Like every emo kid that came before him, Pete Wentz thinks his son's name, Bronx Mowgli, is above everyone else's comprehension:
'I feel weird — people have all these ideas of what it means now,' Wentz says of his offspring's name during a phone call today to E! News' Ryan Seacrest. 'I think it's kind of cool to leave the narrative the way it is. People are stoked or pissed or whatever … I don't think anybody knows the real story of why or how.'
'We came up with the idea Bronx, we'd been throwing it back and forth a while ago,' he says. As for the origin of the middle name? 'The Jungle Book is something me and Ashlee bonded over. It's really cool.'
Trust us, Pete, you're not nearly as ground-breaking or cool as you'd like to think you are.
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"some people are stoked…" Seriously? I would love to know who these people are - dancing in the streets with reckless abandon because Pete Wentz named his kid something kind of weird and then explained it, but not really.
If I ever meet one of those "stoked" people, I will promptly pop them in the nose…
So basically, there's no story behind the name and it's just stupid? K. Thanks for the explanation. Go 'way now.
whoa Pete you just blew my mind!
So you DID name your kid after The Jungle Book. Nice!
BIGGEST.DOUCHEBAG.EVER.
What do they have against Baloo? At least Bronx Baloo has a ring to it.
Okay, I fucking know they didn't "name his after the place in which he was conceived" as seems to be the trend because neither of those dipshits has ever stepped foot in the Bronx unless they got lost in Manhattan and went a little too far north.
Admit it Pete, you just wanted a stupid, er I mean unique name for the publicity! Ass.
*name him
Can I ever submit a comment without a typo? No, I guess not.
My theory is that there IS no story to "Bronx." They would have been falling all over themselves to explain just how deep and meaningful the name was, if there were any explanation at all. (See: Mowgli)
Summation: They just thought it sounded "boss" or some such fuckery. (Yes, in my imagination, Pete Wentz says "boss." He also says "gadzooks!" when he's surprised and "Hey, nonny nonny" instead of "ummm" when he's thinking.)
This guy is a douchebag. I think of all the unfortunate handicapped people in this world and wonder why their child couldn't have been one of them.
@#9
Danny. There's a line. You're over it.
hey nonny nonny…ahahahahahahaha
SeaKat I have to give you kudos for that, I totally agree. They thought it sounded boss.
I'm pretty sure Ashlee is secretly into WWPD, What Would Posh Do.
"We bonded over the Jungle Book." Hunh?
I suspicion they bonded over the cartoon version, not the novel. Kipling, who's that? This is the couple who had a themed wedding and baby shower off the bastardized Disney versions of Carroll, Milne. BM will be the kid in preschool with a Winne the Pooh backpack, a skull and crossbones belt on his tight jeans and eyeliner.
yeah, seakat at no. 8 is hilarious.
hey nonny nonny.
ha!
yep still funny.
If it wasn't for their unfortunate baby's messed up name, these two talentless hacks would disappear forever.
Someday that kid will know the taste of sweet, sweet revenge.
So their dog is called Hemingway but their son is called Mowgli. Is there a Disney cartoon version of A Farewell to Arms that I don't know about?
How long 'til Petey prances from the closet?
Seakat, you best get a commie for #8. That ish is hilair.
that poor kid having these two douchebags as parents.
is it just me or would Brooklynn Baloo sounds way better
Brooklyn Baloo FTW.
More ideas -
Yonkers Bagheera
Harlem Hathi
Manhattan Sheer Khan
Jersy-Tikki-Tavi
*Jersey
mae Miyagi: 'tis my fondest wish! I live in hope.
sar — I'm loving Jersey-Tikki-Tavi. Although it does sound a bit like someone with Tourette's combined with a stutter. But still, it has that certain — how you say — Je ne sais qu-qu-quois.
saritten - effing hilar!
Also, Brooklyn Baloo wins. So. Hard.
My boy and I bonded over Fabio getting hit in the face by a bird. I guess my kid will be Gainesville Fabio. Or Ocala Birdface.
I guess mine will be West Roxbury Zombie or Roslindale Ash
we bonded over evil dead.
also, dont touch Brooklyn Baloo Lisa, im naming my baby that. You can have Queens Kaa
I guess mine will be named Corona Tequila.
Ooh i kind of like how it sounds.
Oh I see, place + bonding subject.
Allow me to present my future children… Campfire Buttons, Basement Asshole, and Alabaster J.
maybe Basement Asshole and my child Pittsburg Farts can get married and have beautiful little babies
By that method, my two should have been named
Seattle Blues and Ravenna Bob Mould
If nothing else, the Asshole Farts wedding will make it into the Tonight Show's Headlines.
I bonded over the Jungle Book with my boyfriend. We were five. But totally serious. I touched his dick like seven times! Seriously. I'm just suprised it didn't become a bigger thing.
I miss you, Archie. Harvie? I'm going to have to call my mom and ask for the name of the boy she let me play in the berry bushes with.
Thank God Pete and Ashlee never bonded over "Song of the South"!
WHY THE FUCK DOES EVERYONE CARE SOO MUCH.
HALF THE CHICKS ON HERE ARE JUST MAD BECAUSE THEIR NOT THE BABYS MOMMA.
AND IM SURE THATS ALOT OF THE GUYS PROBLEMS TOO.
ITS ORIGINAL AND UNIQUE JUST LIKE THE PARENTS.
SO SERIOUSLY WHY THE FUCK DOES EVERYONE GIVE A SHIT?
"UNIQUE JUST LIKE THE PARENTS"
Ha ha ha ha haha. Yeah, unique. Unique *just* like some other people. Bwaaa ha ha ha ha ha!
FAIL!
Oh Amber sweetie, no one really does. It's just something to talk about. Why do YOU give a shit that WE give a shit.
Dr. Lisa, Medicine Woman, FTW.
mountain cooter for the most patronizing use of the word "sweetie"!!111<—
brooklyn baloo and jersey tiki-tavi have me peeing in my muk luks.
What the? They bonded over Jungle Book.. These people shouldn't be allowed to procreate