Though, worse for my brother in the Marines where everyone is called by their last name.
Ouch. I just heard "A Boy Named Sue" in a restaurant yesterday.
Buffy: How bored were you last year? Giles: I watched 'Passions' with Spike. Let us never speak of it.
'Beneath You'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Cashmere - Apr 27, 2005 5:26:38 am PDT #9168 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Allyson - Apr 27, 2005 5:28:13 am PDT #9169 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
What would you be doing on said stage?
Twirling the streamers on my pasties and kicking ass.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 27, 2005 5:29:45 am PDT #9170 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Twirling the streamers on my pasties and kicking ass.
They fight crime.
I seem to have a case of the sillies today. Lord only knows why.
Connie Neil - Apr 27, 2005 5:32:26 am PDT #9171 of 10001
brillig
Hubby generally goes by his last name, which, as can be seen from my ID, is a standard first name. His real first name has often been used as a last name, so we get a lot of mail addressed to Neil (First name as last name). Neighbors get confused, "Wait, you're Connie Neil, but your husband's name is Neil. He's Neil Neil?" "He was raised military. Only his mother, sister, brother, and smarmy people who think they're being friendly call him by his first name."
I think he should go by his middle name. Donzel's a cool name. (German family name on his mother's side, I think)
§ ita § - Apr 27, 2005 5:34:29 am PDT #9172 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My father dropped his middle name entirely, reduced his first name to an initial, and uses his mother's surname as his first. It's a valid if not that popular first name, and one I'd happily use for a daughter of mine.
Jesse - Apr 27, 2005 5:36:00 am PDT #9173 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Welcome, Isaac! And congrats to all the Burrells! I know a lovely Isaac who I used to babysit for -- I guess he's in high school now. Anyway, he's a big political activist, has even been arrested already! In a good (or at least planned) way.
Kate P. - Apr 27, 2005 5:36:35 am PDT #9174 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I love my dad's middle name, which is an old family name: Rising. I would have much preferred it to my actual boring middle name (Elizabeth).
msbelle - Apr 27, 2005 5:37:37 am PDT #9175 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
YAY BABY!!!
I missed all my TV last night, but spent a nice evening with friends so I guess it balances out. Still avoiding whitefont and being impatient is no good.
Jesse - Apr 27, 2005 5:38:51 am PDT #9176 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My middle name is my mother's maiden name, which makes that as a security question kind of stupid. Not as stupid as people whose mother's maiden name continues to be her last name, but still. Everyone in my mom's side of the family has a family name as a middle name.
Nutty - Apr 27, 2005 5:43:25 am PDT #9177 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I am named after several dead relatives, on both sides of my family. My brother is named after a New Bedford cooper from the 1840s, who was a distant forbear. We're very good recyclers that way.
an old family name: Rising.
I knew a kid named Josh Rising when I was in high school. Nicest guy ever. Of course, irony being what it is, he wiped out skiing his senior year, had a compound fracture of his lower leg, and was ever after known as Josh Falling.