How not to name a baby!!!

[canarlee]

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[ZeroIndex]

Poor kid...

[deanohit]

Man that kid is gonna cop it when he starts school. Poor bugger

[Indiana_Jones]

4Real

-Indy

[007XX]

Oh for crying out loud...poor little fella!

[DMNTD]

Well obviously the mother knows Shetal too... :mellow:

[Coldrider]

That's child abuse, and they don't even wanna change his name.
Son droopy, parents dippy.

[xwhatsit]

Hehehe -- I was just reading this article: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C08%5C17%5Cstory_17-8-2007_pg9_13 . It's about a Chinese couple who want to name their baby `@', as when the @ symbol is pronounced in Mandarin it sounds like `ai ta', which means `love him'.

Ridiculous, lol.

But then again I am somebody who is always very careful to follow variable naming conventions (except in Java -- whatTheFuckIsWrongWithPeople).

[Beemer]

I do some work for the Army News and there were two soldiers collecting for Heart Kids in Palmerston North recently so I stopped to take a photo of them. They were outside Farmers so I waited until a suitable cute kid came out with her mother and asked if she would mind posing for a photo. No worries, and she even spelled the kid's name for me - Alkaidah. It didn't mean anything to me until she asked me what paper the photo would be in. When I said the Army News, she said "oh, could you just call her by the second part of her name - Kaidah - as they may not like it". Say it out loud and you'll see what I mean - and the mother was obviously aware of the terrorist connection when she named the kid. Won't she be a lovely target for abuse when she is older?

[The Pastor]

wtf is wrong with people lol.

Whats wrong with john, scott, peter, paul, tom, james ETC. Having a weird name doesnt make you cool.

[Hitcher]

Unless New Zealand follows the lead set by the French, where children's first names can only be chosen from an official list, then we're stuck with the whole phenomenum of socio-economic and "fashion" names.

It's bad enough having one's second name as one's primary identifier, without having something corny, hard to spell or just the same as every second child born in a particular year.

Watching the opening rounds of NPC rugby each year is always enlightening. I noted this year that the last of the Joshes has gone and the first of the Jacks are arriving. In 10 years time it will be the Adams.

Jorja. What that's all about? And some members wonder why the BDOTGNZA rails against badly spelt words. A wee sister(?) for Chlamydia, perhaps. A lovely name. Fancy condemning a child to a life with a "cute" or "different" name that they always have to either spell for people or "correct". The Kahui twins' mum is Macsyna. Sigh.

What ever happened to real names like Brian, Kevin, Jane, Carol, Denise, Tony, George, Henry and Christine?

[007XX]

Unless New Zealand follows the lead set by the French, where children's first names can only be chosen from an official list, then we're stuck with the whole phenomenum of socio-economic and "fashion" names.


I respectfully would love to know where you got this info from?

[McJim]

Goodness me.

I've met:
Christopher Peacock (Crispy Cock)
Richard Head (Dick Head)
Isabella Horn (No, it's a bell)
Robert Stornaway (R. Stornoway = Arse torn away)

And more that I can't remember at the moment.

My dad nearly came to blows with the registrar to call me Jamie not James back in 1970.

[Mekk]

Modern censorship rules sure are strange...

In GIANT letters they've printed "Peacock" and then in the body of the article have a censored "C**k". Sure the intended meaning is different, but it still seems odd to me.

[Hitcher]

I respectfully would love to know where you got this info from?

Happy to oblige. A few years ago the New Zealand All Blacks had a moderately competent Number Eight called Zinzan Brooke. Particularly popular in France was he, to a point where a mother was so enamored with Monsieur Brooke she wished to name her new-born son after him. Her desires were allegedly quashed by the relevant registrars of new babies and the comptrollers of names French.

One also understands that the practice of French lads having a girl's name as their second name is a way of increasing the available selection.

I suppose you're now going to shatter my allusions by providing expert evidence that this is just a crock of shit...

[canarlee]

Modern censorship rules sure are strange...

In GIANT letters they've printed "Peacock" and then in the body of the article have a censored "C**k". Sure the intended meaning is different, but it still seems odd to me.

it aint censorship, its feckin PC bullshit! they can say cock when they got a pic of one (the feathered variety) but apart from that they have to censor it so it dont upset the lemmings! i think the "news" item comes from the great daily publication called "the sun", the worlds biggest selling daily comic it is.....

mate of mine got fined 2000 pounds a few years ago for flying the st georges flag in london!
all coz it might upset the majority, ooops i meant the minority!
oh it was the queens jubilee day too......


politically correct do gooders have taken over the assylum i tells ya!

[Mekk]

So if you say "Here comes Drew Peacock", it's sweet?

And far canal and far queue?

Censorship is stupid. Far cough.

[007XX]

Happy to oblige. A few years ago the New Zealand All Blacks had a moderately competent Number Eight called Zinzan Brooke. Particularly popular in France was he, to a point where a mother was so enamored with Monsieur Brooke she wished to name her new-born son after him. Her desires were allegedly quashed by the relevant registrars of new babies and the comptrollers of names French.

One also understands that the practice of French lads having a girl's name as their second name is a way of increasing the available selection.

I suppose you're now going to shatter my allusions by providing expert evidence that this is just a crock of shit...

I certainly would wish for myself not to be quite so arrogant, although it is supposedly one of the allegedly most prevalent traits of my french heritage.

However, I have never heard of the said incident about Zinzan. The french governement and I parted ways 13 years ago, and I haven't looked back as they are a pontific and moronic assembly of cretins as far as I'm concerned.
I wouldn't be at all surprised with the veracity of that story.

what I do know is that some of my relatives have various outlandish names, mostly from old gaelic background, some are even hispanic, and there was never any intervention from the registrars...

And, the tradition for second names has always been to give the first names of each grandparent to the child, in honour of his ancestors.
For this reason, please do not ask mine, as they are very desuate (:laugh::o). I do adore both my grandmas, but DANG...

So, although I cannot completely refute your statements, I just don't think they are entirely accurate, sorry.

[DMNTD]

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So, although I cannot completely refute your statements, I just don't think they are entirely accurate, sorry.

Mmmmmmm....nothing like the sweet smell of burning flesh :sunny:

[Hitcher]

So, although I cannot completely refute your statements, I just don't think they are entirely accurate, sorry.

Damn. I was looking for certainty. I guess I'll just have to add a disclaimer every time I trot my story out in future! "Believe at your peril" or something similar...

(And it's desuete. Nice word choice.)

[McJim]

I certainly would wish for myself not to be quite so arrogant, although it is supposedly one of the allegedly most prevalent traits of my french heritage.

However, I have never heard of the said incident about Zinzan. The french governement and I parted ways 13 years ago, and I haven't looked back as they are a pontific and moronic assembly of cretins as far as I'm concerned.
I wouldn't be at all surprised with the veracity of that story.

what I do know is that some of my relatives have various outlandish names, mostly from old gaelic background, some are even hispanic, and there was never any intervention from the registrars...

And, the tradition for second names has always been to give the first names of each grandparent to the child, in honour of his ancestors.
For this reason, please do not ask mine, as they are very desuate (:laugh::o). I do adore both my grandmas, but DANG...

So, although I cannot completely refute your statements, I just don't think they are entirely accurate, sorry.

Merde! C'est incroyable!

[007XX]

Damn. I was looking for certainty. I guess I'll just have to add a disclaimer every time I trot my story out in future! "Believe at your peril" or something similar...

(And it's desuete. Nice word choice.)

Thank you (crap, I had to mispell it, didn't I? :laugh:)

A disclaimer would help, but maybe stating the "allegedly" earlier would have been better...in my humble opinion, of course!

[007XX]

Merde! C'est incroyable!

Qu'est ce que tu trouves d'incroyable, cher ami?
Je suis bien curieuse de connaitre ton opinion sur ce sujet...

And PLEASE...do not try to use the online translater! :lol:
Only goobligook will come out of it:yes:

[Maha]

Well obviously the mother knows Shetal too... :mellow:

:gob:.. her maiden name was Ovadaplace.....(Greek)....:yes:
Shetal Ovadaplace .....:shit:

[canarlee]

well i just googled "drew peacock" and not one hint of it asking if i meant droopy cock!


http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=gmail&q=drew%20peacock


a hoax maybe?

[Pillick]

What do you find incredible, dear friend? I am quite curious to know your opinion on this subject

sounds plausible, no? I wonder how well it does the other way around:

Je me demande ce qu'est l'équivalent français de l'engrish. Quelque chose a aiment probablement ceci.

[Ocean1]

I suppose you're now going to shatter my allusions by providing expert evidence that this is just a crock of shit...

Well dude, you'd go a fair way to find a better source for such.


Only goobligook will come out of it:yes:

Ah, my native tounge. Only I spell it differently...

[007XX]

Damn. I was looking for certainty. I guess I'll just have to add a disclaimer every time I trot my story out in future! "Believe at your peril" or something similar...

(And it's desuete. Nice word choice.)

Here are some facts:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/10/08/news/danes.php

But I shall dig some more, as I'm intrigued now...

[Ocean1]

Damn. I was looking for certainty. I guess I'll just have to add a disclaimer every time I trot my story out in future! "Believe at your peril" or something similar...

(And it's desuete. Nice word choice.)

KB boilerplate: "Normal factual integrity will be returned as soon as you log off."

[007XX]

sounds plausible, no? I wonder how well it does the other way around:

Je me demande ce qu'est l'équivalent français de l'engrish. Quelque chose a aiment probablement ceci.

I wonder what the equivalent of Engrish might be in french?
And the second sentence doesn't make sense, sorry!
"Something as magnet probably this"???

[Pillick]

gobbledegook, as you predicted.

[marty]

my son has a teacher Richard Baggs.

[Ocean1]

I had an English teacher called Mary Print (single).

We called her other things too, she used to wear miniskirts and high boots. We moved the blackboard up two feet.

[deanohit]

I used to go to school with a kid named Benjamin Dover. Never got hasseled too much.

[McJim]

Qu'est ce que tu trouves d'incroyable, cher ami?
Je suis bien curieuse de connaitre ton opinion sur ce sujet...

And PLEASE...do not try to use the online translater! :lol:
Only goobligook will come out of it:yes:

You said: So what is it you find so unbelievable my dear friend? I am really curious to know what your opinion on this subject is....

Why would I need to look that up? - French is easy - learned it 20 years ago.

[007XX]

You said: So what is it you find so unbelievable my dear friend? I am really curious to know what your opinion on this subject is....

Why would I need to look that up? - French is easy - learned it 20 years ago.

and it took you only just under an hour to figure it out...not bad! :first::laugh::yawn:

[McJim]

and it took you only just under an hour to figure it out...not bad! :first::laugh::yawn:

C'est ne pas vrais. I am at work and I had an issue that required my attention.

But we digress. Is it not the case that the catholic persuasion of France defines that many children are named after a saint in order that they may celebrate their saints day? Since this is celebrated more fervently than a birthday surely to give a french child a name other than that of a saint would be to deprive them of their saint's day and would be deemed a cruel act. And of course the ONLY thing you have going on at the moment is this thread therefore I must time your response to see how au fait you really are with the culture of La France :rofl:

Il y en a beaucoup des autres choses que j'ai besoin a faire, allors a bientot!

[Ocean1]

surely to give a french child a name other than that of a saint would be to deprive them of their saint's day and would be deemed a cruel act.

Oh I can think of instances where it wouldn't be altogether inapropriate...

[canarlee]

C'est ne pas vrais. I am at work and I had an issue that required my attention.

But we digress. Is it not the case that the catholic persuasion of France defines that many children are named after a saint in order that they may celebrate their saints day? Since this is celebrated more fervently than a birthday surely to give a french child a name other than that of a saint would be to deprive them of their saint's day and would be deemed a cruel act.

that works a similar way in spain, although they are not as strict about it.

[McJim]

that works a similar way in spain, although they are not as strict about it.

Well they don't quite have the trade union movement the French have :rofl:

[canarlee]

Well they don't quite have the trade union movement the French have :rofl:

um i dunno about that!


the french block the boat ports but the spics block the airports just as bad d00d

[Edbear]

I feel so very unappreciative! It took me many years to forgive my mother for naming me Edward!:bye: It could have been so much worse...:yes:

I think I'll call her and thank her!:love:

[Hitcher]

But I shall dig some more, as I'm intrigued now...

My affection for the Danes has now risen exponentially.

[MisterD]

French is easy - learned it 20 years ago.

Indeed. As my old man used to ask me as I struggled with my homework: "What are you finding so difficult? Even French idiots can speak French!"

On the other subjects on the thread:

1) I used to go to Tranmere (SuperWhiteArmy!) matches with one Richard Head and and GF of mine at Uni had a mate called Richard Shaw

2) Chosen names for MasterD: James Arthur Ross, all family names and he now has the requisit number of initials to play cricket for England :rockon:

[Brian d marge]

My first Son Is named

Horatio Wombat the 3rd

the one on the way is to be called You ( Japanese name )

You Delphinus Tapwasher

Stephen

[Goblin]

my son has a teacher Richard Baggs.:laugh: I wonder if he's Paul Baggs brother. One that still makes me chuckle was Peter Vile. When he introduced himself I thought he was joking....so gave him shit. :lol:

[ynot slow]

Phoned a pub 25yrs ago,asked if a mike .... was in he came to phone,we asked him if he'd put the barlady back on the phone,we asked her to ask if a Michael Hunt(said known as Mike) was soaking as it was pissing down when he left and we were coming to give him a new shirt,we pissed ourselves when she asked if Mike Hunt was wet,we had placed a microphone by phone and taped the barmaid.

Went to school with a Paul Soal,didn't have a brother Ross Soal though,was fun when his name called out at school P Soal.Imagine R Soal.

On the Rock Tuesday they were on about names and a guy rang up saying his boys were named red,black and blue,his name was blue as well.Said they were named after Canterbury rugby team,black and red were obvious,then had another so when he was born looked at the jersey and saw the ford logo on super 12 jersey so called him blue,the guys asked his surname,he replied Gray.

[McJim]

Spanish Mother, Scottish Father.

They named him Juan Kerr :rofl:

[skidMark]

Well obviously the mother knows Shetal too... :mellow:


maybe she was thinking of the father when she named the kid...oh sn4p viagrasssszzzz t3h PWN3D

[xwhatsit]

oh sn4p viagrasssszzzz t3h PWN3D

<hints id="hah_hints"></hints>Dude ... do you ever find your emails always get classified as spam? I think I know why :lol:

[007XX]

C'est ne pas vrais. I am at work and I had an issue that required my attention.

But we digress. Is it not the case that the catholic persuasion of France defines that many children are named after a saint in order that they may celebrate their saints day? Since this is celebrated more fervently than a birthday surely to give a french child a name other than that of a saint would be to deprive them of their saint's day and would be deemed a cruel act. And of course the ONLY thing you have going on at the moment is this thread therefore I must time your response to see how au fait you really are with the culture of La France :rofl:

Il y en a beaucoup des autres choses que j'ai besoin a faire, allors a bientot!

Ok, firstly, let's just rectify your french grammar...I'll give you a break as it WAS 20 years ago after all...
Your first sentence should be: "Ce n'est pas vrai. etc""
And the last one: "'J'ai bien d'autres choses a faire, allors a bientot!" is a better way to say it although, the way you had the sentence was comprehensive.

Now, your point about christianity heavily influencing the custom of naming children is quite correct. Or it used to be, up to my parents' generation...
Nowadays, this old fashioned tradition is fast disappearing and being suplanted by the "Americanised" fascination for naming a child after some well known movie star or maybe another influencial figure...I'm not saying you are incorrect, just that your take on it is outdated.:dodge:
And never in my childhood was my saint's day ever made a big deal of...

In regards to my delay in replying to your very interesting response, I was out 4 wheel driving all weekend, sorry! :bleh:

And as far as being au fait with the culture de France...I was born French, but it doesn't make me a specialist:nono:

Signed: Saint Veronique:innocent::laugh:

[McJim]

Ok, firstly, let's just rectify your french grammar...I'll give you a break as it WAS 20 years ago after all...

Thanks for your forgiveness. I'm used to speaking french not writing it which is why I get away with these mistakes usually!:innocent:

[007XX]

Thanks for your forgiveness. I'm used to speaking french not writing it which is why I get away with these mistakes usually!:innocent:

Mais de rien, mon cher McJim...

I used to have that very same problem, but as they say: practice makes perfect!

[Hitcher]

Je suis un rock star
Je avais un residence
Je habiter la
A la south de France.

[007XX]

Je suis un rock star
Je avais un residence
Je habiter la
A la south de France.

Not even the Rolling Stones can help you here, my dear!

[McJim]

Je suis un rock star
Je avais un residence
Je habiter la
A la south de France.

I'm glad the english language is your strong point. :rofl:

you've got me singing that in me 'ead now dammit! ....and come and rester la...with me in France.....

[oldrider]

...I was born French, :nono:Signed: Saint Veronique:innocent::laugh:

If you can sing like Edith Piaf I could be putty in your hands! :yes: :innocent: Cheers John.

[Hitcher]

Not even the Rolling Stones can help you here, my dear!

Je ne care pas.

[007XX]

If you can sing like Edith Piaf I could be putty in your hands! :yes: :innocent: Cheers John.

"non, rien de rien...
Non, je ne regrette rien..."

She was quite something, wasn't she? A very classy lady in many ways, shame she was so unhappy...unlike the message that song was trying to carry!

[Hitcher]

Les Français ne parlent pas le School C français.

[007XX]

Je ne care pas.

Really? you could have had me fooled...:yes:

And please, do not go frenglish on me, it's disturbing...next thing you know, I'll be correcting your spelling mistakes! :lol::shit:

[canarlee]

oyez cabrones havla ingles!!!