Why my name is Scott

I guest posted at Tyler Stanton’s site yesterday. It was about the different types of people you see in the dentist office’s waiting room. But that is not what I want to talk about. In the intro he suggested that I should go by Scooter Mo. He actually said I prefer him call me that, I didn’t. He just made it up. But really I think he did it because Tyler is too nice to be like “Hey man, your name sucks.”

Also the other day in the comments on his blog Knox suggested I go by something else as well. Again, Knox is much too pleasant of a person to be like “Dude, your name is ridiculous. You should go by something else. Anything else.”

The thing is, they don’t have to say anything. I know my name is like, the worst. I’ve even written a whole post about why it is the worst before. See?

But today I thought I would tell you why my name is Scott. Or, show you:



No lie. My dad heard that song and decided when he had a son he would name him Scott so that song would be topical in his life. When he told me that song was why my name was Scott I was like "Are you serious?" and he was like "yeah," so I was like "why?" and he was like "I thought it'd be neat."

My dad is not a man of many words. But he knows what's neat.

Why are you named what you are named?

The Archived Post Relevant The Office Quote.

Andy: Name repetition, personality mirroring, and positive reinforcement through nods and smiles. So, don't worry about old Andy Bernard. I'll be back. Just like Rambo, so.