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    Posted Friday, March 06, 2009 2:33 PM | By Willa Paskin
    The maybe heinous, maybe hilarious polka-dotted dress was just an opening salvo. MIA's named her newborn son and it's a doozy: Ickitt Brewer. Perfunctory research (i.e., me IMing South Asian friends and asking culturally insensitive questions) suggests this is not a standard moniker, though a commenter on Perez Hilton, who I am obviously in no position to judge, claims, "I just spoke to my friend who is of Indian descent (M.I.A. is Sri Lankan, which is basically Indian [SIC]) and he said that it is an Indian name except she spelled it differently than the norm." I'm sure one of the tabloids will "get to the bottom" of this soon. In the meantime, anyone with any knowledge of playground tactics might want to do their kid a solid and not saddle them with the nickname "icky-poo" for the rest of their life.
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