There was a Frickin' Chicken place there in the old Fast Track building. How in the hell do you go out of business selling fried chicken in that neighborhood?
During the cold war Cuba had what is called Generation Y where people named their kids names starting with Y inspired by Russian names like Yuri or Yevgeny. You have probably head of Yasiel Puig, Yoenis Cespedes and Yadier Molina but there are thousands of Cubans with names like Yoleissi, Yuniesky, Yadinnis, Yilka, Yiliannes, Yonersi, Yusleibis, Yolady, Yudeisi or Yamilka. Yamilka sounds like the orthodox Jewish headgear but I like Yolady if you pronounce it Yo'Lady.
In 2007, Venezuelan authorities unsuccessfully pushed a bill that would have outlawed “names that expose (children) to ridicule, be they extravagant or of difficult pronunciation” after two Supermans were discovered in the registry. A similar proposal failed in the Dominican Republic in 2009. This month, the Mexican state of Sonora banned 61 oddball names that had been found at least once in state registries. They included Facebook, Rambo, Circumcision, Lady Di and Juan Calzon, or “Juan Underpants.”
At the school where I teach, there was once a girl named Shavodka. No lie. We also had sisters named Treasure and Diamond. Last name--Dallas. There is only ONE profession for them, and it involves a pole.
