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Thursday, April 5, 2007 12:00 AM

A girl named Metallica

Should Swedish parents have the right to name their firstborn after a thrash metal band?
Catherine Price

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  • Friday, April 6, 2007 10:28 PM

    The Onion

    The Onion once had a little box that listed the most popular baby names in the U.S., subdivided by ethnic group. The most popular white names were the sorts of names mocked by some of the earlier letters, the Asian names sounded like white names from a couple generations ago (Henry, Jennifer) and the black names sounded like pharmaceuticals, or, in the case of Propecia, actually are pharmaceuticals.

    I though it was funny.

    —BadReligion Read BadReligion's other letters

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