What's in a name?
Whenever you hear the names Seymour or Myron, what do you think of? An old man right? He's probably Jewish and wears glasses so thick that if he looked into a map he could see people waving back at him. When you hear the name Dick, what do you think of? On second thought, don't answer that.
This brings me to my point, noone is never going to give their child these names anymore and these names will just fade away from history., yes I know Dick is short for Richard and whoever came up with that nickname definitely had a futuristic sense of irony. I can only think of one person who actually prefers to be called Dick. Mr. Cheney congratulations! Now Seymour and Myron aren't the most handsome of male names mainly because of the image that pops into your head when you hear it.
My name is Nelson, I wasn't named after anyone in my family, hell I wasn't even given a middle name. What kind of image pops into your head when you hear that: If you are over the age of 40 you think of Nelson Rockefeller. If you are between 24 and 35, you think of Nelson Mandela, If you are younger than that you get Nelson Muntz, the bully from the Simpsons. "HA HA!" Which is what my younger cousins say to me when they see me. So does that mean when their generation starts to have kids they aren't going to name their children Nelson cause they don't want to have to say, "HA HA!" every time they call out for their child.
