The Name Game #416

Lovely time of year.  From at low of fifty-two, by eight we’re in the mid-sixties, headed for the mid-eighties.

I walked out under blue skies to collect the paper.  The list this week is from the little hospital on this side of the river.  We lack the vibrancy that the large amounts of diversity bring to that big hospital across the river, but heaven knows, we’re trying.

First evidence is in the high number of illegitimate births.  of  twenty-one new babies, fourteen are born to unmarried parents.  Two of the new mommies can’t figure out that out of a whole can of beans, which one made ‘er fart.

That’s modern society – mistaking ‘license’ for ‘freedom’.

Let’s slog into the morass:

Miss Tami(!) H. does us a daughter, little Dani Kaiel.  She missed two vowels and the name of the sperm donor.

Katelynn M. & Christopher F. do us up a daughter, little Paisley Ann.  We can figure that there will be a sibling, Plaid, possibly.

Megan ‘n’ Blaine T. name a son after a Texas university, Baylor Henry.

Desiree M. & Andrew P. needed a daughter because they had a stripper name already picked out.  A son came along and he’s Dakota Blaze.

Miss Ebony C. fears the complexity of spelling names with ‘c-k’ so she tags her son with Jaxson Gabriel.  Apparently she also fears asking the name of the consort who sired this kid.

Tonya & Hagen C. name the girl after the daddy, giving us little Hagen Marie.

And that’s the sad little list for the week.  Enjoy your autumn.

Today in History – October 11

1767 – Surveying for the Mason–Dixon Line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed. I bet you thought it was further south, huh?

1910 – Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.

1954First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam. The French had tried to re-establish their colony in southeast Asia after the Japanese surrender, and they dropped the ball faster’n an eighth-grade basketball team.

1968
Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard. Less than a year later, there are American footprints on the moon.

1975
– Bill Clinton weds Hillary Rodham. Q: What do you get when you cross a crooked politician with a crooked lawyer? A: Chelsea Clinton. The second joke that happened on this date was the premiere of Saturday Night Live with George Carlin as host.

1984 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk. She has to go back because she forgot her purse. The flight is completed with her seatbelt hanging out of the closed door.