Denmark: Parents must pick a baby's name from an official approved list.

What BBN said about it

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorFirst exhibit, from Denmark: parents must pick a baby's name from an official approved list.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorReal. Somewhere there's a clerk with a rubber stamp deciding what a child is called, and I'd like to know who he's friends with.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorReal. Under the Law on Personal Names, first names come from an approved list, and parents can apply to have a new one approved.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorPer Wikipedia, that's eighteen thousand female names and fifteen thousand male names, as of twenty sixteen.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThirty-three thousand names. And a form for the rest. There's always a form.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSecond exhibit, Singapore. Chewing gum there can get you in trouble with the law.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorReal. I was in Singapore in two thousand nine, and nobody would look me in the eye, so it all adds up.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorInternet, and the chewing part is fine. What's illegal is importing it and selling it, apart from certain exceptions.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo chewing it is fine. Buying it is the problem.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorCorrect.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThen where does it come from? That's a supply chain with a hole in it, and I don't like holes.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThird exhibit, from Hawaii: billboards are banned.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorInternet. No state gives up free advertising. Someone would have to be organised, and nobody is.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorReal, and since nineteen twenty-seven. Vermont, Alaska and Maine have prohibited billboards too.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNineteen twenty-seven. They banned billboards before anyone had anything worth advertising. That's foresight, and it frightens me.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe court's record stands at two real, one internet. Mr. Bearman, you may issue your closing ruling.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThis courtroom has no sign, no approved list of judges, and I've never once checked the wig. Internet.