Y'all wanna know where Palin got the name 'Trig' from? I know where.

[Richard Steele]

We all know she named her firstborn son "Track Enfield"
because she enjoyed High School athletics- she's said so
herself, on the record.

Many have assumed that "Trig" was short for 'Trigger'...
I disagree.
If that's where her mind was, she would have named him "Trigger"
and not bothered with shortening it. She's just that way.

Others have postulated that, when her doctor attempted to explain
that her child had an extra chromosome, all she understood was that
the situation was bad, confusing to her, and involved NUMBERS...
so she flashed back to High School again and named him Trig, short
for Trigonometry...kinda the "ANTI TrackAndField" in her mind.


None of those ideas are true.

I'll tell ya where she got that name.
Although I have no proof, and no proof is possible to have,
I know in my heart where she got it.

She's like every lame, sociopathic little turd we ever met in High School-
she's never once had an actual original THOUGHT of her own;
she just finds an idea somewhere and then struts around acting like she invented it,
oblivious the fact that we all saw the same book/movie/TV show she stole
her latest "Catchphrase du Jour" from...






She got the name "Trig" from Stephen King. From his "Dark Tower" series.
I can't PROVE that, but if anyone can DISPROVE it I'll eat my fucking hat.


The series involves some alternate realities, and King invented
some alternate SLANG for them. The word "trig" seems to mean
'careful, cautious, thoughtful' in that fictional realm.

From "Wizard and Glass", copyright 1997, paperback edition, bottom of page 182,
(wherein some "bad guys" are discussing how to deal with some "good guys" who
rode into town unexpectedly):
"...we can't just put guns to the back of their heads and drop them
like broke-leg hosses...we'll want to be trig, Clay; as trig as we can be."



That's where she got the name from, folks. She saw the word
in a Stephen King novel, and assumed that she was the only
person in the world who noticed it.

She assumed that, because that's what dumbassed sociopaths DO.

[mcctatas]

1. I disagree...

First you have to convince me that she ever read a book...

[madeline_con]

2. She's being as trig as she can be by lying all the time. n/t

[kikiek]

3. I would LOVE to hear Dr Frank analyze her. I think she makes Bush look sane.

[rzemanfl]

4. She read the label of an old roll on men's deodorant. She got

Bristol's name from the label too.

[crimsonblue]

11. Bristol is named after ESPN's headquarters

Palin wanted to be a Sportscenter anchor

[rzemanfl]

29. Really? My neighbor's kid Wendy isn't going to like that. n/t

[Buns_of_Fire]

36. But wouldn't "Mitchum" or "Old Spice" have done as well?

Of course, she could have named him "Axe!"

This could be a good beginning for a "Name Saracuda's Next Baby" thread, couldn't it?:evilgrin:

[Bluebear]

5. I think she looks at discarded proposed names for SUV's, myself.

[Richard Steele]

31. Please. As if the folks responsible for naming SUVs would give that loon access to their files. nm

[progdonkey]

6. it also means "neat, trim, smart, and spruce" in this realm...

It's an usual word, sure, but it's a real word, nevertheless. Whoever assumed it was short for "trigger" was wrong, too, unless they were unknowingly referring to the Old Norse word "tryggr," meaning loyal or safe, which is the cited origin of the modern word.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/trig

[Pepper32]

7. I thought it was short for Trichamonis

Since he is a boy, she changed the c to a g :shrug:

[CountAllVotes]

8. I saw a photograph posted of the daughter holding her baby brother

that she loved so very much ... she called him "Trigger" as in gun.

!

:kick:

[jkshaw]

9. Now that you mention that, dick,

I remember hearing that term used quite a bit during the 80s and 90s. Perhaps before that. I think the term was current before King wrote, that he didn't invent it but rather adopted it.

Very interesting and a nice catch.

[Richard Steele]

39. That's news to me. We must have moved in different circles in the 80s and 90s.

I'm fairly certain I never heard it back then.
Of course, that was a great Golden Age of slang-
back in the late 80s, you could hit 3 parties in one night
and each one would almost have its own language,
depending on the "crowd" that had gathered there.

It was a very special time.

[crimsonblue]

10. Wrong

It was a birth certificate error, much like Oprah (Supposed to be Orpah but for an error).

Palin meant to name the baby Trib, because she's a crazy ends-timer.

[ThatPoetGuy]

12. I've always wondered if it was from an e.e. cummings poem --

It describes an idealistic young pacifist named Olaf who decided not to go to war. At which point,

"His well-beloved colonel, trig
Westpointer most succinctly bred,
Took erring Olaf soon in hand"

The "trig Westpointer" had soldiers beat Olaf's head. They then tortured the pacifist's genitals with unsanitary brushes, then kicked him, cursed him, and tortured his anus with heated bayonets.

And then the President, in the poem, sent the pacifist "to a dungeon, where he died."

That's where I suspect the name comes from.

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/eecummings/11930

[susanna]

13. I would have to question...

...whether she even knows who ee cummings is.

I'm glad you do, though. Lovely poem. Great post. :-)

[Richard Steele]

16. I can reject that premise out of hand, because Palin would never have read Cummings.

She only bothered to read Stephen King because she thought
it would provide enough literary references to appear erudite
to her "social circle".

[Whoa_Nelly]

14. Naw...He was named Trig because she got her tubes tied

or she's not gonna have sex anymore (at least not with Toddy.. :P )

Dictionary definition:
trig 2 (trg)
tr.v. trigged, trig·ging, trigs
1. To stop (a wheel) from rolling, as with a wedge.
2. To prop up; support.
n.
A wedge or other braking device.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/trig

[Captiosus]

15. Ok. Nice Dark Tower reference.

But I'm just going to keep on believing that she named Trig after my late pet rat.
Who was also named Trig. (Although, in his case, yeah, it was short for Trigger.)



Leave my delusional world alone! :p
(And RIP Trig, the rodent one.)

[Richard Steele]

18. What a shame that I'm seeing his photo for the first time, and he's already left us.

He looks like quite a handsome fellow,
a real "Triple H" mammal (Hale, Hearty, and Healthy)

I myself am averaging about 1.5 of those "H's" these days, as
I approach 40...

[Captiosus]

21. Thanks. (Post off-topic.)

My house is currently bereft of rats, but if you want to see more head to:
http://members.cox.net/wptech/rats/

then manually type in between 001.jpg through 028.jpg.

Sorry for the off topic nature of the post.

[Richard Steele]

33. No apology necessary. (BTW: Welcome to DU!)

I've never lived with a rat myself, but back around '95
I met someone who did, and I was just amazed at how clever
and adaptive they are.

They're easily as intelligent as cats, and perfectly willing
to adapt their routines to live with us clumsy hairless apes.

Fascinating creatures, they are.

[johnfunk]

17. I thought it might be short for "Trichinosis"...

... or "trigganozis," as my grand-dad used to say. Isn't Trig a Scandanavian name?

[REP]

26. Trygve is a Scandanavian name; Trig is short for a high school math class

[katandmoon]

19. A good Christian girl like her reads satanic Stephen King novels?

[Bravo Zulu]

20. Trig spelled backward is Grit!

Grit your teeth to endure a trying situation and continue on without complaint!

[louis c]

23. Trig spelled backward os girt, not grit.

so much for that theory.

but I do agree she's nuts

[MsTryska]

22. No.

If it was a Dark Tower reference I'd have to be impressed.

And i rebuke that.

[XemaSab]

24. It's short for Trigvy

It's a Scandinavian name, and I think a relative was named that.

[REP]

27. Trygve is the correct spelling

[TahitiNut]

35. Indeed it is ... as anyone who remembers Trygve Lie should be able to attest.

The first elected Secretary-General of the United Nations was a Norwegian (uffda!) and certainly well-known in *MY* Norwegian-American family.

[BlooInBloo]

25. Who cares where hicks get their names?

[AtomicKitten]

28. I don't care enough to even think about it.

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[leftofthedial]

34. Zippy was taken

[marions ghost]

37. not a bad theory

but if she has said where all the other kids' names came from, then what did she say about this one?

PS, I agree with the sociopath part. After Chimpy that personality seems all too familiar.

[Alexander]

38. She named him "Trig Van Palin"

like "Van Halen", get it??

:eyes:

[Fran Kubelik]

40. She reads?

[Hubert Flottz]

41. I figured it was just a typo when she wrote down his name for

the birth certificate.