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Date:      Wed, 23 Dec 1998 14:49:25 +0000
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
To:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Crazy Laws
Message-ID:  <368102F5.C90B94D5@uk.radan.com>

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I always thought Scandinavia was a free and easy-going place.
I'm not so sure after I spotted this on Teletext...

MOTHER JAILED OVER SON'S NAME

"A mother of 14 children was jailed for 2 days
because she refused to change the name she picked
for her young son.

Norway has strict laws regulating names, including
lists of acceptable first and last names.

Kirsti Larsen, 46, said she named her son Gesher
after she dreamed the child should be named Bridge
- gesher means bridge in Hebrew."

I guess Dag-Erling and Eivind must be on the
approved list ;-)

-- 
  Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It
  was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place.

Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd
Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions
mailto:marko@uk.radan.com    http://www.radan.com


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