I always liked the name Tarquin Biscuit Barrel as in:
Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel was a candidate in a 1981 United Kingdom parliamentary by-election.
On 1 October 1981, the Conservative Member of Parliament for the Crosby constituency, Sir Graham Page, died. A by-election was called, to be held in the following month, on 26 November. Nine candidates stood, including John Desmond Lewis, a 22-year-old student from Hayes in Middlesex.
Lewis, President of the Cambridge University branch of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, decided to change his name to Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel, the outrageous moniker of a character in a sketch from the popular BBC television comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus. In the sketch, "Election Night Special", the character by that name stands in a local election as the "Silly Party" candidate.
When the results were declared, Lewis – referred to by the Returning Officer as "Mr Tarquin Biscuit-Barrel" – placed fifth, with 223 votes. He finished ahead of four other candidates; one of those four was John Kennedy, a student who had been suspended from Middlesex Polytechnic after a sit-in over demands for a college nursery. Kennedy had tried to stop Lewis from standing by mounting a legal challenge to Lewis's candidacy. Kennedy finished with 31 votes, tying for last place with Donald Potter, the "Humanitarian Candidate" and founder of a "lonely hearts" club.
Former Labour MP Shirley Williams won the by-election for the newly-formed SDP-Liberal Alliance with 28,118 votes (49 percent of the vote), overturning a previous Conservative majority of 19,272
Couple want to call their baby "Metallica"
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interesting choice!
Mother names child after bingo hall
Friday, May 4, 2007
Giving your children names that will curse them for the rest of their lives is a long and noble tradition – but would you name your child after a bingo hall? A pregnant woman did just that, after she went into labour while playing her favourite game. Shelley Smith, 26, was at her local hall Gala Bingo in Castleford, West Yorkshire, when she went into labour. After being taken to hospital she gave birth just 20 minutes later.
To honour the circumstances she named the baby Mika Jade Gala.
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Choice Of Name Upsets Officials
August 16, 2007
A couple in China want to call their child @ but officials are not happy about it. Authorities see the internet term as an example of bizarre names creeping into the national language. The symbol @, pronounced in English as "at", sounds like the Chinese phrase "love him." The unnamed couple are seeking a distinctive and modern name for their youngster. The father has also pointed out that "the whole world uses it to write emails."
Written Chinese does not use an alphabet but is comprised of characters. This sometimes makes it difficult to develop new words for new or foreign things and ideas. Li Yuming, from the State Language Commission, said only 129 surnames accounted for 87% of all surnames in the country. It will now be up to police to decide whether or not the couple can keep their choice of name. This is because officers issue identity cards.
But last year in China there were 60 million people's names that used "unfamiliar characters," Li added.
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I think they should be able to name their kid what ever they want and hope like hell we (the general world population) doesn't have to deal with the repercusions of that. Being a huge fan of Metallica, I can certainly understand the need to keep the faith so to speak, but then how about naming the kid Jaymz or Cliff?
My fav is Zowie Bowie....too bad he didn't feel that way, he has since changed his name...
My fav is Zowie Bowie....too bad he didn't feel that way, he has since changed his name...
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Good stuff, bollocks to those stupid parents!
Good stuff, bollocks to those stupid parents!
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I think the important part here is that the child has famous parents. If there was just some kid on a council estate with a name like Princess Tiaamii I get the feeling she'd not be that lucky, attractive or successful!
I think the important part here is that the child has famous parents. If there was just some kid on a council estate with a name like Princess Tiaamii I get the feeling she'd not be that lucky, attractive or successful!
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3-year-old Hitler can't get name on cake
Family upset at store for denying request, and angry Internet postings
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EASTON, Pa. - 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. Heath Campbell and his wife, Deborah, are upset not only with the decision made by the Greenwich ShopRite, but with an outpouring of angry Internet postings in response to a local newspaper article over the weekend on their flare-up over frosting.
"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 in an interview conducted in Easton, on the other side of the Delaware River from where the family lives in Hunterdon County, N.J.
"There's a new president and he says it's time for a change; well, then it's time for a change," the 35-year-old continued. "They need to accept a name. A name's a name. The kid isn't going to grow up and do what (Hitler) did."
Deborah Campbell, 25, said she phoned in her order last week to the ShopRite. When she told the bakery department she wanted her son's name spelled out, she was told to talk to a supervisor, who denied the request. Karen Meleta, a spokeswoman for ShopRite, said the Campbells had similar requests denied at the same store the last two years and said Heath Campbell previously had asked for a swastika to be included in the decoration. "We reserve the right not to print anything on the cake that we deem to be inappropriate," Meleta said. "We considered this inappropriate."
The Campbells ultimately got their cake decorated at a Wal-Mart in Pennsylvania, Deborah Campbell said. About 12 people attended the birthday party on Sunday, including several children who were of mixed race, according to Heath Campbell. "If we're so racist, then why would I have them come into my home?" he asked.
The Campbells' other two children also have unusual names: JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell turns 2 in a few months and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell will be 1 in April. 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.
Campbell said his ancestors are German and that he has lived his entire life in Hunterdon County. On Tuesday he wore a pair of black boots he said were worn by a German soldier during World War II. He said he was raised not to avoid people of other races but not to mix with them socially or romantically. But he said he would try to raise his children differently. "Say he grows up and hangs out with black people. That's fine, I don't really care," he said. "That's his choice."
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What a pair of fucking arseholes.
3-year-old Hitler can't get name on cake
Family upset at store for denying request, and angry Internet postings
Dec. 17, 2008[/align]
EASTON, Pa. - 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. Heath Campbell and his wife, Deborah, are upset not only with the decision made by the Greenwich ShopRite, but with an outpouring of angry Internet postings in response to a local newspaper article over the weekend on their flare-up over frosting.
"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 in an interview conducted in Easton, on the other side of the Delaware River from where the family lives in Hunterdon County, N.J.
"There's a new president and he says it's time for a change; well, then it's time for a change," the 35-year-old continued. "They need to accept a name. A name's a name. The kid isn't going to grow up and do what (Hitler) did."
Deborah Campbell, 25, said she phoned in her order last week to the ShopRite. When she told the bakery department she wanted her son's name spelled out, she was told to talk to a supervisor, who denied the request. Karen Meleta, a spokeswoman for ShopRite, said the Campbells had similar requests denied at the same store the last two years and said Heath Campbell previously had asked for a swastika to be included in the decoration. "We reserve the right not to print anything on the cake that we deem to be inappropriate," Meleta said. "We considered this inappropriate."
The Campbells ultimately got their cake decorated at a Wal-Mart in Pennsylvania, Deborah Campbell said. About 12 people attended the birthday party on Sunday, including several children who were of mixed race, according to Heath Campbell. "If we're so racist, then why would I have them come into my home?" he asked.
The Campbells' other two children also have unusual names: JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell turns 2 in a few months and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell will be 1 in April. 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.
Campbell said his ancestors are German and that he has lived his entire life in Hunterdon County. On Tuesday he wore a pair of black boots he said were worn by a German soldier during World War II. He said he was raised not to avoid people of other races but not to mix with them socially or romantically. But he said he would try to raise his children differently. "Say he grows up and hangs out with black people. That's fine, I don't really care," he said. "That's his choice."
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What a pair of fucking arseholes.
