loopy, the proud papa

It has to be Loopy (my pick) or Lupy. Or, I suppose, Lupey.

There's no etymological basis for Luppy.

(Even if slightly misused, I simply wanted to write "etymological.)

 

I have to admit, this exact thought crossed my mind as well.

 

Huh? Columnists do that stuff in print all the time. I'd probably mention the Harvard Med thing, too. Where it gets silly is when it's the same thing, week after week, and the editors do nothing.

Unrelated tale here: This guy in college had a teacher in high school who ALWAYS pointed out the various crap his daughter did. So then, during college, she gets some minor traffic offense, and it shows up in the court notes in the paper. So that guy and many other classmates clipped it and sent it to the teacher in separate envelopes. I think one guy was even ballsy enough to put his name on the envelope.

 

Nothing wrong with writing about family in any medium, as long as it's interesting.

 

Which it rarely is.

 

my bad. and my apologies...

 

Tell it to mrbio.

 

Lots of columnists do this. It's their column, so they can.

My opinion is that a columnist's kids deserve their privacy and newspapers ought to empower their copy desks as a sort of Child Protective Services to delete such references and spare the offspring from utter humiliation before their peers. Repetitive message-board threads about one's children are only slightly less egregious simply because the kid's buds are unlikely to read it and thus gang up to give Junior a wedgie.

I vote for "Loopie."

 

Now that I can get behind. But I can only imagine the screaming that would have taken place if I had tried to yank one of those.