Happy Monday

[maab_connor]

Happy Monday, my darling flist. I haven't done one of these in a while; but this just... grabbed my attention

Comments

[or_mabinogi]

So I'm going out on a limb here and guessing that Spunk-That-Missed-The-Condom would probably not be an approved name?

[maab_connor]

i would guess not. but, i would not be surprised if someone had tried to name their kid that.

[archersangel]

My mother and i have been IMing about this - she thinks that it's infringing on the parent's rights, i think that it's championing a child.

i agree with you. names like that are border-line child abuse IMHO.

[maab_connor]

that's all i'm saying.

[bugchicklv]

So, this actually happens in countries OTHER than Germany? I've a friend at work whose sister had a baby in Germany (NOT on the base, quite by accident) and was informed she couldn't use a name that was not on the previously approved list.

She jokingly responded with something along the lines of "is Hitler Jr in charge now" and got a scathing lecture on German culture and the necessity of differentiating boys from girls. In ENGLISH, since they knew she was American and wasn't planning on staying there. WTF?

Once she got home she changed it to the name she wanted, but still...that seems really totalitarian. It was something like Taylor, or Morgan.

(And thank GOD that's not an issue in the US.)

[maab_connor]

IDK - i think that a lot of parents anymore are kind of... mean how they name their kids. i'm all for something that not everyone else has - but Princess Bananahammock and Sex Fruit are MEAN. i figure that we have to have approval for a vanity tag, why not have someone look at a new parent and say "defend that name, right here, right now - b/c this kid is gonna have to do that every single day"