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Captain Sensible Donating Member (200 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 02:43 PM
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What the Hell is up with those names???????????????
This may have been discussed before but really Track and Trig???????? WTF?

Has there been an explanation for those names?
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 02:43 PM
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1. Ouija board
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 02:51 PM
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12. !
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Overseas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 03:01 PM
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21. Great !! /nt
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 02:46 PM
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2. Soap operas maybe or Harlequin romance novels. Since I do neither
Edited on Tue Sep-09-08 02:46 PM by Cleita
I don't know for sure, but it seems like these are viable sources.
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LisaM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 02:46 PM
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3. It's chic to have a crazy name
Among all the other things elementary school teachers have had over the past 20 or 30 years, opening up the enrollment list on the first day and trying to pronounce some of the names has got to be among the stupidest.

Not just the names themselves, the spellings. I know a Jaime who pronounces it Jamie, for example.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 02:46 PM
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4. She thought they were Biblical names.
That's what happens when you have Bible studies in classrooms.
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mikelgb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 02:48 PM
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7. maybe they are in tongues?
:rofl:
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mikelgb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 02:47 PM
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5. they're barbie names
pagent names if you will
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Retrograde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 04:03 PM
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31. Bingo!
No, not a suggestion for child #6 :)

But I can hear the announcer saying, "Here she is, Willow Palin - Miss Alaska!

Piper Palin sounds like an aspiring starlet's name, one who will make her film debut in a movie version of a popular 80s sitcom and then disappear from sight, only to show up on infomercials.

Or they may turn out to be nice, normal young women, like most people with unusual names. And look where Condaleeza Rice ended up!
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 02:48 PM
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6. "Name two things in high school that Sarah Palin didn't do well in"

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mikelgb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 02:49 PM
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8. Track and Trig! LOL
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 03:01 PM
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20. HEEEEY-YOOOOOH
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 03:00 PM
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18. The great Carnak speaks! "No one knows the contents of these envelopes..."
Classic stuff! :toast:
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 03:04 PM
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24. sealed in a mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnall's porch - n/t
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MrMickeysMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 03:06 PM
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26. Oh, that's funny!
I was going the opposite way (I'm here... why not?) and say those were the two favorite places she liked screwing the Superintendent.
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Kierkegaard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 02:50 PM
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9. Yeah.
Their mother is retarded.
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Mojorabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 02:50 PM
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10. I love unusual names.
Better than a thousand people in your town having the same name. Nonissue for me.
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LisaM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 02:59 PM
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17. I can't bear whacky names
Why not just name the kid "kick me in the ass"?
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 03:18 PM
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30. Parent get to choose the names their kids have to live with a whole lifetime.. be careful
I had the "unusual name" in the family, and have spent a lifetime having to pronounce it, spell it..and rarely get mail addressed correctly..

I would have given anything to be Mary or Susan or Jane.:)

If parents love unusual names, they should go to court and change their own :evilgrin:

That's what nicknames are for..

Name the kid Robert Steven , and call him Pookoolie
Name her Jessica Marie and call her ShooShoo..

I imagined my sons' names on business cards or on an office door.. Our son Steven was called "the beebs"..Michael was called Mookie, but I would have NEVER "given" them a nicknamish name..those are earned :)
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 02:51 PM
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11. Can you imagine if a Democratic candidate had kids with names like that?
The media would berate them endlessly, and make them a laughingstock -- the family would be stereotyped as some sort of "pinko pot-smoking hippies."

Getting pretty sick of the double standard in the "liberal" media. :grr:
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secondwind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 02:54 PM
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13. Trig is Norwegian, and I think Track comes from the maker of a
snowmobile or something, I don't remember.
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 02:56 PM
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14. Truck and Twig?
Who?
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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 02:56 PM
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15. I Actually Knew Someone Named Trig
Thought it was just a nickname because he loved Trigonometry or something, but I guess it's an established name.
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Arctic Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 02:59 PM
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16. I posted about this earlier.
The names are another way of massaging her ego.

Track - she was into sports as a kid (possibly snowmachine reference)
Trig - She is into guns (sort for trigger maybe. Middle name is named for one of her favorite places in Ak -Paxson).
Bristol - Named after Bristol Bay (were they fish in the summer time)
Willow - named after one of her favorite places in AK
Piper - she is into flying (piper airplane)
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 03:02 PM
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22. A friend of mine once joked that she almost named her
son Hyatt, after the place where he was conceived.
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 03:00 PM
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19. You'd think a supposed Christian extremist like Palin would give her
kids Biblical names or names denoting a virtue like Hope, Grace, etc.

The names she's chosen sound more like something out of a commune in the 60's.

I'm wondering how much of her religious wingnutness is sincere and how much is politically calculated.
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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 03:03 PM
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23. track is actually for the sport, don't know about trig. willow and bristol are named
for spots in alaska, and the other name is one failin thought was "different"
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Dukkha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 03:04 PM
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25. she's just being pretentious
Desperately clamoring for an uppity country club status lifestyle in a moose lodge hick town.

and her kids will deal with the schoolyard beatings as a result.
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RandiFan1290 Donating Member (721 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 03:11 PM
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27. Sarah Palin Is Real!!
What's wrong with Slag, Truck, Quandary, Glunk, Chug, Turnip, and Rock Hammer? lol

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184096&title=sarah-palin-is-real
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hvn_nbr_2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 03:11 PM
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28. She was speaking in tongues when she named them. nt
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VWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 03:15 PM
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29. Bill Maher said
when she introduced her kids, it sounded like she was calling in an airstrike!
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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 04:05 PM
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32. Track Enfield Palin. Sarah obviously smokes crack
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