Brangelina clearly hate their new son

[nadine_mn]

for those that don't gag at the mention of Brangelina and are reading this:

Really??? Named your son Knox? as in rhymes with cocks? You don't think anyone will call him CocksPitt?

My mom taught me one very important thing - never ever name your kid something that can be a horrible playground taunt - talking to you Tucker MotherFucker's Carlson's mom, and my friend who name her son Carter (Farter).

Other banned names
Mitch
Dick
and of course Mike if your last name is Hunt


All that money Brad and Angelina.... put some aside for the therapy

[Heddi]

1. well their daughter

was named Shiloh Pitt. Um, switch the letters of the first and last names and you get Philoh Sitt (Pile o' shit)

[Radio_Lady]

19. ROFL!!! You have to admit that Pitt is a tough one. Brad Pitt is short and sweet.

Kudoes to his mother and father. Did they have other children? See some of my other suggestions downthread!

How about MAD DOGS SPITT? (Maddox Pitt.)

Putting the X (with an S sound) right next to the P -- and you're in for trouble.

[Heddi]

32. I think that they name their children

after smoking a very large bong filled with Millionaire-level reefer.

"dooood....like, Shiloh, would, like, be the BEST. NAME. EVAR!"
"Yah. Too bad, like, Phineas and Hazel have, like, already been taken. Stop bogartin' the bong, Braddddddddd"

[Shell Beau]

2. Who cares? Celebrities name their kids weird names

all of the time. At least it is more normal than some others.

[Radio_Lady]

3. I had the same thought aboutg KNOX LEON PITT... here's a better one: WILLIAM RIVERS PITT.

That's majestic! Oh, it's also taken. :loveya:

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WilliamPitt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rivers_Pitt

OMG, WilliamPitt was born on my mother's birthday -- November 9th. I wonder if that is why I've been drawn to him and his writings?

[Maine-ah]

89. nov 9th is my daughter's bday

:hi:

[Radio_Lady]

92. Mother and Dad are gone now, but they were both Scorpios -- Dad on November 11, 1911...

Mother on November 9, 1919.

My daughter's in-laws are BOTH born on November 3rd (different years). They will celebrate their 60th Wedding Anniversary in August 2008.

On one of the birthday sites, it explains that thousands of people share birthday with both well known and unknown (!) people worldwide.

"So, sweetheart, what's your sign?" said the lecherous old guy at the bar.

Hubby is Moon Children (Cancer) and I'm a Gemini. I don't believe in astrology, but it's sure fun! More fun than a barrel of monkeys on a thread we did back in the winter!

Here's the link if you have time:

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Radio_Lady/228

Smokin' Gemini:

[Enrique]

they'll call him Knoxious

or ObKnoxious

[Radio_Lady]

7. If he inherits his parents' money? They'll call him Fort Knox.

Heck, I'm just a little bit jealous.

They are selling the twins' photos for HOW MANY MILLIONS? You can see my nephew's baby for free at Photobucket.

(SIGH) Just another jealous performer who didn't to the big-time.

I could have been a STAR! That's why my mother named me ELLEN STAR. That's the truth!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. i know a woman named knox. far as i know she didnt need therapy

for bullying.

[Radio_Lady]

8. They have six kids and they look like a great couple. I have no problem with strange names.

Just like to say them out loud for possible rhyming and sounded out problems. How about this one? Kids may call him K-PITT. Sounds like "keep it"!

Thanks for your post.

It's personal choice.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. I think it is a personal choice.

I like the name Knox and most names can be turned into taunts. There is a part of me that wishes I had named our son after MrG, but I didn't, because he was worried about the exact thing you said. In the end? Who cares?

[Radio_Lady]

9. The good news is Angelina's estrangement with her father Jon Voight appears to have been resolved.

She was estranged from him for years because of the way he treated her now deceased mother.

I'm going through almost the same thing. My husband's two daughters have been estranged from us for ten years or more.

The younger one family blew through town last week for her 45th birthday. She wanted to see her stepsister (my almost 40 year old daughter, whom she helped to raise) and her biological father, who married me when she was nine years old. Her mother had died from stomach cancer in October 1971, when she was 34.

I was not included in either visit last week, and I tried to respect her wishes. Stepmothers are tarred and feathered everywhere in history; all I did was try to bring the family of five children together so it might be able to heal. There was lots of organization to raise this brood, but when you're competing with an angel in heaven, you gotta beware.

Clearly, this woman has some deeply ingrained issues with me, but since she doesn't want me around and living thousands of miles away, it's pretty hopeless. Earlier, we did some counseling with another older sister, who had problems with my husband that pre-date my marrying him.

I can live with it. I've spent half a lifetime raising five kids, and did the best I could at the time. Just forgive me and move on with your own life.

The books "Motherless Daughters" by Hope Edelman and "Family Estrangements" by Barbara LeBey have helped me a great deal. I also did some counseling when I had to face the fact that I had inadvertently become the enemy. We were systematically denied grandparent visitation of five grandchildren -- who are now strangers to us, and that did stick in my craw. On the other hand, we have five of them on whom we have doted on. That included including my stepson's child, now age 19, whom I held the day he was born -- and the four biological grandchildren of my daughter and son. They're kind of spoiled -- we take them to Las Vegas and Hawaii.

And, as I enter my 70th year, it's not that important to me that these two women have dealt us out of their lives. It's all in the past.

Cordially,

Radio Lady in Oregon

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. Might I also suggest "Warming the Stone Child"...

Along the same bent and a very interesting read especially if you have read "Women Who Run With the Wolves".

[Radio_Lady]

13. Wow. What great titles! I'll have to look those up.

My own father's mother died during a botched abortion of a fifth child. Dad was five years old at the time, and there were also a brother, age 11, and two sisters, 12 and 4.

His mother's younger sister became his father's wife when she was 21 (this is in the Jewish tradition)to keep it in the famil. It did not work out very well for the two boys. My father had memories of beatings because he slept in a bed with older brother, who urinated on the mattress. Also, something really funny -- at least it's funny to me.

His stepmother made him eat peas with a knife! Now, THAT is a PUNISHMENT!

I only met my Grandma Ruth a couple of times, but the three cousins who lived near her in Pittsburgh say she was a very loving woman.

RIP Eva to my biological grandma, whom I was named after... and Grandma Ruth, who did the best she could. I didn't figure this out until she was dead, but imagine this: She was only nine years older than her oldest stepdaughter, 12, when she married my Grandpa Harry.

Cordially,

Radio Lady Ellen

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. ...

http://www.amazon.com/Warming-Stone-Child-Abandonment-Unmothered/dp/1564550818

This one helped me a lot.


and:

http://www.amazon.com/Women-Wolves-Clarissa-Pinkola-Estes/dp/0345409876/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216148523&sr=1-2

[Radio_Lady]

18. Thanks, Mrs. Grumpy...

and I have to tell you that your footnote signature touches me every time I see it.

"I miss you forever."

[Shell Beau]

11. I think a lot of the estrangement had to do with

things he said about Angelina to the media (about her sanity, etc.)

[Radio_Lady]

14. You are right. "On giving advice to your to grown children. They don't want it ...

They don't hear it.
They resent it.
Don't Give It."



"Walking on Eggshells -- Navigating the Delicate Relationship Between Adult Children and Parents" -- Jane Isay's wonderful 2007 book -- sits here in my library. I interviewed her on my radio show.

www.walkingoneggshellsbook.com

www.janeisay.com

We have a slightly altered view when talking to family: "You can do what you want, but here's what I think..." That works for us, but not all the time.

[Shell Beau]

21. She had just adopted her first child and he was saying she

wasn't mentally stable. I am not sure of any advice he was giving her as much as he was making her look bad publicly. Not real fatherly.

[Radio_Lady]

23. Fathers and mothers are people. Two sides to this story according to Jon Voight.

This is a sensitive topic with us.

I spoke out against publicly as a member of Grandparents United for Children's Rights against a stepdaughter (now in her late 40s) who treated her father and me so harshly that we were only allowed "supervised" visitation with three of our grandchildren. It was as if we were predators. You may think that we are beasts -- but it was not our fault. We did all we could to see them, gift them, and repair the damage.

But today, those three grandchildren wouldn't know us if they passed us in the street. The oldest was born in October 1985. The parents had married in June 1985 -- in a garden wedding I planned at our home. We would have supported her either way -- marrying the fellow or having an abortion. They chose to marry. After that, we helped the couple purchase a home. That suddenly turned sour because my husband lost his job and had to back out of the agreement. We only asked for our money back -- no interest. Three children were born to that family. If they passed us on the street today, we wouldn't know them.

The other two grandchildren of my youngest stepdaughter (age 45 last week), are now in elementary school. They met their grandfather for the first (and third) time last week. We saw the older boy twice, very briefly, as an infant. We got a birth announcement months afterwards, and I sent the obligatory layette (never thanked for that). Two children are now in grade school. I am the wife of their biological grandfather for almost 36 years. I was not invited to last week's birthday party, and told to avoid my husband's meeting with his daughter for the first time in a decade

Jon Voight made amends and they are moving forward. He has stated that he is happy that his situation with his daughter has improved. The kids have a good relationship with Brad's parents. I wish them all the best in their new parenthood.

[Shell Beau]

25. I am glad they were able to mend fences.

I disagree about making public statements about someone's "alleged" sanity. That should be a private matter. Most celebs can't trust most of the people around them. They should be able to trust their own father.

[Midlodemocrat]

28. Yup. You are 100% correct, Shell.

[Radio_Lady]

29. I'm glad too. The publicity magnifies anything personal between adults and children.

The interest is voracious and doing this in the case of a beautiful, rich, married daughter who is beloved by the public -- just makes it that much more difficult.

I'm sure if you asked Jon Voight today, he would say he regrets those comments and has tried to make amends. Angelina's mother raised her and the divorce made everything difficult. Then, her mother died young from cancer in her 50s. That was truly tragic.

This was the perfect storm. Tell me about it. I've walked a similar path, but no spotlight on it, and nobody's that rich, thank goodness.

Thanks for your comments.

RL in OR

[Shell Beau]

35. I am confused as to why you are glad he used the

media/tabloids to address his concerns about his daughter.

[Radio_Lady]

41. What are you driving at? I had to end the editing because of someone who rang my doorbell.

Are you reading something into my reply? I certainly did not intend to leave the impression that it was OK to say those things to tabloids.

Once again, I am glad that Jon Voight made has resumed a relationship with his daughter. Good afternoon, Shell Beau.

RL in OR

[Shell Beau]

42. I must have been confused by your post.

[Radio_Lady]

44. No worries. I'm writing two film reviews and very busy today. Forget about it...

RL in OR

[Fran Kubelik]

87. You should write a book

Seriously. The tidbits you drop here and there are fascinating. I'd buy your book.

[Radio_Lady]

93. So many people have suggested it. However, I don't have the time or the inclination to write...

except stuff I type up in a hurry. Lots of my writings are showing up here in the DU if you Google simply Radio_Lady -- don't forget the underscore. If I were Barbara Walters, maybe -- but I turned off that celebrity road years ago.

I still do outrageous things like singing in the shower, dancing naked and alone in the dark in my bedroom to Chinese or Tao music. Our views of the trees, hills and sky is particularly beautiful in this house. I've been told it has good feng shui -- faces due east and west.

I really don't talk about my personal life except here -- because all the members of my immediate family are pretty conservative, maybe not in politics, but personal issues. To my son and daughter and their families, well -- I'm a born performer and will start something weird, maybe in the next minute! Who knows? As for my family, I am way too "out there" in their minds already.

Lots of people write or record their family memoirs for their children or grandchildren. I decided for my daughter's 40th birthday on October 10 -- I will interview her on mike in my home studio, and do it in an mp3 format, dubbed to compage disk so she can hear my voice when I'm gone. As far as other written ventures... my husband knows all my stories after 36 years. He writes children's stories which he reads to our grandkids.

I was featured in a book once. It was called "Regrets Only" and the writer is based here in Portland. I did an audio show with him and sent him my writings. He published it and gave me a copy. I don't know what happened to him -- that was several years ago. The website is gone. My piece was bittersweet, but I'll be happy to PM it to you if you wish.

Also, I was the founder and first president of a national organization for non-custodial mothers not living with their children under 18. I was the first national director of the group, and a doctor wrote a book about us -- "Mother Without Custody". It's now out of print.

Thanks Fran. I am glad you like my recollections. Although they don't make it to the DUzy Awards like NanceGreggs, it's fun to hear from people who say to me -- "YOU ought to write a book!"

Warm regards,

Radio Lady Ellen Kimball in Oregon

[madeline_con]

55. I had no clue they were related.

you learn something every day.

[Radio_Lady]

60. Absolutely right. If you see a photo of him in his younger days, there is a definite resemblance.

Now, I'll learn something today -- but it will have to be later.

We're going to see "Mamma Mia" tonight!

Cordially,

Radio Lady in OR

[grace0418]

6. You're assuming their children will ever be on a playground with regular kids with

regular names. I think it's far more likely that they'll be in strictly monitored playgroups with other celebrity kids who have even weirder names.

Anyway, kids can make horrible playground taunts out of any name. Any name that starts will Mel (-anie, -ody, -vin) or El (-iott) immediately become "Smellody" or "Smelliot", Grace becomes "Grease", etc.

[Radio_Lady]

17. Hey, I understand completely. Here's what I encountered as a child:

"Here lies Ellen. She's been dead a week, and now she's smellin'."

I wore glasses for crossed eyes. "Ellen four-eyes -- yah yah yah, yah, yah, yah. (NOT ABLE TO SING THE TUNE HERE.) :rofl:

Ellen Kimball became Ellen GUMBALLS.

And I was beaten up a couple of times by other kids for being JEWISH.

Yes, childhood is a wonderful thing -- if you survive it, Knox Leon Pitt. We have to admit that Pitt brings on quite a bunch of difficulty. The mother's real name is Angelina Pitt. There is Maddox Pitt, Shiloh Pitt, and I forget a couple.

Then there's the possibility of:

Peach Pitt
Apple Pitt
and my favorite:
Prune Pitt

How about Stomach Pitt? It boggles the mind.

[crim son]

12. I have no problem with unusual names.

The fact that Knox rhymes with "cocks" may be something only you ever notice. I have a "Juergen" who is fifteen and he loves his unusual name, even though he was constantly called Jergen (as in the lotion) as a youngster. If you name your kid BranMuffin then perhaps you're being irresponsible but not having the same name as everybody else in your class, I think that may build character. You know, or destroy it. :P

[Radio_Lady]

22. UPDATE: What happened to Moon Unit Zappa and the other kid? Dweezil (sp???)

RIP Frank Zappa.

We worried mightily about those two kids when I was on the radio, as I recall.

I loved to do funny names shows -- you always end up laughing!

In Judaism, it is not acceptable to name your kids after somebody living, especially yourself. There are no "Juniors" or "Treys" in our heritage.

In our stepfamily, my stepson Michael (different middle name) called his kid Michael (different middle names -- and TWO of them). They are both alive, and it's hard to distinguish them other than Big Mikey and Little Mikey, or including the initials of the middle names.

Too confusing for me.

[cemaphonic]

59. He had 2 other kids, you know.

Ahmet (named after a bigwig in the recording industry that Frank was buddies with) and Diva.

Moon and Dweezil make occasional forays into the entertainment biz. Dweezil's a guitarist, and often tours and records with groups that have his dad's old bandmates in them.

Apparently, the nurse at Dweezil's birth wouldn't allow "Dweezil," so they gave him a bunch of random first names, and then had it legally changed (at Dweezil's insistence) a few years later.

[Radio_Lady]

63. Oh, I thought he'd choose something unique... like Joe and Moe!

Thanks for your post.

RL

[Shell Beau]

27. My name is Shelley and it rhymes with smelly belly jelly, etc.

Kids will find any way to rhyme any name with anything!

[Heddi]

34. My name's Heather and it rhymes with

leather
weather
whether
feather

When I was in 11th grade we had to write a limmerick about our names. This was mine

There once was a young girl named Heather
She really liked whips, chains, and leather
Her jokes were real stinky
but some called her kinky
because she used the whole chicken, not just the feather.

I got an A, and a concerned letter sent to my mother. I'm like "Ma, what the hell else am I supposed to do with the THREE words that rhyme with my name!??"

Lucky I wasn't named after my mammy--her name is barbara. What the hell rhymes with that?

[Shell Beau]

37. Haha!! Funny the teacher gave you an A though!!

That is a good one!

[Radio_Lady]

40. LOL! I like the limerick -- although the final line is just a beat off the proper stresses!!

I'd love to help you improve, but if the teacher accepted it -- and you explained it away for your Mother!

What rhymes with Barbara? You got me...

The only two Barbaras I know are BARBRA (That is the correct spelling, thank you!) Streisand and Barbara Walters.

Obviously, because of a slight speech impediment, Barbara Walters was called BA-BA WA-WA for years. She held her head high and overcame all the nay-sayers. She's laughing all the way to the bank in her 70s, while producing and airing her program "The View" as well as specials.

[Heddi]

51. I have heard

that barbara walters never learned to drive.

When my mom was growing up she had several people misspell her name to be that of barbra streisand. When I was in 3rd grade and forged her signature on some nastygram sent by my teacher, *I* misspelled her name as Brabra. I learned quickly after that how to properly spell my mother's first name so that all future forgeries would go unnoticed....and they did. To this day I can perfectly copy my mother's signature! SHE NEVER KNEW I FAILED MATH HA HA HA HA HA HA. I'm 32 and she never knew I failed math class! :)

[Radio_Lady]

64. I really don't know if Barbara Walters can drive. I worked around the corner from her at NBC.

She was working for the "Today" show unit; I worked on the "Tonight" show. We were both at 30 Rockefeller Center, NYC during the 1960s.

[Heddi]

65. Well I've never worked in TV

but I was an audience guest at both the Maury Povitch show and Montell Williams show when Mr. Heddi and I took a trip to NYC in 1998. We were very prominently featured audience members in both shows! Maury is quite handsome in person. Very tall too.

[Radio_Lady]

71. He was a promising interviewer, but his show has descended into people proving paternity...

Mostly tabloid stuff. I find it degrading -- Jerry Springer style.

It's also too bad that his wife, Connie Chung, did not do better with her TV career. I have no idea what she is doing now.

Thanks for your comments!

Cordially,

Radio Lady Ellen in Oregon

[Radio_Lady]

72. We found out that my stepson, who will be 50 years old this year... skipped about half of his HS

classes. We were not notified either by telephone or mail of these absences. The school system was very liberal and decided that schooling was "between the teacher and the student," and that's what they did. They kept us in the dark!

Michael was a bright kid and graduated early. We suggested that he go in the Army at age 17 (we had to sign him in). It wasn't wartime, and he spent his two years at Ft. Devens in Massachusetts, just 1 1/2 hours drive from our home.

[crim son]

67. I know. I was always "Lisa Pizza Pudding & Pie."

My surname was turned into something much worse: "Shitbomb." I survived.

[Radio_Lady]

73. Kids can be cruel. My husband got beat up regularly because he was Jewish

with a Russian surname. He also lived on "the wrong side of the tracks."

[crim son]

86. It's true. I was skinny and shapeless

and was the subject of male derision through my young adolescent years. I was even pushed around one time by a bunch of guys, as they called me stuff like "carpenter's dream," "sunken chest," etc. Kids will find a way to hurt others if they want to, regardless of their name, IMHO.

[Radio_Lady]

94. Are you old enough to remember Charles Atlas' advertisements?

He would buff you up in a hurry.



I worked for WPIX in New York City in the 1960s when Jack LaLanne was popular. I wrote promotional announcements for his show. Still think of him when I see someone (ANYONE) doing jumping jacks!

I think Jack and his wife are still alive and doing infomercials for their Power Juicer!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_LaLanne

Thanks for your post.

Radio Lady in OR

[Midlodemocrat]

15. LOL. Well, a friend of mine wanted to name her son

Michael until she heard the neighbor kid yelling 'Let's get Shit Ass Michael' after they got off the school bus one day.

To each his own, I say.

[Radio_Lady]

33. Re: Michael, the name of BOTH my stepson and my stepgrandson.

was the most common male name for years.

Yelling Michael in a classroom in the 1950s - 1970s, and six kids would turn their heads!

Shit Ass? Add most any name after that and it's ugly!!!

My son was David. He was probably one out of four Davids in his homeroom. I don't know anything that rhymed with David, but he had fluffy hair during a time when the long-haired look was popular. When he grew his hair long, it all pointed out in different directions and he looked like a mushroom. Simon Cowell has the same texture hair. You can see it shooting out on top, but he keeps it short and controlled.

David wore glasses, too. I don't think he ever complained about kids calling him anything.

[Radio_Lady]

20. Mike Hunt! I just spit all over my keyboard! We can do this all day if you want.

:rofl:

I'll get out my Scrabble board and some wine, and let's rock!

[DS1]

24. yeah, but he can just point to her tits and say "Scoreboard!"

[Shell Beau]

26. Sicko!!!!

:P

[Radio_Lady]

46. I can't see it, but curious as hell. Good one???

[BlueIris]

30. I wish they'd gone with "Lennox" or "Felix."

As all the boys' last names must evidently end with an 'x.'

[Shell Beau]

38. Maybe they are saving those. I am sure they aren't done!

[Forkboy]

31. Then this guy's parents should have been imprisoned.

[Heddi]

36. That's a highly curable venereal disease

swift bout of strong antibiotics, and a salt-water rinsing twice a day and voila! :)

People don't believe me,....and my scanner is packed away so I can't scan in the year book photos, but I did, in fact, go to school with Mike Hunt. And Cristo Ball. And a girl whose last name was Dildine. Instert your own joke here.

[Forkboy]

39. Cristo Ball.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Radio_Lady]

43. Her twin daughter's name is -- WHAT? It was French and I just saw it for just a second last night.

[Shell Beau]

45. I think it is Vivienne Marcheline.

Marcheline was her mom's name.

[Radio_Lady]

47. Six syllables. Just a little long for me. My husband's deceased first wife was Lee.

Her two daughters named at least two of their children using her name: Lee Rachel (for mother and grandmother) and Rosalee (nice usage).

Funny. My daughter Linda Michelle had a paternal grandmother named Rosa and her best friend, who died from cancer in her 20s, was Ann. During the pregnancy, I suggested the name Roseanne, but she didn't like Roseanne Barr Arnold (who was on TV at the time). She didn't like the diminutive Rosie. So, she named her daughter Gabrielle, without realizing and not intending to glorify either me or herself.

However, Gabrielle has four letters that overlap my name Ellen. Furthermore, my mother was ESTELLE. Kind of interesting.

The stepdaughter who had no contact with us -- named her daughter Rosalee, and calls her -- guess what? Rosie!!!

[Genevieve]

50. There are seven syllables in my first and last name.

and it's a beautiful name.

[Radio_Lady]

75. I'm sure it is. In our stepfamily, we all have two syllable first names.

Six of them have five letters. It wasn't planned because we combined our families in 1973.

Ellen
Allen
Michael (My stepson's name doesn't fit the pattern.)
Karen
Cindy (that is her full legal name)
Linda
David

Mother's Day in the early 1970s. I took the picture of six of the seven of us.


Also, the seven of us were all born in different months of the year. The months represented are May, June, July, August, September, October & December. How weird is that?

The kids used to complain sometimes...

Mom Ellen's May birthday came after Mother's Day.

Dad Allen's June birthday came after Father's Day.

It would be nice if everyone blended together. We did our best with managing the family we had, and genuinely wish we had done better. (We're doing very well with five of our ten grandchildren. The other five are not close to us. Sadly, there are still deep schisms despite our best efforts. The stepfamily territory is splashed with potholes and behaviors that we still cannot understand or resolve. About half of these re-marriages dissolve due to pressures from the divorce or death that preceded them. We've made it through 36 years -- still truckin'!

Author, lawyer, and former judge Barbara LeBey has written extensively about these situations in her books "ReMarried with Children" and "Family Estrangements." Please go to www.barbaralebey.com and visit her site. She has been a guest on my radio program and we planned to meet, but that winter day, there was an unexpected ice storm in Atlanta, and our flights were rerouted through Cincinnati.

Cordially,

Radio Lady in Oregon

[Heddi]

52. how do ya fit THAT on the SAT application?

They only give you, like, 5 spaces each for first, middle, and last name. HORRORS!

[nadine_mn]

48. Wow - I had no idea ppl would get pissy about my OP

I mean no offense to people who have been teased, yes parents can name their kids whatever they want... sheesh it was a one of those posts meant to lighten the mood - there has been so much attention on them and how much the pics are worth when there are more important things going on.

[Shell Beau]

49. Whatever. You aren't very accepting of people's choices.

They are her kids. She can name them whatever she wants.






























:P I am only kidding!!!!! ;)

[nadine_mn]

53. sheesh... almost made me cry

:cry:

:hug:

[Radio_Lady]

76. Shell Beau, perhaps you might reconsider your critical statements.

People have feelings about these things.

I took most of these posts as a light topic. I even spit with laughter at the suggestion that someone named their kid Michael Hunt and then gave him the call name of Mike. Get it? Got it? Good.

Nadine_mn, this is a fun topic on radio and always brought a good audience.

Thanks for posting.

Cordially,

Radio Lady in Oregon

[Radio_Lady]

77. Lightening up! Funny authors' names and their book titles:

"The Yellow Stream" by I.P. Freely
"The Russian Lover" by I. Ripertitsoff

I'm waiting for the guffaws..............

[Shell Beau]

84. Oh my gosh! It was a joke!

I thought I made it clear. I could never be so mean.

[Midlodemocrat]

88. Ignore that.

Seriously, your life will be much better for it.

[Shell Beau]

85. Glad you noticed it was a sarcastic joke!!

;)

[Heddi]

56. I think it's a great post!

And it certainly hasn't (yet) turned into a flame-fest (yet). But you know how the lounge is......give it time, my dearest...give it time. :)

I think this is a fun post if for no other reason than you get to read people's real names and their personal antecdotes about their names.

Have you ever seen the list of baby names at Baby's Named A Bad, Bad Thing? http://notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/index.html

THAT is hilarious! I'm all for personal choice in naming your children, but Tierrainney Mackanzie or Tayler Emmaleigh ?? I think you should have to have to pass a state test before you're allowed to use more than one Y or "eigh" ending in your child's name. Maydssyn Taylergh Rylygh? WHERE ARE THE VOWELS? THEY DO NOT COST MONEY!!!!!

[Radio_Lady]

78. I agree! Perfect for a summer day. Thanks, Heddi and Nadine...

:rofl:

[madeline_con]

54. They'll probably send them to school in a mud hut in Africa.

No worries.

[Heddi]

57. MY MOM SENT ME TO SCHOOL IN AFRICA

AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS CRUMMY SHIRT AND A TERRIBLE, YET CURABLE CASE OF DYSENTERRY!

[Radio_Lady]

81. LOL.

[Mobius]

58. Their kids will be too gorgeous

to be picked on. Seriously, these kids have more ass kissing coming their way than any royal family in the world, and you know what? Good for them because Angelina is awesome and so is Brad. They are wonderful people that do many charitable works. Why should they give up every cent when they have six kids, do impress people like you that are jealous of them, because you feel like you got a raw deal?

[Critters2]

61. He was kinda crappy to Jennifer Aniston, though.

Yeah, these things happen. I get that. But it just makes it hard for me to call him "wonderful".

[Radio_Lady]

79. People change and grow as they age. I've had three husbands and

tried to raise a dead mother's three children along with my own two. Lots of people are crappy to their spouses. One husband left me. The second one decided he didn't love me after nine years, and ended up marrying a woman with a beautiful home who also had two kids. She was divorced from a rich man.

I had a long relationship with a man who was totally unavailable, and a short one with a sweet younger man who wanted to be with me and the kids, but who was not my religion and who didn't want to move to Boston because it was too cold. Then, there was Larry King, whom I dated in the 1950s and again in 1971. I was just someone who drifted into his life and got a big break as a result.

These stars work with someone else and fall in love with that person. In Brad's case, it was the movie "Mr. and Mrs. Smith." I feel sorry for Jennifer, but then she went on to Vince Vaughn and who else? I hope she finds the right person(s) at some time.

It's just the fact that entertainment news loves to look up their rumps all the time and gets to talk about it. Hey, people love gossip and it sells.

Good night and good luck.

Radio Lady in Oregon

[Mobius]

83. No way she is shallow and irritating

he made a good choice and you know they were going downhill before Angelina came into it

[Radio_Lady]

96. "The Music Man" has a song called "Good night, ladies.." with a counterpoint of women singing --

along with a barbershop quartet.

"Pick a little, talk a little... pick a little, talk a little -- cheep, cheep, cheep, talk a lot, pick a little more."

It's a parody on the idle chatter goes on in that small Iowa town. Maybe a bit like here in the DU Lounge on one subject or another.

I don't know Jennifer Aniston personally. Do you? How have you come to the conclusion that she is "shallow and irritating"?

I like her acting in many films and TV shows. That's all she's asking us to judge as near as I can tell.

IMHO, one of her best films was "The Good Girl" (2002)in which she played a discount store clerk who gets involved with a younger man.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0279113/

Mobius, I'm moving on. Have a great Thursday!

Cheers!

RL in OR

[Critters2]

62. Maybe they're Presbyterian.

It could happen.

[Genevieve]

66. Bitter bitter post.

nm.

[nadine_mn]

68. are you serious.... I am laughing my ass off

[Genevieve]

69. You fooled me.

"Brangelina clearly hate their new son"

"for those that don't gag at the mention of Brangelina"

"All that money Brad and Angelina.... put some aside for the therapy"

[nadine_mn]

70. wow get over it

Yes I said hate in a joking matter because of the name knox...if it was anyone else... I would have said the same thing. When my friend named her son Carter I laughed and said nooooo you cant name him something that rhymes with farter.

Some people (myself included) feel that there is way too much publicity regarding anything celebrities do - and the whole joining of names "bennifer" or "brangelina" makes me gag

Put aside some for therapy... is a joke - seriously the whole post is more about names then your friend Brad and Angelina. I had another friend who named her son Divine - that is going to be a hard name to grow up with. Considering that every moment for the rest of Brad and Angelina's children's lives wil be under a microscope and photographed having a little laugh about playground taunts is nothing to get your panties in a wad over.

[bridgit]

74. My middle name is: Star, that rhymes with bar...hey wait a minute...

that reminds me, I need to put money on my tab

[Radio_Lady]

80. Bridgit, are you serious? Is that true? MY middle name is STAR.

Full legal maiden name is Ellen Star Kimball. Although the birth certificate says "STAR" -- I added a second R because I liked the double letters in all three names.

I was named after my grandmother Eva, and also Ellen Terry, a famous actress.

Second name was for Brenda Starr, Reporter, a fictional comic book character.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Starr_(comic_strip)

My mother's name was Estelle, which means STAR in French.

[bridgit]

82. Mmm, yes, it is true; me? Descended from a coven of Scandinavian seers...

Not unlike the variety that conveyed to MacBeth the portend he discounted in the fullness of time, but hey...what can you do, it is what it is :)

[Radio_Lady]

91. Cool photo! I love Scottish kilts and bagpipes...and Scotland is so beautiful!

We've been there three times and I'd go again. Just that picture makes we want to... well...
(Ahem..) check upkilt. What DO Scotsmen wear under those kilts? On one trip, I spent my birthday May 31 dining and dancing with an older man, in his 80s, who shared the same birthday with me. Somehow, Al didn't seem to be jealous! :rofl:

Thanks for your comments.

Cordially,

Radio Lady in Oregon

[bridgit]

95. then it's all good RL...cheers...

:toast:

[RubyDuby in GA]

90. I named my son Carter and he is a farter

Right now its cute because he's two and he laughs (and I admit his father and I do too).

I can imagine its going to get real old real quick.

[Critters2]

97. If I had had a son, I would like to have named him "Harris Albert"

after my two grandfathers. This seems like a good, strong, distinguished name. So, I'm amazed when I tell people this, and they tell me a name like that would've given him "playground problems". Should all little boys be named "Mike" or "Steve"? Maybe adults should be clearer in teaching kids not to be bullies.