No relation to Jebediah Obadiah Zachariah Jedediah Springfield

[norml]

Friday, November 12, 2004
No relation to Jebediah Obadiah Zachariah Jedediah Springfield
Office discussion of the Bushes; wondering how Jeb Bush got his nickname—we were pretty sure it wasn't short for Jebediah. (Me: "That sounds too Old Testament for the Bushes.")

It turns out that Jeb's full name is John Ellis Bush—hence, J.E.B.; it's an acronym, not an abbreviation. (It's a good thing they didn't try the acronym thing with Dubya—how would you pronounce GWB, "goob"?)

Side note: In the course of deciding on and writing the title, I discovered that I'm incapable of saying/thinking/typing "Zachariah" without wanting to follow it with "Malachi"—because the book of Malachi is right after the book of Zechariah in the Bible. Yeah, I've been working on these things too long.

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[Solly Mack]

1. Even though that is how Jeb's name came to be, an Obadiah Bush is

Shrubs' great-great-great-grandfather. Full name Obadiah Newcombe Bush.

[norml]

5. Obadiah is in the Bible, but Jebediah isn't.

I wonder that the origins of the name Jebediah are?

[Nothing Without Hope]

2. Funny! Like the Texas grocery store chain, H.E.B.

I sort of like the idea that maybe the family stole the idea from that -- not that those upright moral folks would ever steal anything...
:eyes:

Of course, a Bush by any name would smell as corrupt.

[burn the bush]

3. norml r u with n.o.r.m.l.?

[norml]

4. I've been a member of NORML, and I helped to get a local group going

which lasted a little over a decade. I am in no way an official spokesman for NORML. I just wanted to show support for NORML by choosing norml as my user name.

[Bzzzz]

6. Oh Gawd...

while expecting my 2nd child (thank goodness it was a girl), my now EX wanted to name our child Jebediah if a boy...we have a son named Jeremiah and my mother was horrified of the name the EX wanted...she said that she couldn't imagine calling for the boys(if it had been so) "Jeremiah...Jebediah"...hehehe
So glad he's my EX...:crazy: