Silly First Name Syndrome

Blaer Bjarkardottir, 15 (l.) and her mother, Bjork Eidsdottir — ANNA ANDERSEN/AP

Like a handful of other countries, including Germany and Denmark, Iceland has official rules about what a baby can be named. In a country comfortable with a firm state role, most people don’t question the Personal Names Register, a list of 1,712 male names and 1,853 female names that fit Icelandic grammar and pronunciation rules and that officials maintain will protect children from embarrassment. Parents can take from the list or apply to a special committee that has the power to say yea or nay.

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From the UK, A warning of the dangers of making benefits a life style choice and incentivising breeding on a benefit.

Until 3 months ago Michael Philpott shared his cramped three-bedroom semi-detached home with his wife, mistress and all 11 children he had with both women. He also fathered five other children from two other women.

Philpott and his wife Mairead and are charged with deliberately starting a fire that killed their remaining six Children after the mistress left taking her children and depriving him of the associated benefit money. The motive being to frame his ex girlfriend to get back custody of the children.

The prosecution opened with: ”He just wanted a house full of kids and the benefit money that brings.”:

A father killed six of his children in a house fire that was part of a ‘plan’ to frame his former mistress, a court heard yesterday.

Michael Philpott, 56, is accused of hatching a plot to set up Lisa Willis, 28, just hours before he was due to contest her application for custody of their five children in court.

Prosecutor Richard Latham QC said: ‘Michael Philpott did not want to work. He just wanted a house full of kids and the benefit money that brings.  Read more »

Last night on the Huddle Susan Wood, Jock Anderson and Bill Ralston were discussing Silly First Name Syndrome.

They even mentioned the title and where it came from:

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Parents call their children all sorts of names.  And it’s a long term form of child abuse.

Frequently, SFNS drives its point home mercilessly.

This, is a very good example:

Aaliyah Boyer was watching midnight fireworks outside a home in Elkton, Maryland, south of Philadelphia, when she was struck in the head by a falling bullet.

Aaliyah.  Strike one.

Adults initially believed Aaliyah had passed out and hit her head, but the bullet wound was discovered when she arrived at hospital.

She was taken off life support on Thursday morning and her organs have been donated to other children.

Police are now conducting interviews over an 8km radius in the hopes of finding the person responsible.

“They need to pay for what they did, for all these people that they hurt,” Aaliyah’s mother Crystal Blackburn said.

What are the odds?  But wait.  It gets worse.

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David Farrar has a big sook about Iceland and their insistence that people adhere to the law for naming of people:

How ridiculous. An approved list of names and a special committee that can decide on exceptions.

I’m not against the state having a power to refuse very offensive names that would harm a child, such as if someone tried to call their child “fuck me” or “bitch”. But the default position should be any name at all is allowed, unless judged harmful. Having a list of “approved” names is just bureaucratic nonsense.

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I’m afraid for this new born child…afflicted with Silly First Name Syndrome…tragedy stalks it:

The first baby born in Wellington Hospital this year has been named for the occasion.

Taulogo New Year Taulogo was born at 12.21am yesterday by caesarean section to mum Siilima Taulogo, 35.

“It’s special for him to be born on New Year’s Day. He’s big, he’s strong. He’s a good boy,” Mrs Taulogo said of her 3.24kg son, who sports an impressive head of hair.

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Silly First Name Syndrome continues to kill:

A baby who was wrapped in a fleece blanket, placed on top of an electric blanket and tucked under two duvets probably died from a mix of dehydration and pneumonia, a coroner has found.

Majesty Kahurawhiti Crystal Kainuku Toki was just six weeks old when she took her last breaths in her mum’s bed at their Titahi Bay home last October.

A day before she died, she was seen by their family GP as her mother Tewinia Toki was worried about a cough that had just developed.

Poor kid, cooked to death…tragedy was always stalking this child, afflicted from birth with Silly First name Syndrome.

I tell you, Silly First Name Syndrome is plague on our society. The Huffington Post reports yet another outbreak:

A South Florida man with an unfortunate name — or a strong commitment to pranking police — was arrested last Friday on a litany of charges in Fort Lauderdale.

Jackmeoff Mudd, 54, was arrested on charges of assault, disorderly conduct, resisting an officer, possession of alcohol in an open container, and violation of probation.

He is being held at a Broward County jail on a $300 bond, which means that at some point in the last few days, a somber county judge read his name aloud in court (here’s hoping it was Judge John Hurley, just to bring his week full circle).

Mudd is not the first jailbird to have a strange name, of course. In Wisconsin, police booked Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop for multiple charges, and on the flip side, a woman who tried to stop three brothers from robbing a Texas WalMart last year turned out to be named Monique Lawless.

People are dying because of this disease.

Jamie Oliver obviously married a hippy, and worse one that wears the pants. By letting her name all the kids he has doomed his entire family.

It is bad enough having one child with Silly First Name Syndrome but having four just invites doom.

The mother-of-four, whose three-year-old girl is called Petal Blossom Rainbow, said she “hated” people giving their opinions about baby’s names.

Mrs Oliver added that her husband, the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, had to tell her to “calm down” when choosing them for their children.

The 37-year-old former model also revealed that she wanted to have more, and that she was “comfortable being a mum” rather than having a career.

Mrs Oliver, whose other three children are Poppy Honey Rosie, ten, Daisy Boo Pamela, nine, and Buddy Bear Maurice, two, told Gurgle magazine: “They all have more than one name because I couldn’t decide.

“I’m not sure where Petal Rainbow came from – apparently it’s a My Little Pony! I wanted to call her Rainbow but Jamie told me to calm down.

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With Silly First Name Syndrome and deciding to rob a gunshop, the plan had win written all over it.   Not.

Note the armed shop owner is still breathing…I wonder if he would have been if he had to wait for the police to arrive?

One man is dead and two are recovering after being shot by a gun store owner during a burglary of his business Thursday morning.

Stephen Bayazes Jr., 57, told officers that he and his wife were asleep in an apartment at the back of the business, Guns & Ammo Gunsmith, 522 Edgefield Road, shortly before 4 a.m. when he awoke after hearing a loud crash and the activation of a silent alarm.