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« Reply #15 on: October 22, 2004, 06:34:03 pm »
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My aunt, on the other hand, has two first names but no middle name.  Her first name is "Mary Lynn."  Invariably, when filling out forms, people try to explain that her middle initial goes in the box by itself, and that she doesn't need to give her whole middle name.  And they look at her in consternation when she says, "I don't have a middle name.  Lynn is the second part of my first name."  Yes, there's a space, and no, it's not hyphenated.

I got bitched at for not understanding this when I worked at the video store. I only put the woman's first name on her membership card and she demanded a new one since her full name was MaryBeth or somesuch. Then she went off on me for apparently being a yankee and not understanding such a simple concept as double names.

Actually Jay! is a twin. His brother's name is Jay?. But they get really pissed off when you mix them up.
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« Reply #16 on: October 22, 2004, 06:57:17 pm »
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being a yankee and not understanding such a simple concept as double names.


Actually, my grandmother (and likewise my aunt and the rest of us) are highly Yankified.  She's a second-generation immigrant who still lives in the house my Dad was raised in -- down in the Polish Villlage, Old West End, Toledo, Ohio.  This made the double-name thing even stranger -- there's absolutly no precedent for a double name anywhere in the family.  

Then again, while she named my father Eugene (after his dad), she picked the middle name "Donald" completely out of the air.  

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Actually Jay! is a twin. His brother's name is Jay?. But they get really pissed off when you mix them up.


This made me smile.  Big.
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« Reply #17 on: October 22, 2004, 07:24:54 pm »
They were named after their father, Jay*, whose naming is an interesting footnote to family history.
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« Reply #18 on: October 22, 2004, 07:48:30 pm »
Actually, it's spelled "Jay!" but it's pronounced "Jough!".
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« Reply #19 on: October 22, 2004, 08:00:36 pm »
He still only has that one post. Did we scare him away already?
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« Reply #20 on: October 22, 2004, 08:04:51 pm »
Not everyone lives/works on the Internet like we do, home slice.
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« Reply #21 on: October 22, 2004, 11:01:43 pm »
Yeah, it's not so much "scared off" as it is "eight hours of computer labs to finish".

Um, let's see... yes, Jay is my full first name.  I was very nearly named Jedidiah (crazy cowboy parents from Wyoming), but they settled on something more mainstream as a sort of advance gift to me.  The exclamation point is not on my birth certificate, unfortunately, but I do plan on naming my child "Godspeed!"

Oh, and thank you so much for the enthusiastic response.  Man, wasn't expecting... 21 posts in one day o_O
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« Reply #22 on: October 22, 2004, 11:19:29 pm »
Yay Side_Show!

And yeah, I get the double-name frustration -- I have a two-word last name, of a fairly common form, and yet I and my family have to remind people that it is neither hyphenated nor an element of the middle name so many times that it boggles me. How hard can it be? Ah, well -- it is a useful telemarketer/junk mail filter, since everyone who matters knows that both words are last name elements.

(Terrifying middle-name collections loom large in my mind when considering future children, and I fully pray that I will never have a son, because if he exists he'll probably have two equally and oppositely bizarre middle names. Man, I'd never wish that on a kid.)
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« Reply #23 on: October 22, 2004, 11:57:48 pm »
We digressed into a name and double name discussion.  Par for the mofo course.
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« Reply #24 on: October 23, 2004, 12:30:32 am »
Well, things seemed to be going in that direction, and I don't have all that much else to say to Jay(!) besides "welcome" and "you seem to be fairly awesome so far." We could continue on those themes?
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« Reply #25 on: October 23, 2004, 01:58:24 am »
Damn.

It just so happens that those are my favorite themes.

But anyway, it's been a very enjoyable discussion, this... name thing.  And I really don't see why a forum that is inherently off-topic should have to stay focused.
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« Reply #26 on: October 23, 2004, 02:24:42 am »
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But anyway, it's been a very enjoyable discussion, this... name thing.  And I really don't see why a forum that is inherently off-topic should have to stay focused.

It's not so much that we'd want it to stay on topic as just marvelling at all the new and amazing ways that things go off topic.

I think this thread only lasted about 2 posts before veering.
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« Reply #27 on: October 25, 2004, 03:03:04 pm »
Q: How many ADD kids does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

A: LET'S RIDE BIKES!
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« Reply #28 on: October 25, 2004, 03:11:10 pm »
q: How many kids with ADD does it take ...uh ...what?
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« Reply #29 on: October 25, 2004, 03:23:23 pm »
What's the difference between Vietnam and Iraq?


George Bush had a plan to get out of Vietnam.
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