I swear I'm not making this up

[lilmizmombassa.livejournal.com]

I'm doing my student teaching right now, and in a Journalism class I observe we have a student named John. Today, I filled in for the classroom teacher and read his full name.

John Philip Sousa

...I so wish I were kidding.

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[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

I went to high school with a Johnny Carson and a James Brown.

[ohhvelocitygirl.livejournal.com]

I had to google that.
my ex's last name is frazier, and if our girl had been a boy I wanted to name him brendan. because... yeah. except I hated ex and the boy would have gotten my last name so this is a really pointless story.

[summer-mommy.livejournal.com]

lolol... Wow. The originality. :p

[fellclutch.livejournal.com]

That's kind of fantastic. But also, not.

[cielamara.livejournal.com]

That is awesome.

But also...awkward.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

I had no idea who that was until I googled it, haha.

My mum used to work with a woman who had a son named Austin Powers. He was born before the movies.

[a-tergo-lupi.livejournal.com]

I vote awesome.

[bandnerd88.livejournal.com]

That's pretty awesome, but me being a band kid is probably why I love it.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

Agreed. For the same reason.

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

Yep yep!

Band kids UNITE!

[smallandneedy.livejournal.com]

This :D

[sal_amanda]

My husband is John Philip with a last name that starts with an S so he used to get comments about that all the time, so he's feeling badly for this kid. At the very least, though, I can think of much worse namesakes to have.

[alexandria-skye.livejournal.com]

i hate marches sooooooo much and i for realsies shudder every time i hear stars and stripes forever... poor kid. at least it's not *too* obvious...? (but yay band!)

[jeweledvixen.livejournal.com]

It's not a name I would give my child, but it could be far, far worse, so this is fine with me.

[penguiny7.livejournal.com]

That's awesome. Sort of.

I had a friend from college named John Phillips. So he got called Sousa a lot, but at least that wasn't actually his last name!

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

I wonder if he's related to the composer. I think it's kinda awesome, too.

[rubie-dubidoux.livejournal.com]

I knew a Hayden Christensen before THE Hayden Christensen was at all famous. Super weird.