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[the_gneech]

"Cute," said Brigid. "Cute kid. Boy or girl?"

"One would presume so, anyway," said Greg.

Brenda laughed a light tinkle. "This is Chestina Elizabeth," she cooed, adjusting the infant's blanket again. "She was born eight weeks ago."

"Chestina?" said Brigid.

"Born? Willingly?" said Greg.

"What?" said Brenda.

"I must admit, I admire the heroic spirit of any baby born of their own volition. I sure wasn't."

Brigid looked sideways at him. "What are you going on about?"

"Well, the way I remember it is that I fought tooth and nail against the idea. 'You'll never take me alive!' about summed up my attitude. They eventually had to use drugs and a scalpel to get me out, and I put two interns down for the count."

The two women stood there and blinked at him. Greg shrugged. "Well, what can I say? I resented the whole thing. I wasn't even consulted! I wrote the doctor in charge a scathing letter of rebuke, once I could hold a crayon."

"What?" Brenda said again.

"Ignore him," Brigid said, patting Brenda's arm soothingly. "They just dropped him off the mother ship a few days ago, and he hasn't become acclimated to life on Earth yet."

-The Gneech

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Comments

[kylet.livejournal.com]

"Chestina"?! WTF. Of course, I'm sure this was inspired by seeing that name iRL.

That's right, Greg. Warp Chestina's little mind so she'll confuse the heck out of her mother, as revenge for that name.

[exatron.livejournal.com]

At least it's a girl with a weird name. When girls have weird names, it's considered cute. When boys have weird names, they get beat up on the playground and made fun of for the rest of their lives.

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Not that name exactly, but I've encountered plenty of similarly "Bwuh?" sorts of names.

-TG

[laurie-robey.livejournal.com]

I want to know how he put two interns down for the count.

[exatron.livejournal.com]

Children can be surprisingly strong when they think they're fighting for their lives.

Several years ago, my grandmother had to be taken to the hospital for a head injury. (She had a bladder infection that caused her to pass out and hit her head.) The only thing she remembers from that night is a three-year-old boy who was incredibly afraid of getting a shot. It took a few decently-sized orderlies to hold him down.

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Kung fu, maybe? Or a tazer. Probably the tazer.

-TG

[hossblacksilver.livejournal.com]

Why the mothership of course. n_n

[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

The man thinks quick. Brigid won't realize until much later, if ever, that he was using his powers of distraction to save everyone from the ugly fight that was about to happen.

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Little-olive-on-a-cocktail-sword II, as it were?

-TG

[exatron.livejournal.com]

Brenda doesn't have high hopes for her daughter's future career, does she?

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Or perhaps didn't think the whole "Let's give her a lovely name!" thing through...

-TG

[walkertxkitty.livejournal.com]

Friends who regularly read your Brigid and Greg have compared Simtra and I to them (wonder which one I am?) This sounds like something Simtra would do. In fact he's the one who told me that males are simple creatures: they're born and they spend their entire lives trying to get back in!

Thanks for the laugh. I'm a bit under the weather and so this made me feel better.

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Pleased to be of service!

-The Gneech

[susandeer.livejournal.com]

Chestine? Chestina... Somewhere out in the far off future is a Juggs magazine cover missing it's newest and brightest star!

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Women's names, at least among the more mainstream members of the the company I keep, seem to be getting weirder and weirder. Steve Martin's infamous "Tiphiny with a p.h.i." would not surprise me at this stage. So I have no doubt that somewhere out there is a girl named Chestina Elizabeth.

"She was named after my uncle Chester..."

-The Gneech