maybe its something about NZ....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1559705/%27This-baby%27s-name-is-not-4Real%27%2C-couple-told.html

oh dear.

paris - because thats a bloody silly name as well.

Shame Frank Zappa wasn't a Kiwi

Then poor Moon Unit and Dweezil might have had a chance of ditching their ridicukous names.

Benson and Hedges aren't the worst individually but put together they do sound stupid without a doubt but where the hell did Number 16 Bus Shelter or Sex Fruit come from?

What next, Public Toilet?

Simple fix

Any child lumbered with a dire name shall be entitled to swap names with the appropriate parent, who shall be stuck with the result.

All attempts ...

... to give a kid a stupid name should result in the name "My parents both have a low IQ" being recorded. At least until the kid is old enough to pick their own name.

I know a white-van man whose main reason for wanting a son appears to be so he could nickname him 'Biff'.

Paris Hilton and Austin Healy, made for each other.

So...

If your offspring turn out to be losers, they can blame it on a poor choice of name and sue their parents? Don't parents have any rights any more?

Maybe we should just give our children a placeholder name, like "<insert_name_here>". Then they can choose their own. If they did that when they were, say, 5 years old I reckon that'd result in some pretty interesting monikers. Then we could all laugh at them when they were saddled with it for life.

no 16 bus shelter

Lets hope that the kid is named after the place they where concieved and not where they where born!!!

Change name to?

If my parents gave me a name like that I would change it to something like "My parents are T@wts"

Speaking of stupid names, my wife was in the supermarket a few weeks ago and spotted two kid running around, then the mother spotted them and called to one

"Come here Dolce!"

My wife said that everyone looked at the mother and waited with baited breath for the inevitable and yes the mother turned to the other child and said

"You too Gabbana!"

Those poor kids!

that would explain it all

paula yates was a new zealander, how else do you explain Fifi and Peaches.

Also they should stop bloody silly parents from calling their kids after countries since everyone wants to get into India on maury povitch, and it's not by migrating!!

Perhaps the courst should also inflict a stupid name on the parents.

That way they will perhaps realise what they are trying to do to their child.

Regards,

Lugubrious Slipknot 3.0

How does affect

The more well known handicapped by this.

Peaches, and Fifi Trixibelle Geldof, Dweezil and Moon unit Zappa? Do they get compensation?

I dislike kids, but even I wouldn't be THAT cruel

I don't get it

You need a license to drive, but any idiot can have a kid.

I'm going to call my child

Fuck trophy

What's wrong with that name?

I quite like it.

Yours, Raymond Luxury-Yacht (pronounced Throat-Warbler Mangrove)

I can't see...

... what all the fuss is about.

Regards,

Bubblegum Moonrock Squidman McGinley

maybe...

parents deliberately harming their offspring's chances in life (why do they have children in the first place?) should be forced to change their own names to one of their child's choosing.

heart is for all parents sharing the love.

Stallion

They should have allowed that one ;¬)

Sub-head

Surely, "Talula No Longer Does The Hula From Hawaii"?

Eyethangyew.

where the poor sprog was conceived.

Surely all these weird names are references to that beautiful (and sometimes not so beautiful - apparently) beast with 2 backs moment?

// Paris, as she clearly has only one back.

Eh?

If you wish to call you kids Fish and Chips, you should probably have got 2 cats instead.

If you wish to call your child Sex Fruit, you should just be locked up.

Regards,

BA Flight 793 to Heathrow Smith

New law?

Maybe there should be a law that allowed you to swap names with one of your parents when you got to 16? I'd love to see the look on that girl's mum's face when she realised that her name from now on was Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii. Or Dad's name from now on was Fat Boy.

Yes but....

It's only a small step from "persuasion" to where the happy slappers in govt. offices are telling people what they can and can't name their kids, right down to keeping lists of allowed names. American ex-pats find that they can't indulge in the customs of passing on parental names, or even grand-parental names, if their kids are born in the wrong country in Europe. As usual the Frogs are big offenders in this dept. Compared to the idiocy inflicted by bureaucracies in situations like this, a few bloody silly names are a small price to pay.

Huh?

I don't see why she can't tell her chums her real name? It's Talula. Nothing silly about that, one of the girls in my son's class is called Talula. OK, the middle names are profoundly silly, but you don't need to disclose your middle name, and in any case, lots of people have pretty silly middle names anyway.

BTW, I think Midnight Chardonnay sounds quite good actually. Lots of Americans have sillier names than that. (Although some of the other examples cited are indeed very silly!)

Don't forget....

Alistair Darling.....How embarrising to say "Darling, I need more money". So lets get him off the streets as well.

Paris - you really need to ask with her named after a Parisian Hotel.

Poor kids

I'm always reminded that there is meant to be a Pocahontas McGinty somewhere in Glasgow. Poor bastards.

NZ

Every time I think its probably time I head back home from London, some random piece of wierdness like this surfaces which reminds me why I left...

...apart from that the Americans have got their claws into a lot of the good businesses and real estate now so the country's doom is imminent. (Gee thanks Peter Jackson) Before you know it the nuclear warships will be back.

It's all relative

"Consider for a moment any beauty in the name Ralph." - Frank Zappa, when asked about his children's unusual names.

At least Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii has a pleasant rhythmic quality.

question - I'm sure there will be loads...

Will Mr and Mrs Bates be permitted to have a son on any pretext, given that he will invariably be called master...

Working on a sex farm

Sex Fruit is a superb name. It's symbolic, and it's also a great way to impress people at parties. E.g. "Hello, my name is Sex Fruit Smith - would you like to wrap your teeth around me and take a bite", that kind of thing.

"Hi, I'm Sex Fruit. Would you like to strip off my skin and gouge out my innards with a spoon? Baby?"

More reasonable names...

Just think of the hilarity if the surname happens to be Glass. For example, there's Irene (Bad if she only uses her first initial). And, there's Crystal. And, what about little Sharpas? ;-)

Dave

P.S. Mines the one with the pockets stuffed full of rubber. ;-)

Posthumous silly names.

What about a girl born 1379 named Diot Coke ?

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/22.htm

Just plain luck that Oliver Cromwell was called Oliver Cromwell and not Toyota Hiace..

Paris, because it's another silly name...

Maybe it's just me, but...

I think her old name had quite a ring to it.

I am always on the lookout for,...

Micheal Hunt and Wayne Kerr, I am convinced that some parent somewhere must have slipped up and forgotten to sanity check the kids name.

Rip Torn

Perhaps the parents of actor Rip Torn decided on that name after friends convinced them not to go with 'Condom Ripped'.

IT angle

Didn't Scott McNealy (of Sun fame) call his firstborn "Maverick" ?

As for the Frogs they're less fussy these days (EU rules do have some advantages) but my favourite story there is about the folks in the French overseas territories (DOM/TOM) who wanted to choose a suitable French name for their newborn, but didn't know any. A friend recommended picking the name of the Saint from the day the child was born, so they looked at a calendar and did so. Child was born on July 14th, and so got named Fête Nat ...