Swedish Tax Officials: Your Daughter Can’t Be Named Elvis

[rhetoricfemme]

They should recall the New Zealand couple who tried to name their son [url="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/288613/couple_wants_their_son_named_4real.html"]4Real[/url].

I'll bet they won't have too much of a problem with Elvis after that.

Edited June 6, 2008 by rhetoricfemme

[Justin86]

Parents should be able to name their children whatever they want without harassment by the government.

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1559928' date='Jun 5 2008, 04:11 PM']Geraldine was a character played by Flip Wilson. Her catch phrase was "the devil made me do it."[/quote]

[prose]

[quote name='Justin86' post='1560973' date='Jun 6 2008, 10:39 AM']Parents should be able to name their children whatever they want without harassment by the government.[/quote]

I am not so sure. I think it is probably a good idea when the gov't steps in when someone names their kid "Adolf Hitler" or "Satan", or even "God".

[Winchester]

[quote name='prose' post='1561002' date='Jun 6 2008, 12:06 PM']I am not so sure. I think it is probably a good idea when the gov't steps in when someone names their kid "Adolf Hitler" or "Satan", or even "God".[/quote]
No it's not. That's why God gave us torch and pitchfork wielding mobs.

Note: The above is a joke. I wouldn't want any humorless noob to think God actually gave us such an awful way of dealing with morons who can't properly name their children.

[littleflower+JMJ]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1559928' date='Jun 5 2008, 04:11 PM']Geraldine was a character played by Flip Wilson. Her catch phrase was "the devil made me do it."[/quote]

LOL that doesn't really make the other names so wrong or awful.

[quote name='rhetoricfemme' post='1560418' date='Jun 5 2008, 09:12 PM']They should recall the New Zealand couple who tried to name their son [url="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/288613/couple_wants_their_son_named_4real.html"]4Real[/url].

I'll bet they won't have too much of a problem with Elvis after that. [/quote]

I hadn't heard of that one but have heard of someone naming their child ESPN!

[url="http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/15168029/"]ESPN Montana Real [/url]