This is from Breitbart/AFP.
A New Zealand judge has ordered a name change for an embarrassed nine-year-old girl called Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii, a local newspaper reported Thursday.
What kind of yob is going to do this to a kid? Normally, I wouldn’t be behind a judge making a ruling like this, a court order that actually is stripping specific parents of their rights.
If you found out that your best friends were going to name their child Talula, you’d probably say something like; “Oh, that’s different, old family name?” But, if they told you that they picked Talula Does The Hula, you’d talk them out of it. Adding “From Hawaii”, is just piling on.
Family court judge Rob Murfitt said in a judgement made in February — but not released until Thursday — that oddball monikers created social hurdles as children grew up.
“She fears being mocked and teased and in that she has a greater level of insight than either of her parents,” he said of the girl.
You got that right, judge Murfitt, too bad you couldn’t take this a little further and court order the parents to change their names to Idiot and Moron.
The judge discovered New Zealand parents had given their children some other unusual names including Number 16 Bus Shelter and Midnight Chardonnay, both of which may relate to the conception of the child.
One child was named Violence and two pairs of twins were called Benson and Hedges and Fish and Chips. The children from one family were all named after six-cylinder Ford cars.
What is going on over there in New Zealand? Is this a New Zealand thing or, is this going on elsewhere too?
Violence!!?? Awww….look at little Violence, isn’t he just soooo cute.
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Sans Direction wrote,
I’m reminded of this bit from Madhouse:
Bernice: I need your opinion on something here. These are my favorite names for the baby so far: “Amaretta,” “Caramel,” or “Treblinka”
Claudia: You yokel, naming your baby after a German concentration camp!
Bernice: I thought Treblinka was one of those cute little fairies from Cinderella.
Link | July 24th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Pribek wrote,
What’s Madhouse?
Link | July 24th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Sans Direction wrote,
Movie from the late 80s. John Larroquette and Kirstie Alley are a couple who are moving forward in life until they buy a house. Then their not-moving-forward relatives come to visit, turning their nice new suburban home into a … well, you know.
Link | July 24th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Pribek wrote,
I guess I missed that one. The plot sounds similar to a lot of other 80s movies.
Sorry I stepped on your line.
Link | July 24th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Ovidiu - GuitarFlame.com wrote,
Man, I can’t believe it, the title must be part of a joke right? we have it here too, I didn’t think it is international :-D
Regarding strange names, well, we have quite a few here too. These names are common among gypsies and names like “Mercedesa(reald it like the feminine form of Mercedes, if such think would exist)”, “Talisman”, “Little Luck”, and others I can not think of at the moment but make my day when I hear some kind of a funny news on TV that “Queen” has married “Gold”
That’s also another joke like a guy coming to the judge asking to change your name. Hey, man, but are you sure about it?Why would you change it? What’s your name?
My name is John Sh*t and I would like to change it cause everybody makes fun of me. Well, I understand, indeed, there’s a situation here. How would you like to be named starting now? Well, I would like my name changed to George Sh*t!
Link | July 25th, 2008 at 4:01 am
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
John Boy
Link | July 25th, 2008 at 5:33 am
Pribek wrote,
Sounds like we’re telling a lot of the same jokes Ovidiu.
Link | July 25th, 2008 at 6:44 am
Martin Moon wrote,
I went to Linn Tech with a guy named “Oral Friend”. I am not sure whether he legally changed his name or his parents did that to him. He seemed to enjoy other people’s reactions to his name, so I suspect the former, but he would never reveal the answer to me.
Link | July 26th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Pribek wrote,
Hey Martin, good to see you.
“Oral Friend”; there’s no way, if the parents did pick that name, that they didn’t know. No way. So, if they did it, he can blame them for making him a freak. If he did it, he’s just a freak.
Link | July 26th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
dragonlady474 wrote,
I wanted to call my youngest the “Evil Spawn of Satan” but the bastards wouldn’t let me.
Link | July 29th, 2008 at 11:09 am