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I have a cousin who has an obnoxious wife and they live, with their brood, in Vermont.
These are the type of people who give Vermonters a bad name.
They were married at 18 because they looooved each other so much, (insert highschool giggle here!) They swore upside down and backwards to his family, (hers is out of the picture) that it was all for the loooove, and they were going to wait to have kids.
8 months later, a robust baby girl of 8 pounds was born. You do the math.
A few days ago, I get a call from my mom. "You'd never guess what they've done this time," she said with an exaperated sigh.
My mind raced to catch up on the "they" in question, and what "they" could have done.
After some elaboration, mom reveals that the Cousins have spawned again, and so have inflicted a name on yet another child.
I'm all for non-traditional names. To a point. I think, somewhere along the line, the Cousins forgot that they weren't naming pets, and sallied forth, naming with wanton distruction.
The first (the girl) was named after a character in a fantasy book (gag.)
MistyaRose, gods bless her tiny heart, will probably use Misty the second she enters elementary school and never look back. Oh wait! They're Home-Schooling! Nevermind.
Matrix (the first boy) had better start taking marshal arts classes now, or he's going to have his ass handed to him all the way through life. What fun, to be named after a movie, or a car. You decide.
And now, dear, poor sweet Merlin. (Second, and most recent boy.) You named your kid after a wizard?
Really, come on now... These kids have to live with these names!
In the future, I have to get a dog. And I think his name shall be Merlin.
- k.
These are the type of people who give Vermonters a bad name.
They were married at 18 because they looooved each other so much, (insert highschool giggle here!) They swore upside down and backwards to his family, (hers is out of the picture) that it was all for the loooove, and they were going to wait to have kids.
8 months later, a robust baby girl of 8 pounds was born. You do the math.
A few days ago, I get a call from my mom. "You'd never guess what they've done this time," she said with an exaperated sigh.
My mind raced to catch up on the "they" in question, and what "they" could have done.
After some elaboration, mom reveals that the Cousins have spawned again, and so have inflicted a name on yet another child.
I'm all for non-traditional names. To a point. I think, somewhere along the line, the Cousins forgot that they weren't naming pets, and sallied forth, naming with wanton distruction.
The first (the girl) was named after a character in a fantasy book (gag.)
MistyaRose, gods bless her tiny heart, will probably use Misty the second she enters elementary school and never look back. Oh wait! They're Home-Schooling! Nevermind.
Matrix (the first boy) had better start taking marshal arts classes now, or he's going to have his ass handed to him all the way through life. What fun, to be named after a movie, or a car. You decide.
And now, dear, poor sweet Merlin. (Second, and most recent boy.) You named your kid after a wizard?
Really, come on now... These kids have to live with these names!
In the future, I have to get a dog. And I think his name shall be Merlin.
- k.
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Re: Oh dear....
Date: 2006-10-20 01:44 pm (UTC)From:There are a few clumps a few generations back that may have spread out that way, but not so related that we'd get christmas cards or anything...