obligatory Debbie Downer times

[mezzanineview]

Ya'll ain't gonna get much out of me except that that name? Is fucking retarded, people. Okay, I may be being a trifle too harsh, but this kid is going to grow up to be a real person someday, and no one will take him seriously.

Bronx Mowgli Wentz, meet Apple, Moon Unit, Zappa, and the gang.

Comments

[icedmaple.livejournal.com]

I don't think a kid can pull off the name "Bronx" without being a serious jock.

I hope he's known generally as Mowgli.

[vinylsigns.livejournal.com]

Indeed, but I actually think Bronx is moderately more workable than Mowgli. Mowgli, really? Like, The Jungle Book Mowgli? Is that even a common name anywhere in the world, and if so, why did they pick it for a very American baby?

I'm laying money down right now, once he comes of age he's changing his name. Care to join the pool?

[icedmaple.livejournal.com]

Nope.

I like Mowgli. It's a Hollywood baby. It can get away with a weird name. It's probably going to grow up to be some kind of arty, eccentric fashionisto and he'll totally appreciate it. It's a literary name, and it sounds cute and characterful.

But the name Bronx is just... one of the poorer areas of New York, right? It's too harsh when verbalised. It sounds way too butch for any child that Pete Wentz could father.

[vinylsigns.livejournal.com]

idk, Mowgli seems anachronistic to me, but both are just NO. After Pete's talk about not having a bad baby name and me being moderately comforted by the sentiment, I take back my complacency.

The Bronx is a pretty densely urban area, but yeah, pretty much the in the latter half of the last century, it's been getting harder for the people living there. The names don't work together well at all, and I just feel sorry for the kid.

[moondarri.livejournal.com]

no, dude, i think it's a hideous name. spectacularly bad. i mean, i'm all for interesting names, & i really wouldn't want to name my kid, like, jack or something. but. mowgli, jeez. also, apparently bronx is related to the place the kid was conceived? so he grows up, like, hey my name is bronx. WHERE MY PARENTS HAD SEX OHGOD.

[vinylsigns.livejournal.com]

Oh thank god, I thought I'd go crazy reading all the bb squee D: and I LOL'D SO HARDCORE AT YOUR REACTION BECAUSE I COULD TOTALLY PICTURE YOU IN MY HEAD. And it's an extremely valid point. Hell, I wouldn't want to be named after...Actually I don't know where I was conceived. And I don't want to, lest my name be Couch or something. But this poor kid will have a lifelong reminder O__o

[tempore.livejournal.com]

Someone else pointd out that they'll call him Beemer for his initials. Which, sadly, makes the most sense.

I don't actually mind either Bronx or Mowgli in and of themselves; I think Bronx is a bit weird, but Mowgli as a middle name to a fairly normal name like Andrew or John or something would have been kind of endearing, you know?

But together, they just don't really flow well. I'm wondering if this is actually a fake name kind of thing to protect the kid until he's older. Pete and Ashlee are not above lying to the press, after all.

[vinylsigns.livejournal.com]

They would do that, wouldn't they? Like, throw out a fake name to rile people up. Dammit, now you've got me doubting myself :/

[tempore.livejournal.com]

Oh absolutely, they would. They've lied plenty to the press before.

"We're just friends. No, really. Of course we're not getting married. No, that pregnancy thing is just a rumor."

So, who knows? We'll find out when someone gets hold of the birth certificate, really.

[elessar.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I'm torn. I want to like it, but out of all the places he could have used, the Bronx? Seriously? And Mowgli doesn't really help at all. Fail, Pete. Fail.

I still think Pete is trying to incessantly remind us he's a furry with that one.

I hope it grows on me :\ I don't want to dislike the name, really.

[kittygrenade.livejournal.com]

BMW? Seriously?
I see you baby Wentz trying to steal PMS'S thunder.

[selphiebooyaka.livejournal.com]

IA. I cringed, I can't lie.

[vinylsigns.livejournal.com]

RIDICULOUS NAME IS RIDICULOUS. My word is law.

[seraph05.livejournal.com]

i must admit i was hoping he'd give the kind a normal name like Tony or Jack or Michael or i dunno something normal. Even if he had a normal first name and a weird second name (i have friends that called thier kind Lucas Zepher but everyone just calls him little Z or Z) but this is pete wentz we're talking about. Ah well, just gotta get used to it i suppose. It's not really any of our buisness.