Worse and worser

[colliemommie.livejournal.com]

   Link to an article on hideous baby names in NZ.

Text for the link-phobic:

Some parents have been branded abusers because of the bizarre names of their children.

 Family Court Judge Rob Murfitt stated his concerns in a written decision after a custody hearing in New Plymouth revealed a couple had named their child Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii.

He was so disturbed at the effect on the nine-year-old that he ordered her temporarily placed under court guardianship so a suitable name could be chosen.

 "It makes a fool of the child and sets her up with a social disability and handicap," he said.

The girl, who had not had her birth officially registered in NZ, had not revealed her name to her friends.

The judge was stopped talking yesterday by Principal Family Court Judge Peter Boshier. His office did provide some New Zealand-registered names the court knew of.

They included: Fish and Chips (twins), Masport and Mower (twins); boys Yeah Detroit, Spiral Cicada, Kaos, Stallion and Hitler; girls Cinderella Beauty Blossom and Twisty Poi; and sex unknown Keenan Got Lucky and Sex Fruit.

Brought to my attentions by patgund, and accidentally posted to my own journal. I fail.

Comments

[glitterberrys.livejournal.com]

Okay, Spiral, Kaos and Cinderella are ridiculous but kind of workable, but STALLION? HITLER? My god.

[colliemommie.livejournal.com]

But Cinderella Beauty Blossom. Come on...that's like what a 5 year-old names her My Little Pony.

[aaww-my-bees.livejournal.com]

:O Do these people think they're funny or something? They should interview the parents. I'd like to hear their reason for the stupid names.

[aaww-my-bees.livejournal.com]

Maybe they did let their 5 year old name the baby. haha

[serdyuchkafan.livejournal.com]

Is it just me, or does that say "Sex Fruit"?! O.O

[hotchpot.livejournal.com]

There are no words.

Worrisomely, my husband thinks Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii is a great name, and he is not being sarcastic.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

If Talula's birth had never been registered, and she never told anyone her name... is it really her name?

This is why I don't believe in TOTAL freedom of naming, although I obviously don't think we should be like the countries that you can only choose names of a permitted list either.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

^off

[http://users.livejournal.com/__recidivist/]

Yeah, that actually makes it seem more like a mean nickname, which is more in keeping with placing a child in guardianship.

[zorianna.livejournal.com]

Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii

That sounds like a dog's registered name! And the rest in the article are just positively atrocious.

[whenimdead.livejournal.com]

wowwww

[poutyshorty.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I feel ashamed for being from NZ after reading this >_>

Did the first child tell everybody her name was just Talula, I guess?

Keenan Got Lucky? Did the father name his kid after the fact he got laid? xD

[sevensevenfour.livejournal.com]

Maybe Sex Fruit is Keenan's older sibling. If that were the case, Keenan (definitely) Got Lucky. =)

[ashleyyynoel.livejournal.com]

seriously... wtf.

[lindiohead.livejournal.com]

Were those people on drugs?!?!?! WOOOOOOOW.

[serdyuchkafan.livejournal.com]

Very wtf!

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

It does! Or a horse's!

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

This makes me feel much better about my guilty pleasure, Astoria, it PALES in comparison. I'll still never use it though because my parents say they'll call her Queen Astoria, like Astoria, Queens, NY.

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

BTW, how's Baby Predator?! ;-)

[nothingtolose19.livejournal.com]

W. T. F.

No words... no words.

Poor little Fish, wonder who got the crappy end of that twinset (though I don't think I'd like to be named Chips, either, but at least it's remotely.. remotely.. better).

Wow.

[yourcrowbar.livejournal.com]

what

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those names...my eyes....

[orbg.livejournal.com]

Wow, Sex Fruit. Fantastic

[laminy.livejournal.com]

And I'm assuming that none of these people are celebrities. See, regular folk can name their kids really stupid things too!

You know, I don't think that I've ever thought it before, but name your kid Sex Fruit or Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii, then yes, your children need to be taken away so that their names can be changed. After this, I really don't think that people should be able to name their kids anything that they want. A little restriction is never that bad, is it?

[girlsteve.livejournal.com]

and how often do you get to say that?

[orbg.livejournal.com]

Not nearly enough, I'll tell you!

[laminy.livejournal.com]

And they had this article over in booju_newju, and I was surprised at how many people were all, "I'd rather have lots of Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii's than have the government interfere with my life!" and "I wish that my name was that instead of my plain old boring name!"

Well okay, I'm not surprised, because I know what kind of people tend to be in booju_newju.

[so-there.livejournal.com]

I asked my 4-year-old what she wants to name this baby, and while she normally says Elizabeth (from the pride and prejudice movie she's seen 400 times) she once said Cinderella. I had to explain that that isn't even a real name.

[so-there.livejournal.com]

exactly why I never set foot in there...

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

My sister Allie worked with 3 and 4 year olds at a daycare last year and one of them wanted to name her new baby brother Lightning, and was convinced that her mother was going to let her do so. She told my sister all the time "Mommy said I could name the baby and I'm gonna name him Lightning!" Allie would say, "Well, I'm sure you and your mommy can talk about it and figure out a name," and her response would be, "Nope! Mommy said I could name him and his name is Lightning!" She left before the baby was born, so we don't know what his name really ended up being.

[ladymela99.livejournal.com]

I personally think commenting on this article is giving this guy the attention that he wanted when he put that name on his child.

With that said

I think Hitler, Predator, and Sex Fruit are by far the worst names on thier. Come on! How do you explain to your child why you named him Hitler? Unless of course your are a Nazi..which I'm not even going to think about...

[sharon20lostie.livejournal.com]

Cinderella isn't as bad as the other ones.

[bobblebot.livejournal.com]

Talula apparently told everyone to call her "K". I don't get where she came up with that, she could've gone by Talula at least. It's not that bad of a name.

But maybe she associated it too much with her full name and just wanted to avoid anything to do with it, lol. poor girl.

[sharon20lostie.livejournal.com]

I found out that Iceland actually have a law in place that says if its not a traditional (i.e normal) name you can't use it. It might be restrcitive for a lot of people, but I think something like that is a good idea.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

Yes, haha, true; one only needs to look at stupid_free on occasion to be proven that fact, but a couple of others did speak out against the government interference and think that these kids should just quiet down until they can change it themselves.

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

I lol'd at Fish and Chips and Sex Fruit.

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I think they would think differently if their name had been Sex Fruit from birth.

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

I wanna know: if she really hated her name that much, why did she include it in her LJ handle?