Thursday, October 13, 2005

Jeremiah and Jedidiah

This link will take you to a CNN article about a family that just had their 16th child. The article reveals that the father is a former Arkansas state representative named Jim Bob and all 16 kids have names starting with J, including the atrociously named 11-year-old Jinger, 8-year old Joy-Anna, and the newborn Johannah. (The latter two aren't so much atrocious names as it is atrocious that they were named so similarly. From there it's not really such a big insanity leap to name their inevitable next two sons Prince Michael and Prince Michael, is it? Thankfully they couldn't do that because apparently whatever freaky religion they belong to maintains that God will smite them if their babies' names don't start with J.)

On the one hand, I'm thinking, "16. 16? 16!!! How do they handle it when I am just scraping by with the management of one?" On the other hand, I'm thinking "Cuckoo! Cuckoo!" On the other hand (yes, I have three), I'm thinking, "At some point enough people actually voted for this nut for him to win!? That explains a lot about the South."

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