Tag: nomenclature

Hall’s Rules of Social Order #58

11 October, 2010 (12:00) | Hall's Rules of Social Order

Do your best to avoid creating problems for yourself and your offspring.  IE: if you chose a name for them that is in any way entertaining, that’s setting them up to be taunted.  They’re name should be easy to pronounce correctly (phonetics works).  I knew someone named Parker Brothers, Chris Cross, and Secretia.  Those are […]

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Hall’s Rule of Social Order #57

4 October, 2010 (12:00) | Hall's Rules of Social Order

Although you have the right and freedom to express your ideas and ideals as you wish, you also need to respect the interpretation and misinterpretation of that from others.  IE:  You can name your kid after objects like “Blanket”, “Apple“, or even “Ocean”, but you’re going to seem a bit odd by social standards. Related: […]

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i’d be a great eccentric millionaire

29 October, 2007 (00:22) | Thoughts & Ideas

I’d be a great eccentric millionaire. I was just thinking today about how much we rely on people’s names as sufficient identification. I would build the biggest house and make it so awesome, then invite tons of people that have the same name as me to live there so we’d have the same address. We’d […]

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