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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I'm choosing to believe that the at-least-two people who named their daughters Ace are Doctor Who fans and therefore we should not make fun of them. (Or at least, I shouldn't.)
I give no such quarter to the at-least-two people who named their daughters Excel and Fedora.
I have no idea who that is.
Beth Riesgraf plays Parker on Leverage.
Those are some wacky-ass baby names. Of those on the list, I have known actual children named Fedora and Tigerlily. (And they messed up with a few: Shimon, for example, I think they included thinking it was some typo of Simon, but hello, Shimon Peres? OTOH, there's no excuse I know of for Donathan. D is noplace near J on the keyboard.)
I think the wackiest baby name of anyone I have actually known was Sha'Miracle.
I don't really mind product placement, if it's done well. The real world isn't generic. No one sits at a bar and orders a "beer" except on television. In television land, there seems to be only one kind of beer, whiskey, vodka and so on.
(Fedora is an actual name; it's a Russian version of Theodora. Of course, if I lived in the US right now, and especially Brooklyn, I would choose another name.)
Excel and Fedora.
Yeah, I just... boggled.
That said, laughing at weird names has uncomfortably classist implications for me, since it's generally mocking people for not fitting into the standard Euro-American tradition. Or for sheer ignorance. I mean, if you're a woman who spends her life mopping floors and changing sheets, how should you know that "Excel" refers to a spreadsheet program and not the general principle of excellence?
I mean, "excel" is a verb, after all. My given name means "steadfast and loyal"; my sister's means "daisy". How is that different than Yoga (implying flexibility and peacefulness, I guess)?
... although I'm still baffled by Fedora. I can only assume the parents are either serious hipsters, or have no idea what it means and just liked the sound.
(Ah, and flea explains that it's a version of Theodora. Okay.)
I'm having fun imagining which are the clever twin names. Hippo and Thinn. Excel and Google. Joshitha and Donathan.
(Fedora is an actual name; it's a Russian version of Theodora. Of course, if I lived in the US right now, and especially Brooklyn, I would choose another name.)Ok, I take that one back then. It's probably very popular down in Brighton Beach.
My favorite name of all time? Barkevious Mingo, a football player at LSU. Nickname "Kee-kee," which means it's pronounced Bar-KEE-vee-us. It's like a Harry Potter character name. How could you not be awesome with that name!