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Originally posted by nerbot
Good job too, parental stupidity must be overriden when it comes to what a child will be known as through life.
I hate being Pfwang Dibbleburp Blindfrog III
Originally posted by korathin
Originally posted by nerbot
Good job too, parental stupidity must be overriden when it comes to what a child will be known as through life.
I hate being Pfwang Dibbleburp Blindfrog III
By whom? The state? A local Counsel? Why must it be a child is viewed as an object, something without a sense of self or individuality?
There should be a ritual/rite upon a certain age where a child/teen/young adult can change their name. In-fact it is a bit preposterous that other people have the right to name people who aren't capable of speaking for themselves.
What are small children pets in our society? I think we should have three names: A child name that we are given, a Teen name that we choose, and an Adult name that we earn(plus the standard last name).
Moon and her brother Dweezil were frequent guest VJs on MTV. Next to "Dancin' Fool", "Valley Girl" was Frank Zappa's biggest hit in the United States, and popularized phrases such as "grody to the max" and "gag me with a spoon". The song appeared on her father's 1982 album Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch. She later made another recording titled "My Mother Is a Space Cadet", with guitar accompaniment by her brother Dweezil. As an adult she has worked as a stand-up comic, magazine writer, and actress, appearing in the films National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985), Spirit of '76, the television sitcom Normal Life, and The Super Mario Bros. Super Show. She appeared as a burqa-clad Muslim woman in one episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, as Ted Mosby's cousin Stacy in an episode of How I Met Your Mother and on an episode ("Pampered to a Pulp") of Roseanne.[4] She worked as a VJ on VH-1 in the mid-late 1990s.[citation needed] She was a contestant on Rock & Roll Jeopardy!, losing to Dave Mustaine and George Clinton. She is the author of the novel America, the Beautiful, published in 2001,[5] and articles in major periodicals.[6]
Originally posted by luciddream
You know in about 20 years.... because of stupidity... lots of couples going to be either..
Bella + Edward or
Bella + Jacob
Those people wouldn't know why there are so many couples with the same name.edit on 1/4/2013 by luciddream because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by RedmoonMWC
Is this what we in the U.S. and Canada are headed for?
A government agency telling us what we can and cannot name our children.
Originally posted by ignorant_ape
a question for everyone who is adamant that they have the right to name thier child whatever they like :
what of the rights of your child ?
Originally posted by EllaMarina
If the government doesn't make weird names obsolete, the least it could do is make it easier for people to change their names when they legally can. I don't want to imagine how many hoops I'll have to jump through just to give myself my dream first name. "Because I want it" probably won't even be accepted as a good enough reason.
Plus, I don't exactly have the money to do it, or even the zillion forms of ID that they'd want to see. "Um, I have my ID card and my driver's license, is that good enough? No? Okay, I have my college ID here, it's expired but it has my face on it... No? ...Darn it all to heck, I give up."
Originally posted by EllaMarina
how many hoops I'll have to jump through just to give myself my dream first name. "Because I want it" probably won't even be accepted
The name of the game is not always what it seems to be, Sean Gardiner writes from New York.
One son was named Loser, the other Winner.
One became a policeman and was eventually promoted to detective.
The other fell into the life of a small-time crook, racking up at least 31 arrests before being jailed for two years.
But for the brothers Lane it was not a case of their unique names sealing their fates. "I went a totally separate route right from the start," said Loser Lane, 41, a detective in the South Bronx.
Loser, a star student and athlete, went on scholarship to an elite prep school, on to Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, and then joined the force.