OT: I stumbled across this while checking the news ...

[Snuffy]

Believe it or not ... in the entertainment section.

What the hell are people who do this thinking??

http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews....-nicole-richie-named-her-new-baby/?test=faces

 

[cheezyflier]

in defence of the sparrow, (not nicole ritchie) it's actually a very cool bird, a fearless fighter. they will single-handedly chase away crows and hawks 10 times their size. they are my fav bird. of course, i would never name one of my kids after one, though.

 

[OBIO]

And in some Native American cultures, the Sparrow was the harbinger of death and the carrier of souls. Still, I would not name a kid Sparrow.

OBIO

 

[Ferry_vO]

Compared to this list I think 'Sparrow' is not even the silliest name I ever heard...

Hopper Jack: Sean Penn’s son
Pirate: Jonathan Davis, lead singer of Korn’s son
Apple: Gwyneth Paltrow’s daughter
Coco: Courtney Cox’s daughter
Tu Morrow: Rob Morrow’s daughter

Denim & Diesel: Toni Braxton’s sons
Reign Beau: Ving Rhames’s daughter
Puma: Erykah Badu’s daughter
Cash: Slash, lead guitarist of Guns & Roses, son
Story and Dream: Ginuwine, r&b artist, daughters
Pilot Inspektor: actor Jason Lee’s son
Moxie CrimeFighter: Penn of Penn & Teller’s daughter

True Isabella Summer: Forest Whitaker’s daughter
Audio Science: actress Shannon Sossamon’s son
Phinnaeus & Hazel: Julia Robert’s twin daughter and son
Fifi Trixibelle: Bob Geldoff’s daughter
Peaches Honeyblossom: Bob Geldoff’s daughter
Pixie: Bob Geldoff’s daughter

Poppy Honey: chef Jamie Oliver’s daughter
Dixie Boo:chef Jamie Oliver’s daughter
Dixie Dot: chef Jamie Oliver’s daughter
Bebe Bell: Anna Richardson’s daughter
Seven: Erykah Badu’s son

Brooklyn: David Beckham’s son
Romeo: David Beckham’s son
Cruz: David Beckham’s son
Banjo: actress Rachel Griffith’s son
Rebel: Sin City director Robert Rodriguez’s
Rocket: Sin City director Robert Rodriguez’s
Racer: Sin City director Robert Rodriguez’s
Rogue: Sin City director Robert Rodriguez’s

Jermajesty: Jermaine Jackson’s son
Saffron Sahara: Simon LeBon of Duran Duran’s daughter
Talua Pine: Simon LeBon’s daughter
Kyd Miller: David Duchovny’s son
Sonnet: Forest Whitaker’s daughter
Ocean: Forest Whitaker’s son

Magnus: Will Ferrell’s son
God’iss Love Stone: Lil’ Moe, r&b artist, daughter
Heaven: Lil’ Moe’s daughter
Rumer: Demi Moore’s daughter
Scout: Demi Moore’s daughter
Tallulah Belle: Demi Moore’s daughter

Freedom: Ving Rhames’s son
London: Slash’s son
Dweezil: Frank Zappa’s son
Moon Unit: Frank Zappa’s daughter
Eja: Shania Twain’s son

Satchel: Woody Allen & Mia Farrow’s son
Nell Marmalade: Helen Baxendale & David Eliot’s daughter
Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily: the late Michael Hutchence’s daughter
Pheonix Chi: Melanie C of the Spice Girls’s daughter
Mingus Lucien: Helena Bonham Carter’s son

 

[OBIO]

When I was in school, one of my class mates' mom was from Africa...some obscure tribe out in the middle of the grass lands. Her tribe was a matriarchal one...women in charge. His real name was Seshpaniema Walker, but we called him Herschel (after Herschel Walker). As odd as his name was, his sister's name was even more so. The tribe his mother was from listed the ancestory of every girl born through their names, back something like 50 generations. Her first name was her name, her second name was her mother's name, third name was her mom's mom's name, so on and so forth. And every one of her names were so incredibly hard to listen to, let alone pronounce. Her birth certificate had something like 6 pages just to list all the names in her name. We all, including her brother, simply called her Sis.

OBIO

 

[TARPSBird]

And people wonder why some kids murder their parents.

 

[Willy]

Reading Ferry's list makes me wonder what being a celebrity does to some people's minds. :isadizzy:

 

[Piglet]

I also noticed many politicains have odd names, like Mitt, or Newt.
And Sarah Palin's kids have odd names, too. But nothing as whacked as those names on Ferry's list!:isadizzy:

 

[cheezyflier]

there's alot of hippies up here that gave their kids weird names too.
what ever happened to the days when it seemed like every kid i knew was joe, tom, bob, tony, bill or dan?

 

[tigisfat]

there's alot of hippies up here that gave their kids weird names too.
what ever happened to the days when it seemed like every kid i knew was joe, tom, bob, tony, bill or dan?

That is sooooooo true. I grew up on California, and I knew a lot of kids named Sunny, Daisy, Moonbeam, Starlight and such.

 

[Toastmaker]

And people wonder why some kids murder their parents.

Perfect!

 

[sandar]

I was at school with a guy named Robert Soul, he very sensibly called himself Bob and never, ever used R. Soul. He didn't think too mush of his parents sense of humour.

The name that sticks in my memory was in the announcements section of the Daily Telegraph (one of the UK's main daily newspapers. From memory the announcement went something like:

Mr and Mrs. Carte are delighted to announce the engagement of their only son, Orson to................ I don't think I read the rest. I never found out if it was for real or a joke. Who in their right mind would call their son Orson Carte FFS

 

[gera]

In the spanish language "nicknames" are not just so, they have a meaning and 99.9% of everyone living has one placed by someone since he or she was very little.....A friend found that "Tenkeke" -pronounced "Ten" "kk" sounded nice, since a friend for far away had once told him that it was a nice nickname (he did not know his friend was fooling with him!!!). So he started calling his newest grandson "Tenkeke" and the kid kept the nickname for many years. When he was around 16 he came over to his grandpa´s house and asked him if he knew what it ment. Grandpa said that he did not but that it sounded nice....the grandson said " I´ll tell you what a friend in school told me it means"...."what" did the old guy ask.....with a frown his grandson said " it means --petrified piece of sh**!!!!, so please don´t call me that anymore!!!! grandad.....he never did again,he now calls him "wichi" which no one knows what it means.......