About the name "Tripp"...

Maybe y'all already know this, but...
Here in the south (and maybe elsewhere, for all I know) 'Trip' (one 'p') is a nickname given to someone whose name is something like John Paul Jones III.

My state senator is Trip Pittman, and that's what it said on the ballot.
His real name is (I think) Ozero Hayes Pittman III.
We do tend to have some very strange names in the south.
I guess I'd use 'Trip' too.

I have a friend with the first two names 'Clarence Rufus'.
He goes by 'Mose', a diminution of his last name.

On the other hand, I have a cousin whose first name is Gross.
It's a family last name from a few generations back.
We call him 'Gross'.
;-)

So to me, naming a kid "Tripp", on his birth certificate is like naming him "Junior".
I'm a 'Jr.', but it's on the very end of my other three names.
Sure, we got guys officially named "Junior".
We probably got guys whose birth certificate reads "Bubba Ledbetter" too.
:eyes:
But it's just kinda tacky, uneducated, and low class.

Having said all that...young Tripp will learn to deal with his name. Maybe in Alaska it'll even be really cool.
Not putting him down at all.
But his parents?
Well...
:eyes:

Guess they have to have some way to distinguish them from each other..

N/T

His full name was Trevaythorn something something III.

Maybe up North?

'Trey' indicates the '3' of a suit in cards.
Many Southern Baptists and some fundamentalist groups don't hold with gambling and, hence, cards.

'Trip' has a lesser association with gambling, although you do hear the phrase "I'm holding trip Kings".

So 'trip' is (I guess) more acceptable to the easily corrupted.
;-)

I love things like this.

(must be why I hang in despite the occasional flame-fests)

;)

Got it at birth from a nurse in the hospital.
1941.
It stuck.
:shrug:

I had a friend, now deceased, named Branch Bernard Burton, III.
I'm not kidding.
We called him 'Bee-cubed'.
:rofl:

calls himself "Kayo," mainly because he wants to hide the fact that his full name is Kenneth Oscar Myers.

:rofl:

That way he'd get respect...from decent people, anyway.

Like Zamboni. Trip makes me think of Trip Fontaine. Who knows, maybe Trip will be the democratic outcast of his family some day ...lol. He could be our little Ron Reagan,ya never know .

of her problems though.

I am a third, but my foes called me "Da Turd."

:rofl:

had to contend with her mother.

Trippy :hippie:

:shrug:

or maybe just Texas, is that people name their kids INITIALS. I knew both an RC and a WA in high school, and those were really their names, not standing for anything.

Sons who are named after their fathers (with French lineage) are sometimes nicknamed "T-(name)". A "Mack" junior would be called "T-Mack"; "Ray" junior, "T-Ray" (this particular name can also be shortened to "Tray").

My hubby, who has a French ancestry, explained to me that the "T" comes from the French word "Petite". I asked him why didn't they use the "P" instead of the "T"; they could have, he said, but it seems they used the "T" instead.

is often spoken as "tzee" as in "Tzee Jean," etc.

I worked with Radio on the Tuscaloosa News back when I was a student at the U. of Alabama.

After I got to know him and we were out having a few beers after work one night I had to ask.
"Man? I was born in 1932. My daddy had just gotten our first radio. It was a BIG deal back then. Greatest thing they'd ever heard.
I guess it's a good thing I wasn't born three decades later. I'd probably be Television Johnson."
;-)

Apocryphal, but the story goes that there was a guy named R.B. Smith.
That was his birth certificate name.
He joined the army.
Filled out the forms with name, etc.

Got a reply.
"Do NOT use initials on this form.
Fill in FULL NAME.

He filled in R. (only), B. (only) Smith.
His dog tags and all future records read "Ronly Bonly Smith".
:rofl:

His birth name was R C. I kid you not. Another brother was named J B. That was their real names. Just before he went in the military he legally changed his name to Riley Charles. But he was born R C. :-)

What on earth does that mean?

With unimpeachable breeding, impeccable manners, and savoir faire.
And...opinions about how others should conduct their lives.
And welcome to DU.
;-)

No big deal.

This was in Memphis nearly 30 years ago....

weird coincidence. I tripped with some kids in high school.

played by Donald Sutherland, a rich conniving man who will stop at nothing to get his way, for himself and family members.


The series may have been canceled. Some claim that the audience has lost its appetite for the life of the rich and famous..

That was the first thing I thought of when I heard the Palin baby name.

One of the main characters on Enterprise was named Trip.

noselifting at it.

So petty here sometimes.

. . . and it is an interesting adjunct to Trig's.

There's nothing at all wrong with remarking on such an unusual name and reflecting on it's origin, root, and meaning.

Maybe you need to be reading something educational, like a history book or sumpthin, rather than DU post about the Palin family.

(I love it when folks call others 'childish' and morons' . . . just another form of
noselifting' imo.)