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Originally posted by: starkillerQuoteAnd what about the 3 poor kids in the US named 'ESPN'?
Originally posted by: Bossk
Well, there are companies that have paid for naming rights on children. And there are parents who have auctioned naming rights for their children. Sad, eh?
If I were one of those children, I would be suing for independence and legally changing my name before grade school. Can you imagine how much resentment a child like that would have for their parents? Childhood is cruel enough even with a normal name. Give a bully ammunition like a stupid name and that child is screwed for life.
Then there is Hollywood, where we have Apple Paltrow (or whatever the kdis last name is), and now we have Hazel and...umm...Filmore, no, Phinnaeus, yes that's it.
Phinnaeus?? I've got a friend to introduce you to, his name is the 21st century.
That kids going to have a home tutor, you know. No parent in their right mind is going to first give that name, then let them go to school with it.
They'll be luck if the tutor doesn't riticule the kid.
There's this guy, who became famous in the 90s over here, whose name is Um Dois Três Oliveira Quatro, which translates to One Two Three Oliveira Four. I guess his last name was Quatro - which is bizarre by itself- and his dad was waaay to drunk at the time. There are also the three twin sisters who were namedafter three different synonims in portuguese for "xerox copy" (Xerox, Fotocópia, Autenticada), and there's this woman whose name is very similar to uh... the genital parts of a woman. Some people put her phone number on the internet, poor lady.