After both loripoo and centuscoelis informed me that it was “creepy” to name your all your kids after your home state, a la the Palins (see subsub’s comment here), I decided that I’m going to change all my kids’ names to stuff having to do with Oregon. Just to be creepy.
Princess Zurg will be Princess Duck.
Mister Bubby will be Mr. Backwards Liberal.
Elvis will be Whole Lotta Trees.
And Girlfriend will be NoSalesTax (middle name: SuckItHaters!–yes, with exclamation point; we Oregonians like our creative spellings).
Or I could go with
- Rain (after the weather)
- Bike (after the favored mode of transportation)
- Subaru (after the second-favored mode of transportation)
- Crater (after Crater Lake–it’s on our quarter, look it up!)
- Port (after Port of Portland)
- Eugene (after, well, Eugene)
- Mari and Juan (twins, after marijuana)
- Huckle (after the huckleberry)
- Hood (after the Mt.)
- Tillie and Mookie (another set of twins, after Tillamook–both the cheese and the forest)
That would require me to have a lot more children, of course, which would indicate that I’m not really serious about being creepy.
You know what it’s time for, right?
It’s time to play “How many creepy names can you make out of your state?” Begin!
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December 4, 2008 at 3:00 pm
bythelbs
I’m partial to the twins.
And on a totally unrelated note, do you happen to be trying out a new medication?
December 4, 2008 at 4:21 pm
patience
This is awesome. Mari & Juana? Hee.
I am so excited to create Virginia-themed names for my children. Shenandoah?
December 4, 2008 at 4:46 pm
madhousewife
bythelbs – Totally unrelated note? What?
December 4, 2008 at 5:49 pm
cheryl
Ooh! Ooh! Utah!
Here goes:
LaVell
LaVerkin
Oh—you mean names that haven’t been used? Okay.
Beehive
Poly
Gamy
Wasatch
Salt
Rocky (or Red Rocky)
Archy (for the arches, baby!)
Sage
Brush
December 4, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Evitafjord
Banana would become STBDCC (soon to be Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader)
Bailey would be Fixin’Ta
Em would be Y’all
Mr. Handsome Pants gets to be Bubba Junior
Spamburger (his already new nickname I’m thinking about trying out) gets to be
(Woods (after backwoods hick)
Red and Nick (twins, o’ course, after the people)
Guns and Roses (we live near Tyler, home of the Rose Festival)
Bush
That Crazy Baptist (hubby, he needs to convert apparently so that people aren’t afraid of his crazy religion)
December 5, 2008 at 9:03 am
foofer
Here’s some for Missouri (St Louis):
In honor of the Mississippi River –
River (boy/girl); Issippi (girl) (Think about it.)
In honor of the state flower –
Dogwood (boy)
In honor of the “state sport” –
Ameristar (girl); Casino (boy)
In honor of the famous explorers –
Lewis and Clark (twins) or Meriwether and William (if one of them is a girl);
Sacagawea (girl)
In honor of our famous monument –
Archy (boy)
In honor of the downtown farmers’ market we occasionally go to –
Soulard (boy)
In honor of the company that has funded a lot of public projects –
Ann (girl); Heuser (boy) (bonus points if your last name is Bush/Busch)
In honor of the Missouri mule —
Jenny (girl); Don Key (boy)
In honor of our favorite place to go (The City Museum) –
Monstro (boy) (Monstro City is the “giant backyard fort on steroids” in the front of TCM); Enchanta (girl) (for the Enchanted Caverns)
That’s all I can think of right now.
December 5, 2008 at 10:01 am
Amanda D
Too funny! Persoanlly I like Udderly and Chocolate after Tilly and Mook’s Udderly Chocolate icecream. It’s like heaven.
December 6, 2008 at 9:04 am
Alison Wonderland
Thinking, thinking. I got nothing.
December 7, 2008 at 8:57 am
Alyson (New England Living)
Consitutionia (since Connecticut is the Constitution state)
Hedgy (for all the hedge fund millionaires of my state)
Pearl (for my state being so white, except for Hartford and New Haven)
Talbot (in honor of all the ladies here in love with Talbots)
By the way, love your blog. I came here via by common consent.