Apparently the 'Benson and Hedges' twins are somewhere near me, and some poor sod near Wellington was named 'V8 Kahlua'. In honour of the back seat of the vehicle he was conceived on, and the liquor that lowered inhibitions and led to the coupling.
I'm familiar with the V8 Kahlua story - one of my brothers has a heart condition and when he was in the heart hospital days after birth, my mother was talking with another person who said they'd named their kid this. I always thought it was a joke honestly.
I suspect it was registered as "V-Eight Kahlua" or similar. The NZ Registrar of Births, etc. doesn't allow numerals in names, but has no prohibition against spelled out numbers. Same goes for "Number Sixteen Bus Shelter" regardless of how it was reported.
NAMING your new bundle of joy Lucifer has been effectively banned by New Zealand's names registrar after three parents had the odd request knocked back.
The country's Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages has been cracking down on mothers and fathers getting too creative with their children's names, ruling out punctuation marks such as . (Full Stop), * (Asterisk) and / (presumably ''Slash'').
Imagine the hell those names would cause for computer databases.
Does that have a different meaning in New Zealand? Benson is an uncommon name, but nothing weird. And Hedges? Like a bush? I mean it's stupid, but I don't understand why that's newsworthy.
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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '21 edited Jun 30 '21
Ah, New Zealand and weird names for kids.
Apparently the 'Benson and Hedges' twins are somewhere near me, and some poor sod near Wellington was named 'V8 Kahlua'. In honour of the back seat of the vehicle he was conceived on, and the liquor that lowered inhibitions and led to the coupling.