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From: cindy@lise.unit.no (Cindy Kandolf)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Testing the Cindy Theory
Date: 15 Sep 1994 17:53:21 GMT

Lyn Warren writes:
>> But a slight clarification: Kenneth's last name is Haug. Kandolf is
>> his middle name. I know this is confusing, you should have seen his
>> first birth certificate (Ikkeregistrert Kandolf).
>
> OK, I give up. Am I simply missing an important piece of information, or
> is there some sort of confusing Norse surname trick going on here?*

Simple: in Norway, the law assumes a baby has his/her mother's surname unless otherwise specified. Normally a birth certificate isn't issued until the parents have registered the baby's name. However, Steinar got called up for an exercise in the Home Guards when Kenneth was about a week and a half old. Now, anyone called up for a peacetime military exercise while on parental leave is permitted to skip the exercise and make it up later. And Steinar was on paternity leave. But his commanding knucklehead - errm, officer, refused to believe Steinar had just become a father until he saw the birth certificate. So we had to get a birth certificate for Kenneth before the wheels of bureaucracy had gotten around to acknowledging that he had a name. As a result, the certificate listed his last name as Kandolf, which is of course my last name, instead of Haug, which is Steinar's last name and the name we had given Kenneth. And where his first name should have been it simply said "Ikke registrert" - "not registered". Hence, Ikkeregistrert Kandolf.

He now has a proper birth certificate, with his full name: Kenneth Kandolf Haug.

-Cindy Kandolf, certified language mechanic, mamma flodnak cindy@lise.unit.no
Trondheim, Norway
I never saw a purple cow; cow has the property [ -purple ]


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