So we just had the TV on, waiting for the Simpsons. They’ve got their “Block” hosts at Cleveland’s IX Indoor Amusement Park, who apparently have four little girls who are their ‘guest hosts’ for the day.
So they asked them their names.
There’s an Ariana.
A Diamond.
And then we had to rewind SEVERAL times to make sure we were hearing what we just heard.
“Vay-gina.”
I gave ElzaHub a :dubious: . We rewound.
“Vay-gina.”
Yet again.
“Vay-gina.”
I really, really, really hope we just heard that wrong.
Her parents either have a darkly twisted sense of humor, they’re criminally naive, or they’re incredibly pompous new-agers that really think that’s a cute name.
And I guarantee that if there really is a “y” in her name (or “veigh” or whatever), it was put there only as a concession.
I just hope she doesn’t end up marrying a guy named Willy.
I once had a (gay–he had come out to me*) history teacher who slipped and said his boyfriend’s name once whilst trying to say the name of a famous Civil War commander.
*I was a “straight ally” in our school’s Gay-Straight Alliance, which the teacher ran. I wasn’t his confidant or anything.
It’s also possible that the girl is simply named “Virginia,” and she has some sort of a pediatric speech impediment. How old was she? Did she say anything besides her name?
Reminds me of a guy in my college drama club. We were doing *Antigone, *and his character made a reference to Queen Euricide. Except that it came out as “Queen Uterus.”