The Name GameFollow

Coming from a Sud-americana?

Home of a President called 'Bernardo O'Higgins' and 'Seamus de Gonzalez y Schauenberg'?


Admit it - you're all called Garcia in real life

Here in the posh parts of Grrrrrreat Brrritain the filly adds her groom's name to her own and allows a hyphen to take the strain.

When Miss Smith marries Mr Parry, she (and their progeny) take the name 'Smith-Parry' but become universally known as "those toff bastards who'll be first against the wall on the glorious day of the revolution"

Actually, my father's surname is Irish, and my mother's is Spanish. There was a ton of immigration to Latin America at the beginning of the century from all the people looking for fertile potato ground and buxom Catholic virgins.

Joph laughs because the surname I have such an identification with as part of my culture actually has nothing to do with it. My anglo name coupled with a Irish de Polish would just be too much, so I'm playing it like a hoity-pastyfaced-teadrinker and hyphenating.

Edit: I couldn't recall that President, so I googled. Holy ****, man, a viceroy? Couldn't you at least keep it within the last two centuries?

Edited, Jan 15th 2007 2:48pm by Atomicflea

You're not far off, actually.

One of my pet-peeves is hyphenated names. I abhor them.

Here's why. Let's say it remains en vogue for more than 3 generations, let's analyze what would occur.

Let's take 4 couples:
Miss Lucy + Mr. Parry = FemaleChild Lucy-Parry
Miss Anderson + Mr. Bogart = MaleChild Anderson-Bogart
Miss Hailey + Mr. Roger = FemaleChile Hailey-Roger
Miss Randy + Mr. Fellows = MaleChild Randy-Fellows


Assume the offspring marry:
Miss Lucy-Parry + Mr. Anderson-Bogart = FemaleChild Lucy-Parry-Anderson-Bogart
Miss Hailey-Roger + Mr. Randy-Fellows = MaleChild Hailey-Roger-Randy-Fellows


Now, the third generation marries:
Miss Lucy-Parry-Anderson-Bogart + Mr. Hailey-Roger-Randy-Fellows = Miss Lucy-Parry-Anderson-Bogart-Hailey-Roger-Randy-Fellows


Painful isn't it?






Also, I've hidden a joke in there for Nobby.

Edited, Jan 15th 2007 4:04pm by Elderon

Suck it, Canuck. It'll be my grandkid's problem, and I won't care because I'll be senile.

Flea'jo. It has a better ring to it.

I was talking about my *****. The direction you approach it from is entirely your choice.

Oh was that YOU sitting on MentalFrog's lap?

OMG! Is that yur boob and a really scary weiner?! 'Cuz thats hot I got to see your boob.

Was a kid in a class of mine in high school who had a hyphenated longass jewish last name. Something like Katzenberger-Finklestein or something. He could never fit his full name on Scantrons.

That's why when my mom asked why I didn't choose to go the hyphenated route when I married my ex.

I already had problems with filling out Scantrons with my full name of some 20 characters plus 2 spaces. Could you imagine having to hyphenate to surnames of 10 letters each.

I did the traditional name change and regretted it after the 100th time someone mispronounced it. Running around after the divorce to change it back to maiden name was a pain, but not as bad as going through a court to get name change.

We don't have to pay extra court costs, for the change as women, so I would fully support letting men change their name, when they marry and divorce.

My ex was second transgender person in state to get his name changed as well as the sex marking on driver's license. He went with his mother's maiden name, since he hated his last name too. I know all of my daugthers will go with taking their husband's last name at this time,

Though youngest did say she just may go and get her name changed to my maiden name, without looking for a husband. She ask if she could have it changed not long after the divorce, but law says one must be 18, so she had to suffer. Once 18 I don't pay for legal costs of my kids, so until she has the money she is stuck as a Schoonover.

I knew the person who wrote the code I was using to enter data in and could just ask for a longer space.