Yes there are. Very sexy ones too.
Posted on 08/07/2010 12:43:37 AM PDT by naturalman1975
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Violence; Number 16 Bus Shelter; Midnight Chardonnay; Benson and Hedges (twins)
Names blocked in New Zealand
Yeah Detroit; Stallion; Twisty Poi; Keenan Got Lucy; Sex Fruit; Fat Boy; Cinderella Beauty Blossom; Fish and Chips (twins)
Stallion... would be a cool boy’s name, but I wonder if it had been inflicted on a girl.
And I thought African Americans gave children strange names...
Most of those sound like racehorses.
I guess this ruling puts a damper on naming my kids after the Planets of the Solar System.
In some societies, the judge's last name may sound odd too.
Don’t use Uranus.
Pluto was alwyas well behaved but I must confess that Uranus is my favorite.
And I thought I was weird for liking the boys names Wyatt, and Winston.
“I guess this ruling puts a damper on naming my kids after the Planets of the Solar System.”
Nothing wrong with Venus! or Mercury!
Uranus, on the other end, a bit problematic.
Tonight has yielded a number of insane stories to make me feel insane. This one may have pushed me over the edge. WTF is wrong with these people? How could these morons torture their own children with such horrible names? Gahhh.
I remember many moons ago when the late Peter Jennings was broadcasting a story about some NASA probe (Voyager?) that was about to exit our solar system, and apparently there was some malfunction with it and photos and data from the planet Uranus would not be acquired.
Jennings looked right into the camera with a shrug and said literally said “well, scratch Uranus” (pronouncing it “yur anus”, realized what he had said, and just dropped his face to the desk with one fist hitting the desk as well, knowing there was no way to recover from that.
You could hear the staff in the background howling, and Jennings head came back up red faced with a schoolboy-in-trouble sort of grin, and he gamely continued on, but from that day forward he pronounced that planet’s name as ‘YUR-AH-NUS’. Jennings later recounted that as one of his most embarrassing moments.
He might have been a liberal like most of them, but I liked Jennings, he was a genuinely nice guy.
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Never heard of a person named “Earth” but there are “Earthas”.
urine-ous... seems there is no way to escape from the double entendre
I sort of like “Yeah Detroit.”
“Le détroit” means “the strait” (narrow connecting waterway) in French. It sounds like Dutoit, which is a proper French surname.
As an adult that was picked on a lot as a kid, I think these parents could use some kind of daily humiliation combined with physical trauma.
...and sterilization.
Agreed. What kind of parent would inflict that kind of lasting trial on a child?
What does O.crnia mean?? I see that they accepted Oceania.
I wonder because I named one of my daughters Oceanna.
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