Have you ever thought about your name? Where it came from, why your parents chose that particular name, and what does it actually mean? I have been working on a couple of sermons about the different names of Jesus and what those names mean to us today in 2008. During my research, I came across this crazy name and story online.
Pronounced /'al,bin/, Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 was the name intended for a Swedish child who was born in 1991. The boy's parents had planned to never legally name him at all, as a protest to the strict child-naming rules of the Swedish government.
Because the parents (Elizabeth Hallin and an unidentified father) failed to register a name by the boy's fifth birthday, a district court in Halmstad, southern Sweden, fined the parents 5,000 kronor (equivalent to approximately US$ 650 or € 525). Responding to the fine, the parents submitted the 43-character name In May 1996, claiming that it was "a pregnant, expressionistic development that we see as an artistic creation". The parents suggested the name be understood in the spirit of pataphysics. The court rejected the name and upheld the fine.
The parents then tried to change the spelling of the name to, simply, "A" instead. Once again, the court did not approve of the parents' ideas for naming, for in Sweden it is prohibited to have a name of only one letter.
The Swedish government is boring.
And how in the world was that kid suppose to fit that on the back of his sports jersey?
What are your thoughts about your name?
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