OK, well I haven't done one of these in a while, but here's a story that made me just have to jump back into it.
Traci Redford, a mother from El Paso, TX, is getting her 15 minutes of fame after going social postal on Southwest Airlines. Traci, is claiming that Southwest employees were mocking her 5 year old daughter because of her name. She claims the employees were pointing to and laughing about the girl, and going so far as to take a picture of their boarding pass with the daughter's name on it and posting it on Facebook.
The daughter's name? Abcde Redford. You read that right, that's A-B-C-D-E Redford, pronounced "ab-si-dee".
Now I get parents these days wanting have cool names for their kids, or taking simple names and spelling them differently like taking Madison and turning it into Madisyn. No one will ever, ever, ever spell her name right, but I get that. I just think saying screw it and giving your kid the 1st 5 letters of the alphabet is going a little overboard. And though I don't condone making fun of a child, especially in front of that child, it's the parents who have to take the blame for this, right? I guess it's a good thing Abcde's 3 year old little brother, Lmno Redford was back in El Paso with his father.
WTF is the matter with people? This child has to grow up and go through school with that name. No social anxiety ahead for that kid. I mean, what if Traci's parents had named her Bluechevy. Does that keep her from marrying the man she did and becoming Bluechevy Redford?
Of course, Traci naming her kid Abcde may or may not be as bad as celebrity's naming their children. I guess it probably started in the 60's when Frank Zappa named his 1st born Moon Unit. Then he added Dweezil and Diva Muffin.
More celebrity's kids;
Beyonce - Blue Ivy - I guess Poison Ivy was a little too popular.
Gwyneth Paltrow - Apple - She won't be marrying any doctors.
Casey Affleck - Indiana - If you're going to be named a state, I guess that's better than Idaho.
Jason Bateman - Maple - Thank your parents Maple. It could have been Aunt Jemima.
Mariah Carey - Moroccan Scott - This is American Scott, that's Moroccan Scott.
Kanye West - North - Yes, his kid is named North West.
Nicole Kidman - Sunday - I get it, Wednesday is Addams Family, Tuesday is so slow.
Nicolas Cage - Kal-El - Only because Clark Kent lives across the street.
Sting - Fuschia - OK, that is better than periwinkle. Never mind dad's name is Sting.
You don't want to name your kids George, George, George, George and George like George Foreman did? OK, that's cool, but at least make it a name. I'd like you to meet my son, Rock Paper Scissors. That's his cousin Cord O'Roy.
Yes, people are going to laugh at these names because they're stupid names!! Get off the drugs and quit doing this crap to your children!!!
