Comments on: What's In A Name? (...And Other Trivia) http://www.chrisweigant.com/2008/12/02/whats-in-a-name-and-other-trivia/ Reality-based political commentary Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:31:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2008/12/02/whats-in-a-name-and-other-trivia/#comment-4238 Elizabeth Miller Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:29:58 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/index.php/2008/12/02/whats-in-a-name-and-other-trivia/#comment-4238 @ChicagoMolly Michale has a wonderful sense of humor, I can assure you! Just don't push his buttons! @ChicagoMolly

Michale has a wonderful sense of humor, I can assure you! Just don't push his buttons!

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2008/12/02/whats-in-a-name-and-other-trivia/#comment-4209 Michale Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:22:30 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/index.php/2008/12/02/whats-in-a-name-and-other-trivia/#comment-4209 @ChicagoMolly My bust.. As many on here can tell you, one of my biggest "buttons" is terrorism. I apologize for jumping on you when it apparently wasn't warranted.. Michale..... @ChicagoMolly

My bust..

As many on here can tell you, one of my biggest "buttons" is terrorism.

I apologize for jumping on you when it apparently wasn't warranted..

Michale.....

]]> By: ChicagoMolly http://www.chrisweigant.com/2008/12/02/whats-in-a-name-and-other-trivia/#comment-4208 ChicagoMolly Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:08:39 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/index.php/2008/12/02/whats-in-a-name-and-other-trivia/#comment-4208 Oh dear. See, I had thought that the "... if <b>x</b> then the terrorists will have won" meme had achieved the status of Cliches We Can Toss Off For A Wee Chuckle. I guess not. Note to Tim Berners-Lee: Could you cook up a little HTML we can use to flag jokes? Oh dear.

See, I had thought that the "... if x then the terrorists will have won" meme had achieved the status of Cliches We Can Toss Off For A Wee Chuckle.

I guess not.

Note to Tim Berners-Lee: Could you cook up a little HTML we can use to flag jokes?

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2008/12/02/whats-in-a-name-and-other-trivia/#comment-4207 Michale Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:11:12 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/index.php/2008/12/02/whats-in-a-name-and-other-trivia/#comment-4207 @CW <I>Not unlike a certain "M*A*S*H" episode (where it is revealed that the initials in "BJ Hunnicut" stand for nothing more than "my mother, Bea Hunnicut and my father, Jay Hunnicut"),</I> Really?? I know that episode and I know Hunnicut would always say, "BJ??? It stands for whatever you want it to." I didn't know the whole story about it being from his parents initials.. I learned something new today! :D Danke... @ChicagoMolly <I>If Barack Hussein Obama doesn't use his middle name, then the right wing terrorists will have won. </I> {{{{siiiiggghhhh}}} Puulleeeesssee.. Calling the Right "terrorists" is akin to calling the Left "Nazis".. There oughta be a corollary to Godwin's Law that prohibits throwing around the terrorist moniker on a whim... Michale..... @CW

Not unlike a certain "M*A*S*H" episode (where it is revealed that the initials in "BJ Hunnicut" stand for nothing more than "my mother, Bea Hunnicut and my father, Jay Hunnicut"),

Really?? I know that episode and I know Hunnicut would always say, "BJ??? It stands for whatever you want it to."

I didn't know the whole story about it being from his parents initials.. I learned something new today! :D Danke...

@ChicagoMolly

If Barack Hussein Obama doesn't use his middle name, then the right wing terrorists will have won.

{{{{siiiiggghhhh}}}

Puulleeeesssee.. Calling the Right "terrorists" is akin to calling the Left "Nazis"..

There oughta be a corollary to Godwin's Law that prohibits throwing around the terrorist moniker on a whim...

Michale.....

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2008/12/02/whats-in-a-name-and-other-trivia/#comment-4206 Chris Weigant Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:22:12 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/index.php/2008/12/02/whats-in-a-name-and-other-trivia/#comment-4206 Osborne Ink - I had forgotten that about Grant. ChicagoMolly - Excellent point about King Hussein, too. -CW Osborne Ink -

I had forgotten that about Grant.

ChicagoMolly -

Excellent point about King Hussein, too.

-CW

]]> By: ChicagoMolly http://www.chrisweigant.com/2008/12/02/whats-in-a-name-and-other-trivia/#comment-4205 ChicagoMolly Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:38:32 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/index.php/2008/12/02/whats-in-a-name-and-other-trivia/#comment-4205 If Barack Hussein Obama doesn't use his middle name, then the right wing terrorists will have won. It truly amazes me that in the 21st Century people will fall for this word-voodoo over having the same name as someone else. FWIW, wasn't King Hussein of Jordan one of our best friends in the Middle East for many years? You might as well say that after James Earl Ray was arrested for Dr King's murder that James Earl Carter and James Earl Jones should both have changed their names to avoid being tainted by the association. Sheesh! The business about pushing "so help me god" into the oath of office has bugged me for a long time, too. I should say <i>"Oath or Affirmation"</i> because that's how the framers refer to it. They understood that members of some religions (I'm thinking Quakers and Jehovah's Witnesses) hold that swearing any kind of oath amounts to blasphemy, and they made room for that. And there's no requirement that you do the job while holding an Old or New Testament, Koran, Humanist Manifesto or any other tribal badge. Wasn't it Dennis Prager who blew steam out his ears a few years back when the first Muslim elected to Congress held a Koran? You really wonder what goes on in their patriotic little brains. If Barack Hussein Obama doesn't use his middle name, then the right wing terrorists will have won. It truly amazes me that in the 21st Century people will fall for this word-voodoo over having the same name as someone else. FWIW, wasn't King Hussein of Jordan one of our best friends in the Middle East for many years? You might as well say that after James Earl Ray was arrested for Dr King's murder that James Earl Carter and James Earl Jones should both have changed their names to avoid being tainted by the association. Sheesh!

The business about pushing "so help me god" into the oath of office has bugged me for a long time, too. I should say "Oath or Affirmation" because that's how the framers refer to it. They understood that members of some religions (I'm thinking Quakers and Jehovah's Witnesses) hold that swearing any kind of oath amounts to blasphemy, and they made room for that. And there's no requirement that you do the job while holding an Old or New Testament, Koran, Humanist Manifesto or any other tribal badge. Wasn't it Dennis Prager who blew steam out his ears a few years back when the first Muslim elected to Congress held a Koran? You really wonder what goes on in their patriotic little brains.

]]> By: Osborne Ink http://www.chrisweigant.com/2008/12/02/whats-in-a-name-and-other-trivia/#comment-4204 Osborne Ink Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:02:51 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/index.php/2008/12/02/whats-in-a-name-and-other-trivia/#comment-4204 My favorite presidential middle name trivia is Ulysses S. Grant. His birth name was Ulysses Hiram Grant, but the 'S' was recorded by a poor copyist at West Point. I'm all in favor of Hussein throwing his middle name back in the faces of all those idiots who've been pronouncing it so carefully for the last two years. HUSSEIN HUSSEIN HUSSEIN! Indeed, I have adopted it in forum names -- "Matt HUSSEIN Osborne" -- as a way of doing just that. The best response isn't to shy away from the name, but to stick it right at 'em. My favorite presidential middle name trivia is Ulysses S. Grant. His birth name was Ulysses Hiram Grant, but the 'S' was recorded by a poor copyist at West Point.

I'm all in favor of Hussein throwing his middle name back in the faces of all those idiots who've been pronouncing it so carefully for the last two years. HUSSEIN HUSSEIN HUSSEIN! Indeed, I have adopted it in forum names -- "Matt HUSSEIN Osborne" -- as a way of doing just that. The best response isn't to shy away from the name, but to stick it right at 'em.

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