Help choose the name of CE and Silur's baby! (spam on subject)

[fable]

Ahem. So we're all agreed that the child should be named Fugu Paris?

Or Fugarita Parisienne, since it's a girl, and the Swedish laws governing names are made by ninnies?

[Fiberfar]

Originally Posted by Maharlika

While I find all this talk about rotten fish (reminds me a wee bit of the legendary fish-slapper, Cruiser ) and sea delicacies quite amusing, I think we should direct our attention to spamming on topic.

Feel free to start a thread on this recent talk if you want.

Thanks.

You don't think all those names above are fitting for a baby?

[Moonbiter]

Originally Posted by fable

But that little gem, written by the late Shel Silverstein, was all about toughening up a kid to be able to deal with the real world. His followup song had to do with the kid and his dad crossdressing, as I recall. Haven't heard the silly thing in years, but Silverstein was a wonderful character.

But how does this justify the government telling your parents what they can and cannot name you? When my mother was growing up, one of her friends was a girl named "Rita Book." That's a terrible thing to do to a kid, but does it require a law to stop it? And what if parents want to raise a child with a name outside the norm, in a religion that isn't the majority religion (or no religion at all), in a household that has two mothers and no father, or a three-parent relatiionship? Should the government be able to stop this to prevent the child from being picked on in early life?

Jeez, see? I had no idea Silverstein wrote "A Boy Named Sue." I only know of him through the stuff he did with Dr. Hook.

Personally, with the kind of abuse I see parents comitting virtually every day, I think some sort of regulations are in order. I think that goes for every decision that might harm a child in the future. I know that mindset is unusual in the USA, but that's the way it is here. We do not allow home schooling or schooling based on religious beliefs of any kind. Every child shall by law recieve the same basic education, and then have a chance to pick for themselves. Keeping them away from school is illegal. We don't care if you live in a commune with 8 transsexuals who wear nothing but pink paint, worship snails and ride 3-legged cows to work, your kid is going to school. Also, if you want to call your kid Metallica you're an idiot, but it isn't malicious so you can do it. I hope she grows up to like Barry Manilow. However if you want to name your kid Jihad you obviously have an agenda and you're using your kid to push it. That's just not on. The same goes for some harebrained attempt at pissing to mark your territory by naming your boy Elisabeth. This has obviously been tried since there is a law against it. Grownups are simply not allowed to use their kids for their own twisted purposes, and as long as people are trying to do it there will be laws against it. In an ideal world there wouldn't be.

Edit: a name I like is Adriana. Has a nice regal ring to it and isn't as common as it's male counterpart.

[Tricky]

So what's the score anyway? Have the unlucky parents figured out potential names already? Don't tell me you need this entire thread more than we do.

[fable]

Originally Posted by Tricky

So what's the score anyway? Have the unlucky parents figured out potential names already? Don't tell me you need this entire thread more than we do.

Of course they do! Like any concerned parents, they want to have as broad a field as possible of intelligent, strikingly attractive names to choose from when their demon spawn is loosed upon an unsuspecting world. And we're here to help them.

How about Teresa Avila?

[Tricky]

Hm, that is very selfless of us. Okay, then. Two names. I have two names myself. I normally use my second name and most people don't even know my first. Yet when I buy plane tickets I'm obliged to use my first as well. I once forgot to do that and I had to buy a new ticket to Madrid just hours before my plane took off. Didn't even get a refund.

But anyway, what about Wilhelmina-Zanzinger?

[BlueSky]

@ Moonbiter

Wow, one of the only people I've met who know Silverstein's work with Dr. Hook, most people think of his children's works...I also have some of his stuff he did for Playboy back in the day.

back on topic....friends of mine named their daughter Stella Blue after the old Jerry Garcia song.

[Maharlika]

Interestingly enough, I got this news. And guess what? This couple is from Sweden too!

Couple Fights to Name Baby 'Metallica'

Couple fights to name Baby 'Metallica'


Associated Press
Last updated 10:13am (Mla time) 04/04/2007

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Metallica may be a cool name for a heavy metal band, but a Swedish couple is struggling to convince officials it is also suitable for a baby girl.

Michael and Karolina Tomaro are locked in a court battle with Swedish authorities, which rejected their application to name their six-month-old child after the legendary rock band.

"It suits her," Karolina Tomaro, 27, said Tuesday of the name. "She's decisive and she knows what she wants."

Although little Metallica has already been baptized, the Swedish National Tax Board refused to register the name, saying it was associated with both the rock group and the word "metal."

Tomaro said the official handling the case also called the name "ugly."

The couple was backed by the County Administrative Court in Goteborg, which ruled on March 13 that there was no reason to block the name. It also noted that there already is a woman in Sweden with Metallica as a middle name.

The tax agency appealed to a higher court, frustrating the family's foreign travel plans.

"We've had to cancel trips and can't get anywhere because we can't get her a passport without an approved name," Tomaro said.

[Moonbiter]

Some more info:

Classic Rock

And people wonder why we they need laws...

[fable]

Please, let's keep this thread focused. We can't help those who wish to name their children after unsuitable rock groups, but we can have a major, and positive, impact on the lives of CE, Silur, and their precious little cargo. So what can we offer?

How about:

Paulette McCarthy
Frankette Zappa
Iggyiana Popp

...all perfectly suited to girls, and therefore not causing any Swedish beaurecrats to soil their clothes.

[Moonbiter]

Irene Maiden....

[fable]

Originally Posted by Moonbiter

Irene Maiden....

That's the spirit! Also:

Bonnie Jovi
Nina Inch Nails

[Fiberfar]

Originally Posted by fable

That's the spirit! Also:

Bonnie Jovi
Nina Inch Nails

Alicia Cooper?

[BlueSky]

Davina Bowie.....

[dragon wench]

Stingette?