Column: Lost In The Urban Dictionary

“Type your first name into Urban Dictionary and repost what it says,” started an innocent post by a friend of mine. The innocence was quickly lost. “Kevin: basically a kid with a huge…” Well, I will let you complete the sentence. This somewhat disturbing trend has been making the rounds on Facebook for the past few weeks, bringing back terrible high school memories of those “101 things about me” quizzes, which pre-pubescent teens filled out in droves. At first glance, I counted 12 of my friends who had done this little name lookup, and their posts ranged from the mildly-informative — “Paul: a common given name for males, derived from the Roman surname Paulus,” to middle-of-the-line slutty — “Alisha: a hot curvaceous female,” to the sexually obscene — “Brad: is known to be the ultimate sex machine”/ Ilya Pinchuk , UI Argonaut. More here .

Question: How many of you looked up what your first name meant in the Urban Dictionary? And/or: Do you spend much time perusing the Urban Dictionary?