Comments on: Nicolas Cage Beats Me To It

By: Joshua Gaines

Joshua Gaines — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 22:10:25 +0000

Slow-witted! I take offense at that! He had a speech impediment! So did Joseph Heller!

Philistines!

By: BD

BD — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 21:10:43 +0000

Naming your kid after a slow-witted T-Rex robot is arrogant?

Bumblebee Slipstream Gaines, then?

By: Joshua Gaines

Joshua Gaines — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 18:10:16 +0000

I was thinking Galvatron Soundwave Gaines, myself. But I dunno about Grimlock … that just seems so … arrogant.

By: Frank_D

Frank_D — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 23:10:44 +0000

But Capital Gaines would have a tough time making it across the Berkeley campus

By: BD

BD — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 20:10:20 +0000

Starscream Grimlock Gaines would never, I guarantee, get beat up on the playground.

By: Joshua Gaines

Joshua Gaines — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 20:10:04 +0000

Bah. You guys are just jealous you didn’t think of it first.

I’m naming all my kids after Transformers.

By: Elayne Riggs

Elayne Riggs — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 19:10:08 +0000

Nope Ben, it wasn’t Jurgens, it was Jon Bogdanove. Kal-El Bogdanove must be somewhere in his early teens now, I wonder if he’d have any advice for Kal-El Cage…

By: BD

BD — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 18:10:45 +0000

It’s funny, because he could just as easily have gotten away with it if he’d named the kid Khalil; as in the Lebanese poet Gibran or the Padres shortstop Greene.

By: Jay C

Jay C — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 18:10:00 +0000

PSU, Cage’s real last name is ‘Coppola.’ If you saw Fast Times At Ridgemont High, that’s how he’s credited. He changed his name to Cage in order to show that he wasn’t relying on his uncle’s name to make it in Hollywood. Since he probably never legally changed his name to Cage, his son would legally take his father’s legal surname which is Coppola.

That doesn’t change the fact that the kids first name is totally stupid.

By: Rique

Rique — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:10:46 +0000

That poor kid is going to get beat up a lot.

By: PSU94

PSU94 — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:10:17 +0000

Ignoring the first name for a second, I’m all for a nice tribute to family when naming your kid, but at what point does Nicolas Cage feel like he’s accomplished enough that he can stop reminding people he’s related to Francis Ford Coppola?

By: O.Y.E.

O.Y.E. — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:10:14 +0000

All I can say is Cage’s son had better learn how to throw (and take) a punch before he starts school.

By: jrm78

jrm78 — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:10:02 +0000

I feel sorry for the kid. I don’t think kids in the playground are going to think “superman” when they hear “kal-el”. And I’m not even taking the superman curse into consideration either.

By: Calling all toasters

Calling all toasters — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 14:10:22 +0000

He should have gone for all the marbles: Deathmatch
Inasteel Cage.

By: Frank_D

Frank_D — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 13:10:42 +0000

Is that little boy going to be sorry his parents slapped him with that moniker.

Dweezil and Moon Unit Zappa were better off.

Cage is an idiot

By: sgb

sgb — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 13:10:02 +0000

Nice. His child had a child.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 08:10:38 +0000

Actually, I think Dan Jurgens from DC beat both of you.