Lucifer Ain't Runnin' 'Round This Playground

     There will be no baby Lucifers playing on the playground with your kids ... In New Zealand, that is, as the name was recently banned.
     However, your child may come across a cute, little, bouncing, baby Violence or Number 16 Bus Shelter ... as those names were approved by New Zealand's Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages.
  

     When parents choose a name for their unborn child, my assumption is that it isn't a simple decision for most. I assume most people don't just look up "Popular Baby Names 2011" and go for the top choice. Parents probably look to relatives for advice or try to form some weird combination of the child's paternal and maternal grandparent's names to form some new name. It's probably a long process. 

     Then there are are others who probably know long beforehand what they want to name their child (but then there's the whole process of trying to get the other parent to agree to the name). So, yeah, naming a kid - it's not an easy affair.

     So, anyway, in this whole crazy process ... when do parents think about the actual child? When do the parents come together and consider Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii a good name for their little girl to go through life with? ... My assumption is that they don't - it probably happens when the mother is hopped up on pain medication and no one is in the room besides her and the nurse asking her, "Did you decide on a name? We need it for the birth certificate." Then changing the name is such a hassle, no one bothers. Heck, my brother's middle name is spelled wrong on his birth certificate and no one has ever bothered to do anything about it ... He isn't even sure how to legally spell it.

     I'm sure there are plenty of kids out there who would have suffered lots of torture due to their parents lack of intelligence when it came to that crucial moment of naming them - but just missed eternal ridicule when their respective countries banned their would-be names (although I'm sure they have equally embarrassing names after the initial ones were banned).

     One child I'd like to meet in the future is this little one from Egypt ---> Check it out.

     

Yeah, I got a name in this town. Some good and some bad that I'll never live down. Anywhere else, I'm just a face in the crowd. But, I got a name in this town. Yeah, I got a name in this town. (A Name In This Town, Josh Thompson)