Daily Archives: 2/18/2018

The Name Game

The Name Game #505

Sixty muggy degrees at 0800 this morning, headed for the mid-seventies. Winter in Southwest Louisiana might not be over, but it’s doing a good job of hiding.

Opened the paper over a nutritious meal of oatmeal, read the normal mix of new,then i found the birth announcements. This week we have births from between February 2 and FEbruary 12, a total of twenty-nine new babies. Fifteen are to unwed parents and two new mommies missed that whole ‘who’s your daddy’ issue.

Let us slog forth:

Elijah S. & Shondricia(!!) A. do a daughter with Divnne.  I’m not sure if that’s the name, like maybe the newspaper made an error, but with a momma named ‘Shondricia’ all bets are off.

Miss Megan T. shows her son Meiko Jaice.  Baby daddy?  Nope.

Richard & Kayla L. choose a random surname and tag their son with it, giving us Lennox Kodi.

Joseph & Sarah H. have great hopes for their son Ezra Lionheart.

Ashton A. & Shawntessa(!!) S. throw a bunch of letters at a daughter, little Abreyele Gracelynn.

An apostrophe inevitably makes an appearance as DExter & Shawanda(!) B. do a daughter with M’Kenzley Raine.

Tra(!) M. & Keyonna M. (different surnames) show their son Travon Ezra.  ‘Ezra’ seems to be enjoying a minor resurgence in popularity of late, but ‘Travon’ (and variations) is a solid performer because if Obama had a son…

Miss Anastasia T. triples up on her son Kaysen Christouvle John.

Manuel C. & Ashley K. triple up on their daughter Khloe Lenette Lynn.

Caleb & Nichole Y. triple out on their son Colton Jalen-Don.

And that’s the list for this week.

History

Today in History – February 18

1685 – Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France’s claim to Texas. If Texas kicked Mexico’s butt, and Mexico beat France, what chance would France stand against Texas? Do they REALLY want Tex-Mex, Shiner beer and barbecue in Paris?

1841 – The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate begins and lasts until March 11. You didn’t just SAY you were going to filibuster, you had to actually talk the whole darned time. Today these over-paid self-important fops just get by with threatening and posturing.

1861 – Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery, Alabama.

1901 – H. Cecil Booth patented a dust removing vacuum cleaner.

1947 – First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to mountains. This will end well.

1954 – The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California. A second-tier science fiction author jokes about starting a religion, and people take him seriously when he does.

1957 – Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government. When you read what sort of activities that Kimathi and the Mau-Mau perpetrated on their opposition, you’ll think that the Brits acted with too much restraint.

1979 – As global warming grips Africa, snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only recorded time in history.