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Paladin
10-04-2005, 05:11 AM
Nicholas Cage and his wife just named their brand new baby boy Kal-el Coppola Cage. Yes folks, they named their son after Superman! They weren't even kind enough to give the kid a usuable middle name. :eek:

Discuss.
Medic
10-04-2005, 05:13 AM
Doesn't one of his other spawn also have the middle name Coppola?
jackrabbit
10-04-2005, 06:24 AM
The irony here is that Nick Cage did a Saturday Night Live skit where he and his wife were coming up for names for their kid. She'd offer a name and he'd shoot it down, saying how easy it was to make fun of.

End of the skit, he answers the dor for a package, the mailman says "Package for Asswipe Jone?"

and Cage yells "It's pronounced: Az Wee Pay!"
Tai
10-04-2005, 07:45 AM
Lol, that is very ironic indeed!
Circuit
10-04-2005, 08:31 AM
There was something funny on SNL? :eek:
jackrabbit
10-04-2005, 08:56 AM
It was a long time ago. Eddie Murphy didn't even work for Disney yet.
Creole Ned
10-04-2005, 09:02 AM
That kid is going to get Kryptonite stuffed down his pants by bullies in grade school, you just know it.

Considering Nick Cage was at one point in line to play the part of Superman in the new movie, is this some kind of lame-o way to "keep it in the family"? Or does the name Kal-El actually have meaning beyond the Superman comic? I'm too lazy to check. Interweb search hounds, go!
Andri
10-04-2005, 10:28 AM
I am not much for governments telling people what to do, but in this case, I can see some sense in the German naming laws that require kids to be given a "real" name. (What constitutes a real name is outlined in a 1000 page long book. Suffice it to say that names like Spongebob, Chandelier, Pikaboo, and Kal-el would not pass the test.)

Poor kid! :(
Medic
10-04-2005, 11:17 AM
I heard a morning radio show where a crack addict named her twin girls Heroin and Cocaine.
jackrabbit
10-04-2005, 11:41 AM
... based on the manner in which they were conceived? She probably pronounces them all different.

hee 'RO in.

Coca 'INE ee.

*shrug*
Paladin
10-04-2005, 12:12 PM
No Ned, they actually named the kid after Superman. No other meaning of the name, even if there is one, was intended.

Remember, this is the guy who thought it would be "cool" to marry Elvis' daughter because he's an Elvis fan.