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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: Chris_ on March 08, 2009, 09:14:35 PM
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A woman named Marijuana plays it straight - and wins
Posted: Mar. 7, 2009
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel EXCERPT: (http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/40874017.html#)
Jim Stingl
Police years ago pulled over a young woman who rushed through an amber traffic light. "I'm about to arrest this person right now," the irritated officer radioed to a dispatcher. "She's telling me her name is Marijuana Pepsi Jackson."
It's the truth. Marijuana and Pepsi are her legal first and middle names, and the Beloit woman embraces them as a symbol of her struggle to succeed and to help other children overcome obstacles.
No Mary or Mary Jane or Mary Wanda for her. It's Marijuana, thank you, she's told bosses, co-workers and friends over the years, and even wore it on nametags at work.
This tall, striking, self-assured, motorcycle-riding woman is a schoolteacher with a master's degree in higher education administration. Soon, she'll start work on her doctorate.
All of her achievement came despite that smoky, carbonated name. And partly because of it. No one named Marijuana Pepsi gets lost in the crowd.
"Everybody I meet says this: You're nothing like I thought you'd be," she told me when we sat down for an interview in Beloit last week.
These days she goes by Marijuana Sawyer, the surname of her ex-husband from Georgia, where she spent 10 years before returning to Beloit in 2008 to fulfill a promise to make a difference in her hometown. She has a 6-year-old son named, mercifully, Isaac.
Sawyer's mother, Maggie Johnson, picked her name. Her father objected but lost the argument. To this day, a lot of family members and best buds call her Pepsi.
"She said that she knew when I was born that you could take this name and go around the world with it. At the time as a child, I'm thinking yeah, right. You named my older sister Kimberly. You named my younger sister Robin," Sawyer said.
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Her mother was a moron, and everyone she has ever met, knows that, if they know nothing else.
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Poor woman. :(
I know one family that named their kids Pepsi, Jamaica, and Jester.
I know another that named their kids Paris, London and Kyi (or something like that, it was the brand of chaise lounge in the birthing room. The kid goes by "Chaise." And yes, it's spelled that way.)
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Sawyer's aunt, Mayetta Jackson of Chicago, clearly remembers when the name was picked in 1972. The newborn's mother and father were products of the post-Woodstock era when reefer was rampant.
Figures. At least she didn't name them Lemon Jello and Orange Jello.
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I loved that story!
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How about Shithead, pronounced, Shi-thead.
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How about Shithead, pronounced, Shi-thead.
One of my favorites is Latrine, pronounced Lah-tree-nuh.
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My little sister taught a pair of twins named Shaquille , and Shaquilla.
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My little sister taught a pair of twins named Shaquille , and Shaquilla.
thats it, if I have kids I am naming them Sasparilla and Spirit
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My cousin's last name is Berlin, naturally, his son is named Weston, it was as close to West Berlin as his wife would let him get.
He wanted twins to name East and West.
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One of my favorites is Latrine, pronounced Lah-tree-nuh.
. Prince John: Latrine, such an interesting name, how did you come by it?
Latrine: We changed it in the 9th century
Prince John: You changed it TO Latrine?
Latrine: Yeah, used to be shithouse!
Prince John: Good change! It's a good change!