14.4.14 You Plonker Rodney - Thorntons Gets It Right

I have read today about the total daftness that occurred recently in Bury, which is eight miles north-west of Manchester in case you are oblivious.  What happened in Bury?  Well, it's a lot less exciting than Vegas, and it doesn't have to stay there.

Jo-Anne Scholes had intended to present her three-year-old son with a Thorntons chocolate Easter egg, inscribed with his name - Rooney. Apparently the store refused, on the grounds that this would cause copyright issues.  Despite the fact that using your own name can never be a breach of copyright because names cannot be subject to copyright, the dozy staff managed to maintain the stance successfully, and ended up with a compromise through the inscribing of the boy's full name on the egg.  So, Rooney Scholes was duly piped on to the surface of the egg.

Unfortunate Name

Some of the comments by Mrs Scholes are quite amusing:

"What should have been a nice surprise for Easter has turned into a total farce."

"It's just pathetic that they wouldn't let a child have his name on an Easter egg for fear of upsetting Wayne Rooney."

"It's just nonsense anyway.  Rooney is his name; does that mean he's not allowed to have his name on anything because he shares it with a famous footballer?"

The words "barmy" and "beyond belief" word bandied as well, and Jo-Anne said that having his full name on the chocolate looked "a bit silly really".

Summary

No, luv, what's a bit silly is calling your son Rooney, and when you have a surname of Scholes, then that's even more daft.  The only thing barmy is your choice to force the poor kid to live with Rooney as a first name simply because YOU are an Manchester United fan.  Where did you get your inspiration? Probably from one of your two cats - Cantona and Berbatov.  I believe Thorntons had every right to refuse to produce an egg with 'Rooney' on it; not because of any possibilities of a breach of copyright, but because endorsing any use of Rooney as a first name is itself madness.  Unfortunately the 'nice surprise' that's turned into a 'farce' is rather overshadowed by the farcical name that's going to make your kid's life hell.  Luckily she didn't call you "Cleverley", Rooney.  By the way, Ms Scholes, have you seen the Only Fools and Horses episode about Rodney and Rooney?  Silly mare.

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