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« Reply #30 on: May 05, 2004, 09:11:09 pm »
I love the idea that even the first and last name with middle initial sounds awesome.  

Tormand S. Jadranko.  

What could be cooler?  Sounds less like a supervillain and more like the author of "500 ways to kill a man using only your bare hands and a comb."


When I changed my name after the wedding, it was a slight shock for the first month, 'til I got used to it.  Although having grown up with a Polish surname, I habitually spell my new, relatively common name.  It's like my name is actually "Jamie J-A-M as in Mary-I-E Dunston D-U-N-S-T-O-N."  

I'm just afraid of being Janie Dunstan, I suppose.
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« Reply #31 on: May 05, 2004, 09:34:04 pm »
I must always spell my last name, not because it is uncommon, but because everyone who hears it automatically assumes that it should be pluralized.
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« Reply #32 on: May 05, 2004, 10:02:49 pm »
JL, does this mean the internet moratorium on your real name is no more?
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« Reply #33 on: May 05, 2004, 10:16:44 pm »
Quote from: "Choopernickel"
JL, does this mean the internet moratorium on your real name is no more?


Nope, it just means you have to crank up the old doublethink whenever you see it.
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« Reply #34 on: May 05, 2004, 10:19:31 pm »
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I must always spell my last name, not because it is uncommon, but because everyone who hears it automatically assumes that it should be pluralized.

I have a simiarly problem. My last name is one letter off from a much more common one, so even when I spell it people assume that I really meant to spell the more common name.

I know a few people named Johnston who have a similar problem to a lesser degree.

And apparently Kyle causes a lot of problems for people who learned english as a 2nd language.
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« Reply #35 on: May 05, 2004, 11:43:53 pm »
I spell my last name pretty much habitually, to the point that people on the forensics circuit in high school used to recognize it. Apparently this is because there is a far more anglicized, more common variation out there which people seem to think my name is.

I should really just go ahead and hunt them all down, ninja-style.
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« Reply #36 on: May 05, 2004, 11:58:01 pm »
I still think "T. Slink Jadranko" sounds cooler than "Tormad S. Jadranko".
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« Reply #37 on: May 06, 2004, 12:33:08 am »
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I still think "T. Slink Jadranko" sounds cooler than "Tormad S. Jadranko".


I'm sufficiently happy with both that I think I will use them in different places to different nefarious ends.
I think Dr. T. Slink Jadranko would make me some old, well to do inventor, who gets involved in various crime capers and is forced to get involved as a hybrid cybernetic professor who drives a Silver Shadow in a 30's metropolis of gothic proportions.
Tormad S. Jadranko for me comes across as the evil arch nemesis in a futuristic utopia/dystopia dichotomy, with his army of a million henchman willing to die at his very command, hellbent on the destruction of the global government to retain control and kill everyone who was ever mean to him at school.

I think I've left myself pretty open for choices, but I do have to get a PhD now just so I can be Dr. Jadranko.
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« Reply #38 on: May 06, 2004, 03:34:10 am »
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JL, does this mean the internet moratorium on your real name is no more?


Look, JL is the closest thing I've ever had to a nickname*.  Don't take that away from me.  Or I might be forced to change my legal name to a set of initials, just to show you all.  

*My brother calls me Bumbleheaded Munchkin, but that doesn't count.  
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« Reply #39 on: May 06, 2004, 03:41:49 am »
Closest I've ever had is my monogram: "ecd." For a long while I forgot to respond to "Eric," and then I had to find a job.
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« Reply #40 on: May 06, 2004, 03:56:58 am »
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Look, JL is the closest thing I've ever had to a nickname*.  Don't take that away from me.  Or I might be forced to change my legal name to a set of initials, just to show you all.  

Outside of family nicknames and/or cutesy-poo abbreviations of my real first name, initials are about as close as it comes here, too. Admittedly, at this point I will answer to my initials being yelled out in public at me, but hey, it works.
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« Reply #41 on: May 06, 2004, 05:50:33 am »
At work, since I'm the youngest person there, my nickname is "Sparky." However, I get my revenge; now, two of my co-workers are known as "Mom" and "Gramps."
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« Reply #42 on: May 06, 2004, 11:22:06 am »
Man.  I realized a long time ago I could never get a PhD. without changing my name.  
Yeah, it's worth revealing my surname for this.
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« Reply #43 on: May 06, 2004, 11:43:46 am »
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Man.  I realized a long time ago I could never get a PhD. without changing my name.  
Yeah, it's worth revealing my surname for this.


Not only would you be a doctor, but you'd be delicious too.

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« Reply #44 on: May 06, 2004, 04:08:10 pm »
It could be worse.  Instead of a soda, you could be gravy.
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