Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 15:09:13 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regulated names (was: Crazy Laws) Message-ID: <199812242109.PAA01886@n4hhe.ampr.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> of "Thu, 24 Dec 1998 19:53:05 %2B0100." <XFMail.981224195305.asmodai@wxs.nl>
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Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai writes: > On 24-Dec-98 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> writes: > >> At 10:26 AM 12/24/98 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> > > Kirsti Larsen, 46, said she named her son Gesher > >> > > after she dreamed the child should be named Bridge > >> > > - gesher means bridge in Hebrew." > >> Sounds anti-Semitic to me. > > > > No. They wouldn't have accepted "bridge" either, because it's not on > > their list. > > And Bridget? ;) That would be cruel to name a son that, as Bridget is a female bridge. Or maybe a "little bridge." :-) -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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