From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 24 14:52:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA01060 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 14:52:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01054 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 14:52:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from chronias.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.57.174]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA1F26; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 23:51:47 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199812242109.PAA01886@n4hhe.ampr.org> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 23:58:23 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: David Kelly Subject: Re: Regulated names (was: Crazy Laws) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 24-Dec-98 David Kelly wrote: > Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai writes: >> On 24-Dec-98 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >> > Brett Glass 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 BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message