Child Names
Ok, really bad children names are kind of a pet peeve/fascination of mine. The "Jordan Michael
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/today/index.ssf/2008/12/holland_township_family_angry.html
"JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell and Adolf Hitler Campbell."
Eh? I hope one of them becomes a famous civil rights activist, or does something else of great irony.
Comments
Three kids in three years? So, not only are they a couple of morons, they're fertile morons.
Great.
Posted by: Rebecca Hartong | December 16, 2008 08:07 PM
I met someone in Texas with a relative named (not nicknamed) Chewbacca.
Posted by: Swan | December 16, 2008 08:55 PM
I left my "Important White Supremacists For Dummies" book in the pocket of my white robe, so Honzlynn Hinler is supposed to be who?
On a lighter note, enjoy this website, which has oodles of terrible baby names.
I have to second Sjixxxy with my wish for the children to grow up and become humanitarians.
Posted by: tamara | December 16, 2008 09:11 PM
My guess is that whoever they hang with could never properly pronouce Heinrich Himmler, and since books, and the internet is probably beyond their level of Learnedness they never properly researched the proper spelling, or thought to question it.
Posted by: Sjixxxy | December 16, 2008 09:27 PM
I thought the AP story was stupendous.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2008/12/16/us/AP-ODD-Hitler-Cake.html
You've got to hand it to the guy--generating this kind of material takes real talent.
And the crowning glory: two stores wouldn't bake them a swastika "Adolf" cake, but Walmart came through for them.
Posted by: The Big E | December 17, 2008 12:13 AM
And here I thought it was super-sadistic that my classmate's parents named him Timothy Burr. (Tim Burr)
Posted by: Goldilocks | December 17, 2008 07:12 AM
I like the bronze middle-finger knickknack in the background, enshrined between two bottles of Coke.
Posted by: Barrett | December 17, 2008 09:11 AM
great. and gays can't adopt, be foster parents or scout leaders.
Posted by: c-freak | December 17, 2008 10:40 AM
Young Adolf Hitler is cute as a button.
The city attorney of Superior is named Frog. Frog Prell.
Posted by: Ramos | December 17, 2008 11:48 AM
My high school driver's ed teacher was named Mr. Richard Weed. Dick Weed.
Not controversial, but amusing to be sure.
Nice catch on the middle-finger knickknack, Barrett. I would have missed out.
Posted by: Lucie | December 17, 2008 12:34 PM
I notice the kid is wearing a sweatshirt with Spiderman on it. The regular blue and red suited Spiderman. Wonder if he is a fan of the black-suited Spiderman.
Posted by: Danny G | December 17, 2008 01:41 PM
There's an old-timer in Grand Marais who does some of the play-by-play and color commentary for the Cook County Vikings HS football who everyone calls "Zipper." His real name is Richard Door. You do the math.
Posted by: TimK | December 17, 2008 01:48 PM
OMFG. Really?
Free speech is one thing, but this is a whole different ball game, er, league.
IMHO, this is a perfectly sound reason for the state to take their kids away. And shoot the parents.
Posted by: Tomasz | December 17, 2008 02:00 PM
Just as long as they line the parents up and use one bullet through both their heads. That would be fitting.
Posted by: scotth | December 17, 2008 03:34 PM
A surprising number of comments stated how horrible it was that that Shop-Rite wouldn't make their cake. Their argument boiled down to freedom of speech and how it wasn't up to the store to approve or disapprove of the child's name. But he's the point that someone so adroitly brought up, why would the full name need to be on the cake? Who orders a birthday cake that says Happy Birthday Joshua Matthew Anderson. No, you have them write Happy Birthday Josh or Adolph for that matter. These miserable wastes of flesh were simply trying to stir the pot. Or maybe they are just so overwhelmingly proud of their ignorant hatred that they are constantly wanting to share it with the world. Either way kudos to Shop-Rite and Wal-Mart has sunk to a new low, if that's even possible.
Posted by: Chris | December 17, 2008 04:58 PM
Well, Wal-Mart did sell Nazi T-Shirts for quite the period of time.
Posted by: Sjixxxy | December 17, 2008 05:26 PM
No doubt Walmart didn't want to face a spurious, but possibly costly, lawsuit.
A friend of mine had a cousin by the name of Ima Aho. We used to joke that she should have had a brother by the name of Ura.
Posted by: huitz | December 17, 2008 07:23 PM
Someone elsewhere on the internet pointed out that given their last name this could all just be an elaborate Soup Nazi joke.
Posted by: house | December 18, 2008 12:26 PM
In regards to the Wal-Mart shirt, yes it appears to be more or less the infamous death's head used by the SS. But someone brought up a good point elsewhere on the internet that someone probably didn't realise the historical impact of what they were using.
Also, this reminds me of all the Soviet era shirts and Che shirts out there. Should they be given the same treatment or is it just because Wal-Mart is not cool and is perceived by many to cater to the dill hole who named his kid Hitler?
Why is Soviet era imagery and Che considered hip chic and Nazi stuff bad? Stalin killed far more people than Hitler. And Che, while having some admirable qualities philosphically, was also guilty of murder and siding with some pretty bad people.
Posted by: mrashley | December 18, 2008 02:07 PM
I think for Che drug dealers of the Coca kind (who are not very nice to deal with-trust me on this one) come to mind. Then for Stalin the incident were he won some major battles during his fight to power, concluding with an invitation to all of his generals to join him to party on a barge on a river. After all of the generals were in the barge Stalin's men bolted the doors shut and sank the barge.
I think recently if you want to talk about putting people in danger and or at risk you might want to take a qick tour down W's lane and maybe visit his little buddy Dicky C. I would say that Hitler killed millions and the oil companys(who have there fingers in Bushy and Dicky C) put the entire 6.5 billion of us at risk. My question is what is worse?
I think America's dream has become the worlds nightmare!!!!!
Power to the People
Peace
Todd Gremmels
Posted by: Todd Gremmels | December 18, 2008 08:36 PM
After reading this, I was thinking "Man, it would suck to be named after G.W or Dickie C. Well, there indeed are Iraqi children in the same family named after both. Made me laugh-
CNN tracscript
Posted by: erktheviking | December 19, 2008 06:45 AM
We almost named my daughter "George"...when we thought she was going t be a boy. She was born on election day in 2000.
Posted by: Danny G | December 19, 2008 08:42 AM