New Zealand bans baby names

That sounds like a good compromise.

 

Ladies... Would you see an OBGYN named Harry Beaver? Would it have no effect on your decision?

 

Yes you are.

 

i see no mention of Frodo or Bilbo.

 

What's in a name?

 

Mercedes was the daughter one of Daimler Benz head honchos who reserved the right to call the Mercedes car after his daughter.

 

"No one called Jones"

Allow Rowan Atkinson to have the final word.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qffCXkhodks

 

If he had an excellent reputation, sure I would.....

 

i can honestly say i did not know that, thanks for the little tidbit of Automotive History. Pretty cool.

 

Yeah...who would name a kid "Conan". Oh, wait...here's Conan. Who would name a kid "Mercedes"? Oh, wait...she did OK, too. By that standard, just about any name could be banned. (Should someone named "Loonfeather" not be able to give his children his name?!)

 

A Dick Trickle (Richard Leroy Trickle) raced in NASCAR for 30 years.

 

Awww Rats! I was going to post that one!!

 

It's worthy and funny enough to be posted more than once.

 

Hey, hey, watch it sport. As a Kiwi, I take great exception to this. We may be drunk and surrounded by sheep, but we are not, repeat not, crazy. Well, not all of us, anyway. My real name is Ten Guitars O' Halloran, which is perfectly normal for a sheep shagger.

 

I stand corrected...

 

As I sit here watching a woman who named her child Shamiracle, because she broke her uterus making good decisions and still managed to carry to term... I think maybe I am for name regulation.

*Update... he was not the father.

 

I find it very hard to climb on any ban wagon. Although I`d be very dubious of the suitability, as parents, of anyone who could even consider handicapping their own child with a stupid name. Rather than banning certain names, it might be a better option, to thoroughly investigate the appropriatness of these "parents". I doubt very much that banning stupid names will somehow turn these imbeciles into good parents.

 

Trouble is DOCS or child safety departments have enough on their hands and really do not want to investigate (time consuming effort costing government money) when a simple "no" by a clerk in a registry office will effect the same end

And as we have seen on this thread there are a lot of surnames that, well, pose difficulties for the inheritors

[video=youtube;jnypdeDfSN8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnypdeDfSN8[/video]

 

Yeah. And the poor child accidentally called "Promiscuous" (for real - at least i think that was it, i saw it in the doco "Freakonomics".

 

So do you think a simple "no" by the clerk solves the problem? Or is it OK because it makes things easy for DOCS, by sweeping the problem under the carpet?

 

Have you ANY idea how snowed under Docs IS?? Have you any idea of the sort of crap that they already have to deal with? And while you tie them up with issues like this they will not have time to investigate the "failure to thrive" children who are being knowingly or unknowingly starved by parents. So tell me - how many extra staff do you think it would take to investigate every child name in Australia??

 

I know of a Wayne Carr, Peter Sake, Paul Hiscock. I'm aware of a family with the last name Virgin - gotta be painful as a child carrying this name!

As big as Elvis was, you never hear of too many people with the first name Elvis.

 

You should see some of the weird names that American parents give their kids.

New Zealand isn't in Europe. Isn't on the opposite side of the planet to Europe.

 

yet, it's still full of europeons.