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5:49PM
Dec-19-07
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martha
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An Italian court has ruled that a couple could not name their son "Friday" and ordered that he instead be called Gregory after the saint whose feast day he was born on…"We named him Friday because we like the sound of the name. Even if it would have been a girl, we would have named her Friday," the boy's mother, Mara Germano, told Reuters.
When the boy was about five months old, a city hall clerk brought the odd name to the attention of a tribunal, which informed the couple of an administrative norm which bars parents from giving "ridiculous or shameful" first names to children.
Really. Talk about ridiculous. I like the name, too. What do you think? (Thanks to for pointing this one out and supplying the headline.)
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8:47AM
Dec-20-07
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Emmett Redd
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What would you think of a family named Pankey naming their son Henry?
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9:28AM
Dec-20-07
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My Italian is non-existent. After checking a dictionary, I presume they really wanted to name the kid "Venerd́."
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4:22PM
Dec-20-07
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martha
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Then, of course, in keeping with the season, there's .
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4:38PM
Jan-03-08
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martha said:
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An Italian court has ruled that a couple could not name their son “Friday”…
Really. Talk about ridiculous. I like the name, too. What do you think?
I like the name, too, largely because it is the name of one of my favorite .
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I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
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9:04AM
Jan-05-08
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martha
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12:40PM
Jan-08-08
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martha said:
Ah, a Girl Friday, then!
If you are going to bring girls names into the mix, do you think they would allow Wednesday?
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7:27AM
Jan-09-08
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martha
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Or Tuesday, as in Weld! Or hey, how about Bastille with the middle name Day?
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3:30PM
Jan-09-08
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Emmett Redd
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And let us not forget Thursday Addams.
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8:46PM
Jan-13-08
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martha
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Uh, Emmett, I'm afraid I've forgotten Thursday Adams.
Well, actually, I guess I never heard of him or her.
Who's Thursday?
(And those of you in the peanut gallery will kindly refrain from answering, "I am! Gimme a beer!")
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6:01AM
Jan-14-08
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dilettante
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I think Emmett meant "Wednesday," as the Addams daughter was called in the TV series. (I don't believe she was ever named in the Charles Addams cartoons.)
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8:07AM
Jan-14-08
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A good friend of mine, not given to telling tales… says she went to school with a girl name Vagina (no, not Virginia… I clarified that)… and it was pronounced just the same as the part of the female anatomy.
Another acquaintance of mine knew a child that came into the library and the name on his library card was spelled Shithead… but the family pronounced the name "shi-tay." Honest to God.
So, you know, Friday just doesn't seem that bad, really!
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7:49AM
Jan-15-08
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martha
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Dieverdog, I'd say those stories
Although I am happy to learn from the wonderful urban legends site, that the family responsible for the eponymous Lear jet had a daughter named Shanda. So I thank you for sending me there!
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9:24PM
Jan-16-08
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Urban legends, perhaps.
On the other hand, as a physician who has takes care of newborns, I have had to supress a cringe on more than one occasion at names that have been given to children in my care. Confidentiality precludes specific examples, but I have often been tempted to grab the parents, shake them and shout "What were you THINKING!!!".
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4:16AM
Jan-17-08
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For your reading horror: , in an awful way.
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11:13PM
Jun-10-08
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I have a second job doing fundraising for fine arts organizations and had to call Mr. & Mrs. Schickendanz today, nice couple, imagine they hate attending weddings 
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