@cinematheques: Why wouldn't he want a name that he can pronounce? That doesn't sound dickish to me. What does, however, is that his wife just had a baby and they haven't had "more than just two-three hours" together since then.
@bluebears: Yeah, seriously. A traditional name? Whose fucking tradition? And where is he? It seems really weird that a father would be anywhere but with his wife and newborn child at this point.
@apricotta: Yeah, and we have no clue what he means by "traditional." He might just be turned off by the celebrity baby name craze and want something, you know, normal.
God forbid he want a common name that he can pronounce! The injustice!
@msridiculous447: well his girlfriend is Argentinian so...pretty sure he was referring to that. I mean "Apple" is a ridiculous name but not exactly hard to pronounce.
@cinematheques: There are some Portuguese names, like Daniel, that could work in both languages, and others, like João, that just don't, so I could see wanting a name that could be made to work in either.
@cinematheques: Guys, guys, guys: to be fair to poor ol' Tom, at the other end of the link he specifies that he would be fine with the baby getting a Brazilian name, so long as he can pronounce it.
Anything's gotta be better than, what, Baby It? Precious Darling Boy-Child? Male Offspring?
@Jenna: And according to her family, their previous choice was Gabriel, which works in either language. I think by "traditional" he means he doesn't want his kid named Watermelon or Yonkers or whatever the trend is these days.
@fulanita: Right, plus not all Brazilian names are traditional. There are the weird hybrid names (Wilker, Gilmer) or the "American names" (Washington, Lincoln, Wellington), or the famous Greek names (Aristotle, Sophocles) that are popular(ish) in Brazil and I can totally see being opposed to.
@dialing_footnoterphone: @lizbang: Yes, it must be the eyebrows. Maybe she used to wear them with less of an arch and a little lighter in color? Off to look at old Madonna photos...
@slowpoke.r: There is more than a slight resemblance. (full disclosure: I flopped the picture of Kate Winslet l-to-r so her bangs fell the same way as the pic of Madonna)
Is there an article on that cover that says "When a Size 4 is Too Big: a Curvy Model's Struggle to (can't read last word)? Am i the only one tired of reading the occasional piece in fashion mags bemoaning unreasonable standards and ED among models as though fashion mags have nothing to do with it?
I got into a huge, tearful argument with a friend in the ninth grade as to whether or not Georges Marciano was a real person. She insisted that he wasn't, that none of the fashion companies with people's names were actually named after real people, and I was terribly naive to think so. (This was before the Internet.)
@Raised-byHeathens: I believe editors/moderators have a special disemvoweling button for offensive/inappropriate comments. Fairy dust and magic wands may also be involved.
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Re: Elin and Puma. Is she an athlete or something. Why would she get an endorsement?
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"You have the baby, but I don't want any of that heritage."
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God forbid he want a common name that he can pronounce! The injustice!
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I don't know, I just assumed he meant that he wanted a normal, non-celebrity name, and threw in "pronounceable" as a joke.
As in, "I don't care what we name the baby, so long as it isn't "Moses" or "Apple" and I can pronounce it."
I have no idea why I'm defending him...lol. As a lifelong Buffalo fan, he's a sworn enemy of my people.
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Anything's gotta be better than, what, Baby It? Precious Darling Boy-Child? Male Offspring?
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Or did they always look sort of alike and I never noticed before?
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Suck it, Jennifer!
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Unless by background check he means shady-private-eye-type investigating, in which case I will proffer that they seem to have not done a great job.
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And no one looks more surprised about that than Cyndi Lauper.
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