Sunday, July 28, 2013

What's In A Name?

Before we left Boston we went downtown for family pictures.  On the way back to the car we were walking behind a man who was wearing camo pants and rocking out to a WALKMAN as in with a tape cassette.  And of course we ended up in conversation with him and by we I mean me.  My hubby thinks crazy people gravitate to me.  Some of my friends do not help his perception. 

Anyways, being the polite person I am, I introduce Paul and Emma as well.  He says, "Emma.  Like Lizzie Borden's older sister." 

Huh? 

Lizzie Borden's older sister was named Emma.  Wait a second.  Lizzie Borden.  Lizzie.  Elizabeth.

Holy shit!  We named our children after people that killed their parents! 

Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her father forty wacks and when she saw what she had done she gave her mother forty one. 

And it took a crazy, drunk, homeless man to tell us.  Our children can never hear that poem. 

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