[107098] in Cypherpunks
Re: Norway - go to jail for naming baby illegal [CNN]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Soren)
Fri Jan 1 07:11:40 1999
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 08:02:42 -0500
From: Soren <sorens@workmail.com>
To: cyphers <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Reply-To: Soren <sorens@workmail.com>
Reeza! wrote:
>
> About the only place I can think of where prohibiting certain names might-
> might be justifiable, is in countries where the names of certain criminals
> are associated with crimes of such heinous magnitude that it would create
> an emotional burden the viable tissue mass would never be able to overcome.
>
Speaking of certain criminal names, it reminds me of Grace Slick's abortive
attempt to call her child 'god' (with a small g) in the late '60's. There were
also attempts to use numbers, john and jane doe, entire passages from Shakespeare
as first names etc.
It's just a matter of where the threshold is set.
I don't understand why the mother didn't just choose a Norwegian name to satisfy
the bureacrats, then just tell everyone that he only answers to Geezer.
I'm kinda partial to Norse and Norge names anyway. Beats the hell out of Brad and
Jason and Tiffani and all the other waves of P.C. naming conventions that wash
over us.
