Weird news, NZ division

[dianec42]

Couple try to name son '4real'

Apparently "But when the parents tried to file the name with New Zealand's Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, they were told names beginning with a number were against the rules."

Does this mean numbers in the middle of the name are okay? What is the world coming to...

Comments

[richenza.livejournal.com]

Those are some peeople who hate their child.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

You're far too charitable. I believe there are some people who should not be allowed to breed.

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

It used to be that all Internet domain names had to start with a letter, then along came 3com.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

That was my first thought. Then I thought of World of Warcraft naming policies. I should post that news story to the general discussion forum, it would raise the tone.

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

I presume so. Maybe there are thousands of people like Tom Lehrer's friend Hen3ry (the 3 is silent).

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

Oooh, bad judgement and bad wording! Too bad for Steve Twoomey, eh? Or Angelique Ninevah? They should have said "names may not contain a digit". Then again, they didn't say anything about control characters...