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The Name Game

The Name Game #486

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Didn’t make ‘eighty by eight’ this morning. A sizeable mass of clouds just to the east of us is hiding the sun, delaying temperature rise. It didn’t do anything for the humidity, though, which is at 98%.

Opened the morning paper over a light breakfast and found that the big hospital across the river reports fifty-five new babies from between June 27 and July 10.  Of those, twenty-five are to unmarried parents, and of those, three new mommies don’t put a daddy’s name on the birth certificate, but we all know there’s one out there.

Let us commence:

Justin L. & Katina(!) H. know that really high-class people doon’t ahve adhere to those tired old conventions of spelling so their daughter is tagged with Alyanah Faith instead of some more base rendering.

Chris M. & Erica L. show their love for geography by tagging their daughter with Oaklynn Faith.

Miss Diamon(!) G. presents her little girl Laykin Alayia.  Baby daddy?  Nuh-uh.

Casey S. & Kelsey C. do their son with Legend Dean.  I’m sure he will be.

Destin R. & Brittany B. name their son Blayde Axton.

Craig B. & Patricia M. chose a random word from the dictionary and use it to name their daughter, little Cadence Michelle.

Dokata(!) G. & Ashton L. do a son with Nova James.

First apostrophe shows up as Byron B. & Kizzy(! – momma watched Roots one time too many) B. (different surnames, natch!) elegantly name their daughter De’Vai.

Jeramy(!) Sr. & Nikole L. perpetuate the travesty by tagging their son with Jeramy Czar.

Grayson S. & Lila J. give their son a career option by tagging him with Porter Gray.

Elijah O. & Kayla C. petuate another travesty as their son starts out as Elijah Savon Ricado Jr.  And that’s NOT ‘Ricardo’.

Brian B. & Gwenda(!) S. point their son on a path to employment by naming him Mason Carter.

Aaron B. & Cortney C. watched one Star Wars episode too many so their son is Finn Archer.

We get another bit of punctuation to elevate a child above the fray when Harold & Courtney P. do their daughter with Alexandra Ia’niya Anne.

Shawn & MarRisa(!) P. do their daughter with Ava Regina.  Kid’s name is ‘meh’ but I had to give Mom a little attention for the innovative employment of a mid-name capital letter.

Miss Yakira(!) S. presents her daughter, little Addilynn Mona’e.  When you pronounce the middle name, you’re supposed to whistle or ring a tiny bell in the middle of the second syllable.

Chirs & Brittany L. show us teh tryndeigh with their daughter Kynslee Skye.

Miss Morgan A. shows her daughter, little Morgan Heaven, which is memorable because it’s NOT ‘Nevaeh’.

David J. & Nikeya(!) A. watched Lion King one time too manyy and their daughter is now Nylah Rhielle.

Trovisdue(!!!) & Essence(!!) B. present their son Chayse Kole.  Kid’s lucky that’s ALL they did to him.

Brandon & Amberly(!) M.show their daughter, little Dawsyn Leigh.

And with that, we complete this Sunday’s foray into the decline of Western Civilization.  See you next week.

History

Today in History – July 23

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1632 – Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France. That, folks, would be some of my ancestors. Don’t call me ‘French’. I’m Cajun. My ancestors have been here longer than many of you other folks’ ancestors.

1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.

1921 – The Communist Party of China (CPC) launched the first time of founding National Congress, Communist party in China are established. From this humbel beginning they go on to kill millions of their own people over the course of the rest of the century.

1929 – The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words. We’re awfully close to banning certain words and phrases here.

1940 – The United States’ Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. That’s okay… During the course o WW II, Roosevelt and Truman will gladly deliver Eastern Europe lock, stock and barrel into Stalin’s hands.

1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.

1967 – 12th Street Riot: in Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It will leave 43 killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned. That was just a riot. A few decades of dimmocrat government has the place looking like the aftermath of a nuke today. And it’s bankrupt.

1983 – Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba. A series of errors, including confusion over pounds to kilograms conversion, result in the near disaster.

1984 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine. Ah, yes… The famous ‘duck call’ issue.