Shimmereen?

So, I know that my family makes up the bulk of my blogging audience and that we already talked about this but I have to make known my absolute disgust with people that give their kids funky names. At this week's Sunday Party...that's what my kids call the weekly gathering that usually takes place at my parents' house...my brother horrified us all with the story I will now share with you. One of his neighbors named his daughter Shimmereen. To me, this amounts to child abuse, or at least extremely questionable parenting skills and definitely a liberal amount of idiocy. What the hell kind of name is Shimmereen? Don't try to tell me it's a family name...unless that family member you named your daughter after was a stripper, as your daughter will no doubt eventually become. It isn't her fault. With a name like Shimmereen what other choice does she have? Talking about the names people pick for their children reminds me of the chapter in Freakonomics that talks about how you can determine the education level of a mother by what she names her child. If I was in kindergarten, I may have thought Shimmereen was a pretty name. If these parents were acquaintances of mine and told me that they had decided to name their daughter Shimmereen, I would have had no choice but to slap them until they came to their senses. I don't know these people at all but I am tempted to call some child welfare agency to have them look into it. Poor little Shimmereen. She has a horrible name and obviously her parents are complete morons. I hope that she can rise above her stripper name and her idiotic parents and be a happy and productive member of society...but I don't think it's likely.