The Great American Name

a series of original and creative names in America

This week: "Jesus Noel" (pronounced as it reads). So what so great about this one? Well, every now and then, the Emergency Room Secretary gets to name a child or two. This typically happens when a baby is abandoned and then discovered, and brought into the ER. Typically, the parent does this in subzero weather (in this case, December), in an alley or outside a church. With great modern medicine, we reverse hypothermia, and voila! normal baby again! Except now, the baby is given some random, blatantly religious, in-your-face sectarian name that will haunt him forever.