Please, in the name of all you hold dear, go there and vote

[vaskidmark]

http://mostlycajun.com/wordpress/?p=16446
 
Seriously, folks, it is as if the fate of the world hangs on the outcome of this balloting.
 
Or you will get a massive headache from all the facepalms you do reading the names.
 
But go vote.  Vote early and vote often.  Maybe the winner will win something?
 
stay safe.

[BlueStarLizzard]

looks like a character list for a really bad fantasy novel.

[MillCreek]

I liked the comments about how 'Breezi Lei' will end up working the pole, with a name like that.

[RevDisk]

What language are those names?

[Azrael256]

I have done my part.  Na'Mahnie Tre'nea is clearly the best one because spellcheck gives up completely on it.

And to be fair, I will back down instantly and publicly apologize to the child, in person, as soon as someone shows me a reference anywhere in history in any language that indicates this is a real name and not a string of syllables that the mother threw together.

[Viking]

What language are those names?

Moronian.

[BryanP]

What. The. Hell? 

[Jim147]

Moronian.

I would have thought Darwin would have made that a dead language.

jim

[Azrael256]

What. The. Hell?

Births in a hospital in Louisiana that is...  Uhhhh... Well-versed in Medicaid billing.  The writer will peruse the paper periodically for the announcements and post some of the more... unusual names.

[AZRedhawk44]

What language are those names?

Eeebonix.

I chose "JaKyja SaMona" just because it sounds like something Michael Jackson would grunt while fondling himself.

[freakazoid]

  I'm so going to hell for laughing at that.

[charby]

I wonder if parents think about the future of their children. Names like them usually cause a resume to go straight to file 13.

[Viking]

I wonder if parents think about the future of their children. Names like them usually cause a resume to go straight to file 13.

How many of those parents do you think are employed? How many of their children will be employed, in a capacity other than making license plates for flying cars in the future?

[Gowen]

from the comments section

This is what happens when you feed a bag of scrabble letters to the dog and allow it to 'produce' the name.

This is so true..

I had a Milwaukee cop tell me some names of people arrested...  Le'mon Jelo and his brother Oranjelo, then there was the lady Va' gina (g=h sound).  All you can do is shake your head.  One day I was joking around with my wife and came up with La'trina.

[MillCreek]

When I first saw the list, with all the consonants and apostrophes, I wondered if it was Hawaiian, Samoan, or some other South Pacific islands language. 

[RoadKingLarry]

What language are those names?

American Coon ass, AKA Cajun.

[Hawkmoon]

It appears there is a growing segment of American society who should be permanently enjoined from the use of apostrophes.

[Hawkmoon]

American Coon ass, AKA Cajun.

I thought Cajun was Creole French. Those names are NOT Creole French.

From the always-authoritative Wikipedia:

Cajuns (play /ˈkeɪdʒən/; French: les Cadiens or les Acadiens, [le kadjɛ̃, lez‿akadjɛ̃]) are an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. state of Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles (French-speakers from Acadia in what are now the Canadian Maritimes). Today, the Cajuns make up a significant portion of south Louisiana's population, and have exerted an enormous impact on the state's culture.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun

[Gowen]

No, those names are not Cajun.  Names like that come from the darker complexion population.  Bill Cosby had some real good comments on modern names.

[seeker_two]

I thought Cajun was Creole French. Those names are NOT Creole French.

Nah.....Creole is more your urban, upper-class, French-&-African-descended types.....Cajuns are more French-descended swamp-dweller types....kinda like the difference b/t city slickers & country folk....