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Child Names

Ok, really bad children names are kind of a pet peeve/fascination of mine. The "Jordan Michael " birthed yeras ago in my hometown was kooky. The Hmong family the next town over who named their kid "Trans Am" was worth a chuckle, but this...

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http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/today/index.ssf/2008/12/holland_township_family_angry.html

"JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell and Adolf Hitler Campbell."

Eh? I hope one of them becomes a famous civil rights activist, or does something else of great irony.

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Three kids in three years? So, not only are they a couple of morons, they're fertile morons.

Great.


I met someone in Texas with a relative named (not nicknamed) Chewbacca.


I left my "Important White Supremacists For Dummies" book in the pocket of my white robe, so Honzlynn Hinler is supposed to be who?

On a lighter note, enjoy this website, which has oodles of terrible baby names.

I have to second Sjixxxy with my wish for the children to grow up and become humanitarians.


My guess is that whoever they hang with could never properly pronouce Heinrich Himmler, and since books, and the internet is probably beyond their level of Learnedness they never properly researched the proper spelling, or thought to question it.


I thought the AP story was stupendous.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2008/12/16/us/AP-ODD-Hitler-Cake.html

EASTON, Pa. (AP) -- The father of 3-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell, denied a birthday cake with the child's full name on it by one New Jersey supermarket, is asking for a little tolerance....

''I think people need to take their heads out of the cloud they've been in and start focusing on the future and not on the past,'' Heath Campbell said Tuesday....
Heath Campbell said he named his son after Adolf Hitler because he liked the name and because ''no one else in the world would have that name.'' He sounded surprised by all the controversy the dispute had generated....

You've got to hand it to the guy--generating this kind of material takes real talent.

And the crowning glory: two stores wouldn't bake them a swastika "Adolf" cake, but Walmart came through for them.


And here I thought it was super-sadistic that my classmate's parents named him Timothy Burr. (Tim Burr)


I like the bronze middle-finger knickknack in the background, enshrined between two bottles of Coke.


great. and gays can't adopt, be foster parents or scout leaders.


Young Adolf Hitler is cute as a button.

The city attorney of Superior is named Frog. Frog Prell.


My high school driver's ed teacher was named Mr. Richard Weed. Dick Weed.

Not controversial, but amusing to be sure.

Nice catch on the middle-finger knickknack, Barrett. I would have missed out.


I notice the kid is wearing a sweatshirt with Spiderman on it. The regular blue and red suited Spiderman. Wonder if he is a fan of the black-suited Spiderman.


There's an old-timer in Grand Marais who does some of the play-by-play and color commentary for the Cook County Vikings HS football who everyone calls "Zipper." His real name is Richard Door. You do the math.


OMFG. Really?

Free speech is one thing, but this is a whole different ball game, er, league.

IMHO, this is a perfectly sound reason for the state to take their kids away. And shoot the parents.


Just as long as they line the parents up and use one bullet through both their heads. That would be fitting.


A surprising number of comments stated how horrible it was that that Shop-Rite wouldn't make their cake. Their argument boiled down to freedom of speech and how it wasn't up to the store to approve or disapprove of the child's name. But he's the point that someone so adroitly brought up, why would the full name need to be on the cake? Who orders a birthday cake that says Happy Birthday Joshua Matthew Anderson. No, you have them write Happy Birthday Josh or Adolph for that matter. These miserable wastes of flesh were simply trying to stir the pot. Or maybe they are just so overwhelmingly proud of their ignorant hatred that they are constantly wanting to share it with the world. Either way kudos to Shop-Rite and Wal-Mart has sunk to a new low, if that's even possible.


Well, Wal-Mart did sell Nazi T-Shirts for quite the period of time.


No doubt Walmart didn't want to face a spurious, but possibly costly, lawsuit.

A friend of mine had a cousin by the name of Ima Aho. We used to joke that she should have had a brother by the name of Ura.


Someone elsewhere on the internet pointed out that given their last name this could all just be an elaborate Soup Nazi joke.


In regards to the Wal-Mart shirt, yes it appears to be more or less the infamous death's head used by the SS. But someone brought up a good point elsewhere on the internet that someone probably didn't realise the historical impact of what they were using.

Also, this reminds me of all the Soviet era shirts and Che shirts out there. Should they be given the same treatment or is it just because Wal-Mart is not cool and is perceived by many to cater to the dill hole who named his kid Hitler?

Why is Soviet era imagery and Che considered hip chic and Nazi stuff bad? Stalin killed far more people than Hitler. And Che, while having some admirable qualities philosphically, was also guilty of murder and siding with some pretty bad people.


I think for Che drug dealers of the Coca kind (who are not very nice to deal with-trust me on this one) come to mind. Then for Stalin the incident were he won some major battles during his fight to power, concluding with an invitation to all of his generals to join him to party on a barge on a river. After all of the generals were in the barge Stalin's men bolted the doors shut and sank the barge.

I think recently if you want to talk about putting people in danger and or at risk you might want to take a qick tour down W's lane and maybe visit his little buddy Dicky C. I would say that Hitler killed millions and the oil companys(who have there fingers in Bushy and Dicky C) put the entire 6.5 billion of us at risk. My question is what is worse?

I think America's dream has become the worlds nightmare!!!!!

Power to the People

Peace
Todd Gremmels


After reading this, I was thinking "Man, it would suck to be named after G.W or Dickie C. Well, there indeed are Iraqi children in the same family named after both. Made me laugh-
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We almost named my daughter "George"...when we thought she was going t be a boy. She was born on election day in 2000.


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