Sunday, March 4, 2012

26 Brides for 26 Brothers?

You know how in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Adam says "He figured on using all twenty-six letters of the alphabet right down to Zachariah.  But when he got one look at Gideon here, he went out and chopped a tree down on himself."?  Well, what if Ma and Pa Pontipee had made it all the way to 26?  have you ever sat and pondered what the names might be?  Probably not.   But since I'm insane...I have!  Here's my list:

  • Adam
  • Benjamin
  • Caleb
  • Daniel
  • Ephraim
  • Frank(insence)
  • Gideon
  • Hiram (King of Tyre, friend of David & Solomon)
  • Isaiah
  • Jesse (There are so many J names to choose from!  Joshua, John, Jacob, Jonah, Joseph...)
  • Keturah (A girl...Wife of Abraham after Sarah's death)
  • Luke (or Levi)
  • Matthew (or Mark or Malachi or Michael or Moses)
  • Nathanael (or Noah or Naomi, if it was a girl)
  • Obadiah (but he would go by "Sky")
  • Paul (or Peter or Phillip)
  • Quiver (There were no "Q" names in the Bible, so Ma named him Quiver, because with 17 kids, her quiver was full.)
  • Reuben (or if it was a girl...Ruth, Rachel, or Rebekah)
  • Saul (or Seth or Simeon or Solomon or Samuel or Sarah, if it was a girl)
  • Timothy
  • Uzziah
  • Vashti (Queen of Ahasuerus, she was deposed in favor of Esther)
  • Wine (No "W" names.  Pa liked to drink a lot by this point.)
  • Yeshua (Hebrew spelling of Jesus)
  • Zachariah

I am such a nerd.

2 comments:

Susan said...

Felix would have worked for F. :)

Angela said...

I've always said that, but it's so much funnier in the show & movie for him to be named Frankincense. :)