October 5 2009
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=iol1254705418983A551&click_id=29&set_id=1
A legal one letter name!
Judge allows UK couple to keep "Q" as their child's legal name
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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=iol1254705418983A551&click_id=29&set_id=1
A legal one letter name!
Though he was named after the Trek character, I wonder how many people will mistakenly assume he was named after Q from James Bond.
I know a couple who's child's name is Quentin, but they've always called him Q.
Aside from ending up a serial killer, he's really quite normal.
No, really, he's fine.
I still kick myself for not giving my son the middle name Tiberius. Seriously. How cool would that have been?
Aside from ending up a serial killer, he's really quite normal.
No, really, he's fine.
I still kick myself for not giving my son the middle name Tiberius. Seriously. How cool would that have been?
I dunno, a lot of people might think he was named after the arguably the worst of the Julio-Claudian emperors. It's a pretty weird name regardless.
I guess that's not as bad as some of the Trek-inspired names they could have gone with.
kitsune
Captain
Better than Borg designations, yes.
I don't think this can be in the UK, since, unless I'm very much mistaken, no restrictions have ever been placed here on what you can name a child.
I use to work with a girl named Seven, but in her case it was not ST inspired. Apparently it was a family name.
Personally I like unusual names, but I do think you have to be sensitive to what your child may have to endure growing up.
If people think such names are "cute", they should change their own names -not force their kids into a future of playground beatdowns. 
/\ Didn't you ever hear A Boy Named Sue? An embarrassing name could be a positive advantage!
As someone with a name that, while normal, lead to a lot of unpleasantness as a kid... I'd like to smack these parents with the broad side of a barn.
People -- all people, whether celebrity or average folk -- need to stop naming their kids whacked out things for whatever naive and idiotic reasons they do such.
Children are inherently cruel. I don't know why. I just know they are. Everyone knows this -- except, perhaps, the people who name their kids Apple, or Kal'el, or Q...
When you give those inherently cruel children, now with mob mentality, an easy target like an eccentric name? My god, you might as well give them loaded hand-guns! How can any parent be that naive, that stupid, that ignorant, as to knowingly put their child through what's sure to be a torturous childhood?
Can you imagine how bad it's going to be for all the kids out there with insane names? I'm sure Gwyneth Paltrow's kid Apple won't have to face too much scorn, being born and bread into the Hollywood community. Eccentricity is applauded there. But for your average individual?
I pity these poor kids, I scorn and question the credentials of these idiotic judges, and I want to sterilize and commit the naive and ignorant parents.
Please. Go back in time, become a child, and live with a name like that, and THEN repeat your assertion that it could be a positive advantage. I've been there. I've done that. I can speak from experience. My name may be fairly run of the mill, but an inoppertune kids tv show made it hell to have, so I know full well what kids with whacked-out names will endure. It's never an advantage.
Want to give your kid an advantage? Name them a common name. John, Bill, Sarah, Jennifer, whatever! Let them live in peace!
People -- all people, whether celebrity or average folk -- need to stop naming their kids whacked out things for whatever naive and idiotic reasons they do such.
Children are inherently cruel. I don't know why. I just know they are. Everyone knows this -- except, perhaps, the people who name their kids Apple, or Kal'el, or Q...
When you give those inherently cruel children, now with mob mentality, an easy target like an eccentric name? My god, you might as well give them loaded hand-guns! How can any parent be that naive, that stupid, that ignorant, as to knowingly put their child through what's sure to be a torturous childhood?
Can you imagine how bad it's going to be for all the kids out there with insane names? I'm sure Gwyneth Paltrow's kid Apple won't have to face too much scorn, being born and bread into the Hollywood community. Eccentricity is applauded there. But for your average individual?
I pity these poor kids, I scorn and question the credentials of these idiotic judges, and I want to sterilize and commit the naive and ignorant parents.
Please. Go back in time, become a child, and live with a name like that, and THEN repeat your assertion that it could be a positive advantage. I've been there. I've done that. I can speak from experience. My name may be fairly run of the mill, but an inoppertune kids tv show made it hell to have, so I know full well what kids with whacked-out names will endure. It's never an advantage.
Want to give your kid an advantage? Name them a common name. John, Bill, Sarah, Jennifer, whatever! Let them live in peace!
Compromise: give them a normal middle name, so they can choose.
But also omnipotent. Let's ask him to snap us up some hookers and blow.
Well said, Fuzzybottom, well said.