“That’s my son Buckley over there, he’s failing upwards like a chip off the old block. And here are my lovely daughters Smuckers and Plucky - we expect great things from them in the reflexively misogynistic homemaker department.”
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Dialogue from any random 80s skiing/skateboarding/breakdancing/BMX movie:
“Did you guys hear?! Tucker and Buckley are teaming up to buy the rec center so they can tear it down and put up a bank!”
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“I know that you don’t know him, but Buckley is a fine, up-standing, white boy; like Brock Allen Turner. So, I feel sure you could write him a glowing letter of recommendation, Mr Biden.”
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Because “Reagan” is already so overused in those circles.
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Is it, though? Or did you mean utterly predictable?
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You mean he didn’t end up as a squash or fly fishing instructor?
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Why would anyone doubt that when Tucker himself is a nepo baby?
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Buckley Carlson sounds like a folksy way of talking about some ill-defined medical complaint.
“Of course, your dad would have gone to Vietnam if it hadn’t been for his buckley carlson, if you know what I mean.”
“Yeah, I’ve had a buckley carlson since I was born, but it’s never held me back from doing anything I wanted to do.”
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One of my best friends in high school is named Buckley. HIs parents were immigrants from China, and apparently they thought giving their kids these kinds of high-toned Anglo names would help them fit in.
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He has no record of achievement- but he was admitted to and graduated from Georgetown and Yale Law?
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Some people can make an unusual name work for them, for many it’s a cross. My wife was given an odd name for reasons similar to your friend. Her classmates made passage through high school unbearable, though of course her name was only one point of vulnerability among many, She countered by being terrifyingly good at everything - the school ran out of academic awards for her. I doubt Buckley Carlson can say the same.
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Carlson’s now in a hissy fit fight with Boris Johnson after El Blobbo said he couldn’t understand why Republicans were so afraid of the Confused Ham:
In this case, they both need to lose.
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TC’s requirements for “achievements” may differ from that of yours or mine. I’m sure his are unethical and sleazy… at least.
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Glasses aren’t on and I misread the name, so I’m just going to tell this totally unrelated story which has nothing whatsoever to do with William F Carlson.
As a kid in summer camp I was blessed to have gone in with advice from my cousin and sister who’d gone there previously. They recommended that when it came to the horseback riding activity, I ask for the attentive and well trained horse named “Blackie.” And, there was also a specific horse I should avoid at all costs.
There was another kid who was sturdier than me, same age, and English was not his first language. On our second ride, we were close together in the lineup. When he heard me say I intended to ride Blackie, he got irritable. I didn’t really want to fight. I would have lost decidedly. And, he was selected to choose horses first, and fair is fair. So I thought I wouldn’t get my special ride.
Out came Blackie.
Now, my rival grew even more irritable. “No, no, no.” He pointed. This tough young man had already bonded with the one horse no kid in their right mind should want to ride.
Buckie.
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I reckon he’d have Buckley’s chance.
Aussies will know what that means. For the rest of ya: Buckley's chance - Wiktionary
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It’s neglectful to consider a name without considering what peers will be calling him. Or, worse, he did. “I grew up being known as Fucker, and I came out perfect, so I’m happy to name my son Fuckley.”
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