Pitt and Jolie Baby Names Make The Grade?

While visiting a forum today I came across the discussion on Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, discussing of all things, you guessed it, the twins’ names. Someone actually referred to the names Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon as being “graded” somewhere.

Tick, tock…tick, tock…really people. We need to grade baby names. Let’s just be as pleasant as we are when we look at an ugly baby and say how cute. Why is it less offensive to grade names and not the baby’s features. “Really unless those eyes turn brown you’ll never make the dean’s list…we better tape those ears down too.”

Am I disturbed by this new trend? Let me think about that…NOOOO.

I already know that I must deserve an F in baby names.

My oldest is Cristina and I’m annoyed that people are annoyed when I have to reiterate, “that’s Cristina without an H”…or even more annoyed when I fill out official paperwork and even though I spelled it correctly they correct me in case I’m wrong when they type it up. (That just happened.)

How about she is NAMED after a relative and that is the way it is spelled in the country they came from…or wait maybe some American at Ellis Island spelled it wrong when she signed in at Ellis Island and she was stuck with that awful name of Cristina without an H forever. If she only knew that her great-granddaughter now has to live with that same misfortune of a name. I only hope I annoy them more every time I spell it.

It is not my fault really. I mean the name I was cursed with, Violet, how awful is that (sarcasm guys). At least it isn’t the dark ages anymore and variety is the spice of life. I remember coming home from school with a paper that said Valerie all over it instead of Violet and my mom asked me why. I told her the teacher said nobody is named Violet, my name must be Valerie and she made me practice writing it. Surely my mother had really misspelled my name, I mean horribly misspelled it (Violet=Valerie, hmmm). So my mom gets an F too. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

I don’t know how she could have gotten it wrong since her mom’s name is VIOLET and my dad’s mom’s name is VIOLET…okay the woman still gets an F, what was she thinking with that (you’ll note that I spell my name as Violette…for good reason, how confusing is that filling out official paperwork in a small town). I hope I annoy everybody when I spell my first name too.

Are you annoyed?