What “haunts Kerry” (according to the AOL newsfeed) is his youthful days as a staunch protestor against war after serving his country in Vietnam.
As opposed to what haunts Bush, is his youthful days as a drinking, partying drug user who disappeared for months on end while serving his country in Texas.
And Bush’s numbers still appear strong while Kerry’s seem soft.
Ohhh, that wacky liberal media…
PAD
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Novafan:
>>PAD,
I am so glad that you don’t include your political beliefs into the stories you write. Or do you include them and I’m too dense to see it?
His latest Captain Marvel storyline is littered with thinly veiled commentary on the current situation between the U.S. and Iraq.
Tim: Give the baby your last name, particularly if you’ve ruled out hybrid names. If you give her your last name, then people (as in future teachers and such) will assume you’re the dad, Lisa’s the mom, and that it’s a standard set up. If she has Lisa’s last name, the assumption will be that Lisa is the mom and that you’re her stepfather.
As for a first name, if you blend Tim and Lisa and soften the “L,” you’ve got Theresa. Theresa Lynch sounds nice to my ear, as does the nickname of “Terry.”
PAD
If she has Lisa’s last name, the assumption will be that Lisa is the mom and that you’re her stepfather.
Hmm … this could, of course, give me plausible deniability if the kid turns out to be a problem. 🙂
Seriously, advice appreciated — we’ll think on’t (as well as on Theresa, which certainly works better than Mothra).
TWL
Tim,
If you want her to have a decent chance at being a superhero and/or dating Clark Kent you should try some alliteration– Lydia Lynch, Lara Lynch, Lita Lynch, that sort of thing.
You ought to print this whole thing out and save it in her scrapbook so that in the future she will know that she was the subject of considerable importance even before her birth.
hey, Tim, muchas congrats on the upcoming clone, and TRUST me when I say I sympathize as far as the joys of naming. See, in my family, it’s the tradition for the son to take the middle name of the father, so Little Person was destined to be Somebody-or-other Sean Scullion. Stace and I both really liked Alexander until we realized that first, his initials would be ÃSS, and second it would probably be the second minute of his first day of kindergarten before some other kid pointed it out and his entire life would be ruined. So, we named him Brian after my best friend, but the only time Brian gets used is when he’s bad. Maybe THAT’s why he ignores us. Only other advice I can give you, if ANYONE from either your or Lisa’s family has a medical background BAR THEM FROM THE HOSPITAL. Stace’s mother (and I use that term loosely) is a nurse, so she spent the entire 20+ hours that Stace was in back labor discussing all the bad stuff that happens to her patients with the duty nurse. Wanted to put both of them through the wall…
Rat,
Thanks for the advice, though I suppose I’m not the first to point out that in avoiding ÃSS as initials, you’ve given Brian the initials BS instead. Maybe THAT’s why he’s ignoring you; he’s assuming that you’re no less likely to give him BS now than at birth. 🙂
Only other advice I can give you, if ANYONE from either your or Lisa’s family has a medical background BAR THEM FROM THE HOSPITAL.
Given that we’re in California and both sets of family members are on the east coast, I’m not too worried about them storming the hospital. A few days later, of course, will be another story.
(And no official medical background to speak of, but my mother’s a therapist and Lisa’s dad is a toxicologist. Yes, a toxicologist named Hazard — feel free to yuk it up.) Family visits should be … interesting.
TWL