Friday, January 26, 2007

 

News: Future Spey is 2/3 fully named

While we all seem to agree that Future Spey will be known as 'Spey' eschewing any given name or cognomen, it seems his parents still intend to complete the societal ritual of assigning 2 more superfluous names to their child.

I wasn't able to pry the actual name from either John or Wendy but I can tell you with absolute certainty that a middle name HAS been picked out. The first name appears to still be undecided. Not the earth shattering news you were looking, eh? Sorry for the build up but its been a slow week and minor scoops will have to do for now.

And because we haven't had a picture in a while, below is the aforementioned baby book John and Wendy received from me for X-Mas. This is probably tacky to reveal but one of the stores in the mall I managed went out of business and I was able snag the book before the repo men could. I'm sure Future Spey will appreciate my resourcefulness.

OK - I can't seem to get the picutre to upload. I'll work on that. In the meantime imagine a 3 ring binder covered in a pink cusion with a green ribbon around it. That's pretty much it.

HAH! Did it! Hey, who rules? Spey rules.

Friday, January 19, 2007

 

Results: John's friends 2 - Speys 0

The lack of effort on my family's part is as discouraging as John's friends' unexpected contributions are encouraging.

I think maybe the Speys need some crash courses in blog participation. Or maybe it's Friday and I need more work to do so I don't get pre-occupied with a blog called Future Spey. But honestly, c'mon people, we/you can do better than this.

Baby name games are fun, so lets start over. Suggestions for Future Spey's future name? Great idea. All are welcome. Just click on the comments button and fire away. Ready? Go!

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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

 

SURVEY: BABY NAMES

Speculation and conjucture abound, as Future Spey becomes set to be the first Spey named in over 25 years.

Wendy already spilled the beans on what the next female Spey will be named (the tastefully chosen Samantha Jean), but since her first born child will be a masculine child we all still get to the play the baby name game.

By surveying the current zeitgeist f the nation, we can get an idea of what Future Spey will be going up against.

Top Baby Names of 2005
1) Jacob
2) Michael
3) Joshua
4) Matthew
5) Ethan
6) Andrew
7) Daniel
8) Anthony
9) Christopher
10) Joseph
Samantha was #8 for girls btw.

Your standard fare. A couple of uncle possibilities. No John tho, but I believe we already established that Stephen John Spey III is off the table so no worries. Digging deeper into the parents' home states, Michigan and Maryland doesn't reveal much, but in Future Spey's fraternal grandmother's state of birth, The Republic of Texas, Jose is actually the most popular baby name. Plus Jose Spey rhymes, so it looks like a win win to me.

Both sides of Future Spey's parents have significant nordic/germanic heritage so one route to persue is the marginally useful baby name generators that let you sort names by origin. Actually thoe websites are pretty much worthless but just for the smell of it, here are

2005's top 10 Norwegian Baby Names
1) Andreas
2) Daniel
3) Darius
4) Fredrik
5) Jonas
6) Kristian
7) Kristoffer
8) Markus
9) Martin
10) Thomas

Eh, nothing special here. Weird spelling is only good for google stalking. But then, with a last name of Spey you're easily google-stalked no matter your christian name, so I guess it's of no concern.

Checking celebrity baby names seems to be a popular thing to do, at least I assume so since every baby name website I go to has a section devoted to that activity, but forget that. I'll have no part in encouraging such nincompoopish behavior.

Dad always used to joke that if he could do it all again knowing he'd have 3 boys, our names would be Ace, Duece and Trey. See above comment for how I feel on that horrible idea.

Mom and Dad instead thankfully used New Testament for the their children's first names and and family names for our middle names. This is something John and Wedny could easily try. Plus we'll finally have an answer for Mom's Southern relatives when they ask "Where are Mark and Luke?" after Matthew, John and Andrew are introduced. However, following the established rubrik would send you back to Stephen John Spey III terrority, unless they search over on Wendy's branches of the family tree. By the way, now would be a great time for Wendy to email me all sorts of info about her side of the family so we can discuss this in further detail.

Alliteration is something you might want to think about, a la Steve Spey. Spencer Spey actually goes beyond first letters and would match the first full phoneme. And letter length is a huge factor when it comes to email address, at least the ones using first names. Probably not going to be an issue, tho. And the number of syllables will be important since it will determine the ease in which bards place Future Spey's name into epic written in iambic pentameter.

Actually, the more you get into the nitty gritty, the more this starts to become an excercise in futility. The bottom line is this kid going to be called 'Spey' no matter what. It combines both brevity and uniqueness. It will be as unavoidable as his acne. Might as well get used to to it.

Of course that should by no means stop us from coming up with suggestions. We've got some time to muse but lets start the brainstorming and see what we can come up with. This blog allows annonymous postings so don't be shy.

And, if all else fails, you can use the interweb to cyber up some automatically generatated nerdy fantasy names!

Friday, January 05, 2007

 

Info: The Year of Future Spey

Just a quick reminder that we are already in 2007, and thus all future Future Spey epochs can be counted upwards from here.

por ejemplo:

Expected date of Future Spey's first steps: 2008
Expected date of Future Spey's first day in an educational instution: 2012
Expected date of Future Spey's first chance to stop going to an educational institution: 2025
If he is anything like his father, expected date of Future Spey's actual last day at an educational institution: 2034
Future Spey's Sesquicentennial Anniverary: 2157

I threw that last one in there because Future Spey's granfather is convinced life expectancy will double within the next couple generations.

Anyway, you get the idea. Baby names are up next, I promise!

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

 

Report: Holidays and Housekeeping

So the holidays came and went and I've nothing much to report on the Future Spey front. I did get a gift for the Future Spey Makers but on acount of my lassitude and their logistics, I have not yet delivered it to them. I'm not sure if it even qualifies it as a xmas present anymore but in any event, it's time to break the suspense.

John and Wendy, I got you a baby book. It's actully rather nice and I hope you don't have one yet. And if you don't, I hope you're planning on using one. No big whoop either way. but yeah - I have your Future Spey Baby Book.

And apologies to all for the derth of new posts. Now that the holiday season is over (MLK Day notwithstanding) I'll have more time to post. In the meantime we picked up fellow last-Spey-standing, Cousin Tyler, of the frehly branched Vegas Speys as a reader. Welkomen Ty. The Vegas Speys... I've got to say Tyler, it has a nice ring to it. You might be on to something. And you comments about the gastronomic nightmare 225 Speys would cause is dead on. As Hans and Franz used to say - Yah it would cause a flabbalanche! Haha, man those guys were great. Why don't we have a Great Uncle Franz?

and in some more boring housekeeping issues, for some really dumb reason I kinda accidentially deleted my gmail address, so please send stuff to my hotmail address (same beginning, it just ends in @hotmail.com) if you've got anything to add. And this blog is now run by Spey3 instead of just AndrewSpey. And I can't make any changes to the blog settings, just make new posts. Yeah, it was as retarded as it sounds. In any event, it shouldn't change your experience much as a reader.

Now more news from North Carolina - the freshly minted OC Speys (that's for Orange County, NC, where they Live) report that already there is substantial "buzz" in the community about a Future Spey in dixie, but alas, still nothing of any substance. Lauren also requested a Celebrity portmanteau like Brangelina or TomKat. So far Mauren or Latt is what we're working with. Honestly tho, Lauren, when you share the same last name it makes it tough. Especially when Spey was a pretty easy name to mix with another name. Just add SP to the front and your done. For instance, it is documented that Mr and Mrs Spey of Tokoma were once known as Spwendy. You could have been Spauren. Or Spersbergen. Now I'm afraid youre just Spey. Sorry.

But anyway, like I said, after the holidays and a little technical difficulties were cleared up we're now ready to start blogging again in earnest (like Grampa!) Whats up next? Well, we're only one mester or so away so why not LET GREAT FUTURE SPEY BABY NAME DEBATE... BEGIN

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