Illegal baby names

The following amusing article is so àpropos to the topic of society, culture and mass insanity. It's also just plain funny.

10 illegal baby names

Personally I'm stunned that the Swedish name Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 (pronounced 'Albin') would be banned. I think we should name more kids such things to screw telemarketers up. I can envision hilarious scenarios in the future:

"Is there a Mr. or Mrs... um... erh... Oops, nevermind!" {Phone hangs up suddenly.}

Truth be told, despite all the well-intentioned legislation, there exist quite a share of Nancy Gaylords and Hung Dongs in the world. As far as I know, lawyers haven't objected to their parents' flagrant brutality. The entire character list of the Matrix trilogy must really dismay a lot of lawmakers, come to think of it - Mouse, Trinity, Merovingian, Morpheus, etc.

It's also fascinating how certain arbitrarily selected baby names touch such a raw nerve for lawmakers and yet eliminating child poverty is relatively low on society's list of things to do. Oh well. I guess it's true what they say: A dead malnourished baby is better than a healthy teased baby. And I leave you all to ruminate on that sad note.

Eighteen-hundred-and-eighty times as great

I often consult Perseus Online because it's such a useful resource but one day I randomly ran into what must be the craziest classical Greek word I've ever set eyes on yet:

χιλιοκτακοσιογδοηκονταπλασίων
(khilioktakosiogdoēkontaplasíōn)
'eighteen-hundred-and-eighty times as great'

(Try saying that three times fast.) And when might the context even arise to say such a thing?! I still have much to learn about these ancients.

Don't let quotes run "amok"

I couldn't help but laugh at the hilarious blog discovery Paddy K recently uncovered:

The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotes

It's amazing how, despite all one's careful wording, two ill-placed punctuation markers can wreck it all.

Libyan's interpreter at UN collapses from sheer monotony

Okeydokey... this vaguely linguistics-related news story is kind of amusing and delightfully odd:

AFP: 'I can't take it!' cried Kadhafi interpreter: report

Tsk, tsk.

Glen Gordon's ancient, twisty path??

I just found a National Post article called Ugly Duckling: Glen Gordon's ancient, twisty path. Naturally my brittle ego was both shocked and titulated. I just had to take a teensy peek inside and ascertain what dirty, little gossip a leading Canadian newspaper had to say about me. Lol!! I'm all about the guilty pleasures.

But alas, the article concerns a shabby home on a Toronto street called Glen Gordon Road and is a sequel to another header: Ugly Duckling: Get some support for this saggy bottom. Geewiligers! Is this a hint that I need to get back in the gym? How unflattering and rude, I must say. Hahaha.

Das Storie mit der Smallisch Reddisch Riden Hood

And now for a silly diversion about pseudo-German-ish versions of Little Red Riding Hood from the Funny Pages website. You readers deserve it after scanning through my long string of naggy rants about Etruscan. On the same site, by the way, they finally solve the riddle of why the chicken crossed the road through the eyes of countless historical celebrities from Plato to Salvador Dali. I must admit in all candor that I found myself uninhibitedly urinating in my trousers from the sheer force of this witful hilarity. Enjoy, my fellow compatriots!