…is the photo that went with the news story in RTE this morning.

Consider the case of nine-year-old K from New Zealand. Or, at least, that’s how her friends know her – that’s how she introduces herself, her actual moniker being “Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii”.

A New Zealand judge has ordered a name change for the embarrassed kid, and expressed dismay at the other examples or unorthadox naming.

Quoth the National Broadcaster:

The judge discovered New Zealand parents had given their
children some other unusual names including Number 16 Bus Shelter and Midnight Chardonnay, both of which may relate to the conception of the child.

One child was named Violence and two pairs of twins were called Benson and Hedges and Fish and Chips. The children from another family were all named after six-cylinder Ford cars.

But what’s worse? The names, or the fact that RTE supplemented the story with this cutting-edge, incisive graphic?:

Hmm.

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the Big Bad Interweb:

He’s back! Rick O’Shea returns to Twitter and will be tweeting his morning Gerry Ryan stand-in today.

Via Steph at work: Lilsugar wonders if Sesame Street is the new Oprah…

Possibly the most Epic. Fail. Ever…

The Spanner [disclaimer: I used to write for it] reports that the Internet has declined the latest Paris Hilton tape…

And Jazz Biscuit takes the, er, biscuit, by proclaiming that – somehow – Pippa O’Connor was unharmed when her horse fell beside her.

PS – Thanks to everyone for the brilliant feedback from the Wordpress Walkthrough post; I’m honestly stunned by the great reception from it so thankyou to everyone who read and left a comment.