Hunyo 21, 2013

North West.

They really did name the baby North West. (I like it.)
Ipinaskil ni Ann Althouse sa 2:06 PM
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Tibore ayon kay ...

In place of a baby names book, they can just use an Atlas.

6/21/13, 2:17 PM
Tibore ayon kay ...

By the way, if they name their second kid "Old", "Wild Wild", or "Go", I may not want to live on this planet any more.

6/21/13, 2:18 PM
Thorley Winston ayon kay ...

Would their *having* a second child be enough to make you rethink wanting to continue living on the same planet?

6/21/13, 2:22 PM
Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

I reeaaalllly want the kid to grow up and write a thriller and title it "North".

6/21/13, 2:25 PM
MadisonMan ayon kay ...

Phil: That is hilarious!

I really don't care what they name their baby. I might if they were important.

6/21/13, 2:30 PM
Mary Martha ayon kay ...

Phil - That would be like Lauren Bush... who married David Lauren and now goes by Lauren Bush Lauren.

6/21/13, 2:35 PM
Nomennovum ayon kay ...

Nothing wrong with "North." And coupled with the last name "West," it's fairly clever and fun, far short of the absurd and all-too-common attention-whoring by pampered Hollywood parents. People need to chill. This is not so bad.

6/21/13, 2:38 PM
Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

Strange that the name reminds one, or at least me, of the film, "North," by Rob Reiner with an all-star cast which was famously reviled by Roger Ebert as being a movie he "hated, hated, hated, hated."

It's based on a novel of the full title: North: The Tale of a 9-Year-Old Boy Who Becomes a Free Agent and Travels the World in Search of the Perfect Parents.

6/21/13, 2:40 PM
edutcher ayon kay ...

No, a name should mean something.

North West just means your parents (or at least the biological pair that conceived you) were a pair of self-indulgent jerks.

Ann may like it because she thinks Ann Adair Althouse is plain and ordinary, but it at least has some meaning. She can look up the meaning of Ann and I'm sure there's an Adair in the family history somehow.

What does North West mean, the direction one of them (or one of their body parts) was facing at the magic moment?

6/21/13, 2:42 PM
Dr Weevil ayon kay ...

Too late, Tibore (comment 2). There's already a Silva family in Hawaii who named their three sons Quick, Sterling, and Hi Ho. An uncle of mine has met them - he taught their kids in high school.

6/21/13, 2:49 PM
Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

Well, it may succeed as a celebrity-style name because it does pop and stick in one's memory in a way that Joe West does not.

At least it's not horrible, like naming your kid "Pilot Inspektor" or "Moon Unit."

6/21/13, 2:52 PM
Nomennovum ayon kay ...

Definition of "North": 1.direction: the direction that lies directly to the left of somebody facing the rising Sun or that is located toward the top of a conventional map of the world.

Definition of "West": 1.direction in which Sun sets: the direction that lies directly ahead of somebody facing the setting Sun or that is located toward the left-hand side of a conventional map of the world.

6/21/13, 2:52 PM
Nomennovum ayon kay ...

North: It's a better choice than "Kanye."

6/21/13, 2:54 PM
edutcher ayon kay ...

True that.

creeley23 said...

Well, it may succeed as a celebrity-style name because it does pop and stick in one's memory in a way that Joe West does not.

At least it's not horrible, like naming your kid "Pilot Inspektor" or "Moon Unit."

Maybe, but Dweezil gets you a firing squad.

6/21/13, 2:57 PM
Kevin ayon kay ...

It would be cooler if the kid's middle name was Bynorth.

North Bynorth West.

6/21/13, 3:08 PM
Jim ayon kay ...

Does this make Kim's lady parts the North West Passage?

6/21/13, 3:31 PM
Freeman Hunt ayon kay ...

I like it. North sounds great.

6/21/13, 3:37 PM
edutcher ayon kay ...

Jim said...

Does this make Kim's lady parts the North West Passage?

Only if she has Spencer Tracy tattooed on one thigh and Robert Young on the other.

Or is it the Rogers brothers (there were three of them, would that be a problem)?

Four, if you count the one who fought in Georgia.

Five, if you count the one who was maybe a spy in Havana.

6/21/13, 3:51 PM
Belial ayon kay ...

Jim ftw.

6/21/13, 3:53 PM
Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

"Strange that the name reminds one, or at least me, of the film, "North," ..."

Reminds me of Glenn Gould's "The Idea of North."

6/21/13, 4:25 PM
Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

Problem is that ultimately you aren't naming a baby, you are naming a child, teenager and adult.

Names like this get you beat up, mocked and confuse the shit out of people. It is self-indulgent crap by parents who are clueless about their kids.

(I once knew a guy whose first name was two initials; JQ. It didn't bother him too much EXCEPT when any form had to be filled out. He learned to carry many forms of identification.)

My sister knew a guy named "William Shakespeare." He found it to be a general pain in the ass.

This calls for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw

6/21/13, 4:36 PM
Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

Reminds me of Glenn Gould's "The Idea of North."

Was that good? I've got a copy but never got past the first five minutes. Really slow.

6/21/13, 4:37 PM
Tobias ayon kay ...

The only problem I had upon initial reaction was "North is a boy's name"....

I didn't know why I thought that, since I don't know any Norths. But then I realized "arrow pointing up."

6/21/13, 4:39 PM
Tobias ayon kay ...

The only problem I had upon initial reaction was "North is a boy's name"....

I didn't know why I thought that, since I don't know any Norths. But then I realized "arrow pointing up."

6/21/13, 4:40 PM
Tobias ayon kay ...

...now South would work....

6/21/13, 4:41 PM
ricpic ayon kay ...

I recommended Gezundheit! and they settled for North West? Wusses.

6/21/13, 4:50 PM
Kelly ayon kay ...

I like the name North for a boy, not for a girl.

6/21/13, 4:55 PM
Greg Hlatky ayon kay ...
Naalis ng may-ari ang komentong ito.
6/21/13, 5:11 PM
Greg Hlatky ayon kay ...

In any case it's good the Armenian slut got a rich guy to be the sperm donor for her little mulatto bastard. She's getting near her expiration date for celebdom so the child support will come in handy

6/21/13, 5:17 PM
somefeller ayon kay ...

The kid should be a shoo-in for admission to Northwestern in 18 years.

6/21/13, 5:57 PM
Petunia ayon kay ...

What a stupid, stupid name. Parents think they're so clever and/or cute and/or funny when they give their kids names like Apple or Pilot Inspektor or Moxie Crimefighter. But THEY'RE not the ones who have to live with such stupid names.

6/21/13, 6:41 PM
Valentine Smith ayon kay ...

Poor, poor kid.

Anyone really believe Tubby actually had preeclampsia? Now the kid's gonna have all the problems associated with preemiedom.

How old will he be when he git to see mommy going down on that other rapper?

6/21/13, 7:12 PM
Jason ayon kay ...

Anybody who names a child "North West" really needs to check their moral compass.

6/21/13, 7:31 PM
William ayon kay ...

They're trying to instill a sense of direction in their child. Or maybe Kim just wanted to, at long last, find her true north.

6/21/13, 7:48 PM
Tom ayon kay ...

Kids need direction in life...

6/21/13, 9:12 PM
virgil xenophon ayon kay ...

Can anybody top this? I grew up knowing a guy with the moniker of "Roe Haddock." If EVER there was cause for justifiable
homicide of one's parents that would be it.

6/21/13, 9:53 PM
Unknown ayon kay ...

once took care of an 18 month old who had been abandoned by her mother. the baby's name ??
ABCD (ab si de). great name. and gives you a "leg up" on you r alphabet.

6/21/13, 10:36 PM
Unknown ayon kay ...

once took care of an 18 month old who had been abandoned by her mother. the baby's name ??
ABCD (ab si de). great name. and gives you a "leg up" on you r alphabet.

6/21/13, 10:37 PM
Grant Michael McKenna ayon kay ...

With a name like North West, that kid is going up. Up, and a bit to the left.

6/22/13, 1:53 AM
Peachy ayon kay ...

Kim and Kanye named their kid North West? That's like me naming my son "B. Very" says Denis Leary.

6/22/13, 7:13 AM
azbadger ayon kay ...

They must have used Chris Berman as a name consultant.

6/22/13, 9:38 AM
Pettifogger ayon kay ...

Although I am not personally acquainted with him, I know of a lawyer named North West. I've always thought that a cruel joke to lay on a child. I disapprove making jokes with children's names. The joke will wear thin as they live with it for the rest of their lives.

6/22/13, 9:41 AM
Pettifogger ayon kay ...

I meant a cruel joke to play on a child.

6/22/13, 9:41 AM
Ameryx ayon kay ...

When the child grows up and writes her autobiography, it will be titled North by North West.

6/22/13, 8:35 PM
Ameryx ayon kay ...

When the child grows up and writes her autobiography, it will be titled North by North West.

6/22/13, 8:39 PM

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