The Name Police

**imported_elp6n** · December 19th, 2007, 01:18 PM

Sometimes I think the US should be more like this. Some baby names lately have bordered on outright moronic, stupid, and just designed to makes kids lives miserable (not that "Friday" is that weird compared to stuff other kids are being named around here).

http://www6.comcast.net/news/article...vqh=itn_friday
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Court says baby can't be named "Friday"
Last month an appeals court states the "Friday" falls into the category of the "ridiculous or shameful" names that are barred by law as it recalled the native servant in Daniel Defoe's novel...
The judges wrote that that naming somebody "Friday" would bar him from 'serene interpersonal relationships' and would turn the boy into 'the laughing stock of his group'...

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**BlueWahooChambordDevil** · December 19th, 2007, 01:21 PM

they should have a law like that over here to avoid some of these asinine names we have

**UTVols2** · December 19th, 2007, 01:25 PM

My wife has a very original name, there was only one other person in our school that had the same name (spelled different)that I can think of but she got the occassional joke here and there but wasn't turned into the laughing stock of the school. Some of this stuff is stupid. My daughters full name is original and not "normal" as some would say. This generation is filled with names like these so it is not that out of the ordinary. Chances are when my child is in high school names like these will be fairly common.

I have to say that I like newer original names more that I do older ones like my grandmother Gertrude.