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Saturday, July 17, 2004

Meet my boy, ESPN

"Espen Blondeel, born Jan. 26, 2000, is believed to be the first baby named after [the ESPN television network]."

Yeah, people come up with weird names for their children. The Ruffles Baby Horton campaign comes to mind, where Ruffles potato chips offered a college fund ($50k, which might pay for two years today at certain schools) to parents who had a baby by a certain date and agreed to name it Horton. Seriously, that's not that bad. I thought at first (before researching it, thank you Google) that the baby had to be named RUFFLE or RUFFLES. Horton at least is named after a faithful Dr. Seuss character.

"Charles, I'd like you to meet Horton."

"Pleased to meet you Hort."

Not too terrible. Though I don't know if I'd want to answer to Horton myself. I have enough troubles being Bill. Then again, think of what we could be faced with:

"I'm Campbell Brown talking on the Plaza with my colleague, Hormel Jones, from MSNBC. Good morning Hormel."

"Good morning Campbell. I was just talking to Lipton Dimmock, and he told me he and Smucker Casserino just raised a million dollars with their concert in Tompkins Square."

"That's marvelous. And who was that concert a benefit for?"

"Safeway Muller of Breaker, New Jersey. She lost her sight in Iraq and the money is going for a seeing eye dog."

"Well, good luck to her. Why don't you tell me what you and Minute Maid Geyer are cooking up in our next half hour."

"Well, Campbell, Minute Maid and I decided to go visit some of our old friends from Big Brother Brand Name Name House. Nike Martin is now a country singer. You won't believe what Volvo Rezendes is doing out in L.A. Then of course there's N.B.C. Universal Smith."

"Oh, she's one of my favorites."

"Yeah. Now she is breaking into becoming a clothing designer."

"Who would have thought it, of all those talented people?"

You get the point.

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