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A man in China has been denied permission to name his son '@' as it can't be translated in to Mandarin, but he argues that it is a character used on keyboards! Luckily(?) for his son, they don't live in the USA, where naming your offspring as a software upgrade is totally fine - Jon Blake Cusack Version 2.0 (http://www.theregister.com/2004/02/03/us_parents_give_birth/)!
What have you seen/heard of recently that is just totally random?
Blinkie
04-09-2007, 06:40 AM
no way... is that true?
Yup. :|
http://www.theregister.com/2004/10/12/no_at_for_chinese/
Blinkie
04-09-2007, 08:59 AM
OMG that is so odd!!! As if you would!! there are enough random names out there - it's the kiddies i feel sorry for, they are all going to have such random names by the time they all hit their 20's... they are all named after objects, places and emotions!
Whatever happened to good old names??!!!!!
dgellis0907
04-09-2007, 10:14 AM
heres one to add:
Autumn Sullivan Corbett Fitzsimmons Jeffries Hart Burns Johnson Willard Dempsey Tunney Schmeling Sharkey Carnera Baer Braddock Louis Charles Walcott Marciano Patterson Johansson Liston Clay Frazier Foreman Brown.
thats one girl's name
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91059-1271935,00.html
What is she going to do when she has to fill out a form for pete's sake?!
Holy shit, thats crazy!
Here is a list of some names that celebs have called their kids:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/08/n4real108.xml
heres one to add:
Autumn Sullivan Corbett Fitzsimmons Jeffries Hart Burns Johnson Willard Dempsey Tunney Schmeling Sharkey Carnera Baer Braddock Louis Charles Walcott Marciano Patterson Johansson Liston Clay Frazier Foreman Brown.
thats one girl's name
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91059-1271935,00.html
What is she going to do when she has to fill out a form for pete's sake?!
Wonder what details in her passport look like. :S
Lizzie
04-09-2007, 01:19 PM
I went to primary school with three sisters called Ruby, Amethyst and Pearl. No joke. Poor kids.....
postie
04-09-2007, 01:22 PM
Well for a start "@" is such a stupid name for a child so good on them for not allowing it , i mean what next if they had another would they call him "&"
then you have so called celebs naming their kids like "tree" or "leaf" or "apple"
Blinkie
05-09-2007, 06:46 AM
A girl i once knew (hope she isn't on here!) had a baby at highschool back in the day when it wasn't the norm... anyway she called her boy Bailey (after the drink she loved and obviously was drinking when she conceived - she was only 15/16) Her 2nd child was a girl called Tequila and she recently had a 3rd called Brandy.
I think it's terrible naming your kids in that fashion - all 3 named after alcoholic beverages. On their own the names are quite nice (well, Bailey and Brandy are) but to have all 3 with names like that is so wrong IMO.
The youngest is 10 now and i'm sure it wont be long until he starts getting picked on at school when the kids realise the connection.
Chongster
05-09-2007, 06:56 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070820/lf_afp/lifestylejapan
I found that quite odd!
Blinkie
05-09-2007, 07:01 AM
would ruin the enamel on your teeth!!!
A girl i once knew (hope she isn't on here!) had a baby at highschool back in the day when it wasn't the norm... anyway she called her boy Bailey (after the drink she loved and obviously was drinking when she conceived - she was only 15/16) Her 2nd child was a girl called Tequila and she recently had a 3rd called Brandy.
I think it's terrible naming your kids in that fashion - all 3 named after alcoholic beverages. On their own the names are quite nice (well, Bailey and Brandy are) but to have all 3 with names like that is so wrong IMO.
The youngest is 10 now and i'm sure it wont be long until he starts getting picked on at school when the kids realise the connection.
I suppose its wrong of me to actually like the name Tequila then? - which I do, I cant wait to have kids just so I can name them, I think that modern names are becoming more common and therefore the chances of them getting picked on is slim considering there will be many others in their class with odd names. I do like Ruby Scarlet and the like too :)
Ellie
05-09-2007, 09:25 PM
"Tequila, it makes me happy!" - Jumps into my mind!
"Tequila, it makes me happy!" - Jumps into my mind!
...I wish you hadn't just reminded me of that song. It drives me crazy! :034:
Ellie
05-09-2007, 09:31 PM
You love it and you know it ;)
"Tequila, it makes me happy!" - Jumps into my mind!
BAD ELLIE! no you must not think of the bad stuff!
Ellie
05-09-2007, 09:34 PM
Meh, I quit drinking I'm fine!
why did the mexican push his wife off the cliff?
tequila. [to kill her...]
Blinkie
06-09-2007, 07:19 AM
I suppose its wrong of me to actually like the name Tequila then? - which I do, I cant wait to have kids just so I can name them, I think that modern names are becoming more common and therefore the chances of them getting picked on is slim considering there will be many others in their class with odd names. I do like Ruby Scarlet and the like too :)
I like the names, i just don't think it's fair to name ALL THREE after alcoholic beverages - that's just too much!
why did the mexican push his wife off the cliff?
tequila. [to kill her...]
Ha ha ha, love this, never heard it before!
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