Are we the last generation that is going to enjoy the pleasure of pointing out people’s funny names?

To me “Cuthbert J. Meowmix” would be a funny name. But someone raised in our weird indoctrination schools would bristle at the suggestion that it is, and would proceed to describe how unfair it is of me to make fun of someone’s name.

Fair enough.

But life isn’t fair. “Garbage von Bananaskin” is a funny name, and that’s certainly not fair. I can still laugh at the unfairness of the name. And the name itself.

We may not all have the same sense of humor, but shouldn’t diversity in senses of humor be celebrated? If not, shouldn’t unity in the judgment that certain names are funny be celebrated? One or the other, please.

If someone is named “Juan Valdez,” it may be suspicious to make fun of the name, per se. But if he is not the famous character from the coffee commercials, I say it’s justifiable to make a jest upon the subject. Again, a leftist would recoil in horror. As they would if I commented on “Joe Wiley Coyote.”

Hence the question with which this post started.

Someone on a forum referred to:

. . . the old joke about George Meany, former boss of the AFL-CIO. Some reporter once asked him why he didn’t want to run for president. He took the cigar out of his mouth long enough to mumble “I don’t want to step down.”