This dude proved the point: Name your kid stupid shit, and they suffer. He should know, being a man named Kelsie*. Also, don't burden your boy with the Junior moniker either, Jr.s are screwed from the get go, never measuring up to Senior.
Excerpt of The New York Times obituary by Douglas Martin about a book Mr. Harder wrote which I would love:
"One of his best-known books is the “Illustrated Dictionary of Place Names” (1976). Tidbits from the dictionary: Ellwood City, Pa., is named for Col. I. L. Ellwood, one of the earliest manufacturers of wire fencing. Iowa comes from a Sioux word for “the sleepy ones.” Hope, Ark., is named for Hope Loughborough, daughter of James Loughborough, a director of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad.
Sunlight Basin, Creek and Peak in Wyoming all came to be when prospectors lost in the fog glimpsed light. The names of the Upper and Lower Sysladobsis Lakes in Maine mean “rock that resembles dogfish” in an Indian tongue. He found five towns named for Lincoln, but not Abe, and five Franklins not named for Ben. Yankeetown, Fla., got its name from migratory northerners. So did Crackertown, Fla., but that didn’t last."
*Why'd he ignore his own theory and name his son Kelsie also? Who the hell knows. Misery loves company?
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