August 9, 200718 yr 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. ADVERTISEMENT 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. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070808/od_uk_...newzealand_name Yet another set of people who should be sterilized and not allowed to reproduce....
August 9, 200718 yr "...the name was rejected because the registrar said a name had to be a sequence of characters." Huh? "4" is a character, at least in programming terms. They must mean letters. Right?
August 9, 200718 yr Until now, I was convinced that all the stupid people in the world had in fact moved or run the borders to america... I'm sorry; apparently I was wrong.
August 9, 200718 yr These parents WANT the child to be subjected to daily wedgies, and beatings on a daily basis?! Edited August 9, 200718 yr by Captainbooyah
August 9, 200718 yr There's no way those parents are normal people Edited August 9, 200718 yr by ZL-1
August 9, 200718 yr Sounds like they watched one too many episodes of Da Ali G Show before naming their kid. Dumbasses.
August 9, 200718 yr Kill them. Please. Now. ... Then again, if the nuclear fallout that melted their brains didn't do the job, then conventional weapons don't stand a chance.
August 10, 200718 yr Author Kill them. Please. Now. ... Then again, if the nuclear fallout that melted their brains didn't do the job, then conventional weapons don't stand a chance.
August 10, 200718 yr They're probably Prince fans. Hey, I'm a Prince fan..thought of changing my name to 'Dilbert' or 'Cubical'
August 10, 200718 yr Speaking of offbeat names, friends of mine named their daughters Pearl and Ruby...like the programming languages...they wanted 'Perl' but went with the more conventional speeling. Another friend decided to name all their kids with 'Z' names, so their 3 kids are Zoe, Zak, and Zoltar. Another named his sons Tristian and Tristian 2.0. We computer geeks have a strange sense of humour...
August 10, 200718 yr Zoltar? Poor kid...I can hear the teasing now! Edited August 10, 200718 yr by mustang84
August 10, 200718 yr I don't know how this was considered newsworthy, but a long time ago I read in our local newspaper a short blurb about a woman who named her daughter 'Formica Dinette'. She said she saw it in a furniture ad and liked the sound of it. Who knows if it was really true, but it's things like these that make people start to question the truthfulness of what you read in newspapers.
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