Giving your child a name is an awesome responsibility. One false move, and you transform your once-promising progeny to the life of a social pariah.
But like all responsibilities- driving a car, owning a gun- some people just can’t hack it. Take the case of a nine-year-old girl from New Zealand, who her parents named “Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii“. Although it contains two proper nouns, this is really more of a sentence than a name. The girl is so embarassed by her bizzaro moniker that she applied to be a ward of the court, just so she can change her ridiculous handle.
New Zealand, it seems, has a brave tradition of bad names. “Number 16 Bus Shelter” and twins named Benseon and Hedges top the list. But many more wacky names are rejected every year- Fish and Chips, Yeah Detroit, Stallion, Twisty Poi and Sex Fruit.
So, parents, heed this advice. You may think you’re being funny and clever giving your child a weird name. But really, you’re just being a gigantic jerk. And your child will hate you.
Some parents had named children after six-cylinder Ford cars, the news agency reported.
He had made one careless blunder though, because he had skimped a bit on his preparatory research. The information he had gathered had led him to choose the name “Ford Prefect” as being nicely inconspicuous.
“Yeah Detroit” is an absolutely amazing name,haha
I support this kind of behaviour. Legal names are dumb. I claim absolute and total sovereignty over my name. Ie, my name is whatever I say it is, and I do not need any entity’s approval to change my name. Whatever string of characters the government and other institutions chose to use to identify me is not my name. It is just an arbitrary identifier — and not even a unique one, so all the more useless.