I went to see You Don’t Mess With the Zohan today because I wanted to get somewhere air-conditioned. I was originally going to see Prince Caspian, but when I went to buy the ticket, the dude behind the counter informed me that the A/C was broken in that theater. No, I didn’t want to see Prince Caspian that badly! Thus, I saw Zohan, and it was pretty hilarious. Adam Sandler movies are kind of hit or miss– I wasn’t a huge fan of Happy Gilmore or Billy Madison, although The Wedding Singer was pretty funny.
Anyway, This was definitely much better than sweating it out in the hot humid weather. The weather sucks. It’s like stepping into the bathroom after someone has taken a long, hot shower. I want to cut a chunk out of the air to breathe through, it’s so heavy.
More ancestry news: there is a Peter Parker, an Alice Walker, and a Harry Potter in my family tree. Other cool names: Green Potter, Has Descendants Cowing, Seven Children Cowing (there actually ended up being 12. I don’t know if Seven Children was the seventh), and Hundred Years Lane. So, Seven is an OK name, and Hundred Years could get called Hun or Hunny for short, but what did Has Descendants get called for short? Has? H.D.?
Other than those, there was a Freelove (not that unusual in the 1700s), a bunch of Mercys, Marie Antoinette Seaman, Electra Bonner, Decetta, Mertie, Surviah, Elender, Experience (again, not that unusual for the time), Azubah, Adonijah, and Coonrod. Persis, Asenath and Damaris are names that keep popping up– those are nice names (all female), why aren’t they used more nowadays?
Aside from those, everyone else I’ve found has had a normal name. How boring! Plus, people keep recycling names: every generation has a Thomas, George, William etc. The only time people got creative is if they had so many kids they’d used up all the names in the family. Dudes whose wives died young usually married again… and had another set of kids named the same things as the first set (maybe with some of the wife’s family names mixed in). One ancestor Thomas Something (like that narrows it down!) married 4 times, had 4 sets of kids all of which had a Thomas. How confusing is that? I hope they didn’t all live together.
