Fish and Chips, Yeah Detroit, Keenan Got Lucy, Sex Fruit, Number 16 Bus Shelter, Violence
(Possible names of my possible future children?)
"Judge: 'Girl's name, Talula Does The Hula, won't do'
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080724/ap_on_fe_st/new_zealand_bizarre_names;_ylt=Ap1c5YIJ53o7V5Zw367QdN7tiBIF)
Thu Jul 24, 5:41 AM ET
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.'
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."
"Judge: 'Girl's name, Talula Does The Hula, won't do'
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080724/ap_on_fe_st/new_zealand_bizarre_names;_ylt=Ap1c5YIJ53o7V5Zw367QdN7tiBIF)
Thu Jul 24, 5:41 AM ET
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.'
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."