The Pocket Guide to Girl Stuff by Bart King & Illustrations by Jennifer Kalis

Author:Bart King & Illustrations by Jennifer Kalis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Published: 2009-06-15T16:00:00+00:00

The Worst Girl Names

After doing a wide survey, we have concluded that these are the worst girl’s names:

Bimberly

Brunhilda

Chinchilla

Crayola

Fern

Hortense

Latrina

Michelina

Mossie

Pepsi

Prunella

Rotunda

Salmonella

Tamale

Velveeta

Yeti

Zona

No Bad Names Allowed

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet.”

—William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

There was once a fuzzy little fruit from New Zealand that nobody ever ate. It was called the Chinese gooseberry. It was so unpopular that someone decided to change the fruit’s name to kiwifruit. How cute! Sales of the kiwifruit went through the roof, even though the fruit still tasted the same. It was the name that made the difference. (The same thing happened to Hen’s Turd Apples. As soon as they were called Orange Pippin Apples, sales improved. Go figure!)

Denmark has the strictest “name laws” of any country in the world. The Danes restrict parents from giving kids any name considered “unusual.” This is to prevent kids from getting teased about their names. There are 4,000 approved girl names that parents can choose from. (The boys list only has 3,000!) Babies sometimes remain nameless for months while the parents try to persuade the government to allow a name not on the approved list. Banned names include Pluto, Monkey, and Anus. (Well, that makes sense!) Legal names include Jiminico, Fee, and Molli. The name Tessa is not allowed in Denmark, because tessa means “to pee” in Danish.

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