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Congratulations to Maverick McNealy - BigEasyCard - 04-30-2017
Named 2017 Pac-12 Scholar Athlete of the Year:
http://pac-12.com/article/2017/04/25/stanfords-mcnealy-named-2016-17-pac-12-mens-golf-scholar-athlete-year
Geaux Cardinal!
Re: Congratulations to Maverick McNealy - JJJ - 04-30-2017
Congrats to Maverick!
OT: we have another Maverick on the baseball team too. So these kids' parents are "Top Gun" fans or something? :P
Re: Congratulations to Maverick McNealy - Stymie - 04-30-2017
I would suggest that their parents are Bret and/or Bart fans.....
Re: Congratulations to Maverick McNealy - DC 86 - 04-30-2017
(04-30-2017, 03:23 PM)Stymie link Wrote:I would suggest that their parents are Bret and/or Bart fans.....His brothers are Dakota, Colt and Scout - so the theme seems to be western.
Re: Congratulations to Maverick McNealy - BigEasyCard - 04-30-2017
The rest of the story...
Scott McNealy explains the choice of names for their children (Maverick, Dakota, Colt, and Scout):
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2002-03-31/a-talk-with-scott-mcnealy
He definitely has a sense of humor.
Geaux Cardinal!
Re: Congratulations to Maverick McNealy - Nan3cy - 04-30-2017
"No more Free Willy."Â :D
Re: Congratulations to Maverick McNealy - Bruce Wang - 04-30-2017
There's research out there that giving your kids regular boring names will benefit them in life outcomes. The effect is small and I think the trend towards unusual names wipes out that benefit. Of course, if you're a billionaire you can name your kids anything.
If you're Asian and have a common last name, I think it's a good idea to give your kid an unusual (but not weird) name so they don't get confused with somebody with the same name. God forbid, somebody with the same name does something notorious. I've met several Peter Chungs and upon our introduction, they felt the need to say "I'm not 'Chung is King', Peter Chung"
Re: Congratulations to Maverick McNealy - cctop - 05-01-2017
(04-30-2017, 03:52 PM)BigEasyCard link Wrote:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2002-03-31/a-talk-with-scott-mcnealy
He definitely has a sense of humor.
That's a great interview...well worth reading.
I was going to quote part of it but there are too many good lines.
Scott McNealy seems like a character.
Re: Congratulations to Maverick McNealy - fullmetal - 05-01-2017
Great interview :) I need to pick up golf. (I have zero golf skill.)
Re: Congratulations to Maverick McNealy - JJJ - 05-01-2017
(04-30-2017, 03:52 PM)BigEasyCard link Wrote:The rest of the story...For the benefit of those that couldn't click through to the bloomberg article, the names are cars with a Native American connotation. Sorry, Tom Cruise.
Scott McNealy explains the choice of names for their children (Maverick, Dakota, Colt, and Scout):
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2002-03-31/a-talk-with-scott-mcnealy
He definitely has a sense of humor.
Geaux Cardinal!
Quote:They're all vehicles, they're all Native American-kind of connotations, and they all mean something. Maverick has an obvious connotation. Dakota is a Native American word for "friend." Colt is "little horse." Obviously, Scout is running around checking everything out. So it's kind of fun. They've all got boring middle names: Scott, Barry, William, Paul.
Re: Congratulations to Maverick McNealy - 2006alum - 05-02-2017
(05-01-2017, 07:41 PM)JJJ link Wrote:For the benefit of those that couldn't click through to the bloomberg article, the names are cars with a Native American connotation. Sorry, Tom Cruise.
Quote:They're all vehicles, they're all Native American-kind of connotations, and they all mean something. Maverick has an obvious connotation. Dakota is a Native American word for "friend." Colt is "little horse." Obviously, Scout is running around checking everything out. So it's kind of fun. They've all got boring middle names: Scott, Barry, William, Paul.
McNealy seems like a good-natured guy, but most of these aren't actually "Native American-kind of" names at all - they're Old West/Southwestern connoting names, and largely from European origins. Maverick derives from the last name of Samuel Maverick, a Texas rancher who left his calves unbranded, Scout derives from an Old Norse word and had been in the English language since the 16th century, and Colt derives from an old Swedish word that meant "half-grown pig," and it had been in English usage even longer. Only Dakota derives from a Native tongue. It's a cute play on words, but an odd misattribution, and a weird conflation of Native culture with anything associated with the history of the American West. It's weird, too, because I don't know if much is lost by just saying they're names associated with the American West...
Re: Congratulations to Maverick McNealy - fullmetal - 05-02-2017
Maybe he meant native American, lowercase native ??? But you would surely know that people wouldn't hear what you were trying to say...weird.