Later that same show, they were discussing this story about a Romanian man who gave his daughter a 'wannabe' name:
A Romanian luxury car enthusiast has named his daughter SLK after the Mercedes model.
. . .
Ica Mladin, the head of the local register's office, said: "This man walked into the office and said he wanted a birth certificate on the name SLK Caldarar.
"We found that very odd and tried to make him change his mind."
But the father insisted, saying he loves cars and if the baby had been a boy he would have been named BMW.
Mr Caldarar said: "The SLK is one of the most famous models of the Mercedes class; it's expensive and beautiful.
I've written about this moronic phenomenon more than once (here, for instance), but Kristi makes exactly the same point I make here:
KRISTI LEE: I'm gonna step in here and take a wild guess the guy doesn't have a chance in hell of ever owning an SLK or a BMW.but Tom provides the punch line:
TOM GRISWOLD: He came up with the idea to name the baby after a car moments after he learned he'd gotten the Escort he was with pregnant.
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