The name ebb and flow is a mysterious thing. I'd say the majority of the people I know who named their children names in the top 20 swore they thought the names they chose were not particularly common. I'm named for my mother, who was born in the only 10-year period when Virginia was in the top 10. She was, however, named for her grandmother.

Growing up, every class had more than one Michael, Robert and William. Unsurprisingly, I see they were in the top 10 in that era.

irreversible cardiac arrest

Otherwise known as death.

When I was working at my dad's office one summer, I came across a medical report that said something like, "Patient suffered cardiac arrest and sudden death. This was particularly serious considering patient's prior history of sudden death."

so she had to get a GED.

A friend of ours stopped going to high school so she could get started on several masters degrees in advanced mathematics. She finally got her GED the day before her doctoral defense. She has the two hanging next to each other and smiles when people realizes the dates are so close.

Edit: she also had to get a special dispensation to be on her own doctoral defense committee, because they needed three qualified people, and the last qualified person who understood what she was working on was in Soviet Russia and the subject was potentially classified.

Hey Tep! I'm watching the Blue Beetle episode of Brave and Bold right now.

Jamie Reyes, why are you so awesome???

I'm watching the Blue Beetle episode of Brave and Bold right now.

Which one? There were two Blue Beetle episodes.

Tom Scola, why are you so awesome?

....didn't mean to kill the thread.

Sorry. I got sucked into Shatner as a result.

(It is hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that Shatner and Nimoy are the same age. Also, that Shatner is OLDER than Leonard Cohen. I do find myself wondering if they were ever in the same circles in 1950s Montreal, though. I mean, he's only 2 years older than COHEN.

That's a very odd thought, Plei.

Not for you to have, I mean, but to be in my brain.

It is hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that Shatner and Nimoy are the same age. Also, that Shatner is OLDER than Leonard Cohen. I do find myself wondering if they were ever in the same circles in 1950s Montreal, though. I mean, he's only 2 years older than COHEN

I was going to say that, if they both went to Jewish school, then they probably went to the same one, since Montreal really only has one Jewish school, but wikipedia tells me that Cohen went there, but Shatner did not. (It's actually a pretty interesting school. In addition to English as the language of instruction and Hebrew language in religion classes, they also require that all students take French and Yiddish.)

t edit: I was wrong. The Montreal Jewish school that teaches Yiddish isn't the same one that Cohen attended.

Ple, you should follow the Fug Girls SWINTON! strategy and just refer to him as COHEN!

P-Cow, your voice post sounds like Steven Hawking. You poor little critter. I'm glad you didn't have any irreversible death trips.