tonight after watching sisterhood of the traveling pants (high times, fast cars in happy valley), my friend jon, in mid conversation about america ferrera said,
"wait. her name's america? that's her name?"
it is.
that spurred a very intelligent middle of the night kind of conversation...thinking of as many countries as we could who people are named for. we got:
that spurred a very intelligent middle of the night kind of conversation...thinking of as many countries as we could who people are named for. we got:
georgia
kenya
chad
india
asia (not a country but i guess 'america' isn't exactly a country. if her name were united states ferrera, i would not have added asia. see my rationale?)
kenya
chad
india
asia (not a country but i guess 'america' isn't exactly a country. if her name were united states ferrera, i would not have added asia. see my rationale?)
darfur
bangladesh
and that's not even counting people named after cities: savannah, charlotte, paris, london, brooklyn, dallas, austin, norman, houston, raymond (new hampshire, baby - holla to shauna), kansas city, spanish fork...
we had more, people. we had more. jon claimed to know a guy named "mexico" but we all know he's lying through his teeth to better feel part of the group. why you gotta go and ruin the exercise, jon?
and that's not even counting people named after cities: savannah, charlotte, paris, london, brooklyn, dallas, austin, norman, houston, raymond (new hampshire, baby - holla to shauna), kansas city, spanish fork...
we had more, people. we had more. jon claimed to know a guy named "mexico" but we all know he's lying through his teeth to better feel part of the group. why you gotta go and ruin the exercise, jon?
2 comments:
Hi Holly!! I am so glad that you have a blog too!! I hope things are going well for you! We should get together for lunch or something sometime. It's been a while!! Love ya!! Rashelle
You know someone named Spanish Fork?
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