Name that Baby

In the news, a pregnant woman on a train accidentally gave birth while using the toilet.

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Ahmedabad-New-born-baby-girl/photo//080228/ids_photos_en/r4196414790.jpg/;_ylt=Am2TfGdPCYQAinQPPgCh8g5paP0E

Question of the day: What should the parents name this child?

Winnie the Poo?

Comments

[Anirudh Sravan]

'Poo'ja-a very common Indian name :D
Makes sense cause poo is the english poo...and
"ja" in Sanskrit is "to be born"(A Lily in Sanskrit a Neera-ja..Water-born)
Thus the 'excrement-born'! :P

Pooja normally means Prayer in Sanskrit. :D

[Cap'n Bob]

Johnny Carson used to use the name Latrina for a scuzzy girl. I thought this was great, and a few days ago I saw a small claims court TV show in which a female litigant was named Latrina. What was momma thinking?

[sierra]

no pain, baby escapes train

[Ryan]

This is to JEB humor in the USA is spelled without the U as is Color and probably other words. Our English is not the same as yours just as the English in Australia would be different than both countries. Just different dialects of the same language but definatly not a spelling error. Plus, hes not writing a formal essay so lay of people for what you perceive to be minor spelling errors that make you feel so much smarter than others.

[rpr9999]

John.

[himem]

Mary "Flush"

hehe

[buggal1989]

I'm sorry I just read rayno's post and almost delivered a baby too and I have had a TAH!

[buggal1989]

Heck our anal of a doctor let my baby fall in the kickbucket (the litle bucket they put against the table to catch what may fall out - haaahaaahhhaaaa! - but usually not babies). So should be have named him kicky or buckethead? PS: the baby was fine, but we should have sued the anal anyway!

[Andy Watt]

Wow, there are some really po-faced comments on here.

I'd recommend the name "Armitage", which sounds like a grand old english name, and I bet only a few of you poor-spelling Yanks get that one :)

A

[Bill Green]

Name the kid "Coriolis".

[Chris]

I mentioned earlier that Scott would have made the same crack if this had happened in New York - of course if it did, the baby would have drowned in a sewage tank and the mother would have (successfully) sued the train company for not having prevented this. How's that for a racial stereotype?

[dayj]

Pottyanna

[Mackinator]

Now I remember why I never read the comments on your blog - they make me hate the world at large.

But I've never felt compelled to comment myself before. I must REALLY hate people who have no time for toilet humour....

[Patti]

Patti wonders:
I am happy that the baby seems okay.
However, I need to figure something out. Maybe you can shed some light on this, Scott.
My babies were all born with.. "Umbi-bungies" AKA as umbilical cords attached. HMmmmm Now, just how did this poor little baby fall out and disconnect herself from the umbilical cord? Why didn't the mom pull her back .. was the mom also trapped in the toilet for awhile?
It usually seems that an additional push presents the umbilical cord. VERY VERY ODD. You'd almost think that the mom did all this on purpose. I am ashamed for thinking that a mother could do such a thing. But, it does make me wonder. What do you think, Scott??
Was this the first baby born... without a life-line??

[Dave1-20-2009]

Very disappointing. First, no one seemed to read that the lady passed out before delivery. Second, no one had a funny name to offer ("Happy Bidet to You" was pretty good though). Third, I can't think of anything really funny either.

[TonAmour]

Dear Scott,
I am disappointed at the fact that you found this funny. Naming the baby based on this unfortunate incident is really the worst kind of humour you could ever think off.

I do not think this is necessarily racist and I hope it wasnt.

[raynoo]

Responding to Rita Mae's comments: "Now you've got me thinking. So the baby just slipped out?
You can't fool me. I had babies ranging from 7 pounds 10 1/2 ounces to 10 pounds 2 ounces. They don't just slip out. Keep watching the news releases and say you heard it first from............."

Rita, even if what you are hypotheticating is true, I fail to understand the humor here.

[Mayur Puri]

Scott! This post is in very poor taste...

Have you ever seen the lavatories on Indian trains? They are not chair style like western toilets where you sit comfortably, not even knowing what colour your poop is today.

Indian style lavatory on train comprises of two steel foot pedals about mile and a half from each other - on the floor! There's a hole in the middle, big enough for a baby elephant to pass through, and you really have to stretch your legs apart with your ass in the air with no support whatsoever, as your poop drops down in the giant black hole underneath. All the while you hold on to a rod making sure that you don't slip out yourself, because the train constantly, noisily, hurtles not only forward but sideways as well. (Heck, even when you sit on your seat in the compartment, you hold on to window-grills, seat-edges, luggage, anything that saves you from bumping into the cast iron walls of the train.)

Sitting to poop in a moving train in India is like sitting on a roller coaster in Disneyland - only without your clothes and in the position I described above. I've heard of women wanting to deliver there, who were not even expecting. I've almost delivered a baby in a moving train -and I AM A MAN.

[quantum_flux]

And the baby is still alive? Man, train bathrooms have the worst kind of germs imagineable .... I should know because I've been to China where you have to squat while the train is moving .... it was aweful!

[Avi Bernshaw]

Well, if she gave birth in a --public-- rest room, then perhaps something like "Chlamydia" would work.
Not only does it have a pleasant sound to it, she's probably contracted it if she didn't have those disposable toilet wraps with her.

[Chris]

The story is remarkable, not particularly funny (but only in my view) and only-just-borderline-fair-game-for-humor because the baby survived. Not Scotts finest hour. But racist? Come on, that's ridiculous, why is there always some pillock looking for a reason to scream rascist? If the toilets worked the same way, he would have made the same crack if it happened in New York, to a white anglo-saxon protestant. Why are people always looking for reasons to take offence to stuff these days?

[WhiskeyJack]

All I can think about was a TV special I saw a few years ago, about some crazy Christian fundamentalist family living somewhere in the States, that had something like 15 kids with more on the way.

Apparently when the wife gave birth to the latest baby, she was in labour for five minutes.

Next time I'm sure she'll just sneeze and it'll pop right out.

[smee]

Wow, I'm amazed by all the people that think if they shame you enough, you may feel bad about what you posted. YSLEs.

[BK]

Every year, they'll sing her 'Happy Bidet to You!'

[JEB]

i would say the definitive one has to be KILROY

[G]

Pritesh Pathak: This is bad taste humor!

Never thought someone like you would go this far just to crack a joke.
----

"Bad taste", "Crack a joke"! Genius! Except for the spelling, you've missed a 'u' in 'humour'.

Seriously, I find the comments which automatically assume the humour is derived from the race/country/early arrival of the child more offensive than the subject in hand. It says more about those who make these comments that their minds automatically focus on these incidental details, secondary to the main point that a woman dropped a sprog whilst on the toilet on a train. *That* is where the humour is in this story, and by God it is funny, so there!

[Rocky]

Phillip John
Fill up the john

[Bayma]

Shit for brains?

[CHris]

Goldy Showers

Terd Bergler

[LA Clay]

Scott, going through a poop phase? Fist shift falling from the sky, now this.

For your fecal fetish here's more:
Poop in the Carnegie Museum
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/15139436/detail.html
Freezing Poop
http://www.itchmo.com/freezing-poop-676
Energy Poop
http://www.wnwo.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=86595
Science Poop
http://science-community.sciam.com/blog-entry/Sciam-Observations/News-Byte-Holy-Crap-Protons/300005999&

[Reebo Snort]

Last Train 2 Clarksville Kalbi
The Littlest Hobo

[SJ]

Dunno... some crappy name.

[emerkys]

Lou or John (already offered)
Bob (perhaps)
Aww Crap
Flush Gordon
Melena (if people really knew what that meant, they would not name their kid this)

[Joe2]

Another reason not to read your blog any soon.

[Joe2]

This is no subject to make jokes of.

[chindiitem]

Terminal

[Carl]

"So a brown-skinned baby from a poor part of the world is born in a toilet and the first thing you think of is poop jokes. What does that say about yourselves?"

Seriously, I can guarantee that the fact that she dropped the baby down a toilet is the reason for the poop jokes, rather than the colour of the skin...

[raynoo]

Really, Scott! I am disappointed reading this post.
I idolise you.. so much so, that I have plastered your strips all over my workstation.

But this post? you guys find this funny? If your first world country has done only so much to your intelligence and sensibilities then, I must say I haven't missed much being born in india.

[raynoo]

Really Scott! I am disappointed reading this post. I idolise you.. so much so, that I have your strips plastered all over my workstation. But this post?

Is this funny for all you guys? If your first world country has done only so much to your intelligence & sensibilities, then, I must say I haven't missed much being born in india.

[Danny]

Turdrail ("Third rail")

[Alan]

Comes out better in Spanish, "Inodoro"

[Alan]

Comes out better in Spanish, "Inodoro"

[Ariane]

It's hard to imagine going past a saint or fancy word for "^%$&ing lucky". Or of course, there is "Shit happens".

[Geoff]

I don't want to sound like a kill joy, but what exactly is funny about a premature baby falling through a toilet from a moving train?

[Ace of Sevens]

She'll definitely have something for all those stupid icebreakers where she has to give an interesting fact about herself.

[Jeffus]

I have to respond to infidel - why is this a racist issue to you? Around the world every year hundreds of babies are born in unusal places, taxi's, elevators, fields and, yes, toilets. It's life and people will always find humor in it.
Scott chose this example because it was doing the rounds in the news because it's a miracle the child survived and so alot of people heard about it. Skin colour and location mean nothing.
Just to add,
What do you call a child born in a rice field? - Paddy

[Instinctive Traveller]

OOPS!

[Einmaliger]

I love those "But you cannot make jokes about THAT" comments!

[Pritesh Pathak]

This is bad taste humor!

Never thought someone like you would go this far just to crack a joke.

[Nicholas]

Too those complaining lighten up! We'd be doing the same if it was a white, black, pink or purple kid!!

[Free Lilly]

As one who is three months from giving birth to a baby girl, I'm also wondering the truth behind this story. Maybe the mother wanted to get rid of the baby but became regretful few moments after. You'd have to cut the cord and everything... You can't flush if there's something still hanging there... I mean, seriously!

[White Ox]

Funny, there hasn't been as much outrage to this post as I might have expected.

I was pretty disgusted when I first read it, thought it was in real poor taste until I learned that the baby was OK.

Leads to an interesting hypothetical (well as far as I'm interested anyway), is it wrong to be indignant towards this post had the baby died as opposed to the fact the baby has survived?

That's a real question by the way, not rhetoric. I'm a moist robot that isn't really intelligent enough to come up with an answer all by myself. Oh well, c'est la vie.

[Tim]

All kids should be named "Scott"...

[Kevin Kunreuther]

HEY!
You set Dilbert up with a real cute chick (cute as far as you can draw) and had him blow it in one panel with something you might do (as you claim you're capable of many social ineptitudes so often in your blog). That didn't strike me as funny, but made me feel mad, sad and a little disappointed. Yeah, I'll get over it in an hour (may be after another tasty beverage), but would it hurt if Dilbert had a somewhat successful if klutzy (and sexual) relationship with a woman for six or eight months? Then you can end their relationship and restore the "equilibrium" in the Dilbert universe. Better to have Dilbert known love and lose it than to channel all that frustration into designing a dongle for an application at work that no one will appreciate.

[Benny]

She "accidentally" poops the baby....comes out of the loo and hits the emergency stop button/chain....and then it takes 2 hours to go back to find the baby...doesn't that seem a very unlikely story...maybe she tried to get rid of the baby in the first place....and people started noticing the no-bump situation and started questioning her, before she changes her story - more likely...

[CD]

Scot, whatever I know about you through your blog, I was anticipating such a reaction from you on this news.
The baby girl from a very poor family survived the ordeal because the toilet in her mother’s train had soiled chute emptying directly onto the tracks (in fact, many Indian trains – ‘Garib Raths’ or chariots of the poor - have such facilities). Imagine the girl’s fate in a modern toilet.
Someone has already named her ‘lucky’, the first name that came to my mind after reading the news.
Some of the names suggested by a few readers only betray their shallow knowledge about India.

[trafficduck]

This happened in India. The baby was a girl. I'm not saying, I'm just noticing.

[CD]

Scot, whatever I know about you through your blog, I was anticipating such a reaction from you on this news.
The baby girl from a very poor family survived the ordeal because the toilet in her mother’s train had soiled chute emptying directly onto the tracks (in fact, many Indian trains – ‘Garib Raths’ or chariots of the poor - have such facilities). Imagine the girl’s fate in a modern toilet.
Someone has already named her ‘lucky’, the first name that came to my mind after reading the news.
Some of the names suggested by a few readers only betray their shallow knowledge about India.

[Chris Benson (Asparagus Pee Guy)]

A'uaygos Trubbles

[Danial]

There is no humor here. Good grief. Pretty sad.

[TheGunMan]

Guess you ran out of creativity !! How about naming it Scott Adams

[TheGunMan]

Guess you ran out of creativity !! How about naming it Scott Adams

[ahhbee]

"To lose le track"?

[Roger]

Long Drop

[Nilesh]

worst post ever..

[Steve]

in OZ there is a slang saying "Snap off a log"
a graphical representation of the act of doing a #2.

Also in OZ slang, a sprog is a young child.

which produces the unfortunate name for the infant....

"Snapoffa Sprog"

[ashwin]

Scott,
i can't believe you just wrote a post such as this..... very disappointed in you.

[William]

It does put 'the miracle of life' into sharp perspective.

On the other hand being born like that there's nowhere to go but up!

I can just imagine future job interviews... ;)

[zaki123]

Something politically correct .
This is not a joke.

[Dale]

Debris?
yes trains dump on the tracks, i have experienced it in europe also, no using the loo in the station

[cph]

My day sucked... and now I'm laughing.

[CPB]

Gottago

[Sarvesh]

Nagun Ridatrainnomo

[Amalia]

All I can think is "Wow. Talk about an easy labor."

[Bob]

I just hope the baby wasn't looking too Flushed. I bet some people were saying that it's "A really "Charmin" looking baby".

[Bob]

What else, JOHN. Give the kid and mother free pass for life.

[Andrew]

Since it would be a bit of a shock for the mother and a lot of a shock for the baby and the most complete and horrifying shock for the people who found the unfortunate child, how about....

Asok

(which I believe is pronounced with a "sh").

Andrew

[Paul]

Hi Scott

I've been reading your blog for quite a while and I'm really not sure what to make of this one. On the one hand it feels wrong to make a joke out of this, but on the other you almost can't help but laugh.

On an totaly separate matter (as you have interesting opinions on everything) do you think history is important?

[jokerfest]

Turd Ferguson. It's a funny name.

(If you haven't seen the classic SNL Celebrity Jeopardy skits, you better google that name)

[DPWally]

Please sing along:

Passengers will please refrain
From flushing toilets while the train
Is standing in the station, I love you.

[Annabelle]

Hmm
Not only offensive, racist, insensitive but also unfunny.

That's quite sad

Did you think about the lady who'se only fault was she had to go to the toilet in the train? And almost lose her child?

Hope your wife gives you flak for this

[Marcus Santiago]

Why does this post not have a voting system for the comments?!

[Mark Whybird]

Padington.

[CPB]

Jesus

[Matt]

I can't believe no one has brought this up with all the poo jokes... but... did anyone notice the use of "while relieving herself" and not "going to the bathroom"?

I just can't help but think this kid should be named "Orggy"

[The Chief]

Women always make child birth out to be such a big deal. Looks to me like they'll just fall right out if you let 'em.

All of a sudden the hard physical work we do to make the baby in the first place has taken on new meaning.

[dan]

Check out the disclaimer to FAKEPAYCHECKSTUBS.com .... TOO FUNNY!

[The Dude]

I'm no good at names but I think this kid is well on her way to being a "track" star.

As for those who are surprised that the bathroom on a train spills onto the tracks, even a lot of modern day trains (even in more industrialized regions) do the same thing, however the opening is only exposed when you flush.(Watching Dirty Jobs has actually proven useful for a change)

[Kevin Fairchild]

It wasn't, as other comments have suggested, a case where she "didn't know" she had popped (pooped?) out a baby.

During the childbirth, from what I understand, the mother simply passed out from the pain. When she became conscious afterwards, several minutes had passed and that's when she had the train do an emergency stop.

Funny names aside, I can't help but wonder how the conversation will go later in life when the child is old enough to ask questions about what it was like when she was born. How do you tell a kid, "I took a dump and... yadda-yadda-yadda... you got flushed out onto some train tracks..."?

Wild.

[Reebo Snort]

Boxcar Willshe Kalbi
Eta (as in Estimated Time of Arrival) Noclue Kalbi
Tutugo Kalbi

[Patti]

Patti says,
OMG Scott, that was a horrible birth.
I hope the baby is alright for God's sake.
How do they fill in the line.... place of birth? This lady was "unaware" or what? What kind of woman would take a bumpy train ride when she is 8-9 months pregnant?

I hardly see the humor in it.
But, How about naming the baby "Mira-cal"

Please tell me, how did the baby just slip out? Didn't she notice the head.. followed by.. the push for ..THE SHOULDERS?
I don't know. Putting all kidding aside....
We can truly... Name THE MOTHER ... "Lucky-shitz"

[Reebo Snort]

Rolling Thunder

Steel Wheels

Cheers,

Mick

[Robert]

Fecalicia
Amtrika

[Yuki]

Am I sinned to laugh so hard at this post? Can't help it..

[JR]

This is a bit off topic, but is today's strip a reference to Jonathan Coulton's song Code Monkey?
JR

[Shalene]

I actally don't think it's very funny, but I'm told the movement for giving birth is like pushing out solid waste... she must have thought she had really bad gas pains. I hope the kid makes it.

[niCk(MemBeth)]

Sick!

[Mark]

John

[Maarten]

har har

[Steve]

I am going to invent a baby filter so that this can not happen again.

[Mike]

I actually knew a guy whose wife delivered into a toilet by accident as well, very prematurely. They thought it was a miscarriage at first, but he acted fast and saved the kid, and then gave him a totally normal name.

But when he told the story, he always put people on that he named the boy "John."

[Kris]

Wendi Clare or W.C. for short

[lulu]

Shiterella.

[kman]

Deepa Indu

[JRWoodward]

Choo-Choo Child

[Disgusted, of Tundridge Wells :p]

Loos dumping straight onto the track? You know those signs in British trains requesting you not to use them while in the station... I wonder why that could be? I think the more modern trains use holding tanks, but some of the old style are still in service.

And Scott? I'm ashamed of you. And at a lot of these suggestion. 1) It isn't really funny and 2) it's far too obvious. I would expect toilet humour in the playground, not from a proffessional comedian. Surely you can do better than this. Maybe you couldn't think of anything better. Don't post then! And the number of posters going along with this is rather surprising too. As is the casual racism inherent in your posts.

[v]

on infidel's comment: i don't think anyone made the poop jokes because the child was dark skinned or from a poor country, i think its more because she was born in a TOILET!!

[adora]

What's with people keep having babies in the train toilets?!
There was one in Taiwan few months ago.
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2007/12/11/baby-accidentally-flushed-at-birth/

[nigelgomm]

Doesn't sound right to me.... are we sure the mother didn't deliberately put her down the toilet bowl when she discovered the baby was a girl?

Horrible thought but.....

And yes the toilets on Indian trains do dump onto the tracks... not only that but it can sometimes seem that people come from miles around to shit alongside the railway tracks. Arriving in a town by train early in the morning is a treat.
Having said that travelling 2nd class sleep on Indian railways is about as much fun as you can have on this planet.

[JC]

Armitage Shanks?
or
Flush Gordon?

[Arnold]

Much as I hate to admit it at times like this, I'm Indian... And this is barely even news back here!

[Anarchy In Your Head]

The baby is quite the survivor and deserves a heroic name, but I would call the train a poo-choo train.

[Ted]

I looked for a news story about this and found out that the child was born 10 weeks premature and is not expected to live. In addition, the toilets on Indian trains open directly onto the tracks. When the mother was found after passing out in the toilet room they stopped the train and had to search the tracks.
"She was on the rail track for almost 1½ to two hours," said Dr. Gautam Jain...
The child...was eight to 10 weeks premature and weighed only 3.22 pounds, Jain said. She had a low heart rate and body temperature.
"We do not expect such children to survive," Jain said.

[Nick]

U Bend
Flush

[(an) andrew from California]

How about "Dick Butkus"?

[S]

Indu is an Indian name meaning "bright drop"

[Dcawvive]

How about Lionel?

[Gene]

Lucky bastard

[Gene]

Choo Choo Poo Whoops

[Kevin N]

Come on Scott... you didn't even point out the craziest part of that story... The toilet is an open hole to the tracks!!! Ewwww.... you do NOT want to be a hobo in that part of the world!

[Megan]

All I have to say is as a young woman who hopes to one day have children, I am a little less scared of delivery, if she did it on accident, can it really be that hard?

[Keshav Bhatt]

Hey scott, i think it's a miracle that the baby survived in the wee hours of morning, two trains passed over her.....
sad you had to make toilet jokes on it....
Not appreciated man

[rita mae]

Now you've got me thinking. I don't like it. It hurts.

So the baby just slipped out? What about cutting the cord? Did the Mom's whole uterus slip out, too? Why didn't the Mom hemmorrhage uncontrollably while waiting to tell everyone that her baby "just slipped out?" There is something else going on here than meets the eye. I think we will see a story in the next few days about how the Mom gave birth and realized it was a baby girl with a birth defect (see the pictures and the baby's legs). She decided to take the train and dispose of the baby, but was caught and told the fantastic story of the baby slipping out.

You can't fool me. I had babies ranging from 7 pounds 10 1/2 ounces to 10 pounds 2 ounces. They don't just slip out. Keep watching the news releases and say you heard it first from.............

Rita Mae

[Couch]

Choo-Poo-Sprain

/buh-dum-bum

[rt]

Well there is a very broad line between funny and not-funny ...this one definitely not funny.

[rt]

Very poor sense of humor.

[tech guy]

Re: Today's comic.

Code monkey get up, get coffee.
Code monkey go to job.
Code monkey have boring meeting.
With boring manager rob.

http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2006/04/14/thing-a-week-29-code-monkey/

[Bsed]

I'm not so sure "Winnie" is appropriate. Perhaps they should give "Losie" a test run.

[Cathy D.]

Dinshe Buuns

[Mark Wiland]

He could grow up to be a construction worker, and drive his favorite vehicle, the dumptruck.

M@rk

[Matthew Weier O'Phinney]

My son was also accidentally born in the toilet... fortunately, at the hospital while we were en route to the delivery room. The experience was traumatic, to say the least, but now we can laugh at it. Still, though... hard to find the humor in this one for us.

[Diana W]

Flushime Boxikhar

Speaking of names, I posted a news story below. Mr. Pheuk Kue is a convicted sex offender. Do you think having people constantly going, "Hey, Fuck You!" had any affect on his crime? I'm thinking he probably snapped and went, "Ok, you asked for it!".

Falsely accused of kidnapping a 17-year-old girl in Oshkosh, Wis., in November: a previously convicted sex offender, Mr. Pheuk Kue. [Sheboygan Press, 11-17-07]

[DD]

How about Latrine... sounds a bit like an auxilliary member of the Jackson clan... Sadly there are a couple of genuine precidents for this here in the UK, where the registrar of births doesn't have the power to tell parents they are ignoramuses that should not be allowed to breed in the first place, never mind blighting the life of a poor innocent by calling them after a Crapper. Still, at least it's not as bad as the poor little mite that was named Clamydia.

[Billy Arvia]

Mashitme Owt

http://triplebee.squarespace.com/

[LA Clay]

Wun Hung Lo
Dee Rai El
Fre Fal

[Armando Esteban]

First one in years (I am one of your first blog readers):

not funny

[Luke]

Toilet!

[infidel]

Seriously? What the hell is wrong with you people? This is a child you're all joking about. So a brown-skinned baby from a poor part of the world is born in a toilet and the first thing you think of is poop jokes. What does that say about yourselves?

I've come to expect as much from anonymous blog comments, but Scott should be ashamed of himself.

[We could name the baby Infidel. -- Scott]

[Bloodboiler]

There is a Finnish idiom "Works like bathroom in a train.", which can be used to describe exceptionally robust and reliable -but unsophisticated- things. I hope they have similar idiom in India, and use it as her name. If not they could use Finnish "Junanvessa".

The baby's mother deserves some recognition. If you accidentally gave birth and dropped the baby from the train, would you be able to clearly explain to the train staff why you want them to make an emergency stop.

[Matt]

Choopoo.

Even sounds kinda indian.

[ctrl.altered.mind]

Pushpa Downadrainaswamy?

Jokes aside, its nothing short of a miracle that this baby survived all that, given that the delivery was 8-10 weeks premature and the baby weighed only 3.2 pounds at birth. With those odds, even babies born in plush hospitals in the West would have a hard time making it to day two.

[Matt]

I met a girl named Latrina once. That certainly applies here.

[shirosaki]

I can't beleive that the kid survived the ordeal. Sounds traumatic. One man's misery is another's humor.

funny comments too.

[Sandeep]

'Pool'an Devi. After the famous bandit turned poilitican.

[Rob Povey]

Dhidna Nohi Dhuna Pu

[Travis]

How about "Shithead?" It probably translates as "Beautiful Flower" or "Gallant Warrior."

[Jon]

Number 2 or #2 for short...

[Nick H.]

Is anyone else disturbed by the fact that the toilet on the train just dumps onto the tracks? Really?

[HALiverpool]

What's funny about this? I feel ill.

-HAL

[Spannerotoole]

Jacquilene. For those that don't know, In Ireland, the Loo is also called the Jacks.

[Steve]

Everyone else's choices are good, or they could go with...

"Surprise"
"Flushina"
"Humpty Dumpty"
"Fecalynne"

[argenbert]

that's a good one for topper. "yeah? well i slipped out of my mother between stations"..."by the end of the rail i was driving that thing"

i cannot think of names without the pooping reference, im so low

[Dick]

How about Dinareaha or maybe just "little turd head" as opposed to little sheat head..... Sorry about that, sort of...

[Beaker]

Becuase it's been asked... depending on the position of the baby, instead of feeling a need to push the mother will feel a need to poop. As an EMT, it's one of the signs that helps me decide if the baby is probably going to be born before we get to the hospital.

[Muppet]

Coni, short for constipated.

I was so fat, I was so constipated, I didn't know that my push would produce a baby.
Ew, the vision of that.

[Erik]

Dropinder Khan?

[That one had me laughing hard. -- Scott]

[Sam]

I don't know what they should name the kid, but I'm sure she'll be a little shit as she gets a bit older.

[dave]

Potential names:

- Lucky

- Mr. President (because it's a miracle she got where she is)

[Arcs]

Shi-Thead

[jerry w.]

If it happened in England, they might name her "Little LuLu" (pronounced Loo Loo).

Or (still in England) maybe Lady Di-arrhea.

http://boskolives.wordpress.com/

[jakesdad]

Mr. Hankey?

[Lewis]

Plop

Hee Hee

[Paramveer Singh]

Its actually so that you don't use water unnecessarily in a third world country with acute shortage of potable water. Poop essentially falls straight down, usually scraping along the sides and leaving a strong skidmark.

Apologies for that image. :-D

[matt]

puxana beti.... It is Hindi for Feces daughter.....

[Mark]

or John

[Mark]

Lou

[jim]

how about

1 John Larry
2 Casey Jones
3 Thomas

[Mungo]

Given that the mother's name is Bhuri Kalbi, I respectfully propose that the baby is named Bhuri Kalbi II, as in Bhuri Kalbi, number 2. You know? As in number 1 and number 2?

Sorry. That was infantile.

Cheers,

Mungo Says Bah!

[Adam]

Dumpy.

http://www.livingwithanerd.com

[dsg]

Hi Scott,

Is it really possible to accidentally gave birth? I wouldn't know, it is not my function. Anyway, whatever the Indian word for "Luckiest kid ever" should be her name. It won't matter, she'll probably be most frequently referred to as "That little squirt."

Thanks for the post,
dsg

[urbankoda]

As one who has witnessed the birth process a couple of times... How the hell did it just slip out?

[Real Live Girl]

Well, if you're going to go THERE, for my money you can't beat Latin. Latin can classy-up words could use a little help; plus it's not widely used so to most people it would just sound exotic and unique. I'd go with naming her Summovi or Dejicere which are the nicer descriptions. :)

[HannahsDad]

Loosey?

[Geek]

I read that story the other day too. Ick. The train's toilets just dump out onto the track? I wonder if "Winnie the Poo" translates in Indian. Maybe Chuchu Ti?

[Kevin]

Looise? ;-)

[MemyselfandI]

How about Triniturd? Maybe Trainiturd? Next year they can sing her Happy Berth Day!

[jerry w.]

Dumpalena or Poopsie?

http://boskolives.wordpress.com/

[Kevin Kunreuther]

Simple:
What did his mother say when the kid was born in a toilet?
Apu.

Apu already has the title for the first chapter for the autobiography:"Flushed Away!"

[Paul K]

How the HELL could you not know you just gave birth!? I can't wrap my head around that.

Ohh, Scott, how about "Plop"?

[Joe]

There's a professional football player named Deuce McAllister... I wonder if that's how he got his name "Deuce"

What about Howdy Doody?

[rita mae]

That poor baby! What is the matter with its legs? No baby I have seen lies in that position. They could name that baby Froggy.

Rita Mae

[RossRuns]

My question is Why are the trains' toilet bowls big enough that a baby can slip through onto the tracks? Do people in India have poops so large that they need the extra-wide drains?