Make money by telling yuppies names! July 23, 2007
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Parents who pay hundreds of dollars just to find the coolest name for their kid.
Parents who pay hundreds of dollars just to find the coolest name for their kid.
Plus a lower class in India fights to get even lower, Japanese restaurants prepare for horse sushi, the Lord turns amalgam dental fillings into gold, those incompetent suicide bombers, and more in this week’s News of the Weird.
Some parents feel “unprecedented levels of angst” to pick cool enough names for their kids, with some even hiring consultants, according to a June Wall Street Journal report. Baby-book authors charge clients $50 for a list of “special” names, and half-hour phone consultations go for $95. Another adviser charges $350 for three calls plus a comprehensive linguistic history of the selected name, and one California mother paid $475 to a numerologist to “test” the name Leah Marie for “positive associations.” The Journal blames the problem on too much information about names (from the Internet), as well as parents’ fear of dooming their child for life by insufficiently distinguishing their kid from others. [Wall Street Journal, 6-22-07]
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