Cruel and unusual punishment

[Asher]

http://xkcd.com/327/

[rah]

Originally posted by Dauphin


I was watching Austin Powers the other day, it had "Moon Unit Alpha" and "Moon Unit Zappa".

Moon Unit Zappa was who I was referring to. But I guess thats better than the brother Dweezil.

You'd better be pretty rich when you name your kids like that. And have taken lots of drugs to use as an excuse.

[Winston]

It could always be worse,

[..] a cocktail party in Dulwich. Quiet party-type music. Constant chatter.

Host: Ah, John. Allow me to introduce my next-door neighbour. John Stokes, this is A Snivelling Little Rat-Faced Git. Ah!

Mr Git: Hello, I noticed a slight look of anxiety cross your face for a moment just then, but you needn't worry - I'm used to it. That's the trouble of having a surname like Git.

John: Oh ... yes, yes.

Mr Git: We did think once of having it changed by deed-poll, you know - to Watson or something like that. But A Snivelling Little Rat-Faced Watson's just as bad eh?

John: Yes, yes, I suppose so.

Mrs Git approaches.

Mr Git: Oh, that's my wife. Darling! Come and meet Mr... what was it?

John: Stokes - John Stokes.

Mr Git: Oh yes. John Stokes, this is my wife, Dreary Fat Boring Old.

John: Oh, er, how do you do.

Mrs Git: How do you do.

Mrs Stokes appears.

Mrs Stokes: Darling, there you are!

John: Yes, yes, here I am, yes.

Mr Git: Oh, is this your wife?

John: Yes, yes, yes, this is the wife. Yes. Um darling, these, these are the Gits.

Mrs Stokes: (slightly shocked) What?

John: The Gits.

Mr Git: Oh, heaven's sakes we are being formal. Does it have to be surnames?

John: Oh, no, no. Not at all. No. Um, no, this... this... this is my wife Norah, er, Norah Jane, Norah Jane Stokes. This is Snivelling Little Rat-Faced Git. And this is his wife Dreary Fat Boring Old Git.

Mr Git: I was just telling your husband what an awful bore it is having a surname like Git.

Mrs Stokes: (understanding at last) Oh oh well, it's not that bad.

Mr Git: Oh, you've no idea how the kids get taunted. Why, only last week Dirty Lying Little Two-Faced came running home from school, sobbing his eyes out, and our youngest, Ghastly Spotty Horrible Vicious Little is just at the age when taunts like 'she's a git' really hurt.

[..]

Mrs Stokes: I think we ought to be going. We have two children to collect.

Mr Git: Oh, well, bring them round for tea tomorrow.

Mrs Stokes: Well...

Mr Git: It's Ghastly Spotty Cross-Eyed's birthday and she's having a disembowelling party for a few friends. The Nauseas will be there, and Doug and Janice Mucus, and the Rectums from Swanage.

[..]

[DirtyMartini]

Frank:

You'd better be pretty rich when you name your kids like that.

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And have taken lots of drugs to use as an excuse.

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[SpencerH]

Someone I worked with had dissuaded a new mom from naming her daughter ****h-ead (without the hyphen).

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Re: Cruel and unusual punishment

Originally posted by Dauphin

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

Accepted as they were the places and/or causes of conception?

My daughter had a classmate named Chardonnay when she was in gramamar school. Always struck me as odd, but seems positively normal after this article.

[DinoDoc]

It's like some parents have a burning desire to die at the hands of thier children.

[Harovan]

Wouldn't be possible hereabouts. People are generally free to name their offspring the way they want, but they have to abide some basic rules, among others...

- it has to be clearly a name. A complete sentence like the mentioned Halula does... would not be possible.

- it has to be obvious whether the owner of the name is male or female, e.g. to call a boy "Windsbraut" (Windbride) wouldn't be allowed, whereas for a girl it would be ok.

- it has not to violate the child's dignity and/or ridicule it; also a clear "miss" with the given example

To allow a name or not is in the discretion of the clerk of the civil registry, the parents have of course the right to complain.

The rules aren't very restrictive though, there are still enough "borderline" stupid names left, like "Cosma-Shiwa" (esp. the second part is stoopid ), "Domino Carina", "Emily-Extra", "Max Amos Soma Xam" or the mentioned "Windsbraut".

[Dauphin]

Re: Re: Cruel and unusual punishment

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly


My daughter had a classmate named Chardonnay when she was in gramamar school. Always struck me as odd, but seems positively normal after this article.

Chardonnay has been quite a common baby name in the UK for the last five years.

[Japher]

A friend of mine had a classmate in grad school named Wachovia, and she married a guy who's last name is Banks.

[DirtyMartini]

Reminds me of the urban legend about the mom who really liked flavored gelatin and named her twins Lemonjello and Orangejello.