Super cool nü-born baby briefly, accidentally named "Korn" after hospital mishap
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Korn, arguably the most successful fusion of scat-singing, bagpipes, and slack-stringed nü-metal riffs in music history, has lent its name to a newborn baby. While this could have been a late career branding exercise that managed to surpass both Korn Koffee, a band member jamming out with Mike Huckabee, and the group’s appearance in a little-known MMORPG, little baby Korn’s name was actually a mistake.
Korn Jr.’s mom, Kells Tate, detailed the mishap on Twitter yesterday, explaining in an all-caps word scream that’s more than appropriate in this situation that “THE HOSPITAL MESSED UP MY BABYS NAME AND WE JUST GOT THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND ITS KORN MY BABYS NAME IS LEGALLY KORN.” She also attached a photo, which should at the very least entitle her to a free, deluxe version copy of the band’s 2016 album, The Serenity Of Suffering, which includes a bonus track called “Baby.”
Tate continued her thread by clarifying that her child’s name was actually “supposed to be Kora,” that “this should be able to be easily fixed if we are fast,” She admits she might’ve been asked by the hospital if she actually wanted to name her baby Korn but that “to be fair, I was down a lot of blood at the time.”
She also let those following the saga of lil’ Korn know that she’s “mailed the corrections form” out. Unfortunately, that form used “the back of the Korn certificate,” meaning that her kid will soon have a less cool name and lose official proof of the brief moment in time when she was the living embodiment of ‘90s teenage ennui. At the very least, we can hope Tate spells Kora with a backwards “R” in consolation.
[via Uproxx]
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Now if it were named Gorn, there’d be no need for changes:
Better than The Motel I guess?
My child Creed is doing just fine
No one likes my son, Nickleback
Nilus to coworkers:Look at this photograph It’s of my baby son, Nickleback
He may even get to sing the National Anthem at a NASCAR event someday!
Goddamn he really went hard with that
Hrrrm of the brrrrrrrrv!
‘Your’ (US) anthem is the gift that keeps on giving, it’s so hard to sing and has no discernable melody, it just sets up people to fail in hilarious ways. See also: Fergie.
They can play with my kid, Jarja Clay.
No one understands my son brokeNCYDE, but all he does is scream, so I get it
My dad’s dad’s name was Roach, but he insisted we call him Papa.
…and these are the twins: Limp Bizkit and Alien Ant Farm.
I was hoping that we could get Creed and my son, Mu D’vayne, together for a playdate.
No one steals from Creed Bratton!
Wait, the mother’s name is “Kells Tate”?Do they also call her “Tater Salad”?
As long as there’s no mayonnaise in there!
How do you think she got pregnant?
It’s impossible for me not to see it as Tells Kate.
“THE HOSPITAL MESSED UP MY BABYS NAME AND WE JUST GOT THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND ITS KORN MY BABYS NAME IS LEGALLY KORN.” HOW IS KORNNY FORMED?
THEY NEED TO DO WAY INSTAIN MOTHER> WHO KORN THEIR BABBYS
I DUNNO, HOW?
OK, so this explains why my mom insisted on calling me “Garbage” when I was a kid. Load off my mind.
We’ve fixed the error, congratulations to you and your daughter Buttholesurfers Tate.”
When a friend of mine’s second son was born, they decided to make his middle name Harris. The birth certificate came back saying Hams. They had it corrected, but six years later that kid has a nickname that he doesn’t understand.
So the hospital is responsible for her baby’s misnaming. Who is stole all of her apostrophes?
Same person who added an errant “is” to your second sentence.
All your babies are belong to us!
Zing!
You know that Umlauts actually change the pronunciation if letters? To all of us from country with umlauts that title sound highly weird in our heads…(But of course you’re in good company, as Motörhead is about the least metal sounding word there is, pronounced properly …)
“I was down a lot of blood at the time” is a more metal sentence than most of Korn’s lyrics.
Y’know, this site is very much a shrill, pearl-clutching, browbeating, and slanted shell of what it once was, but every so often a glimmer of the old AVC still shines through in such incredible puns as the one in this headline. Good stuff.
Kora is a nice name. Shame on those people or f-ing it up.
Unprecedented opportunity to kick knowledge: Kora is a Greek name. It means ‘Young Girl’. The goddess Persephone was known as Kora when she was on Olympus with her mother, Demeter.
Damn, I needed to get that out.
Did not know Persephone was also called Kora. Persephone and Demeter are two of my fave goddesses. I always thought her marital arrangement was cool.
Well, the kidnapping bit was creepy, but you gotta accept that parts of classical mythology are “problematic”.
She was called Kora because she was pictured as a little girl on her mother’s lap; but when she was with Hades, presumably she had to be old enough to marry; whatever that was in those days.
And yes, it is a very nice name. It’ll be on my list if me & Mrs. Todd decide to pull that particular trigger.
Ok, now I just can’t stop: “Meet my daughter, Mothers of Invention.”
If you’re going with alternate spellings because Ks look cuter than Cs or something then expect this nonsense to happen.