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Help[Opinions] Newly minted Tony winner Darren Criss's kids' names
Darren Criss just won a Tony Award for his starring performance as an obsolescent robot in the musical Maybe Happy Ending, which also won the award for best musical.
Unfortunately, his kids' names are disastrous: Bluesy Belle (g) and Brother László (yes, his first name is Brother). At least he got the accent marks right for László...
Unfortunately, his kids' names are disastrous: Bluesy Belle (g) and Brother László (yes, his first name is Brother). At least he got the accent marks right for László...
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I had no idea Darren Criss had children, or that he'd given them such ridiculous names.
Hah, I actually knew someone named Brother. He was a gay man who had previously been a monk and left when he married an Anglo-Catholic priest. Bizarrely it worked on him.
But yeah, names are dreadful. Bluesy Belle genuinely sounds like something someone might name a milk cow, or perhaps an alcoholic beverage.
But yeah, names are dreadful. Bluesy Belle genuinely sounds like something someone might name a milk cow, or perhaps an alcoholic beverage.
His name was Brother and he went on to become a brother? Were they calling him Brother Brother when he was a monk? I hope so, I'm really hoping he didn't choose a new name when joining the monastery.
I think this is why this name makes me laugh so much because "brother" is such an impersonal non-specific way to refer to someone. It makes me think of monasteries and old-timey wild west and using "brother" when you neither know nor care what someone is named. Then to turn around and use it as a personal name is bananas. Like naming someone Person.
I think this is why this name makes me laugh so much because "brother" is such an impersonal non-specific way to refer to someone. It makes me think of monasteries and old-timey wild west and using "brother" when you neither know nor care what someone is named. Then to turn around and use it as a personal name is bananas. Like naming someone Person.
"Like naming someone Person."
Or Guy. Haha.
Or Guy. Haha.
Honestly, I never knew the couple well enough to know the details of how he got that name, I just knew him as Brother.
Okay, we know the kid is the brother. There's a boy and a girl in the sibset, what else could he be?
Bluesy Belle just sounds like a cheap worn-down broad in a speakeasy crying in her bathtub gin.
Bluesy Belle just sounds like a cheap worn-down broad in a speakeasy crying in her bathtub gin.
Brother László is hilarious. I hope there was like a monk named Brother László that's somehow become an inside joke for their family and that's how the child got his name. It sounds like such a sitcom gimmick name.
It's not good in real life and I do feel sorry for the kid but it makes me laugh. Like if I actually met him, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to hold in the giggle.
I can't even be mad about Bluesy because it pales completely next to Brother László. And I do hope they call him both names at all times.
It's not good in real life and I do feel sorry for the kid but it makes me laugh. Like if I actually met him, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to hold in the giggle.
I can't even be mad about Bluesy because it pales completely next to Brother László. And I do hope they call him both names at all times.
And Justin Bieber's son is Jack Blues!
Having the blues, blue in the face, blue balls, one in a blue moon, ClearBlue, blue devils
I don’t get the fascination with the name Blue either
I don’t get the fascination with the name Blue either
Not forgetting 'And I guess that's why they call it The Blues - time by myself could be time spent with you' !
I dont know what mindset you have to be in to name a child 'Brother'...it's nonsensical
Was he trying to pay homage to the Blues Brothers? Why not just give them names of the founders or some members of the Blues Brothers? Sad.
It might not read.
Wow, that's tragic. At least the middle names are ok. Bluesy & Brother are dumb. They sound like names a little kid might give to their stuffed animals.