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Default Naming your children (was:New birth in the family)

On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:05:44 +0200, ChattyCathy
> wrote:

>
>Be happy they didn't go this route:
>
>http://www.reuters.com/article/oddly...L7556320070808
>
>Here's an excerpt:
>
><quote>
>Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a baby..
>
>Wed Aug 8, 2007 9:23AM EDT
>
>WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand couple is looking to call their
>newborn son Superman -- but only because their chosen name of 4Real has
>been rejected by the government registry.
>
>Pat and Sheena Wheaton say they will get around the decision by the
>Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages by officially naming their son
>Superman but referring to him as 4Real, the New Zealand Herald newspaper
>has reported.
>

Good Lord, are they 4Real? I guess the US didn't corner the market on
nutty parents.



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