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Found while attempting to look up the phrase "nutsy-fagin" (so far no one knows, except it's probably unrelated to the character from Oliver Twist): Cruel names for babies.

This is why I should not have children - I'm not sure I could resist the temptation to name them after typefaces or something. Of course, any kid related to me would probably be teased mercilessly in school anyway, so the name wouldn't make much difference either way.

Belated

(On the death of Vonnegut) Nicole J Leboef says it better:
My immediate reaction to that news was probably not safe for the family friendly zone. It was four letters long. You can fill in that blank. My second reaction, about a minute later, was, “Ah well. We had him for a good 84 years. That’s longer than we had Douglas Adams or Freddie Mercury.” And around dinner-time tonight I found myself thinking, “Wherever he is, he is going to be so pissed that he didn’t outlive the Bush presidency.” I don’t know whether those thoughts fit with the Stages of Grief commonplace, but them’s what I thunk.