"Talula does the Hula"?

Read this!
http://fe1.ca.news.a1.b.yahoo.com:80/s/capress/080724/koddities/oddity_bizarre_names

Now here are some shocking names. Some examples listed in this article:

Fish and Chips
Yeah Detroit
Keenan Got Lucy
Sex Fruit


Do you think the government should stop parents from choosing really weird names? Do you agree with the courts on this one, stating that carrying the name "Talula does the Hula" imposes a social handicap?

Mary Ann

I was given the name Mary Ann. It's my first and second name but all I remember is being Mary Ann. As I was growing up I met no one with my name so I thought my name was unique. To my surprise when I returned to work after years at home with small children, I found that there are two other ladies with my name and one I share a birthday with at this place I work. They spell their names Marianne and Mary Anne so there is a little difference.
The other thing about my name is that of all nine of the children born to my parents, mine is also all old fashioned Mennonite. My brothers names are Robert, Ronald, Timothy, Donald, and Quentin. My sister's names are Linda, Patricia, and (Barbara who passed away as an infant). I think I was named after an aunt and a grandmother. All my brothers and sisters have the old Mennonite names as their second names (after a family member).

When my husband Abe and I decided to have children we did a lot of thinking. Boys names were hard to agree on. Then one day I heard a friend tell me if she had a boy his name would be Mitchell. I loved the name and it was one my husband liked to. So when this friend had a girl and since we didn't see them much it would be alright to name our son Mitchell. His second name is Aron after my Dad. My oldest brother has this second name also. Our son's personality reminds me of them both.
Our daughter's name my husband had picked before we had Mitchell. Her name is Lacey and I thought it was pretty. Abe thought it would be cool to put his mom's name (Mary) and my mom's name (Tina) together for her second name. So her second name is Martina.
Then there came Lance. If he'd been a girl he would have been Stephanie Ann. But we had a boy so the poor baby had no name for three days after he was born. I had heard the name Lance on TV a few years before and had always liked it so I ran it by Abe and lo and behold he liked it to. I suggested his second name be after Abe but it should be Abraham like on my husbands birth certificate.
I would say naming our children had to be one of the best part about having them.

Living in a small Mennonite community can be kind of silly sometimes.
We Abe and Mary Ann Braun living in Osler had neighbors down our street named Abe and Mary Braun. Their son Abe married a girl named Margaret. And their first son of all things they named Mitchell. How silly is that? Well they soon moved out of Osler and so did we.

Apple

Seen on the internet.

Chris Martin defends odd names
by inMusic.ca staff He says there's nothing wrong with giving children unusual names.
Coldplay's Chris Martin had defended celebrities' habit of giving their children unusual names. Martin, who is the father to Apple and Moses (with Gwyneth Paltrow), says there's nothing wrong with choosing a unique name. He told Blender magazine, "People make a big fuss over names. Names of babies, names of albums, names of bands.""There's nothing weird about calling your baby Chewbacca if that's what you want to call your baby. It's no stranger than Sarah. A name is just a noise, and, if you like it, then f*** what everyone else says."

Name stealing? (from Angie)

As many giddy couples do, my husband and I chose names for our offspring long before the little stick had ever turned blue. Our first son was to be named Cameron in honour of my brother whom we lost to cancer, and a daughter would be Danielle, simply because I thought it was pretty. When it came to choosing second names, my husband was also quite clear on what they should be. He wanted to pay homage to his NBA hero Michael Jordan, so our children’s names would be Cameron Michael or Danielle Jordan. Our son was born first. During my second pregnancy, we sat in church talking with friends after a Sunday morning service. They asked if we had picked out names for the baby, so we told them of our plans. Several months later we sat stunned as we listened to a birth announcement from the pulpit: “Congratulations to proud parents Bill & Mary on the birth of their son Daniel Jordan!” Only then did we put it together that this couple had occasionally sat in the pew in front of us. They must have liked the name we picked out so much, they decided to steal it!! When our beautiful daughter was born a short time later, we named her Danielle…Salome, after her fraternal great-grandmother. Now if that isn’t reason to keep your chosen baby names a secret, I don’t know what is!!