Actually, it’s Kyd Miller, after Thomas Kyd (a famous playwright. You may have heard of him) and John Miller (a famous poet. You may have heard of him.)
Can’t imagine where a man with a Ph.D. in English would have picked up those names…
At least they’re not naming babies Orangello, Lemongello, ShiTonya, or Asswipé.
I recommend we get busy on The Straight Dope Book of Celebrity Baby Names, to which we can all contribute suggestions for future crotchmonkeys of the celebrated. I’ll start you all off with a few.
Male
Nacho
Asperger
Commissionaire de Police
Odor LeThal
Ruckus
Masada
Vibram
Female
Hoyden
Jenna Tull
Chyme
Isinglass
Scroungeberry
Bedford Stuyvesant
Bosco
You forgot Og. Or is that blasphemous?
How much you want to bet she would’ve only sold 1/10th the number of albums if she went by Apple Maggart?
Male:
Basin
Keebler
Formica
Newark
Female:
Hygiene
Emesis
Carrion
Cyanide
I like your taste in names! Allow me to contribute:
Male
Hominy
Kamikaze
Falafal
Kazoo
Jism
Female
Sarsparilla
Sodomita
Knut Knut Knut
Tallegarupna
Hezbollah
It’s not Kalel, it’s Kal-el. “It could” mean a lot of things, but it only means one of them. They named the kid after Superman and said so. If they had chosen Khalil, I don’t think so many people would be complaining. The fact that something that sounds similar to Kal-el (not Kalel) in another language seems irrelevant to me.
Kalil is fine. Kal-el (complete with pointless interior punctuation mark) is very stupid.
Marley23:
I just worry for him when he reaches his sexually-active years, and girls shun him because he’s faster than a speeding bullet.
Well, maybe Tolkein geeks - ISTR that’s the pre-wraithing name of a Nazgul.
ISTR wrong, it’s Khamûl, not Kahlil.
Male:
Fnord Prefect
Prefect
Gryffindor
Ravenclaw
Severus
Female
Hermione ( which I like alot)
Hilarion ( I have a teenage cousin named this. It is an old irish name. I like it alot.)
Justice
Mallorca
Male:
Anakin
Female:
Amidala. “We’ll call her Amy for short; she won’t have to use the full name if she doesn’t want to.”
Anakin, however, is screwed. “We’ll call him Annie…” and let the schoolyard beatings commence…
I fed that to Google and it asked: “Did you mean Talleygaroopna?”
You’re catching on, foax. I may make this a thread unto itself.
F: Nubbin, Croatia, Netsuke, Ping, Bricolage; M: Halogen, Borsalino, Yinz, Flugkapitän, Spurt
Male
Urin-el (one of the many cousins in the El family)
Suici-el
Digit-el
Frac-el
Crani-el
Female
Latrina
LooLoo
Toiletta
Chlamydia
Anna Rexia
I still have nothing but contempt for Rob Morrow, who named his daughter Tu.
Sure it’s funny for like a second, but the rest of her life she’s an Abbott and Costello routine.