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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • In a perfect world, me. But it would probably be better if there was a body of 100 or so individuals of diverse backgrounds to make sure we aren’t excluding names for cultural reasons. Names could be submitted for approval. To weed out the Everleighs, the Sexiannas, the Khaleesis. And any names Jamie Oliver would pick.

    I don’t know why people think it is acceptable to treat names like an opportunity for creativity, or fun. Names are serious business. And they aren’t a medium for self expression. If I name my dog after a type of pasta, who cares? But imagine having to give someone a business card with “Fusilli Feet” on it. I love Waterworld, but my kid will never have to put down “Mariner Feet” on a resume. My kid is not an extension of me, or my interests.



  • That would be hilarious. I just only catch him in the strangest, most embarrassing predicaments of his life. He could just be a perfectly normal guy, but maybe I’ll run into him again in five years when he’s on the side of the road for some necessary reason in a donkey costume covered in ketchup and lube and he’s just like “It’s not what it looks like, I swear!!”


  • So, I actually had something like that happen once. In college, I had a terrible roommate that would always stumble back to our dorm drunk and never lock the door. Well, one Saturday I woke up to a guy in a bathrobe and a cup of coffee staring at me. He said “Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to wake you. Sometimes I like to come in and watch you sleep, it’s so peaceful.”

    This is perhaps the weirdest thing that guy has done as far as I know, other than when I ran into him at Meijer late at night one time. He had a big stack of CDs in his arms, and he just said “you can never have enough bagpipe music!”