The issue of Rolling Stone is on newsstands now UNTIL until November 16th. Magazines put the expiration date or month on the cover. And I provided the page number 139 where he states exactly when and why he started using a silent T. If you would rather I wait until the entire article is available on online, then fine. But providing other easily referrable sources is just as good when the source is not available online. I provided an easily referrable source, you didn't. MrBlondNYC 07:48, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
:No problem. Sorry if I came off as snippy. My only problem was that you didn't cite a source. Colbert does mention his father in regards to his name change in Rolling Stone but he says he made his choice after he died. So in trying to condense it in my addition I focused more on him wanting to reinvent himself. This is exactly what he says: My father always wanted to be Col-bear. He lived in the same town as his father, and his father didn't like the idea of the name with the French pronunciation. So my father said to us 'Do what you want. You're not going to offend anybody'. And he was dead long before I made my decision. I was flying up to theater school at Northwestern, and I sat next to an astronaut, actually. And I told him I was going off to a new school. I was transferring to Northwestern and I didn't know anyone in Chcago. He said 'Oh, wow, you could really reinvent yourself out there.' When the plane took off I was Col-bert and when it landed I was Col-bear. So maybe we can work together in trying to add the different explanations to the article. Possibly a seperate section is needed. MrBlondNYC 20:01, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
:So Lee Bailey, would you mind if I restore the part about Colbert changing the pronunciation of his name? I think it should be in there but I should also include that it was originally his father's desire to change it. MrBlondNYC 06:14, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
::That's great work. I made a small change. I added "comedically" because it was "Stephen Colbert" who said "It's French, bitch!". I don't think Stephen Colbert ever referred to himself as French. But "Stephen Colbert" did. MrBlondNYC 20:31, 13 November 2006 (UTC)