Man gives his son strange name

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HOLLAND, Michigan (AP) -- Tacking Jr. or II onto a boy's name is too common, a new father decided, so the self-described engineering geek took a software approach to naming his newborn son.

Jon Blake Cusack talked his wife, Jamie, into naming their son Jon Blake Cusack 2.0.

Version 2.0 was born Tuesday at Holland Community Hospital, and the proud parents took him home Friday.

"I wanted to find something different to name him besides Jon Blake," Cusack, who is self-employed with Westshore Design and Cusack Music, told The Holland Sentinel.

He said he had the idea for a few months, and spent the better part of that time persuading his wife to go along.

Jamie Cusack said she didn't concede until the week before the birth. She said she had "picked out the theme of the baby's room and done other things. I decided to let Jon have this."

After 2.0's birth, the Cusacks sent out an electronic birth announcement.

"I wrote in the birth announcement e-mail stuff, like there's a lot of features from version 1.0 with additional features from Jamie," Jon Cusack said.

My wife insists our first kid will be called C3P0...... I thought that naming our new dog C-bo would be enough for her, but it's just strengthened her determination in this.


....weird thing is, she doesn't really like Star Wars...

Oh, but that story is neat but not very surprising...

what a nerd.

Grant, if you name your kid C3P0, I might just have to fly to Taiwan and whip ya. That's crazy.

Oh... and what a geek... naming his kid 2.0

Uh huh... Your family will be all over you if you allowed that.

That story was hysterical.

Gabo, you could have C3PO as his middle name.

I've already tried suggesting it as a middle name she's not going for it...

After that, her second option is a symbol... like O+-> or something

Hey I thought it was funny and original.......... but then again maybe that's cuz I am a nerd too!!!

What if I were to name my son "Evan: the Sequel"

Grant, no star wars names or symbols!

I met someone who has a step-daughter named Deja. So is there another Deja in the family. Deja and Deja vu?

"Deja!"
"What?" "What?"
"Not you, you!"
"Me?" "Me?"
"Deja!"
"Deja who?"
"Deja vu!"


oh man, that'd be funny

gaboman: If you must do it, at least make it look normal, like Sithripyo.

Well, if you can call that normal.

Grant, what you do is pick a horrid name for the second child or for a girl. Then tell your wife o.k., but only if I get to name one this. She may change her mind. Oh, and I love Dekka's idea if you have to name a kid that.

No no no, no matter what the child is she's want to give it a weird name. For a girl it'll probably be something like .... I have no idea actually. She seems to think we'll only have a boy, when we get around to it.

The Sequal is a cool idea

Oh Grant. You just have to try to direct her. After all, you both have to pick the name. Ron liked the name Seamus. Not a bad name, but the kid would really get teased here. So, we ended up with Damon. Maybe you should tell her you like really boring names like Minerva, Milly ect. COMPROMISE

People shouldn't be allowed to name their children any more. Let's make this giant computer that just spits out names at random, but the parents get one -do-over' if a Mabel or Maude comes out.

-HECK!

screw it, how about just arbitrary numbers and letters

"awww..... look at little 127-A65234IJ0-20H8, he has his father's eyes!"