Showing posts with label name. Show all posts
Showing posts with label name. Show all posts

Saturday, 12 October 2013

Nomenclature


For reasons his parents cannot explain, the baby's final short list of potential boy names is comprised entirely of children's pop culture icons.


Ultimately, after spending 24 hours with him, his parents opt for the one that he most closely resembles based on appearance alone:


And so, Oscar it is.

Monday, 28 September 2009

Pick the namesake

People like to ask if Emmett was named after someone. "No, we just liked the name," isn't the answer those folks seem to want to hear. We're wondering if we might change our answer to, "Well yes, actually he's named after..."

Based on resemblance, who do you think Emmett should be named after?

Emmett Cullen from Twilight?
Doc Emmett Brown from Back to the Future?
or former NFL running back Emmitt Smith?