Court says baby can't be named Friday


	Court says baby can't be named Friday

pokkets

12-19-2007 10:40 AM

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pokkets says:

I thought they might have had a good reason. It seems they didn't like the association between Friday, and Robinson Crusoe. I'm not sure Friday was there in the book because Defoe thought Robinson Crusoe needed a servant, but because he needed someone to talk to, and a person like Friday was the most likely to be on a desert island at the time. Imagine Robinson Crusoe as a monologue.
The court (Italian) also said that Friday was generally a bad day. The baby was born on a Sunday.

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12-19-2007 11:05 AM

michaelll

Wtf is going on....you could pick almost any name in the whole world, and if you really wanted to, could associate it with something savage, shameful, or ridiculous.

12-19-2007 3:59 PM

Sorgalim

Venerdi.... I like it... Sounds lovely... But sometimes we can't understand what's right or wrong in this world... Well............

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