October 16, 2007
Celebrity Baby Names Just Get Odder
I’d never heard of Alex Wurz until a blog called Celebrity Pregnancy, (which rarely links out to other blogs, so I’m not going to do them the favor), grabbed my attention with the headline ”Formula one racer Alex Wurz welcomes third son.” Â
Ignoring the glaring punctuation mistake in said headline, I set about digging up some info on Alex Wurz and his third offspring.
It turns out Wurz is recently retired from Formula One, and that even during his career he only gained three podium finishes and no outright wins. But that’s not the Wurz of it.
The Austrian-born racer, and his wife Julia, have named two of their three sons Oscar and Felix — Oscar being the most recent arrival, born September 30. The third brother is Charlie.
Maybe it’s just me, maybe it’s the slow news day, but I think naming two of your sons Oscar and Felix is just a little schizophrenic. What if Oscar is a controlling neat freak? What if Felix turns out to be the biggest slob since Walter Matthau on Broadway in 1965? It’s asking for trouble.
But despite the fact that Oscar and Felix Wurz are the Odd Couple reincarnate, the real odd man out in this brood is Charlie. He’s not just the odd man out — he’s odder than the Odd Couple. And that’s a heavy burden to shoulder when you’re just a kid, trying to cope with brothers named Oscar and Felix.
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I don’t get what’s odd about those names or the combination of them - good old-fashioned traditional boys’ names.
Do you associate “Oscar” with a slob and “Felix” with a thorough person or…?
Maybe there’s any such associations to those names in the US/UK, but not in the German language… and they are, after all, Austrian.
(I’m German and I just don’t get what this blog entry tries to… imply?)
I don’t usually comment on comments, but I feel it’s my editorial duty to enlighten this reader. You’ve obviously never heard of “The Odd Couple”: — it is one of the most famous plays of all time, no matter what country you’re from. It won awards on Broadway (New York) in the 1960s, and later became a hit movie starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, as, you guessed it, Felix and Oscar. It was also a long-running sitcom on ABC. Sorry you didn’t get it, but there you go. You learn something new every day!
Aha, I see. Cause I´ve never heard of it either.
In Sweden were I live, Oscar and Felix are pretty common names.