I've been sick, I got nothin'. FBOFW is about more POOP jokes, fer cryin' out loud.
But I can give you a link to my MSNBC Weblog, Test Pattern, in which I write a letter to Nicolas Cage's new baby, Kal-el, commiserating about the weird first name thing.
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Isn't Kal-El supposed to be Superman's real (i.e. what is parents on planet Krypton called him) name?
I saw your letter via a link from my Excite home page. Way to go, Gael! Good read too :).
Re: FBOFW today. What was the name of the porta-potti company? "Sexier's?" (or did I read that wrong?
Yeah, that's Superman's real name. I know of a couple other babies with that name too. Honestly, it's better than having another damn Aidan.
Sorry you're sick! I always enjoy your Test Pattern column.
Kal-El is a bit goofy, but at least the kids at school can call him Kal, which is better than Dweezil.
I liked your letter to Kal-el.
One thing I can say about a weird name (my user name on here is my first name)is that I can tell with in two seconds whether someone on the phone is a telemarketer when they go "Hi! Is this... uhm..." and I can hang up before they finish mispronouncing my name. It's quite convinient.
Poor little Kal-el, though. That kid's in for a few swirlies. I suppose his advantage is he can go "You know my middle name? Coppola? As in the Godfather director? He knows real mobsters." Even if it's not true, it might help.
Melody wasn't uncommon or confusing enough, in the early 1960s, to satisfy my parents. They had to give it the German spelling. M-e-l-o-d-i-e, plus a middle name of G-a-l-e (as in big wind!) AND a ten- letter German last name. On the rare occasions when people understood that my name was NOT Melanie, it would be spelled Melody Gail. And if they got the first and middle names right, well, then the last name would get screwed up.
Interestingly, of the two people named Gail I grew up with, one was Gail, but the other was spelled as yours is.
Much commiseration on the license plate-keychain-id bracelet thing, btw. When they had my name at all, it was with a 'Y'. Now that I go by Mel, though, I can cash in on all the "Short-For-Melvin" coffee mugs made for certain middle-aged or elderly guys! Yay.
Does anyone else remember when Nic Cage hosted SNL, and was in a sketch playing an expectant father who rejected every name his wife came up with because it would cause the kid to be teased at school?
Irony, anyone?
Yeah, and HIS character's name, it was revealed at the end of the skit, was "Asswipe" -- pronounced "Ah-SWEE-pay."
haaaaa!
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