I Got To Thinking About Names

We don’t have much choice over how we’re called, unless we are in the entertainment industry and, even then, film studios or the Screen Actors’ Guild may have a say over things. The first doesn’t like your name and the second may already have a member with the same and you have to change yours.

So you are stuck with what your parents wanted. Maybe after you reach 18 you can change it if the folks really got foolish.

Friend of mine was named Durward. “My father was in the waiting room when the doctor came in and asked what he wanted to name me. The tv was on and some guy named Durward Kirby was on the screen. That was it.”

A local woman is a fan of a tv cartoon and named her twins “Pebbles” and “Bam-Bam.” She did. I’m sort of hoping the father will get a name change order.

Penn (Penn & Teller, magicians) named his girl Moxie CrimeFighter. Some celebs came up with the brilliant idea of naming their kid Pilot Inspektor. Nicholas Cage is the proud father of one Kal-El Coppola.

I don’t mind children having their old-country names, but they should realize it will be hard for us to get it right; same with American parents who give their kids alternate spellings for common names.