Kid Named After Everquest Character 111
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Zonk
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eToychest writes "Sony Online Entertainment just sent notice that some poor baby has been named after a character in EverQuest. Apparently players really, really love this game. Case in point: player Tabitha Ayers gave birth to a baby girl January 6, 2005, and promptly named her Firiona Vie Ayers, in honor of EverQuest's famous spokes-elf. The path to geekdom for this child has aready been paved in 12-sided dice and character sheets." At this point I think it's safe to say that SOE is going to be the cause of the downfall of Civilization.
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Parents have been naming their kids after occupations throughout the '90s. Where I live, kids are named Hunter or Taylor or Baker. I even know a couple who named their kids Cooke and Plumber.
Cue the "my name's Carpenter, you insensitive clod!" comments.Re:oh... (Score:1)
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I knew a Gilmi once... (Score:4, Funny)
Among several careers, he worked as an EMT & a security guard in a big city-- he enjoyed the rough scene. Big guy...
Re:I knew a Gilmi once... (Score:2)
and his parents had just picked a name they overheard and liked.
But naming your kid Firiona Vie is beyond sad.
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I knew a kid that was named Gandalf too. The poor child, it couldn't even fall back to its second name, which was Pepin.
Re:I knew a Gilmi once... (Score:2)
Thus proving the validty of Johnny Cash's song, a boy named Sue.
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More importantly . . . (Score:5, Insightful)
This kid better learn to change her own diaper and prepare her own baby bottles quickly.
Re:More importantly . . . (Score:3, Informative)
Some people play games, some work on computers and others work on cars.
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I guess I'm not as 733T as others heh.
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The problem is that 5 years later he do
Re:More importantly . . . (Score:3, Funny)
I must admit, I'm amazed at the restraint showed by Slashdot on this topic. Nobody has said anything like
"This must be a record: two Everquest players got laid on the same night."
or
"I guess he broke his +5 Latex Sheild of Damascus"
or anything about a rod of might.
Nobody's made any tasteless comments about needing to call a GM because they got stuck in a crack. Or joking about how much of a hammering the server can handle. Or mentioning that the ch
Re:More importantly . . . (Score:3, Funny)
Nah, the parents will just need to type "/diaper" at the prompt and the closest diaper service will be automatically sent out to deal with little stinky. SOE already has the billing information so the process is easy enough for even the most addicted and feeble MMORPGer.
-Pinkoir
Re:More importantly . . . (Score:1)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/EverQuest-Wid ows/ [yahoo.com]
http://www.olganon.org/ [olganon.org]
http://eqdailygrind.blogspot.com/ [blogspot.com]
http://www.families-against-eq.com/eq/ [families-against-eq.com]
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At least I have a Jr. at the end of MY name... (Score:5, Funny)
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I'm pretty sure that's what Gwyneth Paltrow named her kid.
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What's the big deal? (Score:4, Interesting)
How is this any different to naming a child after a film star or a musician, except it's in a different medium?
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Re:What's the big deal? (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:What's the big deal? (Score:2)
Christopher Walken and Michael Jackson are sending you 'Thank You' bouquets.
Zonk? You ok? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Zonk? You ok? (Score:3, Funny)
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With respect to the former you are excluding asia right? Wasn't it really "Hans" though? If so you'll find that pretty popular in Denmark, you may have heard of "Hans Christian Andersen". He definitley predates Star Wars
With respect to the latter Kirk is a pretty normal US/European name. You may have seen a movie or two with Kirk Douglas. He predates Star Wars as well.
Re:Zonk? You ok? (Score:2)
Re:Zonk? You ok? (Score:2)
You sure Lucas didn't change it in the "special" editions?
Also I think getting the name right/wrong is for qualification/disqualification for something beyond a fan.
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Then again, I don't think I CAN qualify as a fanboy anymore, since I refused to even see Ep2 (and extend that refusal to Ep3)
adolescent rebellion (Score:5, Funny)
Clever parents learn to fake out their kids, which is why I'm going to pretend to be a Republican from when my kids are btwn 10 and 18.
...at least it ain't 'Turok' (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:...at least it ain't 'Turok' (Score:2, Interesting)
Would love to know if anyone actually won. Guess we may never find out.
It was only a matter of time (Score:2, Insightful)
It won't be too long before someone gets named after a character in WarCraft lore, if it hasn't happened already. Thrall, Kael, Illidan, Tyrande, Jaina, and Grom are, to name a few, all good candidates (though I don't think anyone in
Re:It was only a matter of time (Score:4, Funny)
Er, yes? As in "the vast majority" yes?
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Trogdor was a man... (Score:5, Funny)
Civilization with a capital C? (Score:5, Funny)
Sid Meier is going to be pissed.
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That should be 10 sided (Score:1)
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Mario, Luigi, Princess....Toad?? (Score:3, Funny)
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she is a Japanese girl.
The name is substantially less popular for young girls nowadays...
Firiona isn't bad (Score:3, Funny)
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First thing that comes to mind isn't EQ when I hear that. It's Carly Fiorina, of HPAQ notoriety.
Where are all the FF7 geeks? (Score:1)
I always wanted to name my daughter Aeris, personally.
I just hope it doesn't mean she's destined to die by the hand of a 20-foot-long katana...
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It's funny: You always hope that by naming a child, you don't doom it to a certain fate. But with loaded names like 'Turok' and 'Firiona Vie Ayers', I can the child in question either being a security guard or a company spokesperson.
My son (Score:4, Funny)
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Not everquest but... (Score:1)
Sadly.... (Score:4, Funny)
copyright (Score:4, Funny)
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Trademark law, not copyright (was Re:copyright) (Score:3, Interesting)
Names don't have sufficient expressibility to fall under copyright law.
Trademark also won't allow one to usurp an extant name save in a very specific / limited role (an example of the extreme to which this can be taken is McDonald's in the US). Then, it falls under law for ``trade dress'' &c.
A friend of mine's patronymic was used in a certain recent fantasy series --- sent a nastygram by an overzealous (and ignorant) person in a law office alleging violation of their trademark he responded w/
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I thought I had it bad.... (Score:1)
Oh, and I can't believe no-one mentioned this [penny-arcade.com] (scroll down to 2nd news post). Not nearly as strange, I suppose.
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If it had been WoW... (Score:2)
I doubt this would have been posted at all if the submitter didn't give the negative connotation to the story.
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Lawsuit? (Score:3, Funny)
The downfall of civilization (Score:2)
How about we just go ahead and extend that to MMORPGs in general, eh? No reason to single SOE out.
Rob
I'm sure she'll do fine. (Score:5, Funny)
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I *TOLD* him they shoulda let the doctor tell them the sex...
SOE (Score:2)
I think it might be more accurate to say:
"At this point I think it's safe to say that SOE is going to be the cause of the downfall of SOE."
Shouldn't the real question be... (Score:1, Funny)
/losers (Score:1)
A travesty. (Score:1)
Re:A travesty. (Score:2)
Anyhow, Evercrack just replaced the Peyote and LSD of the 60s for names - drugs that most likely gave birth to names like Aphrodite or Buffalo Zeus (actual names of a girl I knew in college and her brother), Moon Unit and Dweezil Zappa, and many others. Christ, I still can't even say Buffalo Zeus without laughing, and I have nothing against him - the name
I'm named after a LOTR character (Score:2)
I have no problem with that. It's a good name in and of itself, it doesn't matter where the inspiration came from. Same for this person. They happen to like the name, what does it matter that it came from a computer game? By the time the kid's old enough to be a potential bullying target no one's gonna remember where it came from anyway.
SOE owns that baby! (Score:1)
I mean.. really...
It could be worse (Score:3, Funny)
Wow, it's nice to see people talking about my (Score:1)