I used to know a family that had it all: the egotistical naming after oneself, names that “went together”, not-really-names that were spelled weird, and the incongruous nicknames. The especially weird part is that these kids were all born in the late 70s-early 80s.

Anyway, the dad’s name was Daniel, the mother’s name was Danielle. Ew already, right? So the first daughter was named Danielle, nicknamed Cory; second daughter, Danilee, nicknamed Cara; third daughter, Daniela, nicknamed PJ (WTF?); and of course the son named Daniel, nicknamed Chad.

I was in the same class as the oldest girl, so I used to ponder this family for hours instead of doing my math.

-A