A DOZEN STUPID MOVIES...just in case you were wondering

Outbreak
Armageddon
Stepmom
Red Dawn
Hook
Tank
Pretty Woman
Patch Adams
Ghost
Pearl Harbor
Titanic
The Day After Tomorrow

Place Names as First Names

I have been thinking a lot lately about place names given as baby names. The choice is old. After all, Florence and Virginia are not new additions to the naming circuit. But in recent weeks I have heard of the arrival of both a baby "Canada" and a baby "Kansas". Trendeeeee baby naming sites abound with inventive--and increasingly popular--place names. Consider the 90s trends of Dakota, Sierra, and Montana. The last couple of years have seen a spike in off-beat choices like Brooklyn, Boston, and Indiana. And of course entertainment abounds with examples of this style: Paris, London, Ireland, China, India.

I am trying hard here people (see below for more on the Drummer's Lenten promise to tell people they're stupid a little less often) but I can't like these. Not a one. Not at all.

Are there any place names out there that you loyal drummers can think of which are NOT stupid? Send them in! And I don't mean "technically" place names. Sophia may also be a place, but it is not in the category of "place name" and you know it.

While I await your feedback, I'll go for the "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" approach and start picking a really awful place name to circulate on the baby name discussion boards. Use the poll here at Dada Drummer Headquarters to help me out!

Tryndee Nayme Gayme--PUPPY Edition

Have you heard?? UNO the Beagle won Best in Show at Westminster Kennel Club! He beat out the winningnest dog in the US, a poodle named VIKKI. It was quite a shocker!

But what if, after the show, Uno and Vikki met up to share a water bowl and bury the hatchet? And what if that tete-a-tete blossomed into something more...like a litter of seven bouncing pups!!

And what if the Dada Drummer let you NAME A PUPPY!

Mom is the Toy Poodle VIKKI (Smash JP Win a Victory) and Dad is the champion Beagle UNO (K-Run's Park Me In First).

THIS WEEK'S RULES: Use the letters of each parent's fancy registered name (in parenthesis) to give the puppy a new fancy registered name and a new CALL NAME.

And since it's a big litter, feel free to name a few of the pups!! Have fun!

Last Week's Baby Name Gayme WINNER

First of all--sorry tydwbleach--but if any contestant on PR is a likely candidate to be the love child of Heidi and Tim, it’s Christian. Sweet P might be the nanny, but that’s it.

Now for the winners:
3. Hildi Nu-Kim Nutmeg
2. MidHug Klimt Ennui
1. "King" Denim Muhlitu

You're Either IN or Your're OUT!

I have four words for you: BEST. REALITY. SHOW. EVER. That's right!! It's the Tryndee Nayme Boggle Factor Gayme PROJECT RUNWAY Edition!

Your challenge this week is name the fashion-forward glamour baby of HEIDI KLUM and TIM GUNN. You must use all the letters in their names to generate the fierce new moniker for their tiny little style icon.

Entries will be acceped from tonight until next Wednesday.

Make It Work, Designers!

Last Week's Baby Name Gayme WINNER

You had some CRAZY good entries this week, readers! And considering that you were working with two names that didn't have a single freakin' "E" between them, well, I really couldn't be any prouder!

But in this season of political theatre, there was one clear winner. Kudos to one of my two favorite California goddesses...

Lorry Cohabit Banana MacKill.
"Today, I tearfully acknowledge my use of a PEP -- performance- enhancing program. In suspending my campaign, I urge all of you to continue to fight for the right to engage in offspring naming abuse. Can we do it? Yes, we can!In closing my friends, let my mistake serve as a cautionary tale. Always remember that your children, too, could end up named for a 16-wheeled, vaguely disreputable piece of presumably Scottish fruit if you engage in such behavior. God bless America!"

Don't You Like Anything?

The Dada Drummer has been accused of being overly grouchy about creative trends in contemporary baby naming. Well, duh.

But the Dada Drummer has made a Lenten promise to be less curmudgeonly and is thus publishing a list of names that carry the DD seal of approval. Look to the right of the screen and you'll notice an alphabetical sampling of names the Drummer actually likes.

There, are you happy?

(p.s. I'd love to hear your responses to the list. I would also welcome your own A-Z of good names.)