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Couple Asks Random Starbucks Customers To Name Their Unborn Child
The Consumerist ^ | July 2, 2013 | Laura Northrup

Posted on 07/04/2013 12:33:18 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows

The regulars at my local Starbucks are nice people who seem like they have good taste. I would probably trust their suggestions for which new Frappuccino to try, or even their restaurant or hairdresser recommendations. I would not, however, trust them to help me make my major life decisions. Like naming my child.

And yet, a couple in Connecticut did just that. Using the same system the shop uses to vote for the barista of the month, they set up a polling station to decide between the two finalist names, Logan and Jackson. For random strangers to vote. On the name of their child.

WFSB news didn’t share the final choice, but did share some of the names that came in as write-in submissions. They will not be naming the child Latte, Hulk Hogan, or Barack Obama. Pity.

Flipping a coin also might have worked, but that wouldn’t get them on TV news.

Couple Lets Starbucks’ Customers Decide Baby’s Name [WFSB]


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If you have to ask Starbuck's customers what to name your child, you're not qualified to be a parent.
1 posted on 07/04/2013 12:33:18 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
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To: Slings and Arrows; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...


2 posted on 07/04/2013 12:34:33 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: All; Gefn

Thanks to Gefn for the link!


3 posted on 07/04/2013 12:35:15 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

How about call the child ‘Depressed’?

Because of it’s parents.


4 posted on 07/04/2013 12:41:17 AM PDT by Bullish (Psalm 46)
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To: Slings and Arrows

5 posted on 07/04/2013 12:44:39 AM PDT by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: Bullish

Yeah, there’s a kid who rolled snake-eyes in the genetic crap game.


6 posted on 07/04/2013 12:48:30 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Tewel ...


7 posted on 07/04/2013 12:52:31 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Name him “And.” Confuse the NSA.


8 posted on 07/04/2013 12:52:47 AM PDT by TChad
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To: Slings and Arrows

I warned my lovely daughter if she ever married a guy named Ford, Dodge, Bentley, Ferrari, PLEASE do NOT name her daughter Lisa :-)


9 posted on 07/04/2013 1:06:07 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: TChad

10 posted on 07/04/2013 1:24:59 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
We flipped a coin in naming our son. After it went tails for the one name, both my wife and I looked at each other and said “How about best two out of three?” (Probably some deep psychological mumbo-jumbo to explain it, but there is something about having the choice made for you that clarifies your own choice.)
11 posted on 07/04/2013 1:27:33 AM PDT by 21twelve ("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
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To: Vendome

Trayvon St. Skittles.


12 posted on 07/04/2013 1:27:38 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

“they set up a polling station to decide between the two finalist names, Logan and Jackson.”

Normally, I write off people that pick last names for their child’s first name as immature hipster dolts, but maybe this couple are just big fans of Civil War generals?


13 posted on 07/04/2013 1:36:03 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Slings and Arrows

You mean Macchiato and Frappucino weren’t among the choices?


14 posted on 07/04/2013 1:40:57 AM PDT by informavoracious (We're being "punished" with Stanley Ann's baby. Obamacare: shovel-ready healthcare.)
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To: Boogieman
Normally, I write off people that pick last names for their child’s first name as immature hipster dolts, but maybe this couple are just big fans of Civil War generals?

More likely Marvel Comics and action movies.


15 posted on 07/04/2013 1:43:21 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: informavoracious

Not pretentious enough.


16 posted on 07/04/2013 1:44:14 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: 21twelve
We flipped a coin in naming our son. After it went tails for the one name, both my wife and I looked at each other and said “How about best two out of three?” (Probably some deep psychological mumbo-jumbo to explain it, but there is something about having the choice made for you that clarifies your own choice.)

So you named your child Heads?

Regards,

17 posted on 07/04/2013 1:46:21 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

chuckle!


18 posted on 07/04/2013 1:49:32 AM PDT by 21twelve ("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
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To: 21twelve; alexander_busek

Maybe Kanye West and Kim Kardashian spun a compass needle to name their daughter.


19 posted on 07/04/2013 1:53:17 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I love it.


20 posted on 07/04/2013 2:01:59 AM PDT by TChad
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