Well, this explains it all, doesn’t it? The name your parents give you determines how you are viewed by others and what they will expect of you.
Based on our cursory reading of this study, it appears that his last name set Anthony Weiner on an inescapable path to be a complete dick.
Live Science has the penile particulars:
“The name you give your kid is sort of a proxy for a whole bunch of things in our culture,” study researcher John Waggoner of Bloomberg University of Pennsylvania told LiveScience. Names have been linked to many life choices, including what kind of work people do and how they donate to charity.
The study looked into whether people’s names affect what others expect of them.
The researchers asked a group of 89 undergraduate students (about half of whom were prospective teachers) to guess, on a scale of 1 (“not very successful”) to 10 (“very successful”) how they thought a student with a certain name would perform academically.
Participants tended to judge those with names that have been correlated with lower maternal education and socioeconomic status as low educational achievers, compared with the possessors of higher-status names.
“What future teachers expect is that Cody will do a lot worse in school, relatively, than Benjamin and Samuel,” Waggoner said. “The more things you have going for you, the better people expect you to do.”
Our interpretation: You cannot run from your fate. The name Weiner is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Unfortunately, this sets up a brand new category of Democrat victimhood: Namists.
“I can’t help being a complete tool. It’s my parents’ fault.”
Source: Live Science
This post was last modified on June 6, 2011
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Vic,Anthony Weiners biggest lie was that he loves his wife.Weiners marriage was a set up with the Clinton crowd.Weiner job for the Democratic Party in congress was to attack all Republicans and Conservatives.In the future he will be working for M.S.N.B.C.
I have to ask: How does such a dweeb as Wiener get a babe like Huma????
Men with great power are chick magnets. The Administrator and I have to fight off the babes.
Not me, I'm not married anymore so I don't fight the babes, I teach them how to dance. You would be amazed at how quickly they learn the Horizontal Sofa Shuffle.
With this crowd it's "men with great powder are chick magnets." Who you know who has the blow.
Oh no! You aren't going to believe this:
Weiner’s Weiner Gets $50,000 Offer to Become Spokesthing for Dating Website
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/weiners-weiner-gets-50000-offer-to-become-spokesthing-for-dating-website_b41515
ht: Drudge.
My goodness!
I can believe it. This is the US after all, well people who become celebrities due to immoral behavior get rewarded.
Just when I thought that there couldn't be any more jokes on this issue, you guys keep cracking up. :-D
Well, he could always change his name to Tony Bologna.
G R O AN !!!! LOL!
Is Weiner dead meat?
Well, if he were Jewish, we could all him "Kosher Wiener", if he "played with his bat" a lot we could call him "Ballpark Wiener", when he gets a sunburn he's an "Overcooked Wiener" or a "BBQed Wiener". If he has constipation, he's be "Mustard on a Wiener", and the hits just keep on a commin'.
Hebrew National?
LOL! Thanks for ruining one of my favorite weenies for me!
Isn't he Jewish?
Yes, he is.
I thought so :-) ty
You watch,soon this Democratic Party trash will blame everything on George Bush.Weiner should not resign so he can be used for the 2012 campaign as an example of the Democratic Party.
Well thanks to Tony (Anthony, can I call you Tony since you seem to want to be so intimate?) the Republicans can now adopt the campaign slogan my dear old chinese grandfather used to always tell me "Erections have consequences".
Great post, Homersdad.
May I suggest, per your post, that the congressman adopt a new moniker: "Tony Weiner... Porn Star!" Fitting.
Also, your last line is COMEDY GOLD!
Pick up that soap, weiner.
Ancient chinese curse. :D