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Tenn. judge changes infant's name from 'Messiah'

SheWolf said:
I know people with last names like Dick and Kunt. I have never heard of judges forcing families to change.last names out of concern they will teased lol.
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There's a small-time politician not too far from me whose last name is ****. His tv ads pronounce it as "Coke".

Sorry, dude, you ain't foolin' nobody. :lol:
 
OscarB63 said:
there are a couple of guys in my reserve unit whose last name is Major. one is an O4 and one is an E5. so we have Major Major and Sargeant Major. When I was at OBC, one of our instructors was Captain Kirk
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Ever read "Catch 22". There's a character who's last name is Major who is also a Major. For reason I don't remember his parents also gave him the first name of Major so he's Major Major Major.

(If you haven't read it, Catch 22 is possibly the greatest satire written in the last 100 years. It's absolutely one of the best American works ever produced and is funny as hell. One of my favorite books of all time)
 
radcen said:
There's a small-time politician not too far from me whose last name is ****. His tv ads pronounce it as "Coke".

Sorry, dude, you ain't foolin' nobody. :lol:
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there is a politician named Dick Swett. there are millions of people with ****ed up names.
 
Gaius46 said:
Ever read "Catch 22". There's a character who's last name is Major who is also a Major. For reason I don't remember his parents also gave him the first name of Major so he's Major Major Major.

(If you haven't read it, Catch 22 is possibly the greatest satire written in the last 100 years. It's absolutely one of the best American works ever produced and is funny as hell. One of my favorite books of all time)
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I bought a used car from a guy named Junior Senior once. the kicker...his son was Junior Senior Junior
 
OscarB63 said:
there is a politician named Dick Swett. there are millions of people with ****ed up names.
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It still appears to me that "John Boehner" is pronounced like "Boner". I'm sure that even if it isn't supposed to be, that many children would assume it was.
 
roguenuke said:
It still appears to me that "John Boehner" is pronounced like "Boner". I'm sure that even if it isn't supposed to be, that many children would assume it was.
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yeah, kids are cruel. and not just kids. I went to college with a guy whose last name was Eberhart. didn't stop us from calling him "never hard eberhart"
 
Luge Olympian from Austria: Manual Pfister

Seton Hall Women's Basketball Coach: Phyllis Mangina

Pole Vaulter: Kim Yoo Suck

Boston Patriots: Dick Felt

Arnold Palmer's classmate at Wake Forest and fellow pro golfer: Dick Tiddy

Japanese female gymnast: Yoshi Takeshíta


My two favorite names in sports:

Buck Belue - QB, University of Georgia
Baccari Rambo - Safety, Washington Redskins
 
Risky Thicket said:
Luge Olympian from Austria: Manual Pfister

Seton Hall Women's Basketball Coach: Phyllis Mangina

Pole Vaulter: Kim Yoo Suck

Boston Patriots: Dick Felt

Arnold Palmer's classmate at Wake Forest and fellow pro golfer: Dick Tiddy

Japanese female gymnast: Yoshi Takeshíta


My two favorite names in sports:

Buck Belue - QB, University of Georgia
Baccari Rambo - Safety, Washington Redskins
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Rusty Staub

Dick Trickle

LOL!

Ever met a dude named Francis? Kid's can mock just about anything and they do.

Even with a generic name like mine. I was forever getting Eddie Spaghetti. Eddie Haskell.

Maybe that judge should have prevented my parents for naming me Edward. LOL!
 
I was in the air force with a guy whose last name was Cloudy. I never knew his real first name. Everyone called him "Partly".
 
Gaius46 said:
On the other hand if she was doing as you say and simply talking about local perceptions she certainly worded it clumsily. I didn't get that sense from her statements as they were written in the article.
She didn't preface her comments with "There are alot of Christians in this community and they believe that Jesus is the messiah..." It sounded to me like a statement of fact though I haven't read the full text of her comments, only what was reported in the media.
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Yes, impossible to say with any certainty what her argument actually was, because there appears to be no written order available. Everyone seems to be going off of two local news clips that were clearly edited from a longer interview.

Gaius46 said:
I agree with you I'm not sure the perception issue matters in the case. I would go one step further and say I'm not sure I want judges to have that level of authority over parents at all.
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I think I'm okay with it in really extreme cases - e.g. something like the use of race-based profanity is very likely to cause substantial harm to a child's social development - but it should be a case-by-case determination that stands up to strict scrutiny.
 
Gaius46 said:
I agree with you I'm not sure the perception issue matters in the case. I would go one step further and say I'm not sure I want judges to have that level of authority over parents at all.
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Interesting side note:

There appear to be many laws on the books that prohibit names for stupid, mostly administrative reasons: can't have a name that's too long, can't have a name that contains numbers, etc. In California, you can apparently name your baby Satan, Toilet Duck, or Jose, but you can't name him José.

Although I'm happy that parents can't name their kids Se7en or R2D2 - I don't really see a valid reason for the limitation.
 
The judge needs to be disbarred for blatantly overstepping his authority.
The parents need to have their child taken away because they are abusive.
 
How has Dick Army not been mentioned yet.

What's next, Vagina Coastguard? [/Petergriffin]
 
Taylor said:
Interesting side note:

There appear to be many laws on the books that prohibit names for stupid, mostly administrative reasons: can't have a name that's too long, can't have a name that contains numbers, etc. In California, you can apparently name your baby Satan, Toilet Duck, or Jose, but you can't name him José.

Although I'm happy that parents can't name their kids Se7en or R2D2 - I don't really see a valid reason for the limitation.
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in 2012, there were at least two baby boys named "Jedi"
 
Gaius46 said:
Ever read "Catch 22". There's a character who's last name is Major who is also a Major. For reason I don't remember his parents also gave him the first name of Major so he's Major Major Major.

(If you haven't read it, Catch 22 is possibly the greatest satire written in the last 100 years. It's absolutely one of the best American works ever produced and is funny as hell. One of my favorite books of all time)
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If I recall, his dad gave him both first and middle name Major while his mom was recovering from delivery. When he got in the Army, he got promoted to Major quickly, but then he couldn't get promoted past that. He was always Major Major -- long name & title being Major Major Major Major.

Edited to add: The funniest book I've ever read. The movie was useless, but the book was awesome. I used the name "Milo Minderbinder" on a different forum for a while.
 
radcen said:
There's a small-time politician not too far from me whose last name is ****. His tv ads pronounce it as "Coke".

Sorry, dude, you ain't foolin' nobody. :lol:
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*needs more "i like ****" stickers*
 
I would never name my kid something like that, or some of the other weird names celebrities give their kids. :roll: That's almost like saying, here tease my kid everyone!
 
Risky Thicket said:
I was in the air force with a guy whose last name was Cloudy. I never knew his real first name. Everyone called him "Partly".
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We had a girl whose last name was French. When people started referring to French fries as "freedom fries", we teased her that we had to start calling her "Freedom". She was pissed.
 
Taylor said:
Yes, impossible to say with any certainty what her argument actually was, because there appears to be no written order available. Everyone seems to be going off of two local news clips that were clearly edited from a longer interview.

I think I'm okay with it in really extreme cases - e.g. something like the use of race-based profanity is very likely to cause substantial harm to a child's social development - but it should be a case-by-case determination that stands up to strict scrutiny.
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It doesn't matter what her argument was because it was not her place at all to change the baby's first name. That was not the issue brought before her and she had no legal place to have any say in that particular part of the child's name.
 
I am reminded of a little girl I attended elementary school with named Debbie Rape. She was a very sweet little girl. But some kids still made fun of her.

I do hope she grew up and has had a very happy life.
 
roguenuke said:
It doesn't matter what her argument was because it was not her place at all to change the baby's first name.
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Irrelevant to the discussion we were having.

roguenuke said:
That was not the issue brought before her and she had no legal place to have any say in that particular part of the child's name.
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Judges aren't restricted to apply the law "only on the issues brought" to court.
 
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