I didn't drop my middle name, I'm still legally FirstName MiddleName Last-LastName, but I don't include it in my signature.
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Burrell - Sep 06, 2007 8:24:59 pm PDT #4518 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
tommyrot - Sep 06, 2007 8:25:52 pm PDT #4519 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
What happens when two people who already have their parents' hyphenated names get married and want to combine names?
Hil R. - Sep 06, 2007 8:27:23 pm PDT #4520 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I like the idea of hyphenated or two last names in general, but I'd have to marry someone with a last name somewhere around three letters in order to make a name hyphenated with mine not be ridiculously long.
DavidS - Sep 06, 2007 8:28:19 pm PDT #4521 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
What happens when two people who already have their parents' hyphenated names get married and want to combine names?
See what I'm sayin'?
Burrell - Sep 06, 2007 8:28:44 pm PDT #4522 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
That's why ours works, Hil. My name is one syllable. It combines well.
omnis_audis - Sep 06, 2007 8:36:28 pm PDT #4523 of 10001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
not enough nick names was one of the reasons I didn't like my name. Brian... Bri... that's it. My brother had a TON. Richard. Richie. Rich. Dick. Ricardo. Helen. (that was his nick name in HS... more because of our last name, and there was 2 other Richards in his class).
WindSparrow - Sep 06, 2007 8:51:59 pm PDT #4524 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Cancer-beating~ma to Karen, and to Suzi's assistant.
Ma~ma to Hil.
Congrats to meara on her new job and city.
I didn't drop my middle name, I'm still legally FirstName MiddleName Last-LastName, but I don't include it in my signature.
Shoot, I don't include all the letters in my signature - there's a first initial, a hump of a last initial, a wacky loop that stands in for four letters in the middle, and I don't even bother with the last letter any more. There's just not enough room on credit card slips, ya know?
I've always thought it would be nifty to create a society in which couples would take the same name, which would be a combination of their respective family names, thus creating a new family name. It would be totally up to the couple themselves to decide which letters from each name, whether to go with a portmanteau or anagram, or whatever.
Trudy Booth - Sep 06, 2007 9:01:33 pm PDT #4525 of 10001
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
What happens when two people who already have their parents' hyphenated names get married and want to combine names?
That's their problem. I'm likely to give my kids a big butt and too many last names. We all have our burdens...
billytea - Sep 06, 2007 9:19:57 pm PDT #4526 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
That's their problem. I'm likely to give my kids a big butt and too many last names. We all have our burdens...
Hee. Baby-St John-Smythe-McGonagall got back.
Jars - Sep 06, 2007 11:11:18 pm PDT #4527 of 10001
I didn't change my name when we got married. Though it's not like we had real get-married desires or anything. If we ever had kids it might get a bit ungainly, I suppose, but I still don't think I'd ever change my name. I already get mail with Mrs. MyRealName because I tell people I've kept my maiden name, but they put the Mrs. in anyway, which really irritates me.