If I would have had a kid, I would have hyphenated kid's last name. It's no more cumbersome than many naming conventions that include the mother and father's last names in a child's name. Or, yanno, weirdly pronounced British last names. "Featherstonehaugh," I'm looking at you!
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Strix - Apr 13, 2013 11:59:59 am PDT #28700 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
beekaytee - Apr 13, 2013 12:02:22 pm PDT #28701 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
"Featherstonehaugh," I'm looking at you!
Featherstonehoff?
or
Featherstunoff?
Strix - Apr 13, 2013 12:03:10 pm PDT #28702 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Fanshaw!
Crazy, right?!
beekaytee - Apr 13, 2013 12:11:03 pm PDT #28703 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Get outta here! Really?
I'm generally pretty good at this sort of thing but did NOT see that coming.
Connie Neil - Apr 13, 2013 12:11:27 pm PDT #28704 of 30001
brillig
When I see the long Indian names in the credits of movies, I wonder if they have to be truncated to fill out the various computerized forms people have to fill out or if the forms are scalable.
Ginger - Apr 13, 2013 12:29:01 pm PDT #28705 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There there's Taliaferro.
beekaytee - Apr 13, 2013 12:58:48 pm PDT #28706 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Taliaferro
Now, wait a minute. I used to know someone with this name. It was pronounced Talley-u-farrow.
Is that not right?
Pix - Apr 13, 2013 12:58:55 pm PDT #28707 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
In happy news, I've decided to treat myself to a deep tissue Thai massage today. I expect to be in happy pain shortly.
erin_obscure - Apr 13, 2013 1:00:02 pm PDT #28708 of 30001
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
I can't imagine ever changing my name, it seems like a such a huge hassle for such an antiquated reason. But then I also don't imagine ever having children and thus having to think about the group/family unit all having the same last name.
Cass - Apr 13, 2013 1:03:02 pm PDT #28709 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I know my changing my name initially was because my Dad adopted my step-brother and step-sister (with the same first name as me) and so she and I shared the same name from junior high and I was just over it. Oddly, I am the only one who has a trace of maiden name left in my name. I liked that name. I just wanted some flexibility.