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Judge: Girl's name, Talula Does The Hula, won't do


Thu Jul 24, 6:25 AM EDT

A family court judge in New Zealand has had enough with parents giving their children bizarre names here, and did something about it.

Just ask Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii. He had her renamed.

Judge Rob Murfitt made the 9-year-old girl a ward of the court so that her name could be changed, he said in a ruling made public Thursday. The girl was involved in a custody battle, he said.

The new name was not made public to protect the girl's privacy.

"The court is profoundly concerned about the very poor judgment which this child's parents have shown in choosing this name," he wrote. "It makes a fool of the child and sets her up with a social disability and handicap, unnecessarily."

The girl had been so embarrassed at the name that she had never told her closest friends what it was. She told people to call her "K" instead, the girl's lawyer, Colleen MacLeod, told the court.

In his ruling, Murfitt cited a list of the unfortunate names.

Registration officials blocked some names, including Fish and Chips, Yeah Detroit, Keenan Got Lucy and Sex Fruit, he said. But others were allowed, including Number 16 Bus Shelter "and tragically, Violence," he said.

New Zealand law does not allow names that would cause offense to a reasonable person, among other conditions, said Brian Clarke, the registrar general of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

Clarke said officials usually talked to parents who proposed unusual names to convince them about the potential for embarrassment.



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SEX FRUIT!!!??? 
Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii! 
Those are asinine.  I completely side with the government, no matter how unpopular that probably is.


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I read that too. I can not believe that a parent would do that to a child. I'm not usually in favor of the courts stepping in, but I do think sparing a child the embarassment of having a terrible name like that is okay.

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Isn't there a celebrity that gave their child a really bizarre name like one of these? 

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Cortney1982 wrote:

Isn't there a celebrity that gave their child a really bizarre name like one of these? 


Don't all celebrities give their kids weird names? It's like a competition for who can name their kid with the most unusual name. Whatever happened to names like Sarah and Elizabeth? Thos are perfectly fine names.

Anyway, I read that article, too and while I'm not usually for government intervention, in this case I agree. Those poor kids! What were their parents thinking?

 



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I am so glad the government stepped in. Some people should NEVER be allowed to have children.

Talula Does the Hula? I just don't understand. The judge is right about setting these kids up with a social disability and handicap. I'm all for giving your kids names that aren't super popular (like Zoe as opposed to Katie), but people take it way too far, and it's the children that suffer.

-- Edited by wetbandit42 at 11:59, 2008-07-25

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Oh, lord. That name doesn't actually strike me as that bad. Working in OB with nurse and teacher friend's, I've heard much much worse.

I've actually seen a GROWN WOMAN with the name of Baby Sister. A friend's mom who's a principal of a elementary school knew a girl named Chlamydia.

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relrel wrote:
A friend's mom who's a principal of a elementary school knew a girl named Chlamydia.
OMG. weirdface.gif

 



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WTH? Who wouldn't change their name if it was an STD?

I think the worst I've heard is a pair of twins names "Orange Jello" and "Lemon Jello" - but when you first heard the names said, they are pronounced differently and it takes a minute to hit you. I'm not good with phonetics, but they're kind of like "Oar-ON-shello" and "Le-MON-shello"

Oh, and I heard of a guy naming his kid Morbid Trioxyn. That's a name that's gotta be hard to take out on the playground.

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I can't believe I forgot about this until just now, but the worst name I ever heard was the friend of someone who worked with my mom. She was a kindergarten teacher and she used to visit the kids before the school year started. Well, she saw this kid's name and just decided she was going to let the parents pronounce it first. So, she goes to the door, the mom answers and says, "Sha'theed, your teacher's here." (with the 'th' pronounced in the soft "th" sound). But that's not how it was spelled. It was spelled like this....

S-H-I-T-H-E-A-D

Yep. Someone named their kid sh*thead. Isn't that great.

-- Edited by kenzie at 14:19, 2008-07-25

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relrel wrote:

Oh, lord. That name doesn't actually strike me as that bad. Working in OB with nurse and teacher friend's, I've heard much much worse.

I've actually seen a GROWN WOMAN with the name of Baby Sister. A friend's mom who's a principal of a elementary school knew a girl named Chlamydia.


OHHh yes...I hijacked the nursery log book one day (I work around the corner from OB department) and sent kari and another preggo friend a list of the most recent baby names....my favorites wer Shakeya (Shake Ya) and Lamaronius...the mom (namer of baby Lamaronius) asked if we knew how to spell that, because she didn't...yeah.

I also have two clients who are brothers...Roper and Rider....

Welcome to the sticks...



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It's pronounced "Johnny," like the boys name....but spelled like an Indian Zuchini.
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