The derision of the names Track and Trig I understand, but what is wrong with Bristol, Willow (the name of our favorite TV lesbian Wiccan), and Piper as names.
And yes, the Zamboni comment is clearly meant to be a joke.
Speaking of TV lesbian Wiccans, the People Mag site just told me something else-
Woohoo, Alyson & Alexis are expecting!
No, it’s very much alive. I took Home Ec in junior high school in the mid '90s. I think they changed the class name to “Home and Careers” a few years later, but I have little doubt that the useless course* is still going. The useless teacher** is probably still there too.
*I’m sure not all Home Ec classes are useless, but this one was.
**No apologies forthcoming here.
I figure Palin probably won’t have any more kids, but I think she should consider Gort as a name if she does. It works on its own and it could be short for GoreTex.
Ideally, Home Ec should be about budgeting, not gender roles. Also, mathematics should be about logical arguments, not rote memorization, and history should be about testing the veracity of sources, not indoctrination.
In my school district - FACE: Family and Consumer Education. I don’t think my son got much out of it.
Honestly, I kind of like “Willow” and “Piper”. “Bristol” strikes me as a bit odd, and always makes me picture the kid throwing a tantrum (“doing the Bristol Stomp” ;)). I can’t imagine how someone would pick “Track” and “Trig” as names, though.
Oh honey. I think I love you. 
One could actually major in Home Ec when I attended Texas Tech, unless my memory has totally failed me, which it may well have done.
That’s good, but what’s been running through my head is more to the tune of “I’m a Girl-watcher…”
The Zamboni thing is almost certainly a joke, but…“flied”? :smack:
And if you didn’t know better, having one kid named after a body of water, another named after a kind of math, a third named after an athletic competition, and a fourth named after a bird might strike you as ludicrous.
Hey, I’m trying to give her the benefit of the doubt here. It’s awfully hard sometimes.
Willow?
Bristol Bay.
I’m 25, and when I was in middle/high school, it was called “Home and Careers”. We learned muffin baking, sewing, ironing, grocery budgeting; you know, careers in the home. The only plus was boys had to do it, too. And girls got to take shop, which was “Technology”.
Sine and Cosine are the twins, of course.
The majors have usually been changed to being under Family & Consumer Sciences (I know at the University of Georgia it is it’s own college); it encompasses a large variety of things, including Family Financial Planning, Dietetics, Housing, Textiles, Interior Design and more. While not all of them are heavy hitters in the academic world, it’s not really a joke designation. (Er… Why yes, I do work in FACS).
Thinking about it now, Home Ec has the worst, most undeserved bad rap of any High School course. (Maybe second to Gym in that department, but at least Gym has the distinction of Building Character.)
It should be a course on all the things around the home you’re pretty much expected to know how to do as an adult: Budgeting (mathematics), grocery shopping (mathematics and applied psychology), simple cooking and baking (culture, chemistry, and more math), simple home repair (like Shop, only practical), and domestic disputes (psychology and legal concepts, including what ‘abuse’ and ‘family assault’ really are under the law).
No, I didn’t take it in school. I’m a boy. :rolleyes:
I actually like the name Zamboni, but then I always wanted to have twins named Bismark and Pierre after the capitals of North and South Dakota.
I’m with you. Except I think Calc and Poli Sci are next.
Er…I don’t think she’d want her kid to share a name with the Gore family.