“Methamphetamine Rules” will have her name changed, but it will be part of her permanent record.
It slipped through the cracks.
They say choosing your parents well is the most important decision of your life. In this case the little snapper almost got it right. But stumbled just short of the finish line. Here’s hoping there’s nt too much lasting damage.
Should have picked parents that are rich and famous. Then it is okay to name your children after directions or bed coverings or ligatured letters or units of moons.
From the article:
Drysdale said she was under the impression that if a name was rejected by the registry, they choose one for you.
She had reached out to the registry for answers to her show’s segment on what names can be legally given to a baby in Australia which will air on Wednesday.
The spokesperson for NSW Births, Deaths and Marriages said it “does not choose what name parents give a child”.
However, the state government’s website detailing the rules states if a name for a baby cannot be registered and parents do not provide an alternative, the registrar may assign a name.
Sounds like a simple failure to read the directions. Or at least a failure to read them for comprehension. An unexpected failure in a professional journalist, but standards have been slipping for years.
This might give Florida Man an idea for what to name his kid, if he hadn’t won that Darwin award for naked gator wrestling.
Don’t worry. Florida Man has lots and lots of cousins and more distant relatives cut from the same cloth. A few million of 'em in fact.
Australia? I would have gone with Donteatmedingoes
When it comes to embarrassing names, Australia still has nothing on New Zealand:
Most intriguing line of the article:
Official title or rank such as goddess?
That’s it. I’m moving to Australia.
I think you’re reading too much into it. From the article it was a light-hearted way to find out exactly how the new naming regulations worked in practice, because nobody really seemed to know. And “Methamphetamine” was chosen because it was so obviously ridiculous that it would certainly be flagged and rejected. Except it wasn’t.
I think it would be kind of fun to be that kid and to be able to tell the story that for a few days their real name was Methamphetamine.
Maybe they’ll change the name to Crystal.
The “official title or rank” thing would have made complete sense, it could be a problem if someone could potentially misrepresent themselves by using the name “Judge Smith”. But then the examples they gave made no sense at all.
If someone says “I’m Queen Cleopatra Minogue”, is that really going to create any confusion with the real Queen Cleopatra? Are people going to think that “Goddess Campbell” is an actual goddess?
That didn’t stop Judge Reinhold…
The official rules prohibit several names that are in use, such as Prince and Marshal (though they may allow Marshall?):
And whoever created that webpage is a Harry Potter fan…
Who named their child after bed coverings?
Anyone remember Marijuana Pepsi?
Michael Jacksons, Blanket
That woud have saved Baron Trump a lot of embarrassment. Poor kid. Imagine having your name be an indictment of your parent’s social climbing?