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Silly Season Stuff

Anti-Social Darwinism
18-12-2007, 15:26
Robinson Crusoe was not the first thing I thought of.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071218/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_italy_name
Ifreann
18-12-2007, 15:32
It's one thing for the government to decide that certain things can't be used as names, but why the fuck are they allowed to choose a replacement name?
Brutland and Norden
18-12-2007, 15:35
reminds me of a supermarket cashier whose ID read Friday...

Me: You are really called Friday?
Friday: Yes.
Me: What, then, is your nickname?
Friday: My friends call me 'Fri'.
Me. Oh. I presume you were born on a Friday, then.
Friday: No, I was born on a Wednesday.
Me: *brain crashes*
The_pantless_hero
18-12-2007, 15:49
reminds me of a supermarket cashier whose ID read Friday...

Me: You are really called Friday?
Friday: Yes.
Me: What, then, is your nickname?
Friday: My friends call me 'Fri'.
Me. Oh. I presume you were born on a Friday, then.
Friday: No, I was born on a Wednesday.
Me: *brain crashes*

His parents watched more tv than you.
Call to power
18-12-2007, 16:05
T.G.I Friday comes to mind

...

Friday is coming!

...

you can only eat fish on a Friday
This might be a puppet
18-12-2007, 16:14
Didn't one of Heinlein's SF novels have a heroine by this name?
Peepelonia
18-12-2007, 16:17
Heh and I called my oldest Tanis, I wanted Raistlin, but the wife put her foot down.
Laerod
18-12-2007, 16:18
Hm. Here in Germany, the only ruling I know of concerning names is that 6 first names is sufficient for a child.
Jensens
18-12-2007, 16:42
I have to say - I agree in theory with the concept of protecting people from their own stupidity and preventing parents from saddling their children with "ridiculous or shameful" first names hits my Top Ten in that list.

However, it does seem to be a bit over the top. Surely there are mafioso that could be tried instead of poor little Friday's parents.

My mother was a first grade teacher for 20 years in the Detroit public school system. Each Fall, she would come home with the class list and we would hurt ourselves from laughing so hard over some of the names these parents would give their children. The best was Aquanetta.
:eek:

Then again, how is Shaniqua any more ridiculous than Barbi or Buffy?

I wonder if the Italian government allows for people of legal age to change their own names like we do in the States and Australia. If the kid really & truly wanted to be called Last Weekday for the rest of his life, he could do it. Can't imagine why he'd want to but it would be nice to know if he could or not.
Extreme Ironing
18-12-2007, 17:20
It's one thing for the government to decide that certain things can't be used as names, but why the fuck are they allowed to choose a replacement name?

QFT, this is a disgusting ruling by the court.
Peepelonia
18-12-2007, 17:28
I have to say - I agree in theory with the concept of protecting people from their own stupidity and preventing parents from saddling their children with "ridiculous or shameful" first names hits my Top Ten in that list.

However, it does seem to be a bit over the top. Surely there are mafioso that could be tried instead of poor little Friday's parents.

My mother was a first grade teacher for 20 years in the Detroit public school system. Each Fall, she would come home with the class list and we would hurt ourselves from laughing so hard over some of the names these parents would give their children. The best was Aquanetta.
:eek:

Then again, how is Shaniqua any more ridiculous than Barbi or Buffy?

I wonder if the Italian government allows for people of legal age to change their own names like we do in the States and Australia. If the kid really & truly wanted to be called Last Weekday for the rest of his life, he could do it. Can't imagine why he'd want to but it would be nice to know if he could or not.

I don't know, I think we should all be able to burden our kids with whatever name we wish. |They can always change it, or ask be known as something else.
Hamilay
18-12-2007, 17:28
Besides, Friday isn't even a particularly ridiculous name. It doesn't evoke outbursts of laughter and it doesn't rhyme with anything obscene. Anyway, people name their kids after months, why not days?
Cabra West
18-12-2007, 17:33
Hm. Here in Germany, the only ruling I know of concerning names is that 6 first names is sufficient for a child.

There is one that says it has to be clear from the name if it's a female or a male...
Mad hatters in jeans
18-12-2007, 17:33
QFT, this is a disgusting ruling by the court.

Why is it a poor ruling by court?
Should free speech include naming your children after anything? Even if it insults others.
I think it's a bit unfair too, they could have called the Kid Saturday as a compromise or something.
I suppose officially the kid would be called Gregory but unofficially they could still call it Friday, thus the ruling seems pointless and difficult to enforce.
"Willing obiedience always beats forced obiedience".
Cabra West
18-12-2007, 17:34
I don't know, I think we should all be able to burden our kids with whatever name we wish. |They can always change it, or ask be known as something else.

Depends on where you are. It's rather costly to change your name in Germany, plus a lot of red tape is involved. There's no way you can change it unless you have a valid reason to do so, either.
Peepelonia
18-12-2007, 18:01
Depends on where you are. It's rather costly to change your name in Germany, plus a lot of red tape is involved. There's no way you can change it unless you have a valid reason to do so, either.

I didn't know that about Germany. Still seems a ridiculous law to me. What about just being known as, is that allowed?

A friend of mine for example was born with the first name Rodney, and the second name Stewart. He was always known as Stewart, even though he never did get around to legally changing his name. I know that in this country(UK) you can legally do this.
Blouman Empire
18-12-2007, 18:06
reminds me of a supermarket cashier whose ID read Friday...

Me: You are really called Friday?
Friday: Yes.
Me: What, then, is your nickname?
Friday: My friends call me 'Fri'.
Me. Oh. I presume you were born on a Friday, then.
Friday: No, I was born on a Wednesday.
Me: *brain crashes*

lol But I remember seeing this on an Addams Family episode but the name was Wednesday not Friday
Brutland and Norden
18-12-2007, 18:14
lol But I remember seeing this on an Addams Family episode but the name was Wednesday not Friday
Reality imitating fiction, hehe...
Mirkai
18-12-2007, 18:30
It's still retarded, but a point worth mentioning is that the judge chose the name "Gregory" only after the family refused to choose another name for the child.
Vandal-Unknown
18-12-2007, 18:46
Remember 4Real (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/6/story.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10447051)?
Cameroi
18-12-2007, 18:55
i would like to be able to chainge my mundane life name for free. to themnax. which i prefer to go by. i don't need a geniology, just a distinguishing identifier.

"you may call me number two"

=^^=
.../\...
Dakini
18-12-2007, 19:36
Friday isn't a bad name for a kid. I had to mark labs last semester and one girl's name was like Shatisha (or something like this) and struck me as a particularly horrible name... but Friday sounds alright.
Cabra West
19-12-2007, 11:35
I didn't know that about Germany. Still seems a ridiculous law to me. What about just being known as, is that allowed?

A friend of mine for example was born with the first name Rodney, and the second name Stewart. He was always known as Stewart, even though he never did get around to legally changing his name. I know that in this country(UK) you can legally do this.

You can do that, but to have it official you would need to indicate it on the birth certificate.
You can acquire a "Kuenstlername" (artists name), that's pretty easy. But for official purposes, it doesn't change your given name. Same goes for a religious name.
This might be a puppet
19-12-2007, 12:08
Two or three years ago the parents of one newborn child in ['mainland'] China wanted to name it @, but they were forbidden to do so by the authorities.