Comments on: Parking lot baby earns soda sobriquet

By: AnthonyC

AnthonyC — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:58:00 +0000

With friends.

I was at a picnic yesterday, and someone brought a double gulp of diet black cherry vanilla dr. pepper (I just love writing that out)

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:22:00 +0000

Over several hours?

By: LaylaSV

LaylaSV — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:06:00 +0000

First single to be called, “Strange Things are Afoot.”

By: royaltrux

royaltrux — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:02:00 +0000

President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho?

By: benher

benher — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:15:00 +0000

Reminds me of the President’s full name in Idiocracy.

By: Luk

Luk — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:24:00 +0000

How can someone dring that? oO

By: David Rice

David Rice — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:12:00 +0000

Please read the article before commenting! I was expecting to see a cringe-worthy story myself, but it’s pretty clear this is a reasonable family. Not to mention they all look quite fit and healthy. Their friends have jokingly nicknamed the baby Big Gulp – after his large size (9+ pounds) and the quite unusual birthplace. But kudos for the headline, it’s pretty awesome :)

By: teapot

teapot — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:55:00 +0000

Is there a site which documents official name changes? If so I could likely spend days on there imagining circumstances under which they got their original ridiculous name.
Seems there isn’t… but I did find this page of what-not-to-call-your-baby: http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/births/popularBabyNames.htm

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:32:00 +0000

Obviously a bet, and you spotted it, when the edgier ‘tag’ would have been so much more apt.

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:24:00 +0000

Poor twins always stuck with the order Benson and Hedges. Hedges and Benson sounds so wrong.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:21:00 +0000

Don’t you wonder if children named sjwlfjkcdskgkje ever go to court on their 18th birthday and petition to have it changed to Mary?

By: casuists tome

casuists tome — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 07:42:00 +0000

clearly, the only reason for this post was to make use of the word ‘sobriquet”. now you can all go and die…

By: Frank Diekman

Frank Diekman — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 07:27:00 +0000

This child’s life comes pre-ruined.

By: teapot

teapot — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 07:26:00 +0000

This is all class but not quite as classy as Ali G’s baby’s full name:
“The bogs in KFC in Langley Village”

Then there’s New Zealanders.

Top names: Benson & Hedges for twins (cigarette brand). Bus Stop.
Disapproved name: 4Real

By: oldtaku

oldtaku — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 06:37:00 +0000

I forsee many other Bad Life Choices in this child’s future.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 05:52:00 +0000

Perhaps you’re new to the whole “reading” thing, but the use of quotation marks around a name generally denotes a nickname, particularly when wedged between a given name and a surname.

By: BDiamond

BDiamond — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 04:31:00 +0000

Apparently you’ve never heard the (unfortunately insulting to Native Americans) “Two Dogs Fucking” joke?

By: Pope Ratzo

Pope Ratzo — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 04:17:00 +0000

Why does this make me think of Early Cuyler’s girlfriend and baby mama Krystal?

You know, from Squidbillies.

And maybe this explains why my middle name is “Back Seat”.

By: seyo

seyo — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 04:12:00 +0000

my middle name was (is?) supposedly Ho, because the day I was born, May 1st 1975, Saigon was officially renamed Ho Chi Minh City. It was tough growing up, when people asked me what my middle name was. I usually said “nothing.”

edit: hippy/beatnik parents

By: Rob Beschizza

Rob Beschizza — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 04:01:00 +0000

Your ostentatious disappointment only encourages me.

By: Ladyfingers

Ladyfingers — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:58:00 +0000

They should have called him “Five Dollar” in honour of 7-Eleven’s price for a can of Coke.

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:50:00 +0000

Someday he’ll start a band with Clara “White Hen” Clark, Randall “Plaid Pantry” Muntz, Nuveen “Circle K” Marooney.

By: missamo80

missamo80 — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:12:00 +0000

They didn’t give him “Big Gulp” for a middle name. They didn’t give him “Big Gulp” as a nickname. Friends and family did. From TFA:

“Our friends and family have now nicknamed him ‘Big Gulp,’ ” Tye Malley said. “So far we think it suits him. He was 9 pounds, 10.5 ounces. Makes me have a big gulp when I think about it.”

And it isn’t pluraized either. Man, I’d expect a story with such a bad summary on Slashdot, but on BoingBoing? Really guys?

By: rrh

rrh — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:01:00 +0000

Good eye, I’m Canadian. At our local 7-11 the 64 ounce* cup is the Double Gulp.

* AKA 1.8 litres

By: RJ

RJ — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 02:50:00 +0000

Imagine if the kid was born in Grosse Tete, Louisiana.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 02:47:00 +0000

I just had a bad feeling about a possible second meaning of the name “Big Gulp.” The kid may have to murder a couple of his classmates after one too many rumors/jokes about his sexual orientation in connection to the nickname.

By: RJ

RJ — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 02:43:00 +0000

Anything bigger would require hazmat placards on the cup.

By: Bevatron Repairman

Bevatron Repairman — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 02:37:00 +0000

The kid has a nickname — not a legal name — that’s ‘Big Gulp.’
But yes, they’re idiots for having a laugh about where their kid was born rather than standing in clench-fist defiance of a chain of convenience stores that sell crappy food at a consumer-friendly price. Facepalm indeed.

By: jimh

jimh — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 02:21:00 +0000

Thank you, come again!

By: fuzzyfuzzyfungus

fuzzyfuzzyfungus — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 02:14:00 +0000

You must be some kind of commie pinko foreigner, the True, Blue, Big Gulp is 64 ounces…