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David Koon goes web-surfing

Our resident media critic/reporter/movie reviewer David Koon occasionally stumbles into some interesting websites that are worth wasting a few minutes of your time. It's been a while since we've heard from Dave on these, but here's a good one for Friday:

This is pretty cool, a website that tells you everything you ever
wanted to know about a name -- source, derivations, names your kid
might get teased with (though this part reminded me of that Saturday
Night Live skit where Nicolas Cage plays a character named Asswipe
Johnson... pronounced Ah-Sweep-Ay... hilarious script here:
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/92/92ababynames.phtml),

Be sure to check out the "perceptions" page for each name, where people
talk about why they hate that name.

http://tools.oxygen.com/babynamer/

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By: Arkansas Times Staff

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