Baby Girl named "Talula does the Hula" taken from parents by Judge

link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080724/ap_on_re_au_an/new_zealand_bizarre_names

There was a student in the local school system named Bubbalicious.

Was number 16 bus shelter conceived or born there?

Probably both

So was she taken and renamed then just given back or taken for good?

Yes, this is a very odd story, lacking in adequate details. Setting aside the bizzare idea that the state has a compelling interest in somebody's name, what was the issue here? Who is engaged in this custody battle and why does the girl have a lawyer? Is this really an instance of her petitioning for emancipated minor status? Is there more to the idea that the parents are acting in a harmful fashion? Or is a silly name adequate evidence to such a claim all on its own?

I proposed that all parties involved be reduced to mulch for use on ethanol corn.

ethanol corn is people!

It's entirely possibly the school got involved on the child's behalf - as, the article I read, said the girl would only tell her friends her name ws 'K'.

I know a woman named Adora. But she is kinda adorable.

There have been a few stories like that coming out of NZ lately that make me think the place ain't exactly a bastion of freedom and liberty and individual rights...

At a prison at which I once taught drafting, there was a young black male named "Shithead". It was actually pronounced Shith-ed. You know his parents were always going to be so proud of him!

Great! I was going to name my next son "Sambo does the Mambo."

We used to have a member from New Zealand. He was so far to the left he made Henryhill look like George W. Bush. He was proudly on the public dole and advocated all sorts of hair-brained shit. Oh, and wsws.org was his bible.

Hey, I'm a lefty too, and even *I* think they place needs to make a bit of a right turn.

Whatever happened to JohnB? He was a good guy to have around I thought -- not crazy like Nightbird, our American version of what you've described.

Obviously, I can't quote private communications, but I don't think it's breaking any rules to say that he requested that his account be locked.

Smells like an urban legend, and here's what Snopes has to say:

http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp

Accept they do happen. People have talked about it for years, and you can either believe me or not, I don't rightly care.

I have several contacts within the health care industry, including the director of Medical Records (excuse me Health Information Services) at the local Hospital. You know, the people that, among other things, typed the birth and death certificates back in the day. That director has photostatic copies of three birth certificates on her wall, that she typed, herself.

Lemonjello (but no Orangejello), Shithead, and...believe it or not, a male child named "Harry Dick."

There's a few people out there with the surname Dikshit.

One of them is particularly wealthy, Anurag Dikshit. He's a self made millionaire. Having a comical name obviously didn't hold him back any.

ETA: Oh, and a while ago I posted a picture of a census record I found when tracing my family tree. Some evil parents, who had the surname 'Suck', named their firstborn 'Hyman'!

If I mixed up the form and inadvertently named my daughter "female," I'd go with a nick name PDQ. Then again, if I were dumb enough to make that mistake, I'd probably think I was legally bound to call her female.

Racist Pig!!

They certainly happen. I've seen enough weird names from inmates to know it happens all the time.

In fact I believe that the poorer one is the more likely you are to have a fucked up name or if you are unlucky enough to be born to a Hollywood Star you will have a fucked up name. Everyone else tends to stick to normal names.

The bastardized American Southern pronunciation of my last name rhymes with....well, to be honest "Birdshit".

My first name also has some derogatory rhymes as well.

Worst I got with my middle name (bryce) was a few close girl friends ribbing me about "Bryce-a-Roni".

Have you met the Roman kids yet? Octavius, Rontavius, Dontavius, et. al?

Many years ago I was sitting in the squad room booking someone and I was sitting at the typewriter.

Me: What is your full name?
Him: "Boo" Garrett
Me: "Boo?" What's your real name?
Him: Kashaun, but I don't know how to spell it. My parents have always called me "Boo."
Me:

I got one for ya as well. In my father's Naval Unit, there was a guy who's name was "Baby Boy Johnson". Evidently his parents couldn't think of a name right away, put that on hid birth certificate, and forgot to change it when they gave him a regular name.

That basketball player down in Florida ... Anferny Hardaway. His name was supposed to be Anthony.

At least, that's what he said in an interview before the basketball game.

I'm just name my next kid Obama and avoid any "Imperial entanglements".

Point of information: if a child is made a ward of court, it doesn't mean it's been taken away from its parents. But it means the child can have its own say in court, and it looks as if that's what's happened in this case. It used to be common for fairly well-off orphans who didn't have trustees to be made wards of court (known as wards in Chancery in the old days) so that none of the other rellies could help themselves to any of the money until the child came of age.