That’s right, it’s time for another round of Bad Baby Names, this one lead off by Brooklynn. Tip: If you’re going to name your kid after a New York City borough, at least spell it properly. Actually, don’t listen to me. Misspell it. That way I can make fun of the next person to name their kid Quyynz.
I don’t fully understand this trend of taking a perfectly good name like Ethan and fucking with it by throwing more letters at it. Tip the second: More letters does not make for a better name. Case in point: Zethan. It sounds like the name of a planet from Amazing Stories. Another case in point: Kaizehya.
No, seriously, what the fuck is wrong with parents? Kaizehya? Are you kidding me?
Of course, you can throw letters at names to tart them up, but it takes a real professional to use punctuation. And the king and queen of Tart have to be the proud parents of little Drayecen-Rylee’Joe.
F1 Fanaticplayed this game and I thought I would too. I haven’t looked at their choices, so I’m interested to see how opinions match. Here goes, in 2007 Championship points order:
Kimi Raikkonen - opposite
Lewis Hamilton - future
Fernando Alonso - headstrong
Felipe Massa -
Nick Heidfeld - fourth
Robert Kubica - crash
Heikki Kovalainen - young
Giancarlo Fisichella - fragile
Nico Rosberg - younger
David Coulthard - chin
Alexander Wurz - tester
Mark Webber - unlucky
Jarno Trulli - muddled
Sebastien Vettel - upcoming
Jenson Button - yesterday
Ralf Schumacher - retire
Takuma Sato - prone
Vitantonio Liuzzi - bling
Adrian Sutil -
Rubens Barrichello - poor
Scott Speed - americanscottspeedfrommantecacalifornia
Kazuki Nakajima -
Anthony Davidson -
Sakon Yamamoto - slow
Christijan Albers -
Markus Winkelhock - records
A few explanations are in order, I think. Kimi is “opposite” because he seems to be the opposite of what everybody thinks of him. For some stupid reason his nickname is “Iceman” because he’s cool and collected, when he’s nothing of the sort! He’s a throwback to the playboy driver years of the 70s. He shoves course workers when he’s crashed. He always — always — takes a nice long swig out of the bottle of champagne when he’s on the podium. He’s about as far from an “iceman” as you could get.
Nick Heidfeld is “fourth” because he always seemed to place fourth this season.
Jenson Button is the British driver of “yesterday”, thanks to Lewis Hamilton.
Takuma Sato is accident-”prone”, crash-”prone”, and also excitement-”prone”, such as when he overtook Fernando Alonso in the closing laps of the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix.
Rubens Barrichello is “poor”, as in “poor Rubens crashed again” or “poor Rubens has a shitty car”.
The ones that are blank I couldn’t think up names to. My faithful readers can undoubtedly come up with some good one-word descriptions!
Background: Rosetta is an interplanetary craft whose mission is to rendezvous with a comet named Comet 67 P/Churyumov- Gerasimenko in 2014. This isn’t a standard “orbit and take pictures” rendezvous, as it includes landing on the comet! To get to 67P/C-G, Rosetta needs to make a lengthy trip around the Solar System, winging by Mars once and Earth three times. The first Earth gravity assist happened in 2005, and the Mars gravity assist happened in 2007. The second Earth gravity assist happened last night when Rosetta passed only 6000 kilometers from Earth!
Interesting note: on November 8 the Minor Planet Center issued a Minor Planet Electronic Circular about an object then known as 2007 VN84 that was going to have a very near approach to Earth on November 14, missing the Earth by about 6000 kilometers. Denis Denisenko put two and two together and realized that this “possible Earth impactor” was actually Rosetta, and the MPC issued a retraction.
Space: there’s lots of stuff flying around out there. :-)
Just the other day Mrs. CanSpice and I were driving through the metropolis of Hilo when “Summer of ‘69″ by Bryan Adams came on the radio. I quickly proclaimed it the Greatest Song Ever, which it is. Mrs. CanSpice made the point that I’ve proclaimed many songs to be the Greatest Song Ever (Orbital’s “Belfast” is one of these) to which I made the point that there can be many Greatest Songs Ever and this in no way diminishes the greatness of “Summer of ‘69″.
Anyhow, this story was brought to mind by Mike, who just posted about that very same really bitchin’ tune. Here’s the video for those who want to rock out.
You can’t be the president and the head of the military at the same time.
- United States President and Commander-In-Chief George W. Bush, 07 November 2007, referring to Pakistan President and Chief of Army Staff Pervez Musharraf.
