> > > Nothing too special about my name, but I do know a guy named Tyson whose parents named him after a package of frozen chicken. No kidding.
> >
> > Generally, we like to think that the more big government keeps its nose out of our private business, the better; but I'm inclined to think the state authority had a point when, a few years ago, a provincial judge in Québec ruled against a couple seeking to name their new offspring: "No, you *can't* name your son 'SPATULE', and that's final!"
> >
> > Spatule (pronounced 'spatCHOOL') in French means frying-pan spatula.
> >
> > And the really scary thing is... I'm not joking.
> >
> > Wolf "What? Everyone knows we have the right to name our first born sons 'Zack Starr'" spirit
>
> Well, I've seen a few names that I think the parents should have thought twice about.
>
> There was a girl who went to the same school as I at the same time, and her name was Holly Wood.
>
> Recently, in the police log of the local paper, someone named Crissmas Carroll(or something like that), was arrested.
>
> In a book called "The Joy of Lex", a man named Safety First says he gets in the paper every time he gets a speeding ticket. (Of course, this book has been around a while.)
>
> Nyperold

I might be able to top that. My mother told this one and it was supposed to have happened back in the early part of this fading century. A lady named her newborn daughter Singing Victrola Record. They called her Vicky.
Howard