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Have you ever noticed how people will give names to events or places?

Sometimes it can be amusing, sometimes it can be very irritating. The word ‘Watergate’ always made me think of a dam that had floodgates in it. The nick-name for the St. Louis arch - ‘Gateway to the west’ - made me think of a corral. Westgate believe it or not is not the same as the arch.

WW1 and WW2, who decided that those two wars should have numbers on them? I mean that there have been so many wars in this world that the number could in reality be much higher. Nick-name are something that we all deal with. In high school my nick-name was AWOL. (I was caught cutting class.) The media is one of the sources of those infamous name that are stuck on things.

What is with the names? I guess it makes it easier to remember than just putting dates on everything. Sort of like the war of 1812? or not.

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Just read an article on the internet that had me wondering if the parents were on LSD.

A nine year old girl in New Zealand finally got her name changed. I cannot imagine what her parents were thinking to have named her - Talula Does The Hula… I do not think that the parents have any love for their child. I can understand wanting your child to have a name that means something special, but get real people.

How can it be love to handicap an innocent child with a name that will make them into someone that will be mocked and made fun of? Why did the child have to wait for nine years to get that horror changed? Why was it even allowed to be put onto her birth certificate to begin with? Too bad that the parents can’t have their names changed to Moron #1 and Moron #2 for the rest of their lives to see if they would like to be mocked and made fun of because of a name. I do not understand how or why someone would do that to a kid.

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