I knew a Hope Hope... but she was 80 when she died a decade ago so I think it's pretty much generational on her part.
Raise your hand if 'ew.'
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
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.
Trudy Booth - Nov 30, 2006 11:39:53 am PST #3839 of 10007
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Jesse - Nov 30, 2006 11:43:23 am PST #3840 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You all know that Paige Davis from Trading Spaces is Paige Page, right?
Did she really change her name? Anyway, then she'd be Mindy Page, and still Paige Davis professionally.
Maria - Nov 30, 2006 11:49:49 am PST #3841 of 10007
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Oy, Cash. I hope this one goes better for her.
Part of keeping my name has to do with the fact that professionally, I have built a reputation and people know me by my maiden name. If I changed, the email address would change, the voicemail greetings would change, and the confusion is not worth the headache. A lot of what I do only is accomplished because I'm a known quantity. Maria DH'sLastName isn't at first glance.
More personally, my last name is part of my identity. It says that I'm Italian, and that's important to me. DH's last name is generic Anglo-Saxon, and I don't mind using it socially, but legally I'd like to keep this link to my heritage.
Daisy Jane - Nov 30, 2006 11:54:24 am PST #3842 of 10007
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Aaaaand, now the snow has started up again so presumably we'll be alowed to go home when it's nice and thick.
Topic!Cindy - Nov 30, 2006 11:56:51 am PST #3843 of 10007
What is even happening?
You've got snow, and it was 65ish around Boston, today. Craxy.
amych - Nov 30, 2006 11:57:07 am PST #3844 of 10007
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I never even considered changing my name - not for any fight-the-patriarchy reasons, but because it just feels like me and his name (or anyone else's) doesn't. I'm terribly attached to the dude, but I really don't have a significant relationship with the sequence of letters...
Daisy Jane - Nov 30, 2006 11:58:56 am PST #3845 of 10007
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
You've got snow, and it was 65ish around Boston, today. Craxy.
I KNOW!
Jesse - Nov 30, 2006 11:59:15 am PST #3846 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
For a long time, I said I'd change my name to get a better one, but now I think it's too late, and I'm keeping what I've got.
Nutty - Nov 30, 2006 12:00:37 pm PST #3847 of 10007
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Smith College boasts the Helen Hills Hills Chapel (oft called the Helen Hills Hills Chapel Chapel), so named because a nice young lady named Helen Hills got married to her first cousin, whose last name was also Hills.
Which, I guess using the same name twice shows that she also kept her own name, and people wouldn't be able to assume that she was using his name rather than her own. But -- Hills Hills! yeesh.
Jessica - Nov 30, 2006 12:03:32 pm PST #3848 of 10007
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I got married before I had much of a professional history, to a man whose name is at the top of the alphabet, five letters, spelled phonetically. Changing was pretty much a no-brainer. :)