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In reply to the discussion: Icelandic girl fights government over right to use her name; only ‘approved’ names allowed [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)49. So you subscribe to the "Boy Named Sue" theory, eh?
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Icelandic girl fights government over right to use her name; only ‘approved’ names allowed [View all]
Recursion
Jan 2013
OP
Foreign countries have different naming patterns than the US. Imagine that. (nt)
Posteritatis
Jan 2013
#67
Bah! That's what scholars and priests were for--doing the writing. Kings didn't have to be literate-
Moonwalk
Jan 2013
#6
Track, Tripp, Mitt, Tagg....those Republicans have some bogus sounding monikers... nt
MADem
Jan 2013
#60
The Phoenix family named their children River, Rain, Joaquin, Summer and Liberty.
freshwest
Jan 2013
#20
One of the kids at my son's montessori school is named for a Mass Effect 3 character...
AtheistCrusader
Jan 2013
#36
Hawai'i novelist Lois-Ann Yamanaka writes of kids named "Maverick" and "Tareyton" among others
KamaAina
Jan 2013
#48
First names in Iceland are important. Your first name is your kids last name.
Exultant Democracy
Jan 2013
#29
I recall the DU meltdown over the kid whose first and middle names were Adolph Hitler
Fumesucker
Jan 2013
#30
I suppose I was really thinking of the whole society being different with such a law
Fumesucker
Jan 2013
#50