My recent column, “Peculiar be thy name”, opened with this sentence:

Perhaps no finer Christian name has ever been bestowed upon a child than the one Jermaine Jackson, of Jackson 5 fame, came up with for his son: Jermajesty.

I may be proven wrong.

The name of Mike Affinito’s Facebook page says it all: “MY SISTER SAID IF I GET ONE MILLION FANS SHE WILL NAME HER BABY MEGATRON.”

Launching the page on February 27, Affinito had more than five months to rally the million followers before the baby is due.

It took only 13 days.

Tickled by the idea of naming the child after the leader of the Decepticons in “The Transformers,” 10 Facebook users joined in the first hour. Now, each hour brings thousands of new fans. The official count, as of this writing, reads 1,097,139. Not bad for a wager that no doubt sounded absurd in the beginning.

(Via Allahpundit)