Faultlines have appeared with the normally publicity shy Geldof clan as Bob Geldof slammed his daughter Peaches for naming her child Crack Pipe in homage to the fallen saint of Camden town Amy Winehouse. Geldof was speaking from Africa, where he is o...
World renown expert on countries Zorbatini Teakettle has just published his 17th book. His latest publication is titled The Origin of The Word Samoa and Some More Country Name Origins. Mr. Teakettle, a native of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, has personally traveled to 195 of the world's 196 countries. He recently appeared on The View and was asked by co-host Whoopi Goldberg, which is the only c...
Parents in the UK may be unaware, but there is an official list of illegal baby names in use in the rest of Europe. Germany has an official baby naming bureau that has the final say on names, whilst there is an eighty-page handbook in use in Portugal...
Once considered to be an almost exclusively Germanic name, Wolfgang is experiencing an explosion in popularity among young British mums, who have been using the handle to name their male offspring in unprecedented record numbers. Figures from The...
A local woman has changed her name by deed poll after suffering years of abuse. The previously-named Ms Gavrilo Princip, of Trafalgar Close, first realised something was wrong when she was about 15 years old. "We were doing the causes of the Fi...
An online campaign to convince a popular social networking website to recognise a small Irish village has finally ended in a victory for the common man. The web surfing community of the small Co. Limerick village of Effin can now, officially, have...
PITTSBURGH - After adamantly stating that hell would freeze over and all of the Kardashians would move to Armenia before he would change his last name Ben Roethlisberger has changed his mind. "Big Ben" as he is known by his Tweeter fans has been t...
Dakota and Joshua are about to be new parents, but the question of what to name their new baby is still on their minds. They want a name that gives the baby a strong identity without threatening other babies. While sipping a latte at a local beanery, they expressed their concerns. "It's so important. Maybe we should wait until the baby can decide on it's own." suggested Dakota. "This...
It's taken sixty years of Great Britain having a female monarch, but after an act of parliament this morning, the country will officially be renamed to the United Queendom. "It's about time," said Prince Philip. "It confuses all those bloody forei...
Horseradish sauce, the white sauce that is twenty percent vegetable and eighty percent concentrated sulphuric acid with a dash of chilli to cool down the acid. However, it has come under fire by the Naming Convention Society as the unpopular condimen...
Race horses have been given names like Happen-stance Roadwork and Mountaineer Roadblock the Fifth for far too long according to the Equine Naming Institute. "It is getting sillier and sillier," said Hopwood Felicitous, co-ordinator of horse names...
HARFOLD, Vt.--Harfold State College released a frightening study this week, frightening at least for those Americans named Peterson or Pederson or Pedersen or some variation thereof. According to the study, Americans with this surname are most lik...
Local man, Martin Shuttlecock was left reeling last night, when he returned home from work, only to find that he is not actually a real person, and even more devastatingly, to discover that not only is his name not actually his own, but that it was i...
Greece have finally bitten the bullet and accepted a compulsory voluntary agreement. This is the first stage in bankruptcy for the country. The Greek National Government has taken the bold move after seeing how British football teams deal with...
Rumours that South-by-Southwest airlines have introduced a ban on all non-anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Greek or Roman origin names can be confirmed today. Their CEO, Gerald Ratner announced today that the ban would not affect true Africans and West Ind...
I was in a store yesterday and a young woman was in there with her sweet little girl, about 18 months old. A cashier was talking to them and said, "Hello honey. You are such a cutie." She didn't know the mom and toddler. "She thinks you know her name," giggled the young mother. I was shocked that the young mother had actually named her daughter 'Honey'...even more shocked than I was when...
The British Association for the Counting Of Names (BACON) has published its yearly list of the most popular names given to baby boys and girls. Unsurprisingly, Adolf and Gertrude top the list yet again. Genghis is up to second place for boys and also makes the girls' list at number 10. The top 10 names for boys were: 1. Adolf 2. Genghis 3. Santa 4. Oedipus 5. Clarkson 6. Attila 7. M...
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