classy people don’t say classy. Drop it already.

And BTW, are you calling me old again?

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Oh, I wasn't speaking to the actual buttlove, but rather to the misplaced perception of buttlove, which is an entirely different kind of social reaming these days.

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I am making a mental note. The anonymity option would make it harder for me to find the kid on google after he deposits me at the nursing home.

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Gotcha. BTW, at the risk of this being a trademark painfully earnest response, I feel that the destigmatization of homosexuality will come more quickly as a result of the overuse of that social reaming and desensitization to it, rather than its elimination.

You'll do more damage to the rednecks when kids start saying, "And?" when they're called "fags" or what-have-you, than when you have adults saying "Gay or not, that's not a very nice thing to say about someone, so take it back." In that way, it's a bit unlike the N-word. If the S.F. Bay Area is any kind of social bellwether in this arena, political correctness types are unintentionally preserving these words by making them taboo in the name of sensitivity, which, while laudable, is an utterly doomed project for a schoolyard. "Fag" was bandied about on my schoolyard, and over time it became a milder and milder perjorative, which I think prepared me to be very accepting by the time H.S. arrived.

But I'm not gay, so maybe it's not my place to suggest this. "Fag" probably hurts a lot more when you are questioning your sexuality.

Update on Recockulocity.
 

A victory for the overly litigious --

CAMDEN, New Jersey (AP) -- A high school student who sued to claim the title of valedictorian as hers alone doesn't have to share the honor with two other students with lower grade point averages, a judge ruled Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Freda Wolfson ordered the Moorestown school district to name Blair Hornstine the sole valedictorian for the class of 2003.

Hornstine, 18, who completed many of her courses during the past two years with tutors because of an immune deficiency, argued that she should be the only valedictorian at next month's graduation because she has the highest grades at Moorestown High School.

The school district argued that the shared honors were fair because it was impossible for the other two students also chosen as valedictorians to match Hornstine's GPA. As non-disabled students they were required to take classes such as gym that receive less weight in calculating the average.

But Wolfson said the school's decision "would send the message that we have two valedictorians this year, a disabled one and a non-disabled one."

In a written statement, Hornstine said that sharing the valedictorian title would have left the next disabled student unprotected. The school board president said she did not know what step the board would take next.

The case will move forward to trial on Hornstine's claim for damages. Her lawsuit seeks $500,000 in compensatory and $2 million in punitive damages, as well as legal fees and costs.

Hornstine, who said she plans to become a lawyer, is not the first student to sue over the right to be valedictorian of a high school class.

In the last year alone, judges have been asked to consider similar cases in Ohio, Washington and Michigan. In two of the cases, students who wanted to be included as co-valedictorians were allowed by judges to be included. The third case, in Michigan, involves a student who wanted an A changed to an A-plus so he would be more likely to be valedictorian.

n(if its all about the "disability" what will the $2.5 million do for her?)cs

Update on Recockulocity.
 

Absolutely stunned by her career choice.... She has a bright future ahead of her. :eyeroll:

PC Cocksucking
 

I stopped worrying about being perceived as homophobic because I use the word "cocksucker" as an epithet (not to mention that it too is a term of endearment). It is just too good a word.

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Fine bitch.

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Sometimes I forget that I live in a place that's much more "tolerant" than other places. But I still get pissed about the implication that one's sexuality is something that anybody else should tolerate.

We decide whether, and to what extent, we're willing to tolerate PDA's.

We have no business deciding whether to tolerate other people's sexual preferences.

It's kind of like the way women always criticize men for leaving the seat UP, yet would be quite puzzled if men criticized us for leaving the seat DOWN. I don't hear a lot of crap from the gay community about tolerating the sexual preferences of breeders.

So, yeah, de-stigmatizing language is an important step in that direction.

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We have different friends in the gay community, methinks.

C(my friends toss around "breeder" like others may toss around "fag")deuced

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My fil is gay, and when visiting his house he has on occasion reminded me to leave the seat up when I'm finished in the bathroom.

He'll also say, if the SFC and I engage in PDA, "Damn heterosexuals, always flaunting their sexuality."

No, ours is not the typical Mormon family.

tm

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Wow I guess they just missed me. I was remote linking during the logo contest.

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He was saying I should do it. You can't upload pictures except for avatars to our server.

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well, the greeting "fag" is often an introduction to a beating so saying "and" to "fag" is actually harder today than saying it to the "n" word. * there was a day when being called a "dago" was fighting time, but that has gone away and most i-ties can now say "and" and we are certainly better off for not needing to fight over it. black people woill be better off when the user of the other is simply seen as ignorant, or a rapper, and not threatening (except in the case of a rapper).
on the "creative" name thing, one of the very few things we should take from the french is the rule that only certain approved names are available. it just takes to much from society to have to learn to pronounce names that differ slightly from normal names just because the parents couldn't spell, or thought it cute. Actually, a spell check at the birth registry, "did you mean Duane?", might be in order.
* actually "fag" isn't the scary one, "faggot", the more formal, is the typical salutation of the true gaybasher.

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Yup, all the time. In a joking, affectionate way.

Sometimes only half joking and not so affectionate.

It doesn't work as well these days though, since so many gay folks are having kids.

Much like your fil tm, I will say to straight people that they needn't flaunt their sexuality in front of me thank you very much, or that they don't need to apologize for being straight it isn't their fault. Most people laugh. Some people, not so much.

Restaurant tipping
 

When eating at a restaurant, do you tip on the subtotal or on the total, including tax?

A friend and I debated this tonight while splitting the dinner tab.

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no debate. subtotal.

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People who describe themselves as having found their "soul mate" haven't.

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Tell me about it. I've been trying to upload a smaller version of this:

http://www.biglils.com/photos/E.%20B...ts/80shair.jpg

but there's no place to do it.

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People who describe themselves get tiresome.

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One of the finest, but in a more positive sense than I think you mean.

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Going back to our context of 188 boys named Joan, I'll agree with you completely, but suggest that maybe those poor guys shouldn't bear THAT much of a disproportionate burden in our quest for happiness and equality.;)

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When the most recent Wee Slothrop was born, em would have been saddled with an obviously misspelled name for life had I not taken another look at the draft birth certificate . . . . . The woman doing the typing just wasn't paying attention.

mmmmm, bacon
 

You won't win friends with Salad

not7y(Confucius couldn't say it better)S

It's all greek to me
 

You sound like the typical bitter nebbish that was repeatedly blackballed from the greek system.

"Rumor" has it that you were beaten up several times trying to crash a fraternity keg party.

not7y(Stick with the Greek classics)S

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Is that why you keep PM'ing me asking what I'm wearing and what kind of candy bars I like?

Restaurant tipping
 

Yeah, that's my view. My friend is a former waitress who tipped 18% on the total last night and when I groused about the largess (although it was at my local), challenged me and told me I had to post here for the truth. Ha!

Another Sign of the Apocalypse
 

Liz Phair wants to sound like Avril Lavigne.

(Spree: NY Times article about the "Matrix" songwriting team.)

Great Summer Album
 

"Electric Version" by the New Pornographers is a great summer album. I like this review of it: To summarize: Buy Electric Version. Play it for all of your friends. Listen to it at public nuisance volume all summer long. But don't be afraid to fess up when you're tired of it.

Identity is also worth seeing. But others on this board have said as much, so I'm not bothering with outside reviews or links.