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714. Babe Ruth and Barry Bond's home run totals? Nope. That's my age in dog years.

And speaking of dogs and other furry animals, what if Dave and Dara expand on our practice of naming pets after literary characters by becoming the first to name their child after one. I'm thinking Dickensian. With an already strong literary last name of Hyde, I think the kid will need an equally forceful first name for balance. No Tims or Tinas or Willys or Nillys or anything floral will do. Although I could make an exception for Bougainvillea. Bougainvillea Hyde, that's not bad. Kid could be Boogie for short. Nevertheless, with the classics still in mind, I'm throwing out for serious consideration the name Micawber because Uriah Heap is already taken. C'mon, give it a chance. Roll it around on your lips a little bit. Micawber. It's catchy and it works for either a boy or a girl. And, as there are only about forty or fifty people left in the U.S. who have actually read Dickens, the name will be a surprising original to all the others. Of course in England where Dickens is read aloud over subway speakers, they might find it a bit odd that someone has been named after a character who is continually penniless, but really there is no need to go to England anyway. It's cold and rainy there and we've seen that changing of the guard thing half a dozen times in the movies. And speaking of movies, as they are generally considered the literature of the times for people with short attention spans, we could add movie names to the possible choices. Has anyone named their kid Rambo yet? What about Spawn? Or we could go the Oprah way. Find a star's name and then spell it backwards. Reggenezrawhcs. Dave and Dara could even pay homage to their old alma mater and again reversing the spelling for cleverness, name their kid Drab. Just a thought.

It's Sunday. Gotta go make breakfast. I'm thinking pancakes, but what can I put on them if I can't use a sugar product? Alrighty then. Eggs it is.

Tanyer Hyde? Runan Hyde?