http://www.kentucky.com/106/story/160432.html
Posted on Mon, Aug. 27, 2007
Names for baby are out of this world
YOU DON'T HAVE TO SPEAK KLINGON TO PICK A SCI-FI MONIKER
By Jim Jordan
HERALD-LEADER BUSINESS WRITER
Listen up, parents-to-be.
Or should I say, "Kree." That's alien for "attention" on the sci-fi series Stargate SG-1.
Why bother with popular baby names like Ethan or Emily when you could choose something with a sci-fi twist? That's the premise behind the book Sci-Fi Baby Names, to be released Sept. 1 by Robert Schnakenberg, author of The Encyclopedia Shatnerica. No need to explain that one.
And while Schnakenberg lists "exotic" baby names like Boba (Star Wars bounty hunter Boba Fett) or Klaatu (The Day the Earth Stood Still), he also notes the connection with seemingly everyday names.
Like James.
As in Star Trek's James T. Kirk. See The Encyclopedia Shatnerica if you're clueless.
Kentucky voter records show three James T. Kirks born since the premiere of the show in the '60s. They ducked our calls last week, no doubt tired of being hounded by prank callers.
Sorry, though, no Klaatus as of yet. Yet, I say.
Shake, don't stir
Posted on Mon, Aug. 27, 2007
Names for baby are out of this world
YOU DON'T HAVE TO SPEAK KLINGON TO PICK A SCI-FI MONIKER
By Jim Jordan
HERALD-LEADER BUSINESS WRITER
Listen up, parents-to-be.
Or should I say, "Kree." That's alien for "attention" on the sci-fi series Stargate SG-1.
Why bother with popular baby names like Ethan or Emily when you could choose something with a sci-fi twist? That's the premise behind the book Sci-Fi Baby Names, to be released Sept. 1 by Robert Schnakenberg, author of The Encyclopedia Shatnerica. No need to explain that one.
And while Schnakenberg lists "exotic" baby names like Boba (Star Wars bounty hunter Boba Fett) or Klaatu (The Day the Earth Stood Still), he also notes the connection with seemingly everyday names.
Like James.
As in Star Trek's James T. Kirk. See The Encyclopedia Shatnerica if you're clueless.
Kentucky voter records show three James T. Kirks born since the premiere of the show in the '60s. They ducked our calls last week, no doubt tired of being hounded by prank callers.
Sorry, though, no Klaatus as of yet. Yet, I say.
Shake, don't stir
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