tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post282287124662149060..comments2024-03-11T00:26:35.303-07:00Comments on The Many Banes of My Existence by Alexis: A Baby Named ChlamydiaAlexisARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09797016673203467911noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-54601919591907055232014-12-27T00:30:10.450-08:002014-12-27T00:30:10.450-08:00I learned about the dreaded verruca in my undergra...I learned about the dreaded verruca in my undergrad medical terminology class. I assume the name "Veruca Salt" was in reference to the condition. <br /><br />i, too, am at least a bit skeptical of all the "orangeloos" "lemonjelessos" "females," and Obgyns" supposedly named in this nation, not to mention the "Chlamydias." AlexisARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09797016673203467911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-23698583552442681822014-12-26T17:32:21.176-08:002014-12-26T17:32:21.176-08:00The existence of people name Chlamydia may or may ...The existence of people name Chlamydia may or may not be a myth. The incidence, though, of babies being called Veruca is certain following the film treatment of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Don't do it. Veruca salt was a particularly unpleasant little girl so Dahl, the author, gave her a particularly unpleasant name.<br />A verruca is a difficult to lose, infectious, but benign tumour affecting the soles of the feet. They are otherwise called plantar warts. Very nasty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-70255354752303925102013-02-28T22:41:25.562-08:002013-02-28T22:41:25.562-08:00'm not yet at an age where office employees as...'m not yet at an age where office employees assume they should call me anything but my first name, but I get what you're saying.It's presumptuous of office assistants or even doctors themselves to call a patient by a first name without knowing that it is acceptable to the patient. And, like you, I wouldn't be bothered by being called by my first name as by the idea that someone thought they should call me that without first asking if it was OK.<br />AlexisARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09797016673203467911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-4436391023425670222013-02-28T02:49:28.047-08:002013-02-28T02:49:28.047-08:00Sounds like a Scottish wrestler.
Yolanda Squatpum...Sounds like a Scottish wrestler.<br /><br />Yolanda Squatpump really needs a stage name. There's half a dozen Yolanda Squatpumps on Facebook. One has a friend called Robin Crackinbanger. I've sent a friend request.Paul Kirbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18232115388471059914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-42451940432019600002013-02-27T16:46:34.636-08:002013-02-27T16:46:34.636-08:00My favorite was Dixmacker X McIroncockMy favorite was Dixmacker X McIroncockAlexisARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09797016673203467911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-49255688485414899812013-02-27T10:57:16.386-08:002013-02-27T10:57:16.386-08:00Feast your eyes on these:
http://www.smosh.com/PC...Feast your eyes on these:<br /><br />http://www.smosh.com/PC/smosh-pit/photos/28-crazy-awesome-real-namesPaul Kirbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18232115388471059914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-70330912452131749982013-02-27T05:17:02.814-08:002013-02-27T05:17:02.814-08:00Believe me, the song "Jenny" was a big p...Believe me, the song "Jenny" was a big part of my youth. It was popular when I was about ten years old. <br /><br />Oddly enough, one of my sisters is named Rebecca. She goes by Becky. We're pretty big on nicknames in my family. I think Becky was named after my great grandmother. I don't know why my mom named me Jennifer. I hate it when people call me that because the name doesn't suit me. It's way too formal and it makes me cringe. On the other hand, I hate it when I go to a doctor's office or a dentist and they call me by my first name, because they invariably get it wrong and call me Jennifer, which sends a chill down my spine. I also think it's presumptuous. I don't actually mind being called by my first name, but I don't like it when people assume that I don't mind.<br /><br />Hmmm... might have to rant about that today. knottyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10127277724751832329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-66872248213543690782013-02-26T23:42:37.394-08:002013-02-26T23:42:37.394-08:00My mom said the names Jennifer and Christopher bot...My mom said the names Jennifer and Christopher both rose dramatically in popularity after (could have been cause/effect or could have been simply timing and that the advertisers picked names they knew were on the rise) one of the original disposable diaper company's (the kind that didn't work worth shit, supposedly, and you would have done just as well wrapping your baby's bottom with a double thickness of paper towels as using those bogus disposable diapers) commercials were made and televised with a sweet song sung to the same tune despite which gendered baby was being featured. My mom said the girl version was "Jenny Rebecca" and the boy version was "Christopher Michael." It was something like, "Jenny Rebecca, one year old. How do you like your world so far? You'll have toys to be climbing on; swings to be swung on." <br /><br />My mom thinks the song originally came from the movie, "The Young Americans," which was a cheesy docudrama about the grinning American young singers. In a park the girls in the group came across a baby girl. One of the girls said, "She looks just like 'Jenny Rebecca,' " and they all began singing the song to her as though everyone in the world should have known who Jenny Rebecca was. Then the commercial came.<br /><br />My mom thinks the "Christopher Michael" version [he was either two days old or four days old] was made so that the parents of boys wouldn't go sexist on the manufacturer of the crappy non-diapers and refuse to buy them because they were "girls' diapers." <br /><br />My mom, as the youngest of seven, was an aunt at an early age. She remembers her nieces and nephews using those (she can't recall the brand name) and leaking through them onto every outfit they wore over them. She said they were pointless. She also said there was another brand of disposable diapers about the same time called "Flush-a-Byes." Flush-a-Byes also had a sweet song: "What a bright time for a baby! What a bright time for a ba-a-by! Wi-ith soft, new Flush-a-Byes, what a time to be born!" As the name would imply, Flush-a-Byes not only were disposable, they could be flushed down a toilet! It was absolutely true that they could be flushed as long as the owner of whatever toilet they were flushed down did not have any objection to making his or her plumber extremely wealthy. They, too, were about as effect in terms of absorbing a baby's body fluids and solids as a couple of layers of tissue paper might have been.<br /><br />My mom said she's enjoying this trip down memory lane. She'd forgotten all about those disposable diapers that didn't work. By the time my brother and I were born, disposable diapers were state-of-the-art. We may be putting them into landfills at the rate that future generations are going to be walking on them as though they're sidewalks and using them in place of lawns and to line their swimming pools and tile their roofs, or maybe shipping them to Antarctica and letting the penguins deal with them or to outer space since there's nowhere else to dispose of them, but they at least do the job they were intended to do.<br /><br />The name "Jenny" always makes me think of that song with the telephone number 867-5309. My dad said two Tommy Tutone band members wrote the song, Jim (or James) Keller and Alex Call. Depending upon what band member one chose to believe, Tommy Heath, Keller, and Call had different stories about the song's origin. Keller and Call may have been more afraid of being sued than Heath was, since they wrote the song) there really was a Jenny and that was her actual number, or it was totally made-up out of thin air. Many people had to change their phone numbers because of the song. <br /><br />The name "Jenny" always makes me think of that song.AlexisARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09797016673203467911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-40720294595197852432013-02-26T17:11:46.705-08:002013-02-26T17:11:46.705-08:00My name is Jenny... officially Jennifer. So you ...My name is Jenny... officially Jennifer. So you guessed right. ;-)knottyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10127277724751832329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-77291575067179965992013-02-26T16:35:47.649-08:002013-02-26T16:35:47.649-08:00I wonder if celebrities either know or care how mu...I wonder if celebrities either know or care how much they're screwing over both their own children and our society as a whole by giving their children such dumb-ass non-names. i also fault anyone stupid enough to copy them. Zuma Nesta Rossdlae? What controled sustance influenced that choice? A few- s\Sandra Bullock, Reece Witherspoon, the Afflecks --although the way the Affleck kids look when they're taken out in public would effect a CPS referral for neglect around here -- managed to choose names that weren't created by space aliens<br />I haven't googled anything, but I'm guessing Knotty's name would ether begin with J and end with r, or begin with L and with a. Let me kow if i was close.end AlexisARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09797016673203467911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-10970148032017898512013-02-26T11:31:37.461-08:002013-02-26T11:31:37.461-08:00I think you're thinking of Iceland. It was re...I think you're thinking of Iceland. It was recently in the news for denying a young woman the right to use her name because it was considered masculine (Iceland was also in the news for wanting to ban all porn). The young woman finally got approval, though, and can now be known by something other than the Icelandic word for girl. <br /><br />Iceland isn't the only country that dictates names. Germany and Denmark also limit parents in what they can name their kids. http://news.yahoo.com/icelandic-girl-wins-her-given-name-112518070.html;_ylt=A2KJ3CbQDC1Rd2YAZ._QtDMD<br /> <br />I was given probably the most popular girl's name of 1972... I've always hated it.<br /><br />I have heard the Chlamydia as a girl's name story before. It could be an urban legend.knottyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10127277724751832329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-24147874657800863982013-02-26T06:00:38.369-08:002013-02-26T06:00:38.369-08:00Chlamydia and her big sister Gona Rea. Celebrities...Chlamydia and her big sister Gona Rea. Celebrities are a case in point. As if their kids haven't got enough to deal with. Zowie Bowie changed his name to David Jones and who can blame him. Dweezil and Moon Unit (Frank Zappa). Fifi Trixie Belle, Pixie, Peaches and Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily (Bob Geldof). Harper Seven (Beckhams) It reminds me of that character from Star Trek 'Seven of Nine'. And the brother's name is Brookyln. Could start a trend. "Hello, I'm Haarlem O'Toole." Manhattan McMurphy.<br />That post says 3am. Do you ever sleep?Paul Kirbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18232115388471059914noreply@blogger.com