A funny thing about crazy birth names, especially in a country where getting attention seems to be the true national pastime, is that it doesn't necessarily mean showing originality.

To do a "George Bailey on the Bridge" kinda exercise, I wonder how many more people in the U.S. would have been named John and Mary if two immigrants who made candles and soap had never been born.

Because I figure without Procter & Gamble, there may have been no soap operas and without soap operas -- those farms for far-out birth names -- well, who knows...

Then again, we may have had fewer Kaylas....but a lot more Beast Boys.

EDIT: Please note that the author of this post thinks that Kayla is a lovely name, lest anyone perceive otherwise and be needlessly offended.

Whew.

As an aside, came up with a pretty fun lil' theme for next week's game (600 points Golden Age, I believe).

Dudes in Animal Suits:
V Copperhead x 3
E Copperhead
R Copperhead
V Rhino (SiN)
V Cheetah (ICONS)
GSX Sabretooth

Anyone know of any others? I'm already pretty sure that the "that guy" at our venue is going to be packing the usual min/max pit crew team w/multiple MJ and Alfred pogs/a corresponding wall of orange, so I'm not too concerned about winning or even really holding my own. Just trying to be goofy.

I know that Cobra and Queen Bee would count, but I'm blanking on others.

Ironicly in Iowa theres a set of twins, their mom was a crackhead(so they say) their actual names were LimeJello and OrangeJello, it was on their drivers license. They grew up as LJ and OJ. But man that would suck.

Wasn't there some meth head couple who named their kid Adolf Hitler a few years back?

This one *is* a well-known urban legend.

I wish it was, it was one of those i didnt believe till we went out for drinks at a local pub. And it was legitmialie on their fake drivers licenses.

But, their real names were OJ and LJ. I dont know why youd claim those are your real names, so i took it for the truth.

A friends cat is named Adolf, thats the closes thing i know.

One of the nurses here attested last night that she helped deliver a shi thead, and my dad attested to knowing of an orangejello and lemonjello.

http://letters.salon.com/d8d4e27593b...12108c/author/

I think the key thing there is the "fake"" aspect of their driver's licenses. That story goes back decades as well, so perhaps they just made those as a joke.

And I think we are going with "Chi Thead"...

Also, my dad is an obgyn

It is entirely true, things said in a bar usualy slide off my shoulders. Its dumb to question a drunk dude any way... or when your drunk I dont remember. but thats pretty neat.

I went to Bellevue Btw.

Was that awkward growing up?

Maybe I'll be able to make an actual game!!!

You didn't miss much last night. Joe brought the Spectre and a pit crew of Rip, Zatanna, Rohjaz, and SI Dr. Strange. Still, xlii was able to take him out with Apoc/Nemesis and some Madri! Neither I nor my Asgardians were in the mood for a competitive game so I just marched up and got the massacre over with.

Still, I guess I can understand the cutthroat team build considering the pri...oh, wait, there WAS no prize on the line? My bad.

Had a game with Entropy that would've been fun had I actually been able to make dice rolls. Still, was funny to see Beta Ray Bill and Ragnarok Surtur swinging and missing each other for something like 6 rounds.