Tuesday
Dec012009
What is in a Name
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 
That would be a great Dollar Bin discussion about comic book characters. However this go around the Dollar Bin keeps it a little closer to home. They talk about themselves. Listen in and learn a little something about what its like to have a name.
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Reader Comments (17)
HA! I'd almost forgotten about this little conversation. Digging the Dollar Bin Shorts idea. Only suggestion is to maybe label them as such in the show header so that people aren't surprised when the show ends after 15 min.
I've considered putting "DB Short" in the title. It was really just an idea I had last week. This isn't really an official DB Short, maybe. This is more of a we needed a show and I wanted to test the idea, but I'm glad you dig it.
Even before listening, I can tell that I'm going to enjoy a robust discussion on ontology and the relationships between signifier and signed. I wonder who's going to be the first one to bring up Derrida and deconstructivist theory? I can't wait!
Derrida doesn't really do it for me. I'm actually more of a fan of Barthes and his work on semiotics. "From Work to Text" is fascinating, if not slightly boring and hard to read.
Wut?
I find Derrida more of a visual thinker, somehow or other, so perhaps that's why I like him. But I think it's a requirement that they be hard to read, and usually taught by someone with a seething hostility to anyone without a doctorate (such as students).
We're just funnin', Ted. The question of what it means to something have a name, or for what it means to name something, is one of the oldest in philosophy, and overlaps the question of what language is and what words are. Which seems straightforward, until you think that in order to describe language and words, the only tools you can use are - language and words. It also shades into "what is real" and similar questions, and goes back to Plato at least. Who, as we all know, invented the plate.
Seriously guys, very very funny stuff this week.
Today, on a very special episode of the Dollar Bin, "The Dollar Bin Gets All Philosophical And Stuff".
Everyone on here knows me as Joel however my full name is Joel Shawn Mangrum and until 4 years ago I went by Shawn so my family still calls me Shawn. I got tired of people expecting a woman when they heard my name. Funny thing is that my father is James Robert Joel Mangrum, my older brother is Joel Chadric Mangrum, his son is Joel Christian Mangrum, and my son is Joel Ethan Mangrum so there are 5 Joel Mangrums so far. The police once pulled me over for speeding when I was 1and tried to arrest me for bad checks that would have been written when I was 13 that my older brother had actually wrote.
I did go to school with a guy who's mother was Vietnamese and who's father was an American serviceman. His real name was Fang Johnson. THere's no corporate CEO Fang Johnson but I bet there's mass murderer Fang Johnson. However, you had Fang, his brothers Lang, Chang and his sister Dorothy.
This was TERRIFIC! High kudos to the crew. I only wish that it was longer.
On another note, my wife is a labor and delivery nurse. She has seen kids named "L-'ea" several times. Not just once. Not just twice, but SEVERAL times. She has also seen the names "Shithead" pronounced "Sh-theed" and Scion. Scion like the car, not like the biblical name. Why? They saw one on their way into the hospital and liked the way the name sounded.
I think people hate their kids.
As a school teacher, I have seen a wide range of "creative" names. My favorite so far has been a girl named Aqua. Could be worse, right? It was...her last name was Mann.
Holy crap Bradd...you may be the lottery winner.
1) I've since done a google search for L-'ea and come up empty so I am surprised your wife has seen so many.
2) Holy smokes Bradd that is a great addition to the name game.
Looking at the results, Adam, my librarian-fu leads me to believe it's because Google's search algorhythm has trouble dealing with punctuation, and often ignores the dash or considers it the equivalent of a space in favor of returning more results. That leaves you with L', which is the french equivalent of "The". Any actual names would be several dozen pages down in the rankings at very best.
Oddly, though my handle is a pseudonym, I was once contacted by someone whose family name was Wrye - and was disappointed I wouldn't be coming to their family reunion.
I've tried searching with quotes to specify exactly what I want: "L-'ea" and it still turned up nothing.
That is funny about the family reunion. You should have gone.
I just realized I had a show posted as a draft last week and I never posted it live. For those wondering it was/is a Rappin' With Richard. Tomorrow, however I have an interview show lined up to post. I could post them both this week let me know what you guys want.