Wrote Zachary Paul Sire, somewhere in the long comments thread that spun out under my "Benjamin Button" commentary last night.
IN THE COMMENTS: Henry Buck says:
The Palins (I don't know about the Johnsons) just seem to like boys names that begin with Tr-EDH said:
Track, Trig, Tripp ...
What's next? Trap?
No, Trog?I prefer Trogg to make everything groovy. But if it's a dirty and sweet rock-star kid you want, call him Trex.
A remake by Oliver Stone, with Sarah Palin as Joan Crawford.
"Whatever the risk, this kill-crazy fiend from Hell must be destroyed!"
To stress conservatism, call him Trad.
Stay away from Trick, Truss, Troll, and Tran.
If you get twins, call them Tried and True.
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That's so cute - Zach thinks that this is the twilight of the Palin family's day in the sun (if it were not, this would just be a dig not a "last" dig). We're going to see a lot more of them yet.
Maybe Zach is just trying to be funny. If not, I think he needs help.
It certainly appears that even though Bush will be gone in 3 weeks, the angry lefties will still need a nemesis to hate, even if they have to manufacture it. What a sad group of people.
Out with the BDS, in with the PDS.
Didn't anyone notice the teenage rebellion here? A *normal* name in the Palin family.
Oh, the shame!
-XC
It's just too tempting to read this as further evidence of the Right currently defining itself mainly in terms of its obsession with Hillary Clinton. But "Tripp" just seems to fall into line with a prevalent family naming scheme (or as ol' Hank Jr. would say, a "family tradition").
Expat(ish) said...
"Didn't anyone notice the teenage rebellion here? A *normal* name in the Palin family."
Is that a normal name? The only person with Trip as their christian name that springs to mind is the engineer in "Star Trek Enterprise."
Hoosier Daddy said...
"It certainly appears that even though Bush will be gone in 3 weeks, the angry lefties will still need a nemesis to hate, even if they have to manufacture it. What a sad group of people."
They've already started with the Bush substitutes. They tried to get it up for John McCain, but it was half-hearted. Then - just the ticket! - they got rock hard for Sarah Palin. Now it's Rick Warren. Soon enough, it'll be someone else. Some of these people don't seem to be able to get through the day without having someone to spit venom at.
Chelsea Clinton's first son will be named Nigel as the Clinton family's last nig, I mean dig at Obama.
@Simon - I was giving them the benefit of the doubt for Tripp as a family name. I've actually known several men and women with that as a middle name. Kaintuck name, they claim.
Or maybe they were clumsy at Ellis Island, who knows.
Lord, the names available in my family to saddle kids with: Trevor, Pauline, Serita, Amelia, Ruth, etc....
-XC
The Palins (I don't know about the Johnsons) just seem to like boys names that begin with Tr-
Track, Trig, Tripp ...
What's next? Trap?
What's next? Trap?
No, Trog?
A remake by Oliver Stone, with Sarah Palin as Joan Crawford.
"Whatever the risk, this kill-crazy fiend from Hell must be destroyed!"
(h/t, another commenter previously posted this clip months ago.)
Maybe it's a hockey thing: "Tripp" as a shortened form of "tripping," something bad ass hockey players sometimes do to opponents, resulting in time spent in the penalty box if the ref sees it.
Remember, Levi was a star hockey player at Wasilla High.
Another clue: Tripp's middle name, "Easton."
When I hear "Easton," I think hockey sticks and gear:
http://www.eastonhockey.com/
Both of the Tripp's that I know are nicknames for 'Charles.' I don't know if that's a coincidence or not.
I was kidding...but I secretly want it to be true.
I always thought the focus on the Palin kids' names was an egregious example of people grasping for any weapon to hand to criticize/ridicule/hate. Track and Trig are a little unusual, but Bristol, Willow and Piper are girls names we've all heard before and totally within the current fashion, aren't they?
Likewise, Tripp is an uncommon but hardly unheard-of name. It all just seems like a topic that reveals too much about those who want to employ it as a weapon, even supposedly -- but more likely just disingenuously disguised that way -- as a joke.
Hey, even Linda Tripp loves Barack Obama!
"I believe President-elect Obama possesses an instantly recognizable purity of soul that, coupled with his brilliance, and, of course, his eloquence, brought quite unimaginable and long-awaited magic to the country, transforming red and blue states, quite literally, into 'The Color Purple'. I believe the entire country will stand behind him."
Purity of soul? Wow, when even Linda Tripp can't find a stain on your soul, you know you're pure!
Excellent laundry advice as well: if you wash a blue dress with a bunch of red clothes, everything's going to come out purple.
I always thought there was something odd looking about Linda Tripp. She reminded me of that woman in Total Recall who pulls off her head and she turns out to be one of Ah-nold's disguises.
Trap, Trigg, whatever...what Palin worshippers are really thinking is Goddess GILF! GILF!
Hoosier Daddy said...
I always thought there was something odd looking about Linda Tripp. She reminded me of that woman in Total Recall who pulls off her head and she turns out to be one of Ah-nold's disguises.
I heard the same comment about Lucianne Goldberg.
If it were me, I'd name the kid Trooper... after my... oh, nevermind.
Am I the only person around who thinks that, regardless of whether it's love or hate that there's just too much about Palin on the internet nowadays? Sometimes I just wanna scream "LEAVE THE POOR WOMAN ALONE!!"
I swear, just as much as Bush, Sarah Palin appears in forums not so much as her own person, but rather as a blank doll, one of those cutout paper things you see in kiddy books that people can dress however they want. She's ending up being the modern political version of the Rorschach test: You find out more about the person talking about her than you do about Palin herself. When you see posts from people who like her, those posts end up being laudatory, often putting her on a pedestal, making her the Last Great Hope of the Republican Party, and emblematic of the direction conservatives should go. But when you see posts hating on her (and lets be honest: This is the internet. Mere "dislike" is a rare commodity; people go overboard into full derangement at the mere mention of a given personality), then the posts are dismissive, derogatory, and tastelessly gleeful at setbacks and negatives (the posts I saw before the election about her teenage daughter being pregnant are epitomatic examples of this).
The funny thing is, this whole deification/denigration of political figures is nothing new. Just like you see echos of JFK worship in modern Obamaphilia, you see reruns of the group disdain that was lumped on Truman reheated for Reagan, both Bushes, and now Palin. Everyone is such a willing sucker for the zeitgeist that they don't seem to know or care what the actual person they're projecting onto is like. It feels like it's going to be two or three decades before we have a real feel for what certain people in today's politics are truly like, just because we need the noise to die down and let us actually see reality, not the hyper-shaped ersatz-reality that gets formed in the back and forth on the 'net and in the mass media.
Every Tripp I've ever known is somebody-the-third. Get it? Triple use of the same name? Also: Trey is the frenchified way of saying the third. Even Will Smith's son is Trey for 'third.'
TMink: Anything to add here?
Someone on my blog commented that the next names in the Palin family should be "Trailer" and "Trash."
Someone on my blog commented that the next names in the Palin family should be "Trailer" and "Trash."
Of course they did. Because liberals aren't sympathetic to the poor. They despise them. Thus "trailer trash" is a favored insult.
At least the Palins aren't fat.
Or gay.
Because those seem to be favored liberal insults as well.
Someone on my blog commented that the next names in the Palin family should be "Trailer" and "Trash."
Well when they start collecting welfare checks I suppose you could.
Of course they did. Because liberals aren't sympathetic to the poor. They despise them. Thus "trailer trash" is a favored insult.
Took the words out of my mouth.
""Someone on my blog commented that the next names in the Palin family should be "Trailer" and "Trash."
I wonder if it was those same enlightened, progressive kind of people who torched Palin's church?
Speaking of PDS, did you notice that Sully has been nominated for Weblog's Best Blog of 2008?
Now that's funny.
Tens of millions of us have been named after admired public figures, authors, sports heroes and/or celebrities, etc.
Levi is a hockey player and Canadian John Tripp is a NHL player as was Tripp Tracy, not exactly a stretch.
Also surnames names as given or middle names is fairly common, i.e., Grant, Whitney or Drake for example.
My money is on the NHL player not an ancestor.
Who knew the Palins were poor!
They aren't poor, by normal standards.
But it wasn't two days after Palin was announced as McCain's VP and clever persons were making remarks about broken down pick-up trucks on the White House lawn.
Where do you suppose that came from?
It's not so much about who the insult is directed at but what is considered a good insult by those who are supposed to be so compassionate about the dignity of the poor.
Calling someone a retard, after all, says little about the person being called that name and a whole lot about the attitude of the person who is *using* the slur and their attitude toward people who are "retarded". The same way that calling a bunch of guys in the military or football camp "girls" or "ladies" says something about the attitude about women.
How *do* liberals feel about "trailer trash?"
Really.
If they have a girl, how about the name Twisted. As in Twisted sister?
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