Cracked.com, which seemingly thrives solely on a diet of Mountain Dew, pop culture, and lists lists lists, favors us today with a rundown of the most bizarre celebrity kid names. Anyone with even a basic knowledge of trivia knows roughly who's gonna be on here: your Jason Lees, your Nicolas Cages, your Shannyn Superfuckingfoxy Sossamons...
Little did we know, though, that we would also uncover in this parade of parental cruelty yet another reason to suspect that pint-size humani-rocker Bono is also an unsufferable gasbag: he named his now-16-year-old daugher "Memphis Eve." Which, for any other stadium rock god, might simply be a decently pretty (if saccharinely Faux-merican) name for a girl. But for a guy who wrote a song that pinned down the time of Martin Luther
King Jr.'s assassination as "early morning" in Memphis (when in fact
Dr. King was gunned down at 6pm in the evening)... well, it smacks us as possibly being an apologia. To which we say: boo hiss, Bono, for either making your daughter an accomplice to your most well-known mistake or not having the forethought to avoid the impression entirely.
Guess Bono's young sons Elijah and John should count themselves lucky they didn't wind up being named Macphisto or something.
