Awwww! Little Reebok is going potty! (Americans naming kids after brands!)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3268161.stm

US babies get global brand names

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"It is no different from the 19th century when parents named their children Ruby or Opal... it reflects their aspirations"

Professor Cleveland Evans


Bizarre choices

Mr Evans, a professor at Bellevue University, Nebraska, has studied baby names in the US for 25 years.

He has found that car models are a popular source of inspiration; 22 girls are registered as having the name Infiniti while 55 boys answer to Chevy and five girls to Celica.

Seven boys were found to have the name Del Monte - after the food company - and no less than 49 boys were called Canon, after the camera.

Designer firms and types of clothing were also well represented, with almost 300 girls recorded with the name Armani, six boys called Timberland and seven boys called Denim.

In some cases it seems something else was on some parents' minds - six boys were named after Courvoisier cognac.

No kidding. I had a woman who worked for me at my old job named Toshiba. Another was named Tequila. Again, no kidding.

I went to school with a guy named Chivas, named after Chivas Regal Scotch.

I can't imagine naming a kid after a corporate product. I wouldn't even name my cat after one.

because of the sound he made (the cat, not my brother). But Evinrude became Rudy, or Rude Boy. That was apt, too!

There are no little Frenchie tadpoles on the way yet, but if the first one is a boy, he'll be "Ramses Ribbed" Mazuret; if a girl, "Summer's Eve". Isn't that pretty?

We're still undecided on the second child: I prefer "E. L. Fudge" but husband favors "Preparation H". Philistine.

Françoise

Haemarrhoid is pretty too. Too bad its not a brand name!

Naming your child after a condom means one of them broke.

And the second one "Vaseline."

....name my first-born son "Quarter Pounder"
or it it's a girl, name her "Fries"

"They fix the need, develop the taste
Buy their products or get laid to waste
Coca-Cola is back in the veins of Saigon
And Rambo too, he got a dope pair of Nikes on
And Godzilla pure muthafuckin filler
To keep ya eyes off the real killer"
"No Shelter", Rage Against the Machine

Nowhere lower to go, right?

Actually that doesn't sound right at all.

:bounce:

doing their advertising for them :grr: good grief...

;)

You know they eventually will when little Noxema gets caught in a grand theft auto ring, with her accomplices Maxim and "T.M." (that's Trojan Magnum).