Local school principal Mr. Apple named his twin daughters Candy and Taffy--no, for real.

Friend since grade school wanted to name a daughter Joyce, called Joy. Married a guy named Sorrow. Named babygirl Jane, called Jennie.

DH comes from a Slavic country where middle names are considered effete, or sommat. The USArmy gave him NMI as a middle name.

G'morning. For another four minutes here.

have food! am getting better.

40 invitations out and off my desk. info for Bd member #1 getting done 10 pages complete - 4 more to do.

Middle names. Is it weird to stop using a middle name if you've got one? At one point around college or so I decided I was too confused as to whether I was supposed to give my middle name or not, so I would just stop using it. After all, my name is unique, so it wouldn't make a difference in distinguishing me. But then when I got to the practice of law I found out everyone uses their middle initial professionally. And recently I've become "part of the story" in a case and someone asked me what it was to talk about me in a brief. Now I feel weird asking them not to use it.

I changed my profile address. I don't know why I'm annoucing that. Also, I don't know how to get Firefox to work with the gmail RSS feed.

Is it weird to stop using a middle name if you've got one?

I use mine because a) I really like it and b) my name is really terribly common. For the longest time as a kid, I didn't like it (or care) so I didn't use it. Though my mom did if I was in trouble.

I am pro middle initials.

One of my best friends wasn't given a middle name, so her parents let her choose one when she was a kid. There was controversy for years about how to spell it. Controversy, by the way, which wouldn't have happened if the family had had enough vowel sounds (!! buffista convo #593!) -- my friend said her middle name was Carey, her mother thought it was Kerry or something.

I have no food, which is bad. I do however have coffee. This is a good thing.

my friend said her middle name was Carey, her mother thought it was Kerry or something.

same thing. see also Keri, Cary, carry.

am right. neener.

I've never chose to use my middle name. I put it on forms when it's asked for, so it ended up being on my UNO e-mail address, but otherwise I don't give it out. I do use the initial sometimes, even though there isn't anyone else with my first and last names in North America (maybe not the world, certainly not findable by Google).

I knew a guy in college whose middle name was L, because it was meant to honor both his grandfathers, who were Larry and Louis or something. His first name was Jay.

And now I'm wondering if he was secretly a relative of Superman.