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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 didnt 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 wouldnt get them on TV news.
Couple Lets Starbucks Customers Decide Babys Name [WFSB]
TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: napl
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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.
To: Slings and Arrows; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
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posted on
07/04/2013 12:34:33 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: All; Gefn
Thanks to Gefn for the link!
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posted on
07/04/2013 12:35:15 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
How about call the child ‘Depressed’?
Because of it’s parents.
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posted on
07/04/2013 12:41:17 AM PDT
by
Bullish
(Psalm 46)
To: Slings and Arrows
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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)
To: Bullish
Yeah, there’s a kid who rolled snake-eyes in the genetic crap game.
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posted on
07/04/2013 12:48:30 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
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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)
To: Slings and Arrows
Name him “And.” Confuse the NSA.
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posted on
07/04/2013 12:52:47 AM PDT
by
TChad
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 :-)
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posted on
07/04/2013 1:06:07 AM PDT
by
Impala64ssa
(You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
To: TChad
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posted on
07/04/2013 1:24:59 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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.)
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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.)
To: Vendome
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posted on
07/04/2013 1:27:38 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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?
To: Slings and Arrows
You mean Macchiato and Frappucino weren’t among the choices?
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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.)
To: Boogieman
Normally, I write off people that pick last names for their childs 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.
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posted on
07/04/2013 1:43:21 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: informavoracious
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posted on
07/04/2013 1:44:14 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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,
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posted on
07/04/2013 1:46:21 AM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: alexander_busek
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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.)
To: 21twelve; alexander_busek
Maybe Kanye West and Kim Kardashian spun a compass needle to name their daughter.
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posted on
07/04/2013 1:53:17 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
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07/04/2013 2:01:59 AM PDT
by
TChad
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