So what if they want to name their kid Q? Why should the government care?

Worse case scenario if they lose their appeal, they could name the child Queue...

IT Angle?

... are from blokes named Mike. Are they all related? Enquiring minds demand an answer.

is where they probably got it from.

Cheers, the token Security Guard, (episode 87).

Red T-shirt please.

er yeah

"IT Angle?"

Well a queue is another name for a FIFO stack.... ;-)

At least they didn't call it "P".

"Why should the government care?"

Beats me, but social services should open a case file right now. These people are clearly bonkers and the poor kid is going to have a rough time in the playground just because two twats decided to have their day in the papers.

hang your head in shame El Reg!

Spy 1: "My child is named 'Q'"

Spy 2: "There are stranger names in the valley"

<They swap briefcases and exit in opposite directions>

Well they could be more scwred and name the boy:

Queue'); Drop Table Students;--

That should realy do fun things to systems in the future.

See source at Exploits of a Mom: http://xkcd.com/327/

"IT Angle?"

Well, the Q from James Bond would be well worthy of a mention here, and I'm sure I'm not the only geek here who associates the letter Q with a character famously played by a certain Mr John de Lancie. If that isn't of interest to the IT community then I don't know what is.

(Thumbs up because it's the closest I can get to snapping my fingers.)

Perhaps they are trekkies and have great plans for their sprog.

... why not letter of the alphaebt.

Case in point: Paris.

OTOH, if Paris was named after a letter in the alphabet it had to be Q.

(So the movie title "One night in Q" would still be funny).

Qué?

... Any IT Sci-fI geek with half a brain knows the parents are innocently naming their little-un after the mysterious 'Q'. Possibly the greatest Star Trek TNG 'villain' of all time....

Thnk of the omnipotent beings for christs sakes....

Nicely done. Beers all around!

So when it died it would be an....

XP!!!

Except of course that the name "Paris" has been around for as long as Paris the french city has been so known, given that he was a character in the Trojan war, as mentioned in Homer's Iliad, which was written approx 5th century ...

<Insert witty comment here>

They wanted to call the kid IQ, but didn't know how to spell it.

Alright, alright, I'm going already..

giving your child a crap / stupid name is not big and its not clever, remember they will pick your old peoples home....

i am sure you dont want to be in 'beatem and killem home for the infirm' do you?

Does it have a local shop for the local people?

Are your Saying Mr.& Mrs Hilton consulted Homer's Iliad before naming their daughter ?

Paris, coz she is being discussed. ;-)

After the quantum-bit and the first recorded unit of length (about 52cm apparently).

Then your offspring has career opportunities in both IT and hip-hop.

I'm saying it's not unreasonable for Mr + Mrs Hilton to name their kid after, well, a name. Like you would find in a baby book list of names.

If their other kids were called Geneva, Barcelona and Cornwall you might have a point.

It's like saying why did they choose the same surname as a chain of hotels - misses the moon by looking at the pointing finger.

the most popular, in no particular order, being: Q, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb

to Mr and Mrs The Winged Serpent

"It's name is Quetzalcoatl... just call it Q, that's all you'll have time to say before it tears you apart!"