Nutella - Perfect name? Sacré Bleu!

[GTIR]

"A French court has stopped parents from naming their baby girl Nutella after the hazelnut spread, ruling that it would make her the target of derision.

The judge ordered that the child be called Ella instead."



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30993608



(Further info from link.)
Your name is not allowed
• Iceland: Elvis (yes); Carolina (no)

• New Zealand: Number 16 Bus Shelter (yes); Yeah Detroit (no)

• Germany: Legolas (yes); Matti (no)

• Sweden: Metallica (yes); Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 (no)

• Japan: Akuma (means Devil) - (no)

• Portugal: Mona Lisa (no)

• India: Lenin, Stalin, Brezhnev and Khrushchev (yes)

[anonymous-user]

Carolina? Does it sound like an Icelandic rude word or something?

[grumbledoak]

I didn't know that the French accepted Russian Othodox Saint's names (the only St. Ella I could find)!

[madbadger]

Seems stupid names are spreading.

[Skywalker]

madbadger said:

Seems stupid names are spreading.

True.
Fingers crossed you won't be seeing Shipham as a name, spread all over the gossip columns in a few years.

[Digga]

"Rothmans" if it's a girl, "Ashtray" if it's a boy.

[SpudLink]

When I was at school, the priest told us a story about one of his colleagues.
At the christening of a baby girl, the parents said her name was Hazel. The priest said "I'm not going to name a baby after a nut! I name this child 'Mary'".
The parents, as devout Irish Catholics felt obliged to continue calling her Mary.

I cant vouch for the veracity of this tale.

[SpudLink]

Skywalker said:

madbadger said:

Seems stupid names are spreading.

True.
Fingers crossed you won't be seeing Shipham as a name, spread all over the gossip columns in a few years.

I think the 'spreading' joke managed to go unnoticed. Probably for the best.

[GTIR]

SpudLink said:

When I was at school, the priest told us a story about one of his colleagues.
At the christening of a baby girl, the parents said her name was Hazel. The priest said "I'm not going to name a baby after a nut! I name this child 'Mary'".
The parents, as devout Irish Catholics felt obliged to continue calling her Mary.

I cant vouch for the veracity of this tale.

Firstly, priest. At school. (I will refrain from making jibes about the Catholic church and young boys)

The Irish are known story tellers.

[Eleven]

GTIR said:

The judge ordered that the child be called Ella instead."

If I were them I'd have another child, call it Sam and open a French restaurant named Sam and Ella.

That'd learn the pesky froggy bureaucrats.

[jogon]

Bloody plebs.

[Morningside]

What the hell is wrong with Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 ? I see on another site that "Robocop" has been banned as well.

[TR4man]

I'm more curious as to what, if anything, is going through the minds of the parents of these poor unfortunates.

[mcgandalf]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Ditto for 'Harriet' and 'Duncan'.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/i...

[SpudLink]

GTIR said:

SpudLink said:

When I was at school, the priest told us a story about one of his colleagues.
At the christening of a baby girl, the parents said her name was Hazel. The priest said "I'm not going to name a baby after a nut! I name this child 'Mary'".
The parents, as devout Irish Catholics felt obliged to continue calling her Mary.

I cant vouch for the veracity of this tale.

Firstly, priest. At school. (I will refrain from making jibes about the Catholic church and young boys)

The Irish are known story tellers.

Catholic school in East London, and as far as I know, none of that 'historical abuse' stuff was going on.
But, yeah, Father Brady did tell some very good tall tales.

[FiF]

Morningside said:

What the hell is wrong with Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 ? I see on another site that "Robocop" has been banned as well.

The Swedish tax authorities, and yes it is the equivalent of HMRC who approve the name you wish to give your kid, also didn't allow Allah. I think they were worried someone might be offended.

[Adenauer]

I know of three Germans called Matti. What is this codswallop?

[Rude-boy]

TR4man said:

I'm more curious as to what, if anything, is going through the minds of the parents of these poor unfortunates.

I strongly suspect the answer is either 'not a lot' or 'everything goes through their minds, not much stays there!

[boyse7en]

Skywalker said:

True.
Fingers crossed you won't be seeing Shipham as a name, spread all over the gossip columns in a few years.

It'd be terrible for the kid, they'd get a right pasting at school.

[Camoradi]

There was a girl at my school called Virginia

we called her Virgin for short...

...but not for long