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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 07:42 AM Original message |
LEAVING TRADITION BEHIND: Brand-named babies |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 07:45 AM Response to Original message |
1. How much are their corporate false gods paying them to do this? |
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billyskank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 07:47 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. About three hundred bucks |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 07:47 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. $375 bought the baby in the article... |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 02:40 PM Response to Reply #1 |
14. Anyone who does t his to their kid |
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billyskank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 07:46 AM Response to Original message |
2. Bloody hell |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 07:50 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Crazy, eh? |
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eyesroll (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
6. At the park with my SO's daughter and her friend... |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 09:17 AM Response to Reply #6 |
12. Poor kids is what I am thinking. My husband has a cousin named |
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Reverend_Smitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 12:00 PM Response to Reply #6 |
22. maybe thats what their parents were drinking... |
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yvr girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 08:53 AM Response to Original message |
7. My mom had an elderly aunt who called her, "Camay" |
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DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 09:04 AM Response to Original message |
8. I kept hoping this was from The Onion |
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Nickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 09:08 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Read Freakonomics, he has a chapter on this subject. Very enlightening. |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 02:38 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Sadly...no. |
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xmas74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 02:18 PM Response to Reply #13 |
26. If your daughter should have been Boone's Farm |
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DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 09:05 AM Response to Original message |
9. Catholics used to name their kids after saints |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 09:15 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. They still do... |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 02:42 PM Response to Reply #9 |
15. Still do. I did. |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 04:48 PM Response to Reply #9 |
20. Problem being? |
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DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 11:45 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Brand names have now become holy artifacts |
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bertha katzenengel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
16. sweet crispy Jesus |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 03:10 PM Response to Original message |
17. Saran! |
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sbj405 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 04:28 PM Response to Original message |
18. Passion? Secret? Oh the poor kids. |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-12-06 04:47 PM Response to Original message |
19. I like David Foster Wallace's idea in "Infinite Jest" |
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RedStateShame (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
23. That is so lame!! |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 02:14 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Here's the thing...I'll let you in on a little secret...if you promise not |
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RedStateShame (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 02:39 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. That's not so bad |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 02:45 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. At 16, she knows Allll about him (ack) and finds it rather funny. It's |
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smokey nj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
25. My sympathies in advance to Massengill and Vagisil |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 03:54 PM Response to Reply #25 |
29. I grew up with a girl whose last name was Massengill. |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-13-06 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
30. Honestly, do we need further proof that the marketing industry is Satan? |
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