On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 12:48:29PM -0500, Forstater, Mathew wrote:
> Frank Zappa's daughter is named Moon Unit, but that was as much a
> satirical stab at "sixties overindulgence" as it was overindulgence
> itself. She goes by Moon, which doesn't sound nearly as weird. I think
> one of the Carradine's named their kid Free or something like that (or
> was that Cher?)? I'm probably mixing (or making) a lot of this up, but
> wasn't it the same kid who was breast fed on Johnny Carson at age 7 or
> so during an interview? I'm definitely getting old. I asked for
> "Spring Water" at a food stand and the person taking my order looked
> puzzled and looked at her co-worker, who explained "that's what they
> used to call bottled water when it first came out, before your time"; I
> asked if my son could get his scoop of ice cream without the jimmies and
> the waitress looked at me like i was from Mars as my older son screamed
> "what the hell are jimmies?! nobodies used that word for twenty years!"
> tell me it's a regional thing, please..
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Doss [mailto:chrisd at russiajournal.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 12:31 PM
> To: 'lbo-talk at lists.panix.com'
> Subject: RE: Funky names
>
>
> A friend of mine in high school was named Trout Fishing In America
> Rogers.
>
> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:46:16 -0400
> From: Archer.Todd at ic.gc.ca
> Subject: Michsel Pugliese's Fw: Fw:Re: Mommy, what's an intellectual?
>
> >Just the other
> > night, she was telling me about someone she knows
> > whose parents named her the chinese equivalent of
> > Love The Peoples Army! She wasn't joking! I mean you
> > have to be on the level of fanaticism of well...
>
> At least that was "legitimate". How about the fanaticism brought on by
> certain capitalistic bodies which encourages parents with the last name
> of
> "White" to name daughters "Snow", or those poor unfortunates whose
> parents,
> ahem, "overindulged" in the Sixties and ended up naming the poor kid
> something like "Moon Glow" (although this last might be the equivalent
> of an
> urban legend; nobody is THAT nuts, right?).
-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929
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