Comments on: Poor kids

By: waka

waka — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:04:26 +0000

Thanks. It was a real shock to see I was going to be mauled for a decision my parents had made, (obviously without my consent, or even knowledge) I havent had very many problems with my name in my life. Well not like Mike and certainly not like poor little Talula.

ps My children’s names aren’t as bad as mine. (at least I hope so)

By: mara

mara — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:56:28 +0000

Yeah, sorry Waka, I was a bit hard and unfair. Mea culpa.

By: mara

mara — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:05:05 +0000

Waka, at least you are not Mike Hunt, As in “Have you seen Mike Hunt?” Heh ….

By: bearhunter

bearhunter — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:24:18 +0000

While I gave a blanket warning to my kids to avoid anyone with a name like Shaznay or Loquoia or Chlamydia, it’s not just the poor and limited who make bad name choices. How long do you reckon Shiloh Pitt will be in school before she’s indelibly dubbed Pile o’ shit? Ten minutes? Half an hour? And as someone who was saddled with a long, hard to pronounce/spell name, can I make a plea to parents to keep it simple. How I longed to be a Sid, Alf or Bert….

By: waka

waka — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:07:13 +0000

OKAY? What did I miss? Im an ignorant creep why? Because my parents decided to call me Twisty? Let the mauling begin then Mara! Discriminate against me because of my name. And you have the audacity to call me ignorant? Get a life will you…

By: Thrash Cardiom

Thrash Cardiom — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:47:15 +0000

“I have heard of a girl being called Krystal Shanda Lear, but I suspect it’s an urban myth…”

Shanda Lear, daughter of Bill Lear (founder of the Lear Jet corporation). Here is her website. http://www.slecorp.com/

By: OECD rank 22 kiwi

OECD rank 22 kiwi — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:33:09 +0000

What’s wrong with “Fat Boy” as a name? If you believe the hype over the “Obesity epidemic” it would be a quite apt name for children in future years.

The other refused name of interest is “Stallion”. Next they’ll refuse an application from the Wang’s to call their son “Donkey Richard”.

That will only discourage the Dong’s in their choice of name for their children.

By: OECD rank 22 kiwi

OECD rank 22 kiwi — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:22:52 +0000

Goodness gracious me:
NZ judge orders ‘odd’ name change The good old BBC.
At least the article doesn’t make New Zealanders look like a bunch of backward hicks to the international audience reading it. Oh wait it does.

All part of the reason why tourists come to New Zealand in the first place to see for themselves the quaint little society in the middle of nowhere that time forgot.

By: Buggerlugs

Buggerlugs — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:56:04 +0000

I feel I’ve contributed far too much weirdness to this thread, but omitted another beaut;

Stan Tooamelaitai (I’m pretty sure it was him) named his son Carisbrook after a season playing for Otago.

By: JSF2008

JSF2008 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:43:09 +0000

I suffer because i was called JOHN, sob ,wail,:(

By: mara

mara — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:22:45 +0000

Waka, you are an ignorant creep. But carry on. You will be mauled here. I will do it later, after feeding the family and if I can be bothered.

By: side show bob

side show bob — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:36:06 +0000

I wouldn’t get to clever Toad, with a name like that. So I take it your first name is cane or maybe your surname is stool. My money is on Stool as your surname, it sort of fits.

By: Grant Michael McKenna

Grant Michael McKenna — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:26:17 +0000

Relatives of mine who emigrated to Australia have given their kids the middle names Bruce and Sheila. Waits for audience applause… not a sausage.
In several parts of Africa it is traditional to name a child after significant events in the life of parents or at the time of their birth; these names then may become family names if the first of the name becomes significant. Names like Kaiser, George- and jail- all come from that tradition.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:12:51 +0000

By: waka

waka — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:06:50 +0000

mausism, Hi!
Im twisty poi. The reason its not registered is because the spelling is wrong…

By: mara

mara — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:57:43 +0000

The poor little bastards Rinso and Persil probably wouldn’t have a chance anyway, given the parents’ retardation and/or total ignorance of any aspect of decent parenting. A sad social reality. BTW, can you believe that people ALWAYS ask me how to spell my name? Ma ra. How hard is that?

By: PaulL

PaulL — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:09:38 +0000

Frog, if anyone had ever demonstrated that a smack was bad for a child, that would work. But child researchers find no such correlation (once they exclude those who beat their children – clearly that is badness). In fact, the government in promoting the bill was pretty clear that they had no intention of criminalising those who smack their children, they were apparently chasing those who beat their children and somehow weren’t aware that it was already against the law. Are you saying that, in fact, this position was false pretences, and that the government really meant to criminalise every person who ever smacks their child?

By: Patrick Starr

Patrick Starr — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:06:43 +0000

“Ah, so it is not okay to name them something silly, but it is okay to hit them.”

no, but with a silly name every other kid probably will

By: Buggerlugs

Buggerlugs — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:05:57 +0000

“A CYF spokeswoman says the name a parent chooses for a child does not constitute a care and protection issue in itself. ”

Isn’t Benson & Hedges in violation of some nanny Act?

By: PhilBest

PhilBest — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:57:14 +0000

As someone points out above, this reflects the tragedy that is non-existent social standards for parenthood.