WTF is wrong with these female reporters and their names? Cokie? Candy? wtf?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

Why don't people grow up and get a normal name rather than a little infant's name?

[Beregond2]

1. ?

Maybe they think it makes them less threatening to their male bosses?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. I don't know but it sounds so F stupid for allegedly professional females to

be named dumbass baby names!

[DJ13]

3. Maybe they were former barmaids in DC?

:shrug:

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. Maybe! nt

[magellan]

5. They're cute as little red wagons

...so their names have to be too.

[skooooo]

11. Makes sense to me!

:rofl:

[BlooInBloo]

6. Ah.. the eternal questions... Kant had the starry heavens above and the moral law within....

... while others of us have this.

[napi21]

7. It's no worse than Wolf! n/t

[Sarah Ibarruri]

LOL! That's true I guess. :-) nt

[ColbertWatcher]

13. LOL

Who would name their kid Wolf? Or Tucker?

[Captain Angry]

8. I think that stuff comes from their first assignments.

When you're weathergirl in Kansas or local puppy news in Philly, you get stuck with the cutsie name. As you move along, it just sticks.

You see it with some male reporters, Rickys, Tommys, I even saw a Davy once, and it wasn't on the Monkees.

I think it's just a throwback to the old-boys network that news has been since the beginning.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

Sexism is alive and F well everywhere when a weather female is a weather "girl" and

has to have plump, fake tits peeking out of her dress and a name like, "Brandy" to get hired. We women are still living in a truly messed up world. :(

[SoCalDem]

20. There was a weather-barbie in New mexico named Chi-Chi

Maybe her father was a fan of ChiChi Rodriguez :)

The names that get me, are the ambiguous ones, like Campbell..

[Sarah Ibarruri]

25. LOL! Chichi in Spain means that area of the female anatomy

Campbell is a surname. That's a fad nowadays, to name your kid somebody else's last name. :-)

[Staph]

36. It's a rather old fad....

in the South, there's a tradition to name children with a family name - both daughters and sons. So when John Smith marries Jane Taylor, they name their daughter Taylor Smith. When William Jones marries Susan Harris, they name their son Harris Jones. And when Taylor Smith marries Harris Jones, their son/daughter will be saddled with Smith Jones.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

46. I never knew that. Interesting. nt

[DAMANgoldberg]

42. Ms Brown is southern

Louisana

[Sarah Ibarruri]

47. Interesting. Well, at least her name isn't Chi Chi lol nt

[ColbertWatcher]

9. Don't forget...

...there will be an entire generation of females named "Britney".

Just think, one day there will be a Supreme Court justice whose first name is Britney and whose last name will be hyphenated.

And she will sign everything with hearts and flowers.

(ADDED ON EDIT)
Oh, I believe it has to do with parents forgetting that their precious snowflake will grow up one day. Maybe they hope little Candy will always stay a princess!?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

15. LOL! True. nt

[verges]

40. Candy

is generally short for Candace. Just like Tom is short for Thomas. Or Tim is short for Timothy. Why are Tom and Tim acceptable, and Candy isn't? Talk about Sexism!

[ColbertWatcher]

43. Because Candy is what you name a unicorn...

Tommy is what you call a young boy; Tom is what you call him when he gets older; Thomas goes on the headstone.

[swag]

10. Wolf, Sheppard, Major, et al.

[SoCalDem]

21. We have a weatherguy named Dallas Raines

:)

[Muttocracy]

38. !! I guess he can't work in Texas! nt

[KitchenWitch]

44. And another named Johnny Mountain!

:D

[johnfunk]

12. I'm only surprised FOX doesn't have anchors named Tiffany and Amber...

... reporting as they writhe on their stripper poles while Neil Cavuto drools lecherously in the foreground. What's the matter, Roger Ailes?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

16. You're right. They need to set up a pole, then all the Cokies, Cookies, Cakies, Britneys & Ambers..

can ride that pole and live up to their name's significance.

[mooseprime]

14. the way i think about it, they're female female impersonators

and have to have appropriate drag names.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

17. THAT's IT! They ARE female female impersonators! nt

[mooseprime]

18. and lil' wolfie

would then be a male male impersonator. i've seen more realistic beards on GI-Joes

[Sarah Ibarruri]

19. He needs to howl a bit lol nt

[mooseprime]

23. it's kind of hard to imagine even a howl sounding convincing

out of wolfie. i mean my cat would look at him with disdain, that's for sure, like "what is wrong with you?!?"

[Sarah Ibarruri]

26. hahahaha! Your cat would bite his tail off and he'd jump over the moon and be gone nt

[JI7]

22. Wolf's real name is Leslie

[Sarah Ibarruri]

27. ROFLMAO! What was John Wayne's real name? Mary? nt

[JI7]

30. Marion HAHAHHAHAHAH

[Sarah Ibarruri]

32. OH MY GOD. It's a FORM of Mary! Serves him right nt

[VotesForWomen]

55. is there something funny about that? bet you wouldn't have the guts to say anything about it to JW's

face.

[Alcibiades]

Cokie earned her nickname

by doing a lot of lines in D.C. clubs back in the 1970's.

Or at least that's what is says on the Internet.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

31. Cokie oftentimes deserves her stupid name nt

[BlooInBloo]

24. Stone Phillips!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

29. Yep, another person that stole someone else's last name to use as their kids' first name nt

[stevedeshazer]

28. Not female reporters, but Scooter Libby, 'Uncle' Bucky Bush,

Buzzy Krongard and his brother Cookie.

But your point regarding female reporters is well-taken.

Bebe Rebozo?

[JI7]

33. how about SAXBY Chambliss

[mooseprime]

37. THAT'S for sure!

the senate seems to be a special magnet for goofball names.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

34. LOL! Yeah well then there are the mega-rich. The rich give one another really stupid nicknames...

and they continue to use these I suppose in an attempt to atone for being the assholes of life.

[Canuckistanian]

54. Don't forget Kyle "Dusty" Foggo

One of the weirdest names I've ever heard a grown man called.

[lpbk2713]

35. One of the most distinctive names in TV news ---- Hoda Kotb.

She seems like a nice lady and she's a breast cancer survivor.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Sarah Ibarruri]

48. I'm dizzy from watching your fatboy Rush spinning in your post LOL! nt

[provis99]

39. well, the appeal of names is a matter of taste, I guess

Currently, cutsie names like Mandy, Amber, or Brittany for girls, or Cody, Wyatt, or Josh for boys make me feel icky-poo. Not very presidential names.

Maybe parents will go back to old American names like Butch or Rusty, or Hazel or Wilma.

But I shouldn't be casting stones; my mom nearly named me "Ponyboy". True Story.

[Jed Dilligan]

41. I don't know, "Cokie" pretty much describes my stereotype of a news anchor.

[ColbertWatcher]

45. Men with stupid names...

...aside from Scooter, how can we forget The Krongard Brothers?

The GOP boys who worked in tandem to give Blackwater everything they wanted!

One was on the board of Blackwater, the other was the Inspector General for the State Department who was charged with investigating Blackwater.

Their names? "Cookie" and "Buzzy".

Okay, that's their nicknames, but seriously. Anyone over 40 shouldn't insist on being called "Cookie" of "Buzzy".

[Sarah Ibarruri]

50. Nothing like a man going through life with a stupid-ass name like Cookie lol nt

[Individualist]

49. I keep expecting to see a Bitsy or a Bambi

and won't be surprised if either name turns up. :eyes:

[Sarah Ibarruri]

51. Or a Brandy. These cutesy names for females have got to STOP existing already! nt

[stlsaxman]

52. Or how about Mara Lyinsombitch...

or rather- Mara Lyin-ass-bitch as i prefer to call her.

;)

[Iggo]

53. Girls having girlie names?

What the...?

:crazy: