AP writes:
Tacking Jr. or II onto a boy’s name is too common, a new father decided, so the self-described engineering geek took a software approach to naming his newborn son.
Jon Blake Cusack talked his wife, Jamie, into naming their son
Jon Blake Cusack 2.0.
Most bad baby names are just embarrassing, but this one’s philosophically bad. Let’s get this one straight, parents: babies are not products; people are not things. OK?
How lame. Although you’d die if you heard the names of the kids I teach.
He should give the child a real name, like Hrothgar.
Go ahead, Jayson; bad baby names are one of my pet topics. :-)
Juli Loesch wrote once that she met a girl named Dinette: “What’s her brother’s name: Armoire?”
Dear RC,
Not only are children not a product, they aren’t simply miniature versions of there father/mother either. This is hideous philosophically and humanly. It is neither amusing nor is it likely to lead to any sense of self-worth. Bad all round.
shalom,
Steven
but i have heard of someone named BDP who was named so because she was born on her dad’s birthday. BDP = BirthDay Present!!