Robots

Date July 20, 2007

On the way home from a CPE field trip the other day, this was just a slice of our conversation concerning names and children’s names:

CPE Colleague: “I always wanted to just write down a series of numbers and letters on the birth certificate, and then later, tell my kid they were a robot. It’d be awesome because you’d have the real, original birth certificate to prove it, to prove that they were a robot.”

Yup. Seriously.

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3 Responses to “Robots”

  1. lauren said:

    i have a friend who actually named their son X (like the greek letter) and pronounce it “kai”. so his signature will really just be an X…

  2. Lindsay said:

    I don’t know if you have anything like this where you are, but I’m a huge fan of the Overheard In… sites, like http://www.overheardinnewyork.com or for me, http://www.overheardinminneapolis.com.

    Anything like that close to you?

  3. J. P. said:

    I had a fraternity brother in college named Xavier who went by X. The joke was that his son would be dx…

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