Salon.com > Kyle Kim http://www.salon.com Fri, 03 May 2013 03:47:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 71 names so awful New Zealand had to ban them http://www.salon.com/2013/05/01/71_names_so_awful_new_zealand_had_to_ban_them/ http://www.salon.com/2013/05/01/71_names_so_awful_new_zealand_had_to_ban_them/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 13:59:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13286762 Global Post You thought "Apple" and "Facebook" were bad?

Some New Zealand parents were getting so creative devising unique names for their newborns that the country's Department of Internal Affairs has stepped in to stop the shenanigans.

New Zealand released an official list of rejected names on Wednesday that includes "4Real," "Mafia No Fear" and "Anal." Other gems — like "." and "*" — didn't even bother with the alphabet. All of the names on the list were at some point proposed by parents, soon to be rejected by the government, which deemed the names too offensive.

In some cases, parents appeared to have lost any inspiration for coming up with a moniker for their offspring, naming the family's latest addition simply "2nd", "3rd" or "5th."

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