Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 23:58:23 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regulated names (was: Crazy Laws) Message-ID: <XFMail.981224235823.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <199812242109.PAA01886@n4hhe.ampr.org>
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On 24-Dec-98 David Kelly wrote: > 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." :-) D'OH! For some reason I was thinking about the other sex when I wrote this... I might take this as a hint to mail a Norwegian girlfriend of mine =P --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Life is the only Pain asmodai(at)wxs.nl we endeavour... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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