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		School lets six-year-old named Cloud drift away, out of their building, across a four-lane highway and into a neighborhood while his mother waits in the office to pick him up (wtkr.com)		96
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xanadian

2011-10-20 10:50:36 AM

Don't mean to rain on their parade, but what kind of an idiot gives their kid that name?? Their brains must have been in a fog.

Calmamity

2011-10-20 10:55:23 AM

"him"?

That poor kid's gonna have a hail of a time..

Diogenes

2011-10-20 11:00:57 AM

Enough with the puns guys. This is cirrus.

Walker

2011-10-20 11:05:53 AM

Don't name your child Cloud if you don't want him to drift away.

thismomentinblackhistory

2011-10-20 11:56:24 AM

He was probably stoned off his ass.

ArtosRC

2011-10-20 12:00:17 PM

He was just having an existential crisis.

baufan2005

2011-10-20 12:00:27 PM

No mention of the lifestream yet? Im disappointed.

scottydoesntknow

2011-10-20 12:00:45 PM

You named your kid Cloud? Are you cirrus?

snake_beater

2011-10-20 12:00:48 PM

Something something FF7.

/too lazy to GIS

Torchsong

2011-10-20 12:00:51 PM

Approves...

cgraves67

2011-10-20 12:01:04 PM

I'm going to take a real risk of being wrong, and say that his parents may not be winning and parents-of-the-year award themselves. They named him Cloud for gods' sakes.

tomo12144

2011-10-20 12:01:27 PM

sounds like the situation with Cloud went to seed

Your Favorite Token Black Chick

2011-10-20 12:01:30 PM

xanadian: Don't mean to rain on their parade, but what kind of an idiot gives their kid that name?? Their brains must have been in a fog.

How old is the mother/father? If its nestled in the 19-25 range, I can give you 7 reasons why.

/or they're dirty hippies.

cgraves67

2011-10-20 12:01:39 PM

cgraves67: I'm going to take a real risk of being wrong, and say that his parents may not be winning and parents-of-the-year award themselves. They named him Cloud for gods' sakes.

*any

Andrew Wiggin

2011-10-20 12:03:19 PM

what about their other 2 kids...sephiroth and tifa?

ThisNameSux

2011-10-20 12:03:25 PM

I am so farking sick of parents naming kids because of what they think is cool instead of thinking about the affects on their kid for having such a farking stupid name.

rogue_L_chick

2011-10-20 12:03:41 PM

Apparantly, watching the kid should have been a cumulative effort.

Andrew Wiggin

2011-10-20 12:04:22 PM

rogue_L_chick: Apparantly, watching the kid should have been a cumulative effort.

surely you can't be cirrus.

bmalnad

2011-10-20 12:04:53 PM

Wife is a psychologist for Fint schools. Yes, Flint, Michigan. They have problems all the time with kids escaping the elementary schools. They're not wandering off, they're running away from school. I just called her to verify - a second grader named DeQuavion has escaped 12 times so far this school year. He also punched a teacher in the face.

Trance750

2011-10-20 12:05:08 PM

Torchsong: [images.wikia.com image 640x800]

Approves...

Came for FF reference

tomo12144

2011-10-20 12:05:38 PM

I knew a set of twins when I was a kid (born in '71). They were named Sky and Shadow. This is not a new phenomenon.

Grand_Moff_Joseph

2011-10-20 12:06:40 PM

Trance750: Torchsong: [images.wikia.com image 640x800]

Approves...

Came for FF reference

Same here. :)

AcneVulgaris

2011-10-20 12:10:29 PM

cgraves67: I'm going to take a real risk of being wrong, and say that his parents may not be winning and parents-of-the-year award themselves. They named him Cloud for gods' sakes.

Perhaps they wanted him to be a repository of data and apps.

numbone

2011-10-20 12:11:01 PM

Her parenting meth(od) is obvious.

BigNumber12

2011-10-20 12:13:36 PM

If you're that big of a fan, at least choose a reasonable name like "Red XIII."

rogue_L_chick

2011-10-20 12:14:13 PM

Andrew Wiggin: rogue_L_chick: Apparantly, watching the kid should have been a cumulative effort.

surely you can't be cirrus.

I am, and don't call me Shirley.
The thought of the possible stratospheric lawsuit gives me the vapors!

master_dman

2011-10-20 12:14:57 PM

Aside from some kid being mentally challenged, we should be able to think that a 6 year old can walk down the hallway to the office without getting lost.

What should we do? Have a personal escort for each kid every time they have to walk across the hall to the bathroom?

Of course we should blame the school.

no icon tact

2011-10-20 12:16:09 PM

rumpelstiltskin

2011-10-20 12:16:51 PM

tomo12144: I knew a set of twins when I was a kid (born in '71). They were named Sky and Shadow. This is not a new phenomenon.

The curious thing is the phenomenom persists. If it were new, you could give parents the benefit of a doubt. You could imagine the parents musing: "Maybe if I name my kid something weird, he will be truly special." . But after two or three generations, the only thing that can possibly be going through the parents' heads is, "fark it. The brat's going to hate us anyway. Let's just have some fun."

Amos Quito

2011-10-20 12:18:00 PM

That school's security must be wispy.

What a bunch of thunderheads.

elev8meL8r

2011-10-20 12:18:28 PM

Hey mom, you spelled "Clod" wrong.

germ78

2011-10-20 12:19:41 PM

BigNumber12: If you're that big of a fan, at least choose a reasonable name like "Red XIII."

Or "Cait Sith".

tomo12144: sounds like the situation with Cloud went to seed

Mixing your FF references can lead to bad things. Like that Final Fantasy Fighting game for PSP. Terrible things indeed.

HellRaisingHoosier

2011-10-20 12:20:43 PM

To be fair to the school, when I was that young and was told to go to the principle's office ... I went the damn principle's office.

/the kid is a moron

ddam

2011-10-20 12:22:03 PM

The middle school my step daughter attends did away with student TAs because the new superintendent thinks that TAs are like slaves. And with the understaffed school you can wait up to 1 hour to pick up your kid if you have an emergency during the day.

sararenne

2011-10-20 12:22:21 PM

master_dman: Aside from some kid being mentally challenged, we should be able to think that a 6 year old can walk down the hallway to the office without getting lost.

What should we do? Have a personal escort for each kid every time they have to walk across the hall to the bathroom?

Of course we should blame the school.

My child's school... Unless the kid is in Pre-K (3 and 4 year old's).. they walk to the office, water fountain, bathroom, by themselves...

Arkanaut

2011-10-20 12:22:25 PM

They should have at least brought the mother some steamed hams while she was waiting.

RCL

2011-10-20 12:22:49 PM

FTFA: Koria doesn't understand why Cloud was sent to the front office alone...

master_dman: Aside from some kid being mentally challenged, we should be able to think that a 6 year old can walk down the hallway to the office without getting lost.

What should we do? Have a personal escort for each kid every time they have to walk across the hall to the bathroom?

Of course we should blame the school.

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HighlanderRPI

2011-10-20 12:23:35 PM

O HAI - Did someone call me?

www.inhorseharmony.com

Sybarite

2011-10-20 12:25:17 PM

meat0918

2011-10-20 12:27:15 PM

Ah, names. My son goes to school with a girl named Mystery. Her parents are Knowledge and Fury.

Nice people.

Your Favorite Token Black Chick

2011-10-20 12:27:58 PM

germ78: BigNumber12: If you're that big of a fan, at least choose a reasonable name like "Red XIII."

Or "Cait Sith".

tomo12144: sounds like the situation with Cloud went to seed

Mixing your FF references can lead to bad things. Like that Final Fantasy Fighting game for PSP. Terrible things indeed.
Hey, I liked Dissidia!

I_Can't_Believe_it's_not_Boutros

2011-10-20 12:29:30 PM

He's probably just afraid of the cafeteria--another victim of thermosphere.

meat0918

2011-10-20 12:29:42 PM

rumpelstiltskin: tomo12144: I knew a set of twins when I was a kid (born in '71). They were named Sky and Shadow. This is not a new phenomenon.

The curious thing is the phenomenom persists. If it were new, you could give parents the benefit of a doubt. You could imagine the parents musing: "Maybe if I name my kid something weird, he will be truly special." . But after two or three generations, the only thing that can possibly be going through the parents' heads is, "fark it. The brat's going to hate us anyway. Let's just have some fun."

Usually it's "If I name my kid what the rich people name theirs, they will be special"

How many variations of Unique are in use at the moment? I don't have a copy of Freakanomics to reference.

Rufus Lee King

2011-10-20 12:30:47 PM

HellRaisingHoosier: To be fair to the school, when I was that young and was told to go to the principle's office ... I went the damn principle's office.

/the kid is a moron

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HellRaisingHoosier

2011-10-20 12:32:09 PM

meat0918: Ah, names. My son goes to school with a girl named Mystery. Her parents are Knowledge and Fury.

Nice people.

Which one is which?

Slaves2Darkness

2011-10-20 12:33:32 PM

Well at least he was not called Sue.

meat0918

2011-10-20 12:35:17 PM

HellRaisingHoosier: meat0918: Ah, names. My son goes to school with a girl named Mystery. Her parents are Knowledge and Fury.

Nice people.

Which one is which?

Mom's name is Fury. The dad is much more mellow.

gregory311

2011-10-20 12:39:28 PM

Musical genius, or stupid parent?

Let's ask Farkers

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