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Title: Judge: Girl's name, Talula Does The Hula, won't do
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080724 ... u_an/new_zealand_bizarre_names
Published: Jul 24, 2008
Author: AP
Post Date: 2008-07-24 14:12:35 by Jethro Tull
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Views: 161
Comments: 14
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - 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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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
I'm guessing that the parents are Pacific-Islanders who have been infected with the "thug-lifestyle".
I have a firm conviction that parents who give their children weird names are closet sadists. I had a neighbor who named their kid "Devo" after the Rock Group Devo. Fucking perverts - pardon my french. Doing that to a child is simply cruel and does provide a disability built in to their name. Personally I think the parents who do this should be subject to a Whipping in the Publick Square for child abuse.
"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken
Remember Dweezil and Moon Unit?
How about Prescott?
As in Bush? Hell, imagine if they had named one of their clan IAN (as in EyeIN)...
Zappa was a sharp character but was also an iconoclast and bordered on anti-social. While I can appreciate that he was a gifted artist I do not agree with everything he said or did. In his case the weird names, while not excused, are understandable. He USED the naming of his children as a vehicle to proclaim his iconoclasm and it was not intended as any benefit to the kids - they were just "expressions" of his iconoclasm.
"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken
I had friends that liked Zappa, but I never thought of him as highly as they did. Myself, I thought he was just baked on too much acid, but he claimed he never did drugs. He was baked on something.
Zappa was very much anti-drug. I think he saw too many friends fry their minds on them. However, he was also chronically antagonistic, with a genius level I.Q., and was not at all tolerant of those he regarded as fools, and with society in general. I think he may have felt isolated as do some people with very high I.Q.'s as we live in a culture which worships mediocrity.
"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken
So what's her new name? Talula Does The Hula From New Zealand? :)
God is always good!
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
Frank got it going on.
"Is it a real poncho or is it a Sears poncho?'
Thanks for the video.
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. If the parents are stupid enough to give their kid a name like that, the judge should have done more than just rename the girl. He should have ordered both of the parents sterilized.
“The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people…and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit!” Schweizerische Schutzenseitunt (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#2. To: X-15, Jethro Tull, all (#1)
#3. To: Original_Intent (#2)
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#4. To: Original_Intent, Former Lurker, X-15 (#2)
Remember Dweezil and Moon Unit?
#5. To: Jethro Tull (#4)
How about Prescott?
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#6. To: FormerLurker (#3)
Remember Dweezil and Moon Unit?
#7. To: Original_Intent (#6)
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#8. To: FormerLurker (#7)
I had friends that liked Zappa, but I never thought of him as highly as they did. Myself, I thought he was just baked on too much acid, but he claimed he never did drugs. He was baked on something.
#9. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Just ask Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii. He had her renamed.
#10. To: Original_Intent (#8)
#11. To: FormerLurker (#3)
#12. To: Original_Intent (#8)
I think he may have felt isolated as do some people with very high I.Q.'s as we live in a culture which worships mediocrity.
#13. To: Sam Houston (#10)
#14. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
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Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii
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