On a Sunday, no less.
From Grouchy Old Cripple come this little ditty.
Bach’s Prelude from Lute Suite 4 performed by John Williams:
This beauty is what Western Civilization produced. Daesh and Islam threatens this.
Daily Archives: 11/22/2015
The Name Game #419
Forty cool wonderful degrees at eight AM this morning, headed for the mid-fifties under blue skies.
Woke up to find that the next governor of Louisiana will be a dimmocrat. His opponent was David Vitter, one of our two republican senators. Mr. Vitter was badly tainted by a scandal involving prostitution a few years back. That played prominently in his loss, as did Mr. Edwards’ military service. Mr. Edwards will start his term with a republican legislature. Louisiana politics is colored heavily by a 30% bloc of black voters already lined up for ANY dimmocrat in dimmocrat vs. republican contest. All a dimmocrat has to do is woo twenty-five percent of the white vote and he’s in. That happened.
In the other section of the paper, we have birth announcements from both hospitals – the little one on this side of the river and the big one on the other side. From between October 1 and November 16, they report one hundred new babies. Fifty-five of those are to unwed parents and indeed, eleven of the new mommies don’t report a daddy’s name at all.
This is going to take a while, so let’s get on with it.
Same hospital, a day apart, Miss Jayde(!) J. presents her son with a random last name for a first name, giving us little Finley James, then the next day Sarah ‘n’ Dustin W. use it on their daughter, Finley Grace.
Elysa & Brent W. give their daughter a textile name, Paisley Leanne. I’m sure they’re planning for her little sister Polka Dot soon.
Selina R. & Toshiro (! – last name does NOT indicate Japanese heritage) W. go African with their son Malik Tate.
Dana & John W. pick a random last name and hang it on their son Jenson.
Keisha(!) & Kend(!) D. sho their love of celebrities by tagging their daughter with AnJoli Ember.
KaSandra(!) B. & Heath D. name their daughter Mayah Elisabeth.
Matthew T. & Kayla B. look in Matt’s back pocket and come up with a name for their son Cohpen Matthew. Probably has an older sister names Skoal.
Kortni(!) B. triples up on her son, little Khyland Amir Hezekiah. In one offering, we get contrived, Arabic, and Biblical. And no daddy.
Damika(!) C. tosses out our first apostrophe with her son De’iamonta Karnell. there was definitely some karnell knowledge involved here, but she forgot to get a name.
Diamond(!) G. & Dominiue(! – that’s what’s in the paper. I’m NOT betting that they missed a ‘q’) A. get all sofistucated ‘n’ stuff with their daughter Sofyah Lanaee’.
Dustin ‘n’ Chelsey M. present their son Kycen Owen. sounds like a new antibiotic.
Mackenzie & Evony(!) A. do a daughter up with Bliss Monae.
Miss Taleel(!) G. grandly tags her son with Jalandon Jayisland. Jahshoot me.
Shaun B. & Samantha F. triple up on their son Xavier Geral Anthoney.
Quientin R. & Linden(!) M. love the letter ‘Q’, so their son is Quico Joseph.
Miss Veronica C. drops us an apostrophicated daughter, Teliyah A’Sha. I’ll teliyah who I think is paying for this baby.
Dylan & Kendra P. avoid that “You named your daughter ‘-son'” thing with a little creative spelling, giving us little Dawsyn Gail.
Walt & Britney S. watched one too many nights of the National Geographic Channel and tagged their son with Bear Marion. With a middle name of ‘Marion’, he’d better be able to back up that ‘bear’ part.
Miss Shunkea(!) W. has a new son with his own apostrophe, Omar De’Markus.
Christian G. & Amber C. triple up on their little girl, Kelsia Marie-Faith.
Miss Alisha L. feels that the use of apostrophes can make up for the total absence of a baby daddy, so her daughter is Lon’dynn Ar’mani Jene’. Cute, huh?
Another apostrophe shows up as Matthew A. & Jessica W. triple on their son Ma’Khai Duane Antoine.
Casey G. & Karey L. have had a lifetime of reading the great literature of Western Civilization. They bring some of that knowledge forth in their son’s middle name, Braxton Kal-el.
Errol W. & Irma C. throw three names and an apostrophe at their daughter, little Eriel La’Sha Jeanie.
Ryan & Anjellaka(!) R. do up a son as N’Con Dean.
Davondrick(!) P. & Algnee(!!!) J. perpetuate the travesty by naming their son Dracen Kamil.
And that’s the play where we stop this week. Take care. Have a happy Thanksgiving.
Today in History – November 22
1718 – Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as “Blackbeard”) is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
1906 – International Radio Telecommunications Commission adopts “SOS” as new call for help. Dididit Dahdahdah Dididit.
1922 – Egyptology: Howard Carter, assisted by Lord Carnarvon, opens the tomb of Tutankhamun.
1935 – The China Clipper takes off from Alameda, California for its first commercial flight. It reaches Manila a week later. A week! To FLY across the Pacific. I wonder how that compared with one lOOOONG, bad day in the cavernous cargo bay of a C-141 in 1970…
1963 – In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is killed and Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded by an assassin, identified as Lee Harvey Oswald, who was later captured and charged with the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit. That same day, US Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States. A lot of interesting coincidences surround the case. I was in the eighth grade in math class when the announcement came over the PA system.
1974 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status. Stick a fork in it! The UN as a sane body of international discourse is OFFICIALLY DEAD!
1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
1995 – Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
2005 – Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany. Her policies are changing the face of EUrope for the worse.