This is why I am CONSTANTLY denied chocolate macaroons. By Tom. Who is mean.

How can this marriage survive the Great Macaroon Schism!

That is to say, all you cookie discussers? you suck.

But when you are all cleansed and feeling great you can mock us for our lethargy and wheat and sugar addled minds.

I know some people who combined their last names into a whole new name, which they both then took. So Winters + Neufeld became Winterfeld.

There's something lovely in the long moment of dead silence during a phone conversation in which the person on the other end clearly is waiting for me to offer to do his job for him, and I am waiting for him to figure out that I'm not going to.

Ew. The best solution to this is that you keep your own name; he keeps his own name; the kids get both names. As it should be. Crazy Americans with no space on forms for the first last name and the second last name.

sillies

I knew a couple that made up a completely new last name. He changed his name legally, and then she took it when they got married. The name was Hale, and it was an acronym for something, though now I don't remember what.

Coconut and chocolate...yum. Oatmeal cookies? Definitely on my cookie second string. Will eat and don't really have a strong opinion on the raisin thing, but would rather have a chocolate chip or shortbread or something. Never knew anyone who put chocolate chips in, unless it was msbelle, who did send me cookies once which I liked but have forgotten what kind.

Now I want Samoas. Damn the lack of Girl Scouts in my life!

How many days till you give notice, shrift?

When friends named Lamb and Munn got married (in 1973), my father suggested they change their last name to Nnummbal (pronounced "numb-ball"). This did not go over well.

A friend of mine married a German guy with the last name Boner. She kept her name, and their kids took her name as well.

Surprising, huh?