If it were a different name, I’d have a different response.
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Don’t name your child Kylr.
Fenqwavious Lopez
Man’s name change dramatically improves job hunt
Carloo Watson
What’s in a name?
(Originally posted 05/23/12 at Trojan Horse Productions. Reblogged 03/12/14.)
Some years ago, I was home on vacation (that is, visiting my mother out-of-state) and saw this item in the newspaper. In Detroit, this fellow was resisting arrest and the struggle got really mean, and he wound up sustaining injuries from which he died.
On the one hand, OK, too bad, it happens.
On the other hand, I had to wonder what other end this gentleman could have met; his mother having named him “Malice Green.”
Did either of his parents ever bother to consider what that name means?
Give your child a sensible name!
If your parents failed to do so, you may want to give yourself a sensible name.
We have a page devoted to this issue (here).
talk show host, on air talent, radio talk show, the homeless blogger
Oh, what a tangled web we weave …
… when first we practice to deceive.
Closing arguments in Julius Henson election fraud trial
I have had direct contact with trials involving Edward Smith, Jr. in the past, such that his antics here come to me as no surprise.
The question I ask is whether it’s worth it to tell the truth, and what happens when we don’t.
[To be continued …]
(Originally posted 05/09/12 at Trojan Horse Productions.)
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A new page has appeared at The Homeless Blogger: “Choose your name.”
One can also take a sneak peek at the related post scheduled for release 2014-03-12, “What’s in a name?”
(Originally posted 01/01/14.)
talk show host, on air talent, radio talk show, the homeless blogger
Names with issues; Issues with names
* Man’s name change dramatically improves job hunt
* What’s in a name?
(Originally posted 05/23/12 at Trojan Horse Productions. Reblogged 03/22/18.)
Some years ago, I was home on vacation (that is, visiting my mother out-of-state) and saw this item in the newspaper. In Detroit, this fellow was resisting arrest and the struggle got really mean, and he wound up sustaining injuries from which he died.
On the one hand, OK, too bad, it happens.
On the other hand, I had to wonder what other end this gentleman could have met; his mother having named him “Malice Green.”
Did either of his parents ever bother to consider what that name means?
Give your child a sensible name!
If your parents failed to do so, you may want to give yourself a sensible name.
We have a page devoted to this issue (here).
