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Sunday, April 16, 2006


What's in a name? Apparently a lot if you're a celebrity.
"You're likely to be the only one in any normal-size group with that name," Mr. Jillette said by e-mail, adding, " 'Moxie' is a name that was created by an American for the first national soft drink and then went on to mean 'chutzpah,' and that's nice."

"Everyone I know with an unusual name loves it," he wrote. "It's only the losers named Dave that think having an unusual name is bad, and who cares what they think. They're named Dave."
Now why did he have to go and pick on Dave like that? And what's wrong (or boring) about naming people, oh, I don't know, names? I'd much rather hear a kid named Moxie CrimFighter or Pilot Pilot Inspektor then the androgynous names that are popular now. Search this database and see when Skyler, Taylor, Riley, Dakota and Morgan became prevalent. Why is it that the dumbest sounding names became popular in the last 20 years?



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