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Post by CMF Newsman on Apr 6, 2007 9:55:58 GMT -5
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." story
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Post by RuneDeer on Apr 6, 2007 10:13:49 GMT -5
If it were in the US, nobody would blink an eye.
I've probably told this TRUE story before somewhere, but one day about 15 years ago in Rich's shoe dept I was helped by a sales clerk whose name badge read "Clitoria."
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Post by one on Apr 6, 2007 12:12:58 GMT -5
time to move. no one has the right to tell you anything about your kids.
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Post by RuneDeer on Apr 6, 2007 15:40:17 GMT -5
Not to France, Spain, or many Latin American countries, to name a few. They all have regulations about baby names.
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Post by karyotic on Apr 6, 2007 17:01:38 GMT -5
After working in the Hamilton County school system I'm never surprised by any name. My middle name is Dean. I was born right after James Dean died. If my daughter was born on the 4th of July I would have called her Liberty. She is thrilled that she didn't make it until July 9th.
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Post by ScarlettP on Apr 6, 2007 17:24:22 GMT -5
My old boyfriend was named Kirk Douglas Thompson.
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Post by karyotic on Apr 6, 2007 17:33:09 GMT -5
ScarlettP .. I can't remember your middle name?
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Post by Jay on Apr 6, 2007 18:52:31 GMT -5
That's just craaaaaaaaaaazy! Both Metallica and Clitoria, heh I've heard some names that are pronounced like Chlamydia.... Maybe not spelled exactly the same way, but similar...
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Post by RuneDeer on Apr 6, 2007 20:57:14 GMT -5
I've heard some names that are pronounced like Chlamydia.... How 'bout Gonna Leah? That's the name some woman gave her daughter while sharing a hospital room with a friend of mine. "It's such a pretty name, kind of old-fashioned, don't you think?" she asked my friend.
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Post by el Gusano on Apr 6, 2007 21:05:39 GMT -5
Let's see, here in town, there's a Blue Tractor Smith (not the real last name), I have Freedom on my bus, boys named Willow, a guy named Spruce, a girl named Rainbow, my wife knew an April Showers, I went to school with Robin Williams, Richard Petty, and Steve Martin. I knew a Candy Caine (although she married into it) and I knew a guy named Dee who married a girl named Dee Dee, and their last name was Dean.
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Post by Jay on Apr 6, 2007 21:39:31 GMT -5
Dee Dee Dean, that's pretty bad, heh....I think I might have kept my maiden name if I was he Sounds like the sketches from Carlos Mencia, "Dee, Dee, Dee!" Gonna Leah is pretty bad too. Don't parents think about their kids names? heh
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Post by el Gusano on Apr 6, 2007 22:24:21 GMT -5
When my m-i-l was in the hospital to have a baby (I don't remember if it was my wife or her brother), there was a woman in the same room who was going to have a boy. The witch doctor had told her so. When a girl was born, she was so taken aback that the only female name that she could think of was Chiquita.
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Post by Longshot! [ Saint ] on Apr 7, 2007 1:52:46 GMT -5
They're afraid of the family getting sued, I suspect.
Fucking Napster-killing Metallica bastards.
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Post by frogkissinglady on Apr 7, 2007 6:39:19 GMT -5
My college roommate had a sister named Candida, she went by Candi.
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Post by RuneDeer on Apr 7, 2007 6:41:39 GMT -5
My college roommate had a sister named Candida, she went by Candi. I guess it was the yeast she could do...
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Post by Gary on Apr 7, 2007 8:12:10 GMT -5
Star went to school with a Crysta Leer. Her middle name was Chanda.
I would have sued my parents.
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Post by Jay on Apr 7, 2007 13:43:19 GMT -5
Chanda Leer..........good gosh, that's horrible.... Do these parents just want to see their kids suffer and be tortured in school?..
Still can't believe Jason Lee would call his kid "Pilot Inspektor"..... Crazy, just crazy...
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Post by Longshot! [ Saint ] on Apr 9, 2007 5:06:45 GMT -5
Awesome.
I tried to name my kid 'Cranberry' but met with fierce resistance; probably for the best.
My new favorite name is 'Planet', though even with a new wife, it too is an uphill battle. But think on it--would you ever, EVER forget a man named 'Planet Smith' (for example)?
Awesome.
Seriously.
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Post by RuneDeer on Apr 9, 2007 5:24:22 GMT -5
I tried to name my kid 'Cranberry' but met with fierce resistance; probably for the best. "Cranberry" would work if your last name were "Boggs."
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Post by Felix on Apr 9, 2007 5:40:57 GMT -5
Regarding the struggle to name his child, LS! said: I tried to name my kid 'Cranberry' but met with fierce resistance... My older son was four days old, and the card in his bassinet in the hospital nursery still said "Boy Miller." The fierce resistance was mine, who had sworn since childhood that I would name no son after myself, since he would have to be a "fourth (IV)" like some European monarch. Not that he wouldn't be kingly and all that, of course, I just felt that three namings in a row were already overkill. I was smugly told that the birth ceritficate only needed one signature to make it official, and that signature was not mine. I conceded, day four, and son #1 became Felix IV. He hasn't seemed to mind overmuch.
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Post by tcrashfx on Apr 9, 2007 7:13:17 GMT -5
I once knew a guy named Ben Dover.
He had to fight to keep his lunch money every day.
He should have sued his parents.
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Post by Sherry on Apr 9, 2007 7:59:56 GMT -5
Ben Dover? Are you serious? I went to school with a boy named Ricky Hickey.
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Post by daworm on Apr 9, 2007 8:20:57 GMT -5
I went to school with Richard Head. He went by Richard.
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Post by bignana on Apr 9, 2007 8:25:01 GMT -5
I worked with a man named Harry Peters. Seriously.
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Post by Sherry on Apr 9, 2007 8:28:15 GMT -5
>He went by RichardSmart move. Another name that always amused me was the NASCAR driver, Dick Trickle. (He should have used Richard too)
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Post by frogkissinglady on Apr 9, 2007 8:37:14 GMT -5
I have reviewed a drug screen for a guy with the first name Babyboy and middle name Fitz. Can't remember his last name, but he went by Fitz just to avoid the ridicule of being called Babyboy. but Babyboy Fitz does have to cause him some problems.
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Post by Longshot! [ Saint ] on Apr 9, 2007 8:59:17 GMT -5
Felix: I like it. I respet the hesitation, but I respect the Nomenclature even more.
Everyone else? I knew a Craven Morehead.
No Shit.
I Win.
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Post by gridbug on Apr 9, 2007 9:31:38 GMT -5
Had a shop teacher called Mike Hunt. Somehow all the students missed the obvious. No doubt he had to change his name after Porkys (if he made it that far).
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Post by footylicious on Apr 9, 2007 11:56:30 GMT -5
LS, you recommended I name my child "Fleshy."
You are so twisted.
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Post by el Gusano on Apr 9, 2007 12:38:59 GMT -5
You know Ricky Hickey?
Funny thing about it is that my wife and I both know Ricky Hickey, and they're two different people.
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