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I don't mind if you don't want to take your partner's name or don't want to hyphenate it. That's cool. What drives us up the wall at work is ladies who alternately decide to do all three on different days. Makes paperwork a nightmare. On more than one occasion a woman has assured us, "No, my name is always Marie Rodriguez*" only to find she signs the sheets Guadalupe Araujo* because that's her middle name and she felt like using her husband's name that day. *Not actual names, of course. And to be fair, usually they only change one part at a time, like using their nickname instead of their given name or their mother's name instead of their father's name. I know they don't see the harm in it, but it makes the paperwork look sketchy, during an audit especially, and makes it difficult to give them credit for their time. No, there's no way the data entry personnel can know that Mary Rodriguez and Maria Araujo are the same person; they haven't met you before and you only gave us the first name when you signed up. marshmallow creep has a new favorite as of 03:30 on Aug 12, 2013 |
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bringmyfishback posted:Try being in the not-changing-your-name club. Some people act like I've murdered a puppy when I explain that my last name is MY NAME and not my husband's. The reason being that he has a hyphenated last name and I have two middle names, so being "Bringmyfishback Spanky Sue Hurgleburgle-Vomit-Johnson" would be kind of loving stupid. (Please note that this is not my real name.) My mother kept her last name when my parents got married. In elementary school, based on the fact that my parents had different last names, I got invited to my school's support club for children with divorced parents. I was very confused, since they didn't seem divorced when I left for school that morning.
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Aug 12, 2013 10:22
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nerdpony posted:My mother kept her last name when my parents got married. In elementary school, based on the fact that my parents had different last names, I got invited to my school's support club for children with divorced parents. I was very confused, since they didn't seem divorced when I left for school that morning. And on the other end of this, I had more than one teacher tell me that my parents clearly weren't legally divorced because they were both listed in my file with the same last name. They started the divorce proceedings when I was still in the womb, my mom's just too loving lazy to change her name back. As a former elementary ed major I now realize that 90% of teachers just aren't bright. Somehow I've always ended up dating guys with comical surnames like Pittstick (real one, like slang for deodorant or something), so I'm not even contemplating changing my name if I get married. Digging through recent paperwork to find hilarious names just for you. Do twins (I'm assuming, same last name and birthdate) named Leila and Lela count? Because both are fine on their own, but goddamn that must be confusing.
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Aug 12, 2013 14:51
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My mom changed back to her maiden name when my parents got divorced, and kept it when she got remarried, so we ended up with three last names in the household. My husband's son has his mother's maiden name as his surname, and I didn't change my name, so once again three surnames in the household. The kiddo's mother currently uses a hyphenated name that's the last name of her first husband plus the last name of her second husband. She's getting remarried, and I don't know if she plans to change it again. It's delightfully confusing.
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Aug 12, 2013 16:28
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I love digging through history books and finding odd names-- Puritan names are the best for that. Turns out, during the Interregnum, one of Cromwell's puppet parliaments was known as Barebone's Parliament, after MP Praise-God Barebone. Even better, Praise-God had two brothers with even more Puritannical names: Jesus-came-into-the-world-to-save Barebone and If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned Barebone, the latter of whom was commonly known as "Dr. Damned Barebone" to his friends and colleagues. If I knew how to link to specific pages in Google Books, I would. The Barebone family is on page 156. Ofaloaf has a new favorite as of 17:01 on Aug 12, 2013 |
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Aug 12, 2013 16:57
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Ofaloaf posted:I love digging through history books and finding odd names-- Puritan names are the best for that. Turns out, during the Interregnum, one of Cromwell's puppet parliaments was known as Barebone's Parliament, after MP Praise-God Barebone. Even better, Praise-God had two brothers with even more Puritannical names: Jesus-came-into-the-world-to-save Barebone and If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned Barebone, the latter of whom was commonly known as "Dr. Damned Barebone" to his friends and colleagues. What the Christ!?  That's fantastic. I thought people making names that sound like sentences was awesome/awful enough, but putting actual sentences as your name? That's a whole other level.
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Aug 12, 2013 18:45
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Thomas Taneman
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Aug 12, 2013 18:56
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Dammit, I wish I could remember if I posted this or not. My mom dated a guy in middle school whose last name was "Crotch". She didn't know what that meant until her older sister gleefully pointed it out to her. Being 13 years old, my mom just avoided him and never told him why she stopped dating him. She feels bad to this day, but I could have been Leelee Crotch growing up.
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Aug 12, 2013 21:35
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There's an old school Mormon hater named Doctor Philastus Hurlbut. He wasn't an M.D. or PhD. Doctor was his first name. I guess his parents had high aspirations! I am going to name my firstborn President.
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Aug 12, 2013 21:43
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My high school acquaintance who I posted about in the OP- the one who named her son Airyan? She just had another little bundle of joy! Named Neo Drummer. He is the ONE
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Aug 14, 2013 19:59
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canyoneer posted:There's an old school Mormon hater named Doctor Philastus Hurlbut. Has this thread complained about the hullabaloo regarding that kid named Messiah? Judge: "You can't name someone with a title!" *looks over at Doctor Hurlbut and Judge Reinhold.
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Aug 16, 2013 15:08
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Oh, but that's not why the judge ordered the name change. She ordered it because "only one person is deserving of the title 'Messiah' and that one person is Jesus Christ." She also tried to backpedal and say that it would cause him stress because they live in a heavily Christian county.
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Aug 16, 2013 15:36
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Amelia Song posted:Oh, but that's not why the judge ordered the name change. She ordered it because "only one person is deserving of the title 'Messiah' and that one person is Jesus Christ." She also tried to backpedal and say that it would cause him stress because they live in a heavily Christian county. That's almost as gross as naming your kid Messiah in the first place.
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Aug 17, 2013 04:58
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My aunt named her son Epic. 
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bringmyfishback posted:Try being in the not-changing-your-name club. Some people act like I've murdered a puppy when I explain that my last name is MY NAME and not my husband's. The reason being that he has a hyphenated last name and I have two middle names, so being "Bringmyfishback Spanky Sue Hurgleburgle-Vomit-Johnson" would be kind of loving stupid. (Please note that this is not my real name.) I've told people that as much as I love my husband, if I'm going to be linked to a family by name, I want it to be MY family. No one has given me any real trouble about it yet but we've only been married for about 7 months. I have a coworker who, if she marries her current guy and hyphenates their names, will end up with the last name of Stark-Silence, which is loving bad rear end.
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Aug 17, 2013 22:45
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There was a guy in my town named Ben Dover. His wife was named Eileen.
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Aug 18, 2013 03:43
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I know a couple who have been together for several years and are clearly headed towards marriage. I had a conversation with the woman once about changing last names after marriage (in a general sense) and she expressed that she thought hyphenation was the best option. It was only later that I realized that if she did in fact hyphenate her last name with that of her future husband, she would have the very, very unfortunate surname of Lynch-Coon. 
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Aug 18, 2013 03:55
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Laocius posted:There was a guy in my town named Ben Dover. His wife was named Eileen. There's actually an English radio host named Sara Cox who named her son, Issac. Poor kid.
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Aug 18, 2013 05:23
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Celery Face posted:Oh sure, and my teacher's name is Anita Mandablo and there's also a couple down the street called Aster and Emma Rhoids. I actually thought twice about posting those names because I suspected no one would believe me. Suspicion confirmed.
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Aug 18, 2013 10:07
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I used to volunteer at an HIV testing clinic, and every four months or so, a guy named Adolph would come in to get tested. He was black. It made me hope he had a better middle name. 
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Aug 18, 2013 21:56
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A couple pages late on this, but I couldn't resist:
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Ofaloaf posted:I love digging through history books and finding odd names-- Puritan names are the best for that. Turns out, during the Interregnum, one of Cromwell's puppet parliaments was known as Barebone's Parliament, after MP Praise-God Barebone. Even better, Praise-God had two brothers with even more Puritannical names: Jesus-came-into-the-world-to-save Barebone and If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned Barebone, the latter of whom was commonly known as "Dr. Damned Barebone" to his friends and colleagues. The name Increase Mather always annoyed the poo poo out of me for some reason when I read The Crucible. Back then I had no idea just how insane Puritan names could get.
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Aug 24, 2013 06:09
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My dad was in a bowling league with Donald Dinkledorf.
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Aug 24, 2013 09:54
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My parents knew someone named Griffith Griffiths. I have no idea what would make a parent do that to their child.
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Aug 24, 2013 11:32
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Christopher Robin posted:My parents knew someone named Griffith Griffiths. Similarly, I had a professor named William W. Williams once. He never said what the middle W stood for, and no one asked. Too worried about touching a nerve, I guess.
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Aug 24, 2013 18:08
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There is a package here at work waiting for someone to pick up. The name on the package is "Sarin Warman". I want to believe that's an adopted name and nobody names their child after nerve gas.
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Aug 24, 2013 21:51
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Shithouse Dave posted:There is a package here at work waiting for someone to pick up. The name on the package is "Sarin Warman". I want to believe that's an adopted name and nobody names their child after nerve gas. What's it like working with a doodle from an "edgy" teenager's journal?
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Sarin Warman is an awesome name. That person is probably a metal singer. My buddy swore he wanted to name his daughter Sarin Vaccine because it sounded pretty together. The only thing holding him back was that everybody already knew what thise words meant.
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Aug 24, 2013 23:50
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I was innocently reading journal articles the other day, and I found a reference to an anthropologist named Lionel Tiger.
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Aug 25, 2013 01:40
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I work in a library, and I'm always on the lookout for authors with unusual names:  I was snickering for the rest of my shift after I saw the second one.
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Aug 25, 2013 04:42
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:I have a coworker who, if she marries her current guy and hyphenates their names, will end up with the last name of Stark-Silence, which is loving bad rear end.
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Aug 25, 2013 09:19
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My friends just got married, which made their hyphenated name Snarke-Burns. Pronounced snarky burns  neither is very sarcastic, but I'm holding out hope for their daughter.
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Since we're talking hyphenated surnames I just got an email from a "Lower-Bach".
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Aug 27, 2013 15:29
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Isn't that the guy who plays Sherlock?
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Aug 27, 2013 16:12
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Ran into an Australian guy named Bickey. He said everyone he met would ask "Oh like Biggie Smalls?" when he introduced himself (after I had asked).
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Aug 27, 2013 16:38
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Carthag posted:Ran into an Australian guy named Bickey. He said everyone he met would ask "Oh like Biggie Smalls?" when he introduced himself (after I had asked). My dad is named Ivan. Usually people say, "Oh, like Ivan the Terrible?" but one time someone was like, "oh, like ivan workin' on the railroad?"
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Aug 28, 2013 03:59
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Coffee And Pie posted:Isn't that the guy who plays Sherlock? No, the guy who plays Sherlock somehow has an even more British name.
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Aug 28, 2013 05:08
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:My dad is named Ivan. Usually people say, "Oh, like Ivan the Terrible?" but one time someone was like, "oh, like ivan workin' on the railroad?" That person was a 50+ y.o. uncle, wasn't he?
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Aug 28, 2013 06:49
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Harry Bevir. But everyone called him "Hairy Beaver".
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In 4th grade we had grandparents visit our class to talk about the old days I guess? I remember this exchange to this day... Grandparent: "When I was in 4th grade, we had a teacher named Mrs. Pervis, and do you know what we called her as a nickname?" My teacher: "Oh, no, be careful..." Student: "MRS. PERVERT???" Grandparent: "WHAT? No..."Nervous Pervis...heh heh."
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