Monday, July 9, 2007

He's a Hell of a guy



The list of quotes that run through my head are too many to mention...Of course right at the top of the list is "Hell no he can't go" Hell hath no fury whatsoever" "Hell if he knows" "Hell be comin roun the schoolyard". Ah Hell, I suppose I'll let it drop for now. (Screw you for judging me).

If names are derivative of something once upon a time sensical then how in the “Hell” do you come by that last name. Smith is fairly obvious, Johnson makes sense as well. But what did your family do to get the name Hell?

Hell of a name gets boy banned from Australian
school



A boy called Hell has been barred from enrolling in a Catholic school
in Australia because his surname jarred with its religious teachings, the child's father said Monday.


The youngster's dad, 45-year-old Alex Hell, has expressed outrage after the primary school in the southern city of Melbourne
allegedly refused to admit his son, Max.


"We are victims of our name," said Hell, whose name is of Austrian origin.

"We're quite devastated by the whole thing," the Catholic father of three told the Australian Associated Press.


"It's 2007, not 1407 -- it's not the Dark Ages."
Hell said that at one point he offered to change his son's name to his wife's maiden name of Wembridge, a suggestion that he said was welcomed by the principal of St Peter the Apostle primary school, Michael McGrath. But he changed his mind, and was then told that Max would not be able to attend the school, Hell said.


School officials later had a change of heart, but Hell now says there is no way he will ever enrol his son there. "The school has turned around and said Max can go there, but why would you want to go there after being victimised?" he said.


"I'd rather go to another school -- we had no problem with the public
school but we just wanted to further Max's education," Hell said, adding that he would move his family to the nearby city of Geelong and put Max in another school.


St Peter the Apostle School said it had offered Max a place and
confirmed that Hell had offered to change his child's name. "The issue of a change of surname of the child was an initiative of the parents which they believed would assist the child in the transition of schools," the school said in a statement.


"The school is working with the family in the best interests
of the child," the statement added.

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