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    NZ judge orders 'odd' name change

    A judge in New Zealand made a young girl a ward of court so that she could change the name she hated - Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii.

    Judge Rob Murfitt said that the name embarrassed the nine-year-old and could expose her to teasing.

    He attacked a trend of giving children bizarre names, citing several examples.

    Officials had blocked Sex Fruit, Keenan Got Lucy and Yeah Detroit, he said, but Number 16 Bus Shelter, Violence and Midnight Chardonnay had been allowed.

    One mother wanted to name her child O.crnia using text language, but was later persuaded to use Oceania, he said.

    'Social handicap'

    The ruling, in the city of New Plymouth on the North Island, was handed down in February but only made public now.

    The name issue emerged during a custody hearing for the young girl - who had refused to tell her friends her name and went simply by "K".

    "The court is profoundly concerned about the very poor judgment which this child's parents have shown in choosing this name," Judge Murfitt wrote.

    "It makes a fool of the child and sets her up with a social disability and handicap, unnecessarily."

    Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii's name has now been changed and the custody case resolved, court officials said.

    New Zealand does not allow names that would cause offence or that are longer than 100 characters, Registrar-General Brian Clarke said.

    Officials often tried to talk parents out of particularly unusual choices that could embarrass their offspring, the Associated Press news agency quoted him as saying


    Number 16 Bus Shelter, Violence and Midnight Chardonnay are acceptable?

    Accepted as they were the places and/or causes of conception?
    One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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    A friend of mine from university has the name Tristan. His sister is called Izolde.
    One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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    • #3
      Her name is now "Lola Does The Cha-cha at the Copacabana"
      Monkey!!!

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      • #4
        It's cruel enough bringing a child into this world as a Kiwi. But to give them a goofy name?
        John Brown did nothing wrong.

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        • #5
          Since when does the government have any say in what people name their children?
          Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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          • #6
            Moonunit was always one of my favorites.
            Well at least the family had some money and fame which would eliminate some of the teasing. Of course the last name was already a killer.
            It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
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            • #7
              Originally posted by chegitz guevara
              Since when does the government have any say in what people name their children?
              "The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.

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              • #8
                Name Change threadi
                THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
                AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
                AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
                DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by chegitz guevara
                  Since when does the government have any say in what people name their children?
                  When the child hates the name and has no legal standing to change it herself. The government shouldn' have to get involved though. Loving parents should be able to resolve the issue without help.
                  It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
                  RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

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                  • #10
                    Didn't we have a thread not long ago about an Italian family that was forced to change the name of their infant. The name was Friday, it that is apparently an unlucky day in Italy... or something.
                    Monkey!!!

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                    • #11
                      Name Change threadi




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                      Many African-Americans would probably see such a court ruling as being racist..

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                      • #12
                        He should have included an order changing the names of the parents to something ****ty.

                        **** For Brains perhaps.
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                          Is noone named Crap The Condom Broke in NZ? Seems odd.
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by rah
                            Moonunit was always one of my favorites.
                            Well at least the family had some money and fame which would eliminate some of the teasing. Of course the last name was already a killer.
                            I was watching Austin Powers the other day, it had "Moon Unit Alpha" and "Moon Unit Zappa".
                            One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by chegitz guevara
                              Since when does the government have any say in what people name their children?
                              Since they are New Zealand, which doesn't have Constitutional rights to raise kids the way you'd like to raise them .
                              “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                              - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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