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Post by Gilberto on Aug 22, 2010 13:27:39 GMT -5
Sean, Brooks and Greg return to the future to discuss trends in baby names, the Donkey Kong high score, robots, rayguns, & rocketpacks, and the prophetic John Boorman scifi classic, Zardoz. traffic.libsyn.com/darkcrazy/TVAMD_Future3.mp3
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Post by lynn on Aug 23, 2010 18:24:05 GMT -5
Sounds like the way to fix the future is to ban budgie-smugglers
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Post by Gilberto on Aug 24, 2010 16:12:42 GMT -5
As soon as we figure out what those are, we'll get right on it.
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Post by lynn on Aug 24, 2010 19:18:47 GMT -5
What this dude is wearing. Called so because of the curious effect as if you're smuggling budgies in your undies. In case any of you were wondering, this dude is possibly going to end up as the next Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott. (we had a vote the other day. We couldn't decide which option was better, this dude, or some red-headed chick) Oh also, another useless bit of info, this man's wife has banned him from appearing in public so clad ever again. Attachments:
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Post by Scary Gary on Aug 26, 2010 6:18:18 GMT -5
The trend of naming one's kids after famous people or characters isn't all that new. In my family, my grandmother named all seven of here kids from movie actors she loved. I'm named after my father, who was named after Gary Cooper.
One of my hobbies is genealogical research. In going back through my family tree and other vital records from the 1800's, there was a big trend in naming people after US Presidents. Most common is George Washington _____ and Thomas Jefferson ______. In my family, I have a few of the above and a pair of Grover Cleveland _____.
When naming our kids, my wife and I went with family names. We felt it important to have a meaning to the names we chose. Our first born was named after both of our maternal grandmothers. Our second was named after one of my great grandmothers.
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Post by lynn on Aug 26, 2010 6:42:07 GMT -5
Wait, Harry Potter Spoiler Alert
Here's a hint, don't name your kids after awesome wizarding Principals; then you might end up with Albus Severus Potter. Bleh, he must have hated his kid.
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Post by Gilberto on Aug 26, 2010 16:29:36 GMT -5
I don't have a problem with family names. I'm not even opposed to juniors, necessarily. My brother is the fourth person to bear my father's name and his son is the fifth. It's nice to have a legacy. I'm just afraid it puts too much pressure on kids to be like their fathers. But being too original leaves kids shacked with names like Aladdin or Parabola. There is a line that shouldn't be crossed.
And by the way, in America budgie smugglers are called banana hammocks.
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Post by drivebyluna on Aug 26, 2010 20:16:54 GMT -5
I tried convincing Jon that if we have kids and one of them is a boy we should name him Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein. He didn't approve. Maybe I can just convince him to give all our kids mohawks and devil locks.
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Post by lynn on Aug 26, 2010 22:56:37 GMT -5
Ha! Volfy! No worse than what I've seen at medieval gatherings, where the parents have shaved their kids heads into dark aged norman style; which is the back half all gone.
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Post by drivebyluna on Aug 27, 2010 1:06:58 GMT -5
I think it'd be cute to see little kids with pompadours but that requires product and kids don't need crap in their hair when they only bathe once a week.
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Post by broox on Aug 30, 2010 10:50:16 GMT -5
The trend of naming one's kids after famous people or characters isn't all that new... I think what bothers me about it is it seems to suggest that parents suffer from a complete lack of imagination. A child's name is, in my mind, an extremely important decision. Navi? Sookie!? What's next, Snooki and the Situation? Maybe I should've named Elliot "Skeletor." I was named after a baseball player with an uncommon name and I was teased quite a bit about it as a kid. I'm not saying that children should all have traditional names, but if you're going to choose an unusual name it should have some meaningful reason and not just be borrowed from a trendy tv show.
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Post by Scary Gary on Aug 30, 2010 17:35:38 GMT -5
The trend of naming one's kids after famous people or characters isn't all that new... I think what bothers me about it is it seems to suggest that parents suffer from a complete lack of imagination. A child's name is, in my mind, an extremely important decision. Navi? Sookie!? What's next, Snooki and the Situation? Maybe I should've named Elliot "Skeletor." I was named after a baseball player with an uncommon name and I was teased quite a bit about it as a kid. I'm not saying that children should all have traditional names, but if you're going to choose an unusual name it should have some meaningful reason and not just be borrowed from a trendy tv show. Personally, I agree 100%. I was just saying.
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Post by gretl on Sept 6, 2010 11:55:13 GMT -5
Skeletor Payne Robinson. Has a nice ring to it. And congratulations, Andrew! Are you brave enough to reveal her name to this crowd? Did that baby name list come from Tiger Beat or something?! Hard to believe. I did find the name "Ever" when I was browsing Twilight knock-off books for my daughter's birthday (shudder ... the things we do to get our kids to read. Serious nausea.) When I was a kid, my friend's mom named a son Jeremiah ... because Robert Redford was so handsome in Jeremiah Johnson ;D And my daughter's 5th grade teacher named her baby Evangeline Lilly, after an actress on Lost. !!!!! Yeah. I'm still having trouble absorbing that one. Are you sitting down, Brooks? Andrew? I need to warn you, this is important: your kids may never have an interest in/be impressed by Star Wars, no matter HOW carefully you manage things. I know. I know. Inconceivable, right? But just be prepared is all I'm sayin'. Little ingrates will always find a way to disappoint and surprise you.
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Post by gretl on Sept 6, 2010 12:18:30 GMT -5
Oh, and I think the delay with jet packs and flying cars all comes down to cost/benefit analysis and fear of liability lawsuits during development AND in production. I would guess that the underlying technology is fairly close.
And on the bullet trains and other mass transit solutions ... sigh. We're pretty "green" here in the Seattle area and these things are always floated on various ballots, but again it comes down to money: our population density doesn't extend far enough to support the initial investment. I think that's probably true all across the US. Everything's so geographically close in the countries that are ahead of us on such innovations.
On people's stubborn insistence on driving cars instead of using mass transit or even just car-pooling: aside from not wanting to mingle with the hoi polloi, it's convenience as much as anything. It takes three times as long to get anywhere when you have to accommodate everyone else's route (again, because we're geographically dispersed.) Plus you lose flexibility - you can't just decide to knock off early and pick up the kids and go to a movie; you can't stop off and buy diapers on the way home. We're spoiled!
(Full disclosure: when I actually lived in a somewhat urban area ((pop: 60,000ish)) I used the bus until it was inconvenient *snort*. Mostly where I've lived though, it's never been an option so I'm just talkin' out my ass. I do listen to NPR you know. ;D)
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Post by lynn on Sept 6, 2010 20:19:56 GMT -5
I walk everywhere because I don't have a drivers licence. Mostly because I couldn't be bothered, boys are such good chaufers... So I guess I'm good with my carbon footprint and all...
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