A young Swedish couple is locked in a legal battle over their right to name their child Metallica.
Michael and Karolina Tomaro managed to get their 6-month-old child baptized as Metallica, but now the Swedish National Tax Board is putting up a fuss. While the Tomaros insist on their right to choose (asserting that the name "suits her" because "she's decisive and knows what she wants"), the Tax Board claims not only that the name is a direct reference to the rock band but that it contains the word "metal." According to the AP, the official handling the case "also called the name ugly." (Salon)
Any opinions on this?
I’m not a parent, but if I had had a son, I suspect I would’ve named him Joe after Strummer, but Joe is a real name. Metallica, however... If they had had twins, would they have called them AC and DC?
14 comments:
Hey AC...DC wouldnt be that bad. Come on i know a gurl named pork chop...PC for short lol
I'm sure if little metallica doesn't like her name, when she grows, she can change it to jane or sally or scout or apple or zowie or moon unit
whatever her little metal-head heart desires
(of course we mushrooms almost called the daughter "otis" and the son "lee marvin" so who am I to judge?)
(also: I'm told if I'd been a boy, I would have been called "ninian" after an irish relation killed in ww 1...dodged a bullet on that one, didn't I?)
People who want to name their children after rock bands shouldn't be having children.
However, if I had three children and could get away with this, they would be called the following: Plasmatics, BowWowWow, and X-Ray Spex*
JAW fan
* altogether now: Freddy tried to strangle me with my plastic popper beads!
BowWowWow would be a popular kid in pre-school
Those Mushrooms kids would've been named Otis and Lee Marvin, if I had had MY way. When they are older, they will see the light.
Ninian? I bet NOBODY would've called you Ninny. Nope.
If I had been a boy, I would've been Paul. Not very exciting, eh? Better than Ninian, tho.
Well we named our kid after Mr. Bean....
Better than Baldrick.
Ninian could be a guy who plays the pan flute. The soothing tones of Ninian...
poor ninian the first is turning in his hundred and something year old grave
my parents were recently vacationing in ireland where apparently ninian's abound
coast of ninian indeed...
(if I were a ninian tho', I'd never play the hideous pan-flute...ick)
well now I'm EXTRA glad I'm not a boy!
I'm willing to bet ca$h money that within the next week or so, one of us will meet an actual living breathing man named Ninian. That's just how these things work out.
We have one here - he was Governor-General a few years ago - very distinguished he is too.
That didn't take long!
You mean not all Australians are named Mick?
Should I even dignify that with a reply? mmmmm, looks like I already have.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninian_Stephen
note that he was born in England....
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