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Posted Jun 12th 2008 8:02AM by Ben Greenman
According to the BBC, a number - a high number - of Chinese children have been given the name Aoyun over the last fifteen years. Aoyun, of course, means "Olympic Games" (check your Chinese Book of Baby Names). Evidently, it's not that uncommon in China to name children after important events or occasions. Many nations - Germany, for example, and Brazil - have laws against giving children odd names. This has always struck me as a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it seems to curb freedom. On the other hand, it seems to curb child abuse. Should China have these laws? Should the United States?
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1. really? really? is this a joke? name your kid dog shit if you want but treat your child with dignity and love. that is what really matters. kids will get picked on and it doesn't matter what they have been named.
mia at 12:43PM on Jun 12th 2008
2. I blog about baby names, and--as much as I love freedom--sometimes I think the U.S. really should have laws prohibiting crazy names.
Nancy at 1:00PM on Jun 12th 2008
3.
This reminds me................
..............
.....
The little Indian boy walks into his father's teepee and asks " Daddy, how do you come up with the names for your children?"
To which the father replies " Well, son, I name each child after the first thing I see the morning of their birth. Like your oldest sister 'Dawn Rising...or your brother Running Bull, or your other sister Fawn. This is how it's been done in our family for centiries...
........BUT why do you ask Two Dogs Fucking?"
mac at 4:33PM on Jun 12th 2008
4. look at my name. it's simple enough to spell and prounouce. but not too many females have it. i also get dirty looks b/c i spell it differently. but i figured out a long ass time ago, that just b/c i don't have the same name as everyone else doesn't make me any less of a person. parents should be able to name their kids whatever they want. it's up the the parent to then raise said child to be a responsible, productive human being. and there's nothing ANY name can do to make that possible. live up to your CHARACTER NOT your name!
Devynn at 6:09PM on Jun 12th 2008
5. mac - Thanks for elevating the level of the discussion. You get the Belushi/Animal House award.
Dave at 1:28AM on Jun 13th 2008
6.
Dave,
Do you have a problem with the word?
Should I have said 'Native American'?
Sorry for the unP.C. racial word.
mac at 3:07AM on Jun 13th 2008
7. Mac, you should have said, '2 dogs copulating'.
JefFlyingV at 2:35AM on Jun 15th 2008
8. Seems, poster mac ... must have had double servings of zippy "MOO GOO GAI PAN" take-away lunch! eh
LuLu at 1:49PM on Jun 16th 2008
9. 8. Mac, you should have said, '2 dogs copulating'.
JefFlyingV at 2:35AM on Jun 15th 2008
xxx
I heard it was what was seen after the act of lovemaking that conceived him....but why do you ask, Broken Rubber?
Clif Kuplen at 5:51PM on Jun 16th 2008
10. So Mac's post #3 was rural correct.
My post #8 was fundamentalist correct.
And Clif's post #10 was PETA correct.
JefFlyingV at 7:13PM on Jun 16th 2008
11. "But dad, I always thought you named me after USC's loss", opined Torn Trojan.
JefFlyingV at 7:24PM on Jun 16th 2008
12. 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.
ex-christian at 6:36AM on Jun 17th 2008
13. I was noticed that there are babies named Bei Bei, Jing Jing, Huan Huan, Ying Ying , Ni Ni after the mascots of the games. Its funny!
bingo at 1:08PM on Jun 19th 2008