BG> I think you'll find that you're permitted to call yourself anything
BG> you like, unless it is specifically for criminal or suspect reasons.

RM> I read in a respectable publication (Post or People or Bums or
RM> something) that "Sir" is not on the list of allowable names in Aust.

BG> If you saw it in such a reputable publication, it must be true!

RM> Some hippy couple up Cape Trib way tried to name their son "Sir
RM> Taipan" plus thirty odd more names (neither parent could recite
RM> them without notes), and they got knocked back on the "Sir".

BG> I wonder if this was because it's a proscribed name,

Pretty sure that one is actually explicitly proscribed.

There are a variety of similar ones about stuff you can put after
you name, you can call yourself Bill Grimsley VC for example.

BG> or because the Registrar at Births, Deaths and Marriages simply
BG> took pity on the poor little bastard (and I'm probably using that
BG> term in its most literal sense).

Cant be that coz you could then demand you can use it.

BG> Screaming Lord Sutch got away with a title in the UK, but
BG> then I'm not sure if he wasn't entitled to it beforehand.

Its also a tad different too, and may even be why he put the screaming
in front of it.

The French are even more extreme and have some explicit bans on stuff
which would just be more than a tad cruel to inflict on a kid, they
can just tell you to FOAD and have done so a number of times.

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