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Thread #113693   Message #2461754
Posted By: Rowan
10-Oct-08 - 12:38 AM
Thread Name: BS: What were the Parents Thinking
Subject: RE: BS: What were the Parents Thinking
Years ago I taught by correspondence a group whose workbooks always had the covers labelled with the "Family Name" listed first, followed by all the "Given Names". One lad had parents who'd read AA Milne but his name on the books was always

Idle Christopher Robin.

And, while I'm on about unimaginative naming, I went through school with a lad whose parents had obviously been impressed by one particular American, without realising his devious disrespect for Australian troops. The lad's name was

Douglas Macarthur Rxxxxxom.

But at least he fared better than the son of the woman who gave birth to a lad on the same day the Wallabies won the Rugby World Cup a decade or so ago. That lad had the surname of every player in the team as his Given Names. "Campesi" as one of two or three Given Names I could understand, but...the whole lot?

Cheers, Rowan