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Icelandic Girls Can't Be Called Harriet, Government Tells Family
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/26/iceland-strict-naming-convention-cardew-family ^
Posted on 07/01/2014 8:30:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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posted on
07/01/2014 8:32:13 PM PDT
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doc1019
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
07/01/2014 8:34:16 PM PDT
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tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
To: nickcarraway
When bureaucrats have too much power..
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posted on
07/01/2014 8:34:25 PM PDT
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smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: nickcarraway
The icelandic gubment approaches the level of bizarre that exists in Islamic “republics”
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posted on
07/01/2014 8:35:47 PM PDT
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MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: nickcarraway
always important for the government to control everything
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posted on
07/01/2014 8:36:34 PM PDT
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Nifster
To: nickcarraway
Approved names? Iceland is an Orwellian cesspit
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posted on
07/01/2014 8:37:21 PM PDT
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Viennacon
(Rebuke the Repuke!)
To: nickcarraway
Thanks to this, I shall complain a wee bit less about bureaucracy here in the US (even the DPS offices).
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07/01/2014 8:38:47 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: nickcarraway
"But this time, the authorities have decided to apply the letter of the law," Cardew, a British-born cook who moved to Iceland 14 years ago, told the Guardian. "And that says no official document will be issued to people who do not bear an approved Icelandic name." Well, does that preclude immigration/naturalization?
(And wouldn't a name-change also be an official document, which would have to be issued to someone who wanted to get an approved name?)
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posted on
07/01/2014 8:40:38 PM PDT
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OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: nickcarraway
Good grief. I didn’t realize Icelanders had “the tendency”.
To: nickcarraway
She looks like a Harriet. If she was my brat or grandbrat, her nickname would be Harry.
/johnny
To: nickcarraway
I bet that in Iceland you can name your kid Mohammad or Fatima.
(Iceland is way behind their Nordic cousins in national-suicide-by-Muslim-migration, but I believe they have started taking the poison.)
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07/01/2014 8:42:18 PM PDT
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Dagnabitt
(Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
To: nickcarraway
My Great-great-great Uncle, Chrispi Anus, might have thought something along these lines was a good idea.
To: nickcarraway
She looks like a young “shield maiden”. She needs to go convince these buffoons that Harriet is a good name.
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07/01/2014 8:45:57 PM PDT
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FlingWingFlyer
(The future must not belong to those who slander bacon.)
To: Army Air Corps
In that case, I regret posting it.
To: nickcarraway
Worry not, I shall still vent invective on our feckless petty bureaucrats, but I shall do so with a grain of gratitude that they are not as obtuse as those in Iceland.
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07/01/2014 8:49:31 PM PDT
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Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Viennacon; MeshugeMikey
Many countries including Germany and Mexico have such laws.
To: nickcarraway
Scratch Harriet...
wonder if Ozzie is on the approved list of boys names...?
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07/01/2014 8:52:24 PM PDT
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MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: MeshugeMikey
According to this wiki entry about Iceland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland
Islam constitutes 0.26% of the affiliated faiths there out of a total population on approximately 325,000. That makes for about 845 of them.
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posted on
07/01/2014 8:53:47 PM PDT
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Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: MeshugeMikey
Ed McDonnough: I’m not gonna live this way, Hi! It just ain’t family life!
H.I.: Well... it ain’t “Ozzie and Harriet.”
-Raising Arizona (1987)
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07/01/2014 8:56:07 PM PDT
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Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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