Originally published at: Journalist names her baby "Methamphetamine Rules" as a "test" | Boing Boing
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I’ll bet they rename her “Crystal”.
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No titles? I bet there are hundreds of young Australian girls named Khalisi.
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Cliffhanger is a nice name for a girl.
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Well, now I’m curious what the Rules of Methamphetamine are…
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I hope the kid finds this to be a funny story someday. Some day when she has a better fitting name.
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I have no idea how birth certificates or name changes in Australia work, but in the US, that original name would be stuck on that birth certificate forever. The new name would just be shown as an amendment. Imagine having to explain that to your daughter the first time she gets a copy of her birth certificate and sees her original name. Hopefully, they allow her to be issued a completely new, clean birth certificate without the Meth.
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Drysdale is planning to change her child’s name TO Imminently.
FTFY. /s
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Should have gone with Test Test 123.
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No, “Robert’); DROP TABLE Babies; --”
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Surprised the piece didn’t mention the baby’s dad.
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Or in the vein of many Reddit mmo guilds and similar Test Baby Please Ignore
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Yeah, unless they replace the birth certificate entirely, I can’t see how this won’t cause problems for the kid sometime in the future. I’ve heard a number of horror stories in the US about problems with names on birth certificates (that some database format didn’t like, or which got mis-entered and didn’t agree across records, etc).
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He’s a boy. Here’s the video.
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It also will not approve given names that are more than 50 characters, include symbols, or an official title or rank such as princess, Queen, or goddess.
Goddess doesn’t strike me as either an official title or a rank. It’s more like an unprovable claim.
It would be an interesting test of nominative determinism though.
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The first rule is you do not talk about Methamphetamine.
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At least it’s better than her older siblings, Available-For-Medical-Experiments and KickMe
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Cliffhanger Drysdale sounds suitably Australian, if a bit like an old-timey sheep rustler.
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