Slog - Comments on He's Going to Have to Apologize For a Long, Long Time... http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon There's so much wrong with this story: ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (AP) - A new father has secretly named his baby girl Sarah McCain Palin after the Republican ticket for president and vice president. Mark Ciptak of Elizabethton put that name on the documents for the girl’s birth certificate, ignoring the name Ava Grace, which he and his wife had picked earlier. “I don’t think she believes me yet,” he told the Kingsport Times-News for a story to be published Tuesday. “It’s going to take some more convincing.”... Copyright 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:38:30 -0800 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:48:07 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Yakdan Sad, but historical.

]]> Yakdan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172569 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172569 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:40:27 -0800 Comment by Al Sad, but hysterical!

]]> Al http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172573 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172573 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:42:03 -0800 Comment by bobcat ack ack ack hope the aliens take them away today...

oh wait they aren't here yet???

check out these idiots praying for the aliens

http://xat.com/our101408

]]> bobcat ack ack ack http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172576 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172576 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:43:26 -0800 Comment by RHETT ORACLE It's rough to be named after a fad. Good thing his daughter wasn't born during the Hula Hoop or Pet Rock craze

]]> RHETT ORACLE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172579 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172579 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:43:58 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Funnily enough, he's got a new nickname around the house, too: "you fucking shithead, what the fucking fuck did you do that for? You're sleeping in the car, asshole".

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172580 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172580 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:44:15 -0800 Comment by Cookie W. Monster At least he didn't name her "Scary Tyler Moore"!

]]> Cookie W. Monster http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172581 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172581 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:44:18 -0800 Comment by Al PS -- Elizabethton? Looks like there's a whole history of not being able to name crap well down thar!

]]> Al http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172585 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172585 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:46:48 -0800 Comment by Greg On the bright side, his wife can file for divorce and get the baby's name changed in the same place.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172588 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172588 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:47:31 -0800 Comment by Jane Wait, doesn't the mother have to sign the birth certificate? She didn't notice the name change?

]]> Jane http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172601 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172601 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:54:05 -0800 Comment by Little Red Ryan Hood Major Major Major

]]> Little Red Ryan Hood http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172608 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172608 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:58:24 -0800 Comment by Madashell If this isn't child abuse, I don't know what is.

]]> Madashell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172628 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172628 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:18:10 -0800 Comment by T At least he didn't name the kid Track, Trig, Bristol, Willow, or Piper.

]]> T http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172632 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172632 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:23:20 -0800 Comment by Baby's Named a Bad Bad Thing and yet Canada has few Trudeaus or Mulroneys for first names. I guess with 300 million people, one's got to go a bit further for uniqueness, although I've heard more than one baby here has the name "Unique".

]]> Baby's Named a Bad Bad Thing http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172638 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172638 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:27:13 -0800 Comment by Cookie W. Monster I'm not praying to, or for, the aliens unless Gary Numan writes a song about it.

]]> Cookie W. Monster http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172640 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172640 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:29:54 -0800 Comment by flamingbanjo "Well, you see honey, once upon a time there was this politician from Moose-knuckle, Nowhere, and for a minute there it seemed like she'd be an important person whose name people would remember for a long time. This was way back before you were born, when Daddy was still wrestling with the demons of Wild Turkey and Oxycodone."

"Before you threw him out, Mommy?"

"Well, just before."

]]> flamingbanjo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172646 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172646 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:33:51 -0800 Comment by ivan My name is SUE!

How do you DO?

Now you're gonna DIE!

]]> ivan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172673 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172673 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:12:33 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways My mother always said that the man gets the final say in the naming of the baby, the day he can squeeze one out of his ass...(or words to that effect; my mother wasn't a truck driver).

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172680 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172680 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:19:29 -0800 Comment by RHETT ORACLE According to the Sarah Palin baby name generator, Sarah McCain Palin translates to:

Chalk Revelations Palin

]]> RHETT ORACLE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172681 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172681 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:19:35 -0800 Comment by kerri harrop Is the baby suffering from some sort of mental retardation? Or, a nervous tic that causes incessant winking? Is she unable to raise her hands above its head?

Does the child have unsightly facial hair, which the hospital refused to airbrush from her first photos? Does she look confused and mad?

If so, the name is more than appropriate.

]]> kerri harrop http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172688 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172688 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:27:35 -0800 Comment by yucca flower This certainly qualifies as a DTMFA.

]]> yucca flower http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172788 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172788 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:01:50 -0800 Comment by dankieneker I think he should have named the baby ( with his wife's addendum included)

YakbobalfnarfivanTflower...

That way most of the commentators here could be part of the BARMITZFAHWHIRL!

]]> dankieneker http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172843 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172843 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:17:19 -0800 Comment by RainMan Of course by the time the kid starts kindergarten no one other than hard core trivia enthusiasts will remember who Sarah Palin is.

]]> RainMan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172877 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172877 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:22:19 -0800 Comment by adlai stevenson my father named me adlai sparkman stevenson when i was born in late 1952, & he named my younger brother adlai kefauver stevenson when he was born in late 1956, & we turned out just swell!

]]> adlai stevenson http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172879 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172879 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:28:24 -0800 Comment by TVDinner @9: they make you sign the birth certificate in the hospital not too long after having the baby. He might have asked her to sign it, said he'd fill it out, and she was probably too tired to question it. She'd just had a fucking baby, for crissakes.

]]> TVDinner http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172906 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172906 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:14:15 -0800 Comment by Kat @9 My first son gestated for 11 months. I insisted induction or else. When he came out dark blue, all I could say was--- I had a Smurf, yeah! I signed the birth certificate shortly there after- before delivering the placenta. I'm just glad mine isn't Brainy or Jokey after that comment.

Still Sarah Palin is worse. She is the first "vagina" American ever to make it to the main ticket. And I detest her for being the token she is. Sadly, she won't be forgotten until a legitimate female candidate makes it.

]]> Kat http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172978 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1172978 2008 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:41:16 -0800 Comment by Gindy Kat, Palin is the first "vagina" American on the REPUBLICAN ticket. The first "vagina" American on ANY national ticket was Geraldine Ferraro, a Democrat. We all seem to forget that tidbit.

]]> Gindy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1173000 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1173000 2008 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:50:32 -0800 Comment by Seajay Now, if he'd done what so many wonderful, progressive Venezuelan parents do, and named his daughter after a Communist hero or two. Lenine Marxa! Much better.

]]> Seajay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1173040 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/hes_going_to_have_to_apologize_for_a_lon#c1173040 2008 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:48:07 -0800