Reub's journey

01 April 2014

новорожденных Kerry Bliss

Usually you have to be a zillionaire to get a hospital wing, a football stadium, or a library named after you. If you aren't fabulously wealthy you have to wait until you die, and then maybe you get a city park, or perhaps a street done up in your name, but only if you've been very very good.


It's a rose. Not many peonies here in Oregon.

But let's say you have a choice in the matter. I wouldn't mind a flower, maybe a peony, white with pink edges. A bridge would be great, but it would have to be extremely small, because little bridges are the best, and also because you have to be quite important to get a big bridge in your name.  Let's say the military needs a name for something; like, you know, they name their weapons after people...Howitzers and Sherman tanks and so forth. They could name a parachute after me and I would be happy. Not a gun though.

A small room in a big library would be nice, but the single window would have to have panes in it, and a cushioned window seat for lounging.

Anyway. Those are all daydreams. Shockingly, my son tells me that something has actually been named after me:


Yeah. A freakin' Russian doll-thing. Or whatever that is it's wearing. See for yourself:

http://www.dostavka.ru/Kerry-BLISS-id_6510553

I'm the mom. I should have been googling his name, the youngest son. Looking him up on Google images, seeing what he's up to. Instead he was googling my name, ostensibly giving his girlfriend a preview before she has to meet me in two weeks. So, I wonder what she thought.

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I bet she really really can't wait to meet me now.

I do get 4 1/2 stars on a Russian "Target" website though. Not bad. You better google yourself and see how you're doing.

26 comments:

  1. It could be worse, right? Like some awful personal health care product.

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  2. Wish I still knew how to read Russian to see if it's complimentary or an insult!!

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    1. With 4 1/2 stars I'm going with complementary. I google-translated the word in the title and it means "newborn." :-)

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    2. But it does make me wonder why I was docked a half star. Why not 5 stars?

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    3. Complimentary. That's one of those typos that spell-check can't find.

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  3. I think that this should be a trend. I look forward to seeing many more things named after you.

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    1. A trend! My god. Like what other things? ..."the kerry bliss laser pointer"..."the kerry bliss ice cream scoop"...the world is a random place; this could happen to you too, Laoch...

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  4. You continue to crack me up! She's a pretty little thing. Too funny tho! Yeah, I'd prefer a bridge or a flower. Take what you can get, I guess. lol

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    1. That's right. I'll take the baby doll, thanks!

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  5. Wow. Pretty cool. Better than a poke in the eye. I'm sure googling you will in no way prepare her.

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    1. True. Googling me is practically useless.

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  6. I found some little girl named Rubye on Fetch but couldn't handle reading about who she is when I'm don't even know what Fetch is, but I'm sure she could use a Kerry Bliss. Sorry.

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    1. Rubye is such a great name. In my head I pronounce it Roob-yah.

      It's sort of a creepy thought that there are perhaps thousands of little girls that *need* a Kerry Bliss out there. Makes me look anxiously over my shoulder.

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    2. That's funny!
      One commenter always calls me Rub eye. I don't think he does it on purpose. Another told me Rubye Jack sounds like a cheese. It's actually my mother and father's names.

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  7. This cracked me up. I've googled myself but have never found anything this interesting!

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    1. I think I googled myself a couple of years ago, but never on google images. That's where this showed up. If you haven't already, you should try it. Is the Barbie doll named after YOU?

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  8. Are you a whole doll or just a head sewed onto a bag?

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    1. Why Granny Annie, what an indelicate question. I am asking myself this very thing as I sit at the computer. Am I a whole person or just a head sewn onto a bag? Thinking about it deeply.

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  9. only one question: when does your order arrive?

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    1. Well Slim, since you ask, my order of 50 Kerry Blisses should arrive in time for Christmas. Ani and Eliza will love them, don't you think? Maybe one for you and Dan, too.

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    1. You're right. It's a pretty good name to have; no wonder the Russians wanted it. :-)

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  11. Having a doll named after you is not a bad thing. Better than something lethal.

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    1. Absolutely. I would be very upset to have something nasty named after me. However the baby doll is still disconcerting.

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