From: glen mccready 
  To: 0xdeadbeef@substance.abuse.blackdown.org
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 10:40:01 -0400

Poor kid.. -glen

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From: C-reuters@clari.net (Reuters)

      Albin? -- Can you spell that please?

      STOCKHOLM, Sweden (Reuter) - By the age of 5, most children
know how to spell their first name. A certain 5-year-old Swede
deserves to be the exception to that rule.
      For although his name is pronounced Albin, his parents have
decided his first name is written:
      Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116.
      The saga began when a district court in southern Sweden
fined Albin's parents $680 for not giving their son a first
name, the Swedish news agency TT reported.
      The court had rejected the parents' name for the 5-year-old,
despite their plea that the name was ``a pregnant,
expressionistic development that we see as an artistic
creation.''
      The parents said they would appeal the verdict on grounds it
was not up to a court to make rulings about art.
      Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 -- the meaning
of which is not clear -- was not immediately available for comment.