Day #7

Everything is in a name. EVERYTHING. Don't forget this. This fact is important and it's true. It's true regardless of whether or not you believe it is true. I will not go into the evidence of this because you can certainly do this on your own time, using the internet or perhaps and older piece of underrated searching equipment, the microfiche.



Now, this baby's name is "Lotus Elena." She seems like a little flower to me hence the "Lotus." And Elena is Helena's mother's name, so I thought that would be nice. And since their other child is "Billy Ray," clearly picked out by Mr. Burton, I thought Helena should be represented in this child. Now this hip celebrity couple has to decide whether to use "Burton," "Carter," Carter-Burton," "Bonham Carter," "Bonham Carter Burton," or just "Bonham" to finish it off. I would use just "Bonham" because "Carter" sounds like she's a country singer, "Bonham Carter Burton" would inevitably be turned into "BCB" the minute she got a DUI or started dating Kate Winslet's kid. And "Burton" is her brother's last name, and celebrities and their children need to be individuals, and shouldn't let on that they are necessarily related. Like Jamie Lee Curtis, who tricked everyone by taking her father's (Tony Curtis) name AND her mother's (Janet Leigh) name, but spelled it differently so no one would know any of them were related unless you saw Halloween H20, 20 Years Later and noticed not only the resemblence between mother and daughter but also their super hilarious inside joke when Janet Leigh says to Jaime "I've always felt like a mother figure to you," which is funny because she IS her mother and then you also think about how they are both stars of super AWESOME slasher flicks, it makes it even cooler.



Booooooooo!!! I just accidentally discovered this kid's real name and it's kinda dullsville and doesn't have the flair and theatricallity of "Lotus" and I think the Bonham Carter Burton's have may have missed an opportunity here. Do you know they live next to each other in seperate residences but share a hallway? What an unusual arrangement.



If the stork brought me a baby, I would name her "Lola" after that teenage gal in Atonement who wore that really smart pant suit.



MY stage name is "Floosie O'Toole."