Because the ridiculousness of what I said in that post went sailing over your head?
While visiting some rather affluent people I happened to meet, I was informed that we would shortly be joined by a friend of theirs, Overthere Doggy. (This is not his actual name, but suggests its tone and unusual nature.) I was grateful they told me his name before he arrived, so I was prepared and didn’t laugh or do a double take or make a stupid joke.
He was (and I presume still is) a very nice guy, and fairly prominent in the community. I just looked him up and it turns out that his name has a long and historic family tradition. An ancestor of the same name was a U.S. Senator in the early 19th century. Several other relatives have borne the same name.
I only met him briefly on that one occasion, so I don’t happen to know if he had a nickname used by friends and family (Bertie Wooster’s friend Claude Cattermole Potter-Pirbright was known as “Catsmeat”) or if he was teased or bullied as a kid, although it’s hard to imagine he could have escaped it.
So here’s a case where an old and respected family name might lead to some of the same troubles for a child as a “silly” new name like Abcde.
“Yeah, so? What am I supposed to do with this information?”
How am I supposed to know that you thought it was ridiculous?
I guess it was one of those things where you had to know these people.
I sure hope they’re not. That ship has sailed…and sailed and sailed. I mean, American composer Thomas Westendorf wrote the classic American song “I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen” in 1875, almost a century and a half ago, and I’m sure the name’s American origins predate the song by quite a bit. I also don’t know of any evidence that Americans spelled it Kathleen “to be cute,” and if they did, well, that was a long long time ago.
How many more centuries will it take, I wonder, until “a true Irish person” will acknowledge that the name is simply a standard American name?
[Riley]One more time![/Riley]
Only for 20 minutes in the 1960s.
Because this statement
“Having read all 175 replies to the OP”
- this statement
“I’m amazed no one has pointed out that this is most definitely NOT an urban legend.”
(note the underlined and bolded part) and then going on to say almost exactly what multiple other people had already stated:
“Jasmine, not only did Frank Zappa name his oldest daughter Moon Unit, he is survived by three other children named Dweezil, Diva and Ahmet.”
as if this was NEW information seems to me pretty sarcastic.
I guess one of us needs our sarcasm detection abilities re-calibrated. Clearly I should have gone further over the top.
Hopefully you understand this hilarious post is in fact a joke:
yawn