Blog Titles

Okay.  So, Rob and I decided to start a blog.


We quickly found out, there's a tremendous amount of pressure in coming up with a blog title.


Some people have the gift of coming up with creative titles for books and movies that don't exist, but would be funny if they did.  I do not have that gift.  While I have zero credibility on the subject-matter, it seems as though it's relatively easy to think of blog entries, capturing your own thoughts and experiences.  But coming up with a name to define the compilation of thoughts and experiences...giant pain in the buttocks.


From our brainstorming, here were our top contenders for blog titles...but ones we ultimately rejected:

• DeGrooters - Too simple.  And pointed.
• A Day In 'D' Life - My personal favorite, because of the Beatle connection with the "D" incorporated.  Rob said it's been done.  He's right.
• Rooty Tooty Fresh and DeGrooty - Another winner, but long.  And, we didn't want to be the Tooty DeGrootys.  Not how we want to be thought of.
• D's Days - Again with the "D", but think Jamaican accent.
• DeGroot Salute - We're not really saluting anything.  It just rhymes.

Eventually, Rob thought of "Hello, Chum."


When we were at the beach a couple of years ago, as we walked from the beach to the beach house, a nice normal looking family passed by on bikes.  They were the really cute nuclear family with little tennis outfits and visors, biking together on their family vacation.  As they came toward us on their bikes, the young son cheerfully yelled (yes, in a scary old man Brisith accent - think pirate) "Hellllloooo, Chum!"  
It was funny - and the kid's parents looked super embarrassed, as though their crazy British pirate kid had lost his little mind right then and there.  


Lacking the social graces we needed, our whole family burst out laughing - loudly - at the chum kid.  Since then, we have had a great affinity for this expression and that particular memory.


Seems fitting for a blog title - a cordial greeting to all of our chums who are graciously spending their valuable time reading the compilation of our thoughts and experiences.