Matthew - Good Names for Kids

Good Names for Kids

Sunday, 27. July 2008, 03:04:50

Some names destine a kid for greatness. Balthusar should do it. Other names are destined to go down as poor decisions. Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii, for example. And. if you're going to have a name, you ought to at least know how to spell it.

Here's a conversation I had earlier tonight:

If you can't see the viewer, above, you can see the original image here.

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PainterWoman # 27. July 2008, 03:16

Cute cartoon.

I read the story about the little girl with the stupid name. Poor thing. Sometimes parents can be dumb.

Years ago there was an article about odd names given children....wish I could remember all of them...but there was a family with the last name of Tree. This is true as far as I know. They named their daughter Merry Christmas and their two sons, Douglas Fir and Jack Pine. Really not that bad......better than Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii.

Bea # 27. July 2008, 03:21

I had a house-secretary whose name was Cinnamon!!!!!

She was a bit crazy!

Matthew # 27. July 2008, 03:22

Talula DTHFH wasn't too happy with her parents. And for good reason.

Doug and I mightily amused ourselves. The cartoon depicts the conversation, verbatim. It is probably funnier to me than to anyone else, but I thoguht I'd share it. The women in our lives were not so enamored of our shenanigans.

Matthew # 27. July 2008, 03:23

House-secretary? I need one of those!

Bea # 27. July 2008, 03:24

but crazy as mine was!

it's common in brazil have one!

PainterWoman # 27. July 2008, 03:29

"House-secretary?"

Can they be male?

Karen # 27. July 2008, 04:34

I gotta move to Brazil!

Donny # 27. July 2008, 13:05

well as they say - everyone can make kids and then do stupid stuff with them. and then those kids will probably do the same one day...

I thought the comic was just fine

Bea # 27. July 2008, 14:23

It's not common to see men working like that but there are few. IN general they're best than woman... house-secretary is the 'politicaly correct' form to call that kind of workers... now that you can't just call them as 'slave'...

Kidding people!!!
You can have them working everyday to you, so they clean, they wash clothes, they cook, anything you want. You pay them a salary as a regular worker in an industry would have for example. But if you don't want to pay too much you can just have them for once a week, or twice a week. It depends on the money you have to pay.
They have the same rights.
Sometimes it's good to have one specially when you have kids. You pass all day long working and when you get home, house is perfect, dinner is ready, kids had already shower...
It's not a view of a perfect paradise but it's good!

Karen # 27. July 2008, 14:42

I want to hire a naked 'slave'! It'd be entertaining to watch his man parts jiggle while he mops and whatnot.

Ripp # 27. July 2008, 15:32

Nerak dont you have children walking around your house????

ya freak!

I read the article about the stupid name and I think it was completely right for the judge. I think the parents should have had their names change to like jack swallows a load, and jill is a prostitute. I am constantly amazed at how ignorant parents can be... The kid gets tormented in school and turns into a failure. Then society has to take care of them.

I think we need a morning after pill for parents. The morning after they are idiots we get to beat the shit out of them

Karen # 27. July 2008, 15:36

Oh...yeah.

I kinda forgot that part.

Matthew # 27. July 2008, 16:55

Kids get naked, too. It's not like they don't know how much skin covers a person.

Ignorant parents... I don't even know where to start. I have no clue how we found ourselves with a whole generation of kids who weren't parented having kids of their own. Frightening.

Ripp # 27. July 2008, 19:58

Noah, that might be the best statement and it is completely accurate. The have no idea how to parent and it will only get worse when their idiot kids start having children.

just think how fucked up my kids might be

As for skin covering etc... Not sure it is appropriate to have the below desciption:

Originally posted by Nerak:

naked 'slave'! It'd be entertaining to watch his man parts jiggle while he mops and whatnot.

nudity is nudity and no biggie but jiggling parts might need to be kept out of the youngsters eyes...

Karen # 27. July 2008, 20:31

I was only joking. Sheesh.

Ripp # 27. July 2008, 20:55

gees, fold like a cheap table next time

Matthew # 27. July 2008, 22:18

I am all about protecting kids from pedophiles, but nakedness is about jiggling.

Ripp # 27. July 2008, 22:24

Matthew # 27. July 2008, 22:28

Of course, I mean if you do it correctly...

Ripp # 27. July 2008, 22:48

that is worse

Matthew # 27. July 2008, 22:56

hahahah. Naked is good.

lokutus_prime # 27. July 2008, 22:58

Bob Geldoff has a lot to answer for. Didn't he name his kids TrixieBell Cycledong and Fifi Fophum, or something just as weird?

Matthew # 27. July 2008, 23:06

heh. Cycledong is heinous! Luckily, google suggests it isn't true. I think Geldoff and Frank Zappa did their kids no favors, with regards to making life easy.

Ripp # 27. July 2008, 23:34

naked is good when hotties and myself are involved but that is about it... The rest of you freaks are more than welcome jiggle around each other all you like.

Edward Piercy # 28. July 2008, 00:30

I was thinking that if I had a daughter, I'd name her Juicyfruit. I figure that way, if nothing else, she'd be pretty damn popular.

Bullshiting aside, I like traditional names. And I agree that if kids are given a name that it should be spelled right -- none of these alterations like Cathay or Sheella or whatever. Those suck. They just make the kid look like they came from parents who were so stupid they couldn't frigging spell a basic name right.

Now stripper names, of course, are a different matter.

Great cartoon, Matthew. (Or is that "Mathue"?)

Bea # 28. July 2008, 01:00

Karen I remembered that movie Legally Blonde when in the judgement, the latin guy said he used a small underwear cos his boss (the blonde Delta Nu) liked to see him...

You could hire someone to use a small underwear too.

Matthew # 28. July 2008, 01:17

Naked is as naked does.

I'm a traditionalist too, Edward. I don't like "i" on the end of Ashley. Or Kerry. Or an other name thta shouldn't have an "i" in it. DOn't get me started on those little hearts to dot the i, either....

Mathue seems prolific, but he is not me.

Small underwear don't fit well.

Ripp # 28. July 2008, 03:04

small underwear might move your junk back into your trunk and I will pass on that

I need to upsize just to make sure the shape of the sock isnt noticable

As for names I completely agree Filopiana Virginiaitis Smith just ain't right...

Karen # 28. July 2008, 03:14

Small undies are too much like Speedos...Speedos give me dry heaves.

Matthew # 28. July 2008, 03:15

Buy a bigger size.

Karen # 28. July 2008, 03:17

I'm only willing to settle for full body Speedos.

Ripp # 28. July 2008, 03:22

it is not a "speedo"; it is call a nuthuggger. The shit you call a speedo is what the dingleberries wear on the beach. Make sure you understand the difference. A speedo is nothing... You should wear a paper suit it is a lot worse (I wouldnt know

) ... The suits over the last 8 years are a world away from the "speedo" that you are talking about and with the evolution of the suit you shouldnt have to worry too much anymore.

Karen # 28. July 2008, 04:05

I'm so out of the nuthuggin' loop!

Ripp # 28. July 2008, 04:17

lucky you.

Karen # 28. July 2008, 05:56

Aadil # 28. July 2008, 07:33

Some famous people had names that seem really wierd out of context.
If the following names don't sound wierd to you it's probably only 'cos you've heard them so many times.
Isaak Asimov
Terry Pratchet
Piers Anthony
.
Albert Einstein
Siegmund Freud
.
Calista Flockhart

(Ouch!!!)
Anyone with the surname Simpson.
.
Paris Hilton and Hillary Clinton both have boys names!

.
.
Sometimes wierd is just a matter of perspective.

Aadil # 28. July 2008, 07:38

I almost forgot. A house secretary is called a 'domestic worker' In South Africa. They have thier own domestic worker's union. A house wife is a domestic executive or home executive.

lokutus_prime # 28. July 2008, 08:10

"Sometimes wierd is just a matter of perspective."

I completely agree. Where I come from names are not weird. We are named by our podkeeper. By this method we are never knowlingly resentful towards our birth extruder, for no one can ever blame a podkeeper.

Indeed, we have a saying that goes:

"Cast not a phux at given name,
put not the podkeeper to shame.
It gave you your tag
and it might have been ruder
if it had been named
by your extruder"

I'm only a visitor here and I doubt if any one of you can understand the subtlety of what the saying means, except the one here whose tag is ripp.

My inner phuxal sense detects a rare intelligence and what I believe you all call a 'sharp wit'. Indeed I wonderf if ripp-tag originated from this place (wherever it is), for he and I could, as my extruder might say, 'touch thorax' on many profound topics.

- pervalrandblahsz,
signus sector, Pantaslon 4

Donny # 28. July 2008, 10:00

sorry qlue, but what is weird with those names? I thought we talk about first names, so Terry or Albert aren't really weird isn't it? And for instance Isaak and Sigmund are not english names, so they shouldn't count in being something you can't call your kid.
As far as I have seen, there is a tendecy to mix up male and female names and nicknames in English speaking areas. So when someone is called George or Sam it could be a girl. But that is a whole different story.

Matthew # 28. July 2008, 13:52

My extruder tagged me, so I hold her accountable. All in all, she didn't phux it up too badly, though.

As for touching thoraxes, I think Ripp is, indeed, your man, Pervalrandblahsz.

I'm with you, Donny - I didn't find those names too peculiar, though some are definately foreign. I suppose, as Aadil said, it could just be the comfort of familiarity.

lokutus_prime # 28. July 2008, 14:09

"As for touching thoraxes, I think Ripp is, indeed, your man, Pervalrandblahsz. "

The ways of your species show a glimmer of enlightenment.

There is also a modicum of optimism for the evolution of your weird name tagging tradition.

- pervalrandblahsz,
signus sector, Pantaslon 4

Matthew # 28. July 2008, 14:11

Many of us have phobias surrounding unigender thorax proximity, but Ripp is above that.

With regards to our tagging traditions....

YOU'RE IT!

lokutus_prime # 28. July 2008, 15:24

IT ?

I am IT ? EarthSirling, I am pervalrandblahsz, but if you wish to know me in a more intimate mode you may address me by my intimate gender-tag. In your strange language it would approximate to the sound of "Noo-DelMi".

What is this IT? - is it a way of exchanging extrusions?

Withour the aid of my Universal Translator I would be even more mystified
by the sound of this arcane Earth term.

"IT" .... "ITTTTTTTT" .....

Strange. when the sound is elongated it bears a similarity to the
peaceful-welcome-and-greeting sound of the indigenous life form of
Phlatulus 1. When my species first landed there these creatures ran forward holding up their apendages and emoting "ITTTTTTTT"

After we had eradicated them we had many deep discussions on the possible ambiguity of their communication. It is possible they were articulating "IITTTTTTTT", which would have meant they were telling us their name-tag. Interesting discussion.

- pervalrandblahsz,
signus sector, Pantaslon 4

Tamara Bennett-Moss # 28. July 2008, 15:43

i have "cinnamon girl" tattooed on my back, it was a "stagename" twenty years ago....

Matthew # 28. July 2008, 15:44

"IT" is what happens to you when you're tagged. Don't get used to IT. Someone else will be IT soon, if you do your job correctly.

Matthew # 28. July 2008, 15:45

Tamara, you are an unending succession of surprises! It's nice to see you, are you feeling better?

lokutus_prime # 28. July 2008, 15:56

"IT" is what happens to you when you're tagged. Don't get used to IT. Someone else will be IT soon, if you do your job correctly."

That space alien didn't know this. But I do and have been IT on more than one occasion.

OK, I guess that's it

Matthew # 28. July 2008, 16:34

Don't let it get you down. Aliens often don't get it.

Donny # 28. July 2008, 20:28

yeah, but this alien got IT

Information Technology, btw

lokutus_prime # 28. July 2008, 20:38

IT happens all the time

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