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Poohy Ol' Negare wrote:

Uncrazzimatic wrote:Lucky her, I've met a woman with the last name of Alcock (yep, that spelling) and a guy with the name of Shavecox

I know a guy called Mike Hunt. Seriously, I **** you lot not, its the sort of thing you get on one of those dodgey Teen movies. And he liked to be called Mike not Micheal.

On a slightly somewhat related note, I did a stint of work experience in 4th form (about 14-15 years old) at a funeral home. (Seriously). Anyway, there was a 16 year old boy who was lying there. He'd hanged himself because his parents mispelt his name "Brain" instead of "Brian" on the birth cert, and he got hideiously bullied because of it!

Hopefully I got the spelling right... but you know what I mean, right?

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a baby, 4Real! Wed Aug 8, 1:13 AM ET



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.

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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.

The Wheatons decided on the name after seeing the baby for the first time in an ultrasound scan and realising their baby was "for real".

They decided 4Real was the best way to write it, but the name was rejected because the registrar said a name had to be a sequence of characters.

Pat Wheaton said he was considering appealing against the decision through the courts, but whatever happens he won't be budged on his choice.

"No matter what its going to stay 4Real," Wheaton told the Herald, "I'm certainly not a quitter".

A spokesman for the Department of Internal Affairs, which operates the registry told the Herald discussions with the Wheatons about their son's name were continuing.

The baby is now two months old, after the Wheatons first applied to register his name in later June.

Loki120 wrote:Here's an update on this, just in case anyone was interested in the final fate of...4Real.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070808/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_newzealand_name

For those too lazy to clicky...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a baby, 4Real! Wed Aug 8, 1:13 AM ET



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.

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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.

The Wheatons decided on the name after seeing the baby for the first time in an ultrasound scan and realising their baby was "for real".

They decided 4Real was the best way to write it, but the name was rejected because the registrar said a name had to be a sequence of characters.

Pat Wheaton said he was considering appealing against the decision through the courts, but whatever happens he won't be budged on his choice.

"No matter what its going to stay 4Real," Wheaton told the Herald, "I'm certainly not a quitter".

A spokesman for the Department of Internal Affairs, which operates the registry told the Herald discussions with the Wheatons about their son's name were continuing.

The baby is now two months old, after the Wheatons first applied to register his name in later June.

Talk about determination. Hope they look back on this an laugh just before sonny Superman takes a crowbar to the back of his parents head for the amount of torture he recieves in school.

Homer wrote:

Some people shouldn't be allowed to be parents. Why would you 'eff your child up like that with some wacky-ass name?