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November 18th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Ok.. sorry, maybe i’m dense… wasn’t chucky pretty evil?, and why isn’t Rosemary in a longer parent teacher conference, who is Damien and is Foster referring to a foster child. Usually i get these, but maybe i’m just a bit obtuse today.
November 18th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
a quick google of “damien evil child” reveals he’s the main character in the movie “the omen.”
see…not hard.
November 18th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Just a little confusing because Damien is the child, but Rosemary is not. And I know Chucky had a bride, but I don’t know about a child.
On the other hand, I just had Parent-Teacher conferences a week ago and . . . .
November 18th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Rosemary = mother of Satan’s spawn (”Rosemary’s Baby”)
Damien = The son of the devil (”The Omen”)
Chucky = Evil, possessed doll (”Child’s Play” Series)
Foster = Elijah Wood? (”The Good Son??”)
I’m not sure how to follow this one either.
November 18th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Yeah, sorry. Even understanding most of the references (still not sure about Foster), I can’t figure out how to read the graph.
November 18th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Perhaps not a movie character, but the more generic ‘foster child’?
November 18th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Hmm… or maybe they’re not meant to be references at all (except damien), and instead is a commentary on how sweet-looking little girls are more likely to get away with being nasty?
November 18th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
(I say this only because Rosemary is a girls’ name. They’re all just names, you see.)
November 18th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Perhaps Chucky from the Rugrats?
November 19th, 2008 at 12:13 am
I think it’s just different name’s tendacies to sound “evil” or “innocent”.
November 19th, 2008 at 1:16 am
maybe chucky is referring to the kid who owned the doll. the adults all thought he was crazy for saying his doll killed people, but he wasn’t evil.
November 19th, 2008 at 9:43 am
where’s the young dick cheney on this?
November 19th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Or the young george bush?
November 19th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Chucky was bad…the kid wasn’t. But the kid got blamed for what Chucky did.
Still don’t get Foster and Rosemary.
November 19th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Foster of Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends?
November 19th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
It could also be Chucky from Rugrats.
November 19th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Chucky makes sense in terms of the evilness of the child being low, but the P-T conference being long, because the doll was evil, not the child, so there was a lot of esplainin’ (oops, wrong genre) to do.
November 19th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Rosemary’s baby’s name was Adrian. Apples, oranges?
November 19th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Chucky is Chucky from the series with John Ritter, Problem Child, not the doll.
November 19th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
I love this, and i am being a stickler, but you’ve got your dependent and independent axes mixed up. The length of the conference relies on the evilness, not the other way around.
November 20th, 2008 at 3:18 am
Wow, ya’ll are dense. It very obviously says “Evilness of CHILD”. (Emphasis mine.) Rosemary was a character in Rosemary’s baby. Her child was VERY evil, but a baby, so no conference. Damien from The Omen was an extremely evil child and of school age, hence his position. Chucky is a doll from the movie Childs Play, but the child HIMSELF was not evil, and was ‘misunderstood’. So he gets low evil, long conference. Foster is referring to just that, a foster child.
November 20th, 2008 at 3:33 am
The reason some foster children have that status is because they are getting it from their dad…
November 20th, 2008 at 5:23 am
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November 21st, 2008 at 4:44 pm
@Dana: Ooooh - crass.
But no, this really doesn’t hang together well. They can’t all be home runs.
November 22nd, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Jessica is right. @Dana - the foster child doesn’t “get it from his dad” - he doesn’t have a dad or mom around, so no parent-teacher conference.
November 24th, 2008 at 2:46 am
You guys think way too much into it.
November 25th, 2008 at 2:11 am
I’m not even kidding you: There was a woman in my La Leche League group who named one of her boys Damien and one of them Cain.
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Did she ride a broom?
January 28th, 2009 at 5:03 am
Meh, I read it as this,
The lengthyness of the conference had to do with blaming the parents for the nastyness of their child, partially do to their choice of name which reflects their parenting skill.
So a parent who names there kid after the most evil damien from the omen gets a good lengthy what were you thinking lecture. While a parent with a perfectly innocent kid named chucky after chucky gets another decently long lecture.
Meanwhile even though rosemary is evil incarnate, the parents were nice enough.
. . . Ofcourse, I suppose those are all common names anyway. Sniff.