Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Baby Names

Whether or not you have experienced the joys of going meticulously through a baby name book name by name, feel free to join with Dave and I in our amusement over what is indubitably the worst name of our book ("The One-in-a-Million Baby Name Book"). We are currently in the "O"s, but this name caught our attention in a way that none of the other truly bizarre names have.
What makes the following conversation even funnier is the fact that our real estate agent is Frank Zappa's biggest fan, and we have recently discussed the music of Zappa at great length with him. Here is how our conversation went.

Dave (while scanning rapidly through the names): "Moon-unit! Who would ever name their child that??!!"
Tracy (reading the notes on the name): "Frank Zappa, apparently."

Needless to say, I don't think Moon-unit is a name in the running for our little girl.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

My personal favorites were the ones from ordinary things such as 'Tree', 'River', 'Baker', and 'Stapler'.

I think to get 60,000 names in a book, the authors resort to perusing the dictionary and tossing in anything that remotely resembles a name.

Since you're in the 'O's, let me know if you come across 'Orange', 'Olive', or 'Origami' :)

This stage is the most fun.

Tyler