How not to name a baby!!!

[canarlee]

[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:Me]

Well obviously the mother knows Shetal too...

[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...-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...