Story is the kind of hippy-doofy name I'd expect Jenna Elfman to name her child, but I actually like Elias.

I love Elias. It's the middle name of two people I love and the name of the Big Boy franchisers I grew up with. (I used to think all Big Boys were Elias Brothers). Story is about what I expected from Jenna and Bodhi. And I don't mean that in a good way.

So did I! That must be where my love of the name Elias comes from, though I didn't immediately associate with Big Boy in my head.

Story Elias Elfman. When you say it out loud, it's really bad.

Do the $cientologists give their kids strange names to protect them from thetans?

You know, I never thought of it that way. Maybe the thetans are thinking something like this:

"Oh! A new baby to latch onto! Oh wait, his name is Story. He'll have enough issues, he doesn't need me."

Whoa. Story Elfman. The poor kid is gonna get teased. The name conjures up images of a tiny little elf storyteller. I hope he's rich, good looking or smart.

A name like that is probably more like an open invitation for the thetans to come kick his ass and take his lunch money.

I was reading about the UFO abduction that Fire in the Sky was based on, on Wikipedia, and I started thinking about the really HOT guy from the movie, Bradley Gregg. Besides Fire in the Sky, he was also in Stand By Me as Eyeball Chambers, and apparently lotsa other stuff.

Anyway, I checked out his IMDB page, and I found that he is a proponent of the WTF baby name trend.

His children's names are:

Zion, McAbe, Braverijah (Bria), Galilee, and Jemima



OOOOOOOOOOOOkay. McAbe? Galilee??? and BRAVERIJAH??

McAbe is the single most awesome name ever.

Wait, so Zion and Galilee sound like typical super-uber-Christian naming, and then Braverijah? Like Elijah, but braver? And McAbe--the Scottish Abraham?

I'm trying to picture what a Scottish Abraham would be like (because I think that would be pretty funny) but all I can figure is that Hagar and Ishmael would be cast into the moor instead of the desert.

What would Abraham's family tartan be, do you think?

bagels maybe some lox

I'm pretty sure Bradley Gregg is LDS. In which case, I'm not really comfortable ridiculing his children's names. That's like going, 'Ewww, Roooooth,' to a Jewish girl or making fun of anyone named Michael or David or Mary or any one of the few thousand Christian names common in the western societies. To me, freedom of religion and speech kind of mean -- freedom to name your kids something other than Jennifer or Sara or something not everyone else in kindergarten is named.

Personally, if I dislike a name its because I just don't like the sound of it. I don't even think about the religious connotations.

I'm not ridiculing his decision to use names that originated in the Bible, whatsoever. He has every right to choose names that are important to him just like Jermaine Jackson may have had a visit from an angel who told him to name his child Jermajesty, and Shannen Sossymon may have been told by her priest to name her child Audio Science. Doesn't change the fact that they are all unusual names and elicited a, "WTF" reaction in me.