![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kjpepperEvery few years, ever since ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
innostrantsa introduced it to me years and years ago, I'm duty bound to go back to Baby's Named a Bad Bad Thing and read it. Out loud. Preferably to people who have never been to that site before, but it retains its utter hilarity for those that have. I am now somewhat without a voice and my lungs are aching slightly from howling with laughter.
Seriously? I love reading aloud. I once read a good half of the Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy to a friend over the phone one Saturday, and I remember reading Bunnicula, Leave it to Christy and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever tosundart to pass the time on separate doorwatch duties up at Smith. I still enjoy reading the best and most ludicrous of Today's Intarbuttz out loud to sydneycat on the occasion where something is particualarly engaging. And I'm rather looking forward to reading to whatever spawnlike objects we collectively end up having in a couple of years.
But back to the baby names... "New naming rule: If in typing the name out you have to follow it immediately with another version in parentheses, because otherwise no one would have the slightest clue this was supposed to be a name and not Klingon for "Wax my forehead, supple wench," this is a bad, bad, woah bad bad name."
See the problem with the above site and quote? They've both been around for at least five years now and people are still naming kids some seriously moronic things. I've had the somewhat icktastically hight school habit of coming up with potential names for any spawn me and $PARTNER might have, where $PARTNER has been anyone I've had a crush on since about the fifth grade, but they were all pretty damn normal. Not like, say, people that insist on naming their daughters MyKynzy. Yeeesh.
Also.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
dot_pagan_snark. BWAH.
innostrantsa introduced it to me years and years ago, I'm duty bound to go back to Baby's Named a Bad Bad Thing and read it. Out loud. Preferably to people who have never been to that site before, but it retains its utter hilarity for those that have. I am now somewhat without a voice and my lungs are aching slightly from howling with laughter.Seriously? I love reading aloud. I once read a good half of the Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy to a friend over the phone one Saturday, and I remember reading Bunnicula, Leave it to Christy and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever to
sundart to pass the time on separate doorwatch duties up at Smith. I still enjoy reading the best and most ludicrous of Today's Intarbuttz out loud to sydneycat on the occasion where something is particualarly engaging. And I'm rather looking forward to reading to whatever spawnlike objects we collectively end up having in a couple of years.But back to the baby names... "New naming rule: If in typing the name out you have to follow it immediately with another version in parentheses, because otherwise no one would have the slightest clue this was supposed to be a name and not Klingon for "Wax my forehead, supple wench," this is a bad, bad, woah bad bad name."
See the problem with the above site and quote? They've both been around for at least five years now and people are still naming kids some seriously moronic things. I've had the somewhat icktastically hight school habit of coming up with potential names for any spawn me and $PARTNER might have, where $PARTNER has been anyone I've had a crush on since about the fifth grade, but they were all pretty damn normal. Not like, say, people that insist on naming their daughters MyKynzy. Yeeesh.
Also.
dot_pagan_snark. BWAH.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2008-04-27 05:56 pm (UTC)One of the best laughs I got sometime last year was perusing the Social Security roundup of baby names for a previous year, and seeing that there were 76 baby girls named Unique. NOT SO MUCH, dumbass.