Not even . . . Hank?
I got my father’s first name as mine, but a different middle name specifically so that I would not be a Junior.
Passing names down is ancient, universal, and ongoing. It’s gone out of style a bit, but I’ve known Europeans who had their fathers names and their mother’s. A friend of mine who’s Russian is even named Andrei Andreiovich.
Family names used to be recycled so much it’s a way that genealogists use to look for connections between familes of the same surname.
Trivia: custom used to be to name your first three sons and first three daughters in a cycle:
1st son- Paternal grandfather’s name
2nd son- Maternal grandfather’s name
3rd son- Father’s name
1st daughter- Maternal grandmother’s name
2nd daughter- Paternal grandmother’s name
3rd daughter- Mother’s name
There were exceptions of course; if you were the third son then the first son would have your name as well, or if both a boy’s grandfathers are named William you don’t just name them Willie and Billy (in the U.S. it became increasingly popular to give a son the bride’s maiden name as his first name), but generally the first few kids all had recycled names. If you look at the family trees of the early U.S. presidents you’ll see this was very common, and that while most families had a “Jr.” it usually was a younger son.
It’s even in the bible.
The middle name is one thing, but IME giving your son your first name went out for everyone but the peerage (and those who fancy themselves as peers) at least 50 years ago.
I went to two of the Clarendon schools and never met anyone who was named after his father.
I know, right? I mean, as I understand it, the Williams clan attended the same schools, and still insist the outdated custom of naming one’s progeny after oneself is de rigueur. As if.
As the OP, this is a magnificent hijack and I fully approve.
Still, fuck Junior. He’s not an real American or a patriot. He’s no better than a piece of pig excrement that happened to have won the sperm lottery. Without his Dad’s name and talent he would be nothing, or much worse. There are people more talented than him doing “Amateur Night” or Karaoke at the local Holiday Inn. Maybe he ought to begin to realize that people with real intelligence and ability that didn’t have it all given to them (unlike him) still have a chance to excel in this country. Eat your stupid heart out, Junior.
I give this pitting a 1 out of 10.
You have failed to make a convincing case that the respondent deserves a pitting.
Further you have made it the reader’s responsibility to follow a link in your pitting before the pitting will make any sense. That might make it easier for you, the author of the Opening Post, but it is lazy and lacks intellectual merit.
Further, your pitting presumes that the reader knows who the respondent actually is - and I certainly don’t know who the hell he is. The son of the famous singer, I’m guessing? Also, you presume that YOUR President is my President, which is false.
Further, your anger has caused you to sling some pretty bitter insults at the respondent which, to this outsider looking in, merely confirms you as having some serious anger issues yourself.
I live in Australia. I don’t know who the hell you’re talking about, or why the hell you’re talking about him. To then make it my responsibility to follow your link before I can make any sense of this thread is why this Pitting gets a 1 out of 10.
A good Pitting, a really world class Pitting, is totally encapsulated in the Opening Post - as well as being inarguably worthy. It is cogent, incisive, and to the point.
This Pitting strikes me as just one more American disagreeing with yet another American on some politcal level, in a seemingly endless list of disagreements. Rather like two fleas arguing who owns the dog they’re living on.
You spend all that time typing out all that shit yet you are too lazy to click on a link that explains everything and has a video. You sound like a bored high school teacher that can’t find a life. Probably the people that know you rate you a 1 out of 10.
Maybe you should recommend to the mods that they turn on the rating feature. You can spend the rest of your miserable life rating SDMB threads. Better yet, keep your own list because most of us don’t give a flying fuck what your rating is. Now go back to grading your papers.
My dogs are named Alfred and Lucy.
On the other hand, the only name my daughter shares with either of us parents is her last name.
-Joe
Oh, hush,** R.P.** You know **Boo Boo Foo **is just feeling left out because his homeland has no history of rowdy politics, colorful characters, or curious origin stories to share with us.
And now the latest news is that ESPN is permanently dropping Hank’s rowdy song as the Monday Night Football opening.
A great quote from that article, as Mr. Williams says ESPN has “stepped on the toes of his First Amendment rights…” Such a Constitutional scholar, ol’ Hank is. People from both sides of the political spectrum don’t seem to get that the First Amendment guarantees your right to free speech without being, you know, thrown in jail or executed or otherwise muffled by the government. It doesn’t protect you from the private-sector consequences of your employer discipining or firing you for saying something monumentally stupid.
You can compare whomever you want to Hitler, Hank, my boy. Just suck it up and take the consequences for saying it like a man. Perhaps Fox Sports will finally get rid of that stupid robot they use for their football coverage and have you join them!
Wish they were robots. Most importantly, so I wouldn’t feel bad about rooting for the home team to deliver more brain damage than they recieive, and second, maybe the goddam wimp-ass Vikings would have a fucking prayer.
*Whiny nonsense omitted to spare the reader
You show up on page 4 to complain about the way the OP is written?! If you’re going to do the stupid, unfunny “rate the pit” shtick, you need to get it in within the first 10 replies or so.
That was ummmm different. This Pres is a librul a Dem and a ni@@@r
Yes I said it.
Right Wing Loopholes R Us: The Dixie Chicks insulted the president while in a foriegn country, so it’s worse.
The sheriff’s a what?
Actually, you didn’t.
If you’re going to use the word nigger, have some balls and type it out.
Yeah, no shi!t!
-Joe, can’t stand that
That dodge always bothered me, like a woman saying “She’s a word I won’t say but it starts with B”.
It’s less noticeable, and even less offensive, to just say the word instead of pretending you aren’t.