I am from Ohio, where our nightly lottery telecast is hosted by Beneatha Barkley (I think that’s her last name). What was her mother thinking? Did she think this child would be beneatha contempta?

My ex-husband’s white trash family was a treasure trove of bad names. His mother’s first name was Haven and she had brothers named Ace, Wig and Hack (real names, not nicknames). It’s that eastern Kentucky inbreeding thing, ya know?

I have a small business researching Quarter Horse pedigrees and have certainly come across some weird horse names in the course of it. The strangest one yet is Fridgit De BS De Ber. Maybe I should go to one of these baby-naming boards and toss that one out there. It would probably catc h on like wildfire, but then again, maybe not. There are no Ys in it.. ……

-K