Adding to the drama of how selfish parents are, here is a new one, that arised from the New Zeland article below.CNN) -- When you hear the name "Indiana Jones," you think of an archaeologist carrying an idol and dodging a giant boulder. When you hear about "Dow Jones," you might wonder if it's up or down that day. However, in this case, Indiana and Dow Jones are siblings, 12 and 7 years old, respectively.
Dow and Indiana Jones participate in many sporting events. Indiana says, "announcers love to say our names."
Indiana Elizabeth Jones shared her story with the iReport community, and we spoke with her mother, Jennifer Jones. The Port Deposit, Maryland, resident says Indiana got her name simply because her husband's family is from that state.
As for Dow Joseph Jones, there was serious talk of naming him Jack Ryan Jones, to keep the Harrison Ford theme. (Jack Ryan is the character Ford played in a series of action movies.) Instead, her husband named their son Dow on a dare while Jennifer was asleep in the hospital bed after giving birth.
She said she cried when she found out and even thought about having Dow's name changed.
CNN.com asked users to share their unusual names after a 9-year-old New Zealand girl named Talula Does the Hula from Hawaii won the right to change her name. (Full story below)How absurd! I agree with this judge. Just read this in Yahoo news. I am amazed at the stupid names people, including celebrities, are naming their children these days. But this takes the cake! Growing up with out a middle name was pretty bad, kids made fun of me because they thought it was so horrible, I wouldn't tell anyone. No one believed a child could be born and not given a middle name. I survived, luckily, but this poor little girl has suffered."
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A family court judge in New Zealand has had enough with parents giving their children bizarre names here, and did something about it.Just ask Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii. He had her renamed.
Judge Rob Murfitt made the 9-year-old girl a ward of the court so that her name could be changed, he said in a ruling made public Thursday. The girl was involved in a custody battle, he said.
The new name was not made public to protect the girl's privacy.
"The court is profoundly concerned about the very poor judgment which this child's parents have shown in choosing this name," he wrote. "It makes a fool of the child and sets her up with a social disability and handicap, unnecessarily."
The girl had been so embarrassed at the name that she had never told her closest friends what it was. She told people to call her "K" instead, the girl's lawyer, Colleen MacLeod, told the court.
In his ruling, Murfitt cited a list of the unfortunate names.
Registration officials blocked some names, including
Fish and Chips, Yeah Detroit, Keenan Got Lucy and Sex Fruit, he said. But others were allowed, including
Number 16 Bus Shelter "and tragically,
Violence," he said.
New Zealand law does not allow names that would cause offense to a reasonable person, among other conditions, said Brian Clarke, the registrar general of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
Clarke said officials usually talked to parents who proposed unusual names to convince them about the potential for embarrassment."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080724/ap_on_re_au_an/new_zealand_bizarre_names
It seems that the life of my Jeep is over. She has taken us to Utah, Arizona and California. We have enjoyed snow, mud, rocks, mountains and lots of big wide deep water pools and puddles. Don't forget her "man weekends" with the guys. We have climbed the mountains and hills in Las Vegas, Baker and Moapa. She has driven her last mile until we buy a new/re-build a motor or replace her. So sad! I will have AAA road side service as long as I am on this earth!
She was towed on a lovely Tuesday morning 7/2/08. The first tow truck arived within 60 minutes....but was a t-bar not equiped to tow my 4WD jeep. He called for a flatbed. Tempature was 109 when the second tow truck finally got there 3 1/3 hours later. My friend Jen was great to come try and rescue me, and take the girls to work. Then Jen and Scott picked me up and took me to buy a starter for Eddie to install when he came home from work. He fixed it while I was making dinner, and got it done in time to eat! Woo hoo!
Then.......Friday 7/25/08 on my way home from work, she started to make loud noises, that only got worse as I tried to get off the busy I-15 in Las Vegas. I managed to get her off the road and into a truck stop gas station. I stopped and turned her off, then got out and saw I was in the red zone of the truck scales....No good. AAA was great to get me a truck within 30 minutes! It was 108 with 27% humidity when he arrived.
Unfortunatly, this time Eddie was unable to keep her going. We got 4 quarts of oil, 7 gallons of water, spark plugs and rotor. She was a no go. Threw a rod, and spitting oil out of the dip stick hole. So she is in a comma in front of the house. We will be carpooling and saving $$ for a few months to either replace the motor or replace my beloved Jeep. We will miss the good times and bad times. All our travels and craming teenagers in you to have fun. Good times 2HAPY, R.I.P. girl.
