http://www.metafilter.com/tags/elizabethton Posts tagged with 'elizabethton' at MetaFilter. Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:24:25 -0800 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:24:25 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/75683/When%2DShe%2DTurns%2D18%2DI%2DAlmost%2DGuarantee%2DShes%2DGoing%2Dto%2DRename%2DHerself%2DMichelle <a href="http://www.tricities.com/tri/news/local/article/new_father_names_baby_after_republican_ticket/15054/">Ava Marie Ciptak</a> was born on Friday, October 10, 2008. Except that her name wasn't Ava Marie Ciptak. Her father, Mark, of Elizabethton, Tennessee, "sort of secretively went behind [his wife Layla]'s back and changed the paperwork" by using two separate birth certificate forms. Instead of naming his daughter John McCain — his initial plan — he named his daughter Sarah McCain Palin, "figuring hopefully [he] would get two weeks in the doghouse rather than two months." tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.75683 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:24:25 -0800 ciptak election08 elizabethton mccain palin tennessee WCityMike