Valentine's Day...

[merithyn]

It was a thing for us. I don't remember who's idea it was (his or mine). The name was just something that we came up with that we both really liked. It has a meaning that we liked, and we liked how both of our names sounded with it.

i've never heard of that before. is it a real last name or completely made up/fake last name (like naming a girl "apple")?

A real last name.

[LaCroix]

A real last name.

i guess that's not too bad. could be a lot worse

[merithyn]

A real last name.

i guess that's not too bad. could be a lot worse

Thank you for your lukewarm approval.

It works for us. We're happy with our decision.

[Ed Anger]

I'm not. I glare in your general direction.

[sbr]

What makes a last name "real"?

[Ed Anger]

What makes a last name "real"?

A name that a man allows a woman to take.

[Eddie Teach]

What makes a last name "real"?

Being something people have used for hundreds of years.

[merithyn]

What makes a last name "real"?

Being something people have used for hundreds of years.

So it wasn't real for the first couple of centuries? What was it then?

[Admiral Yi]

So it wasn't real for the first couple of centuries? What was it then?

Typically an occupation or a birth place.

[CountDeMoney]

Just seems good manners no matter who you are holding the door for.

From ahead of traffic, I will hold the door open for anybody behind me;  men get a 6- to 8-ft launch window, and women get an extended 10- to 15-ft extension, and will continue to do so for all women within that distance within an appropriate time frame until the next male approaches within that distance, and then I turn over the door-opening baton, as it were.

From behind traffic, I will try to grab the door for women, and at least take over the 2nd half of the door-opening motion even if it's cursory, like being obligated to half-stand when a woman gets up from her seat at the table.  Unless I'm in a hurry, and then my 225 pounds will have to plow through her like Rob Ford going through an octogenarian city councilwoman.

And I realize that I've thought about this way too much, but it's a much more intuitive system in real life situations.

[garbon]

How sexist.

[CountDeMoney]

I would hold it open for you, my little Nubian princess.

[Razgovory]

I would hold it open for you, my little Nubian princess.

He's only black in February.  Next month he'll be Filipino or something.

[Ed Anger]

I would hold it open for you, my little Nubian princess.

He's only black in February.  Next month he'll be Filipino or something.

He can be a genderfluid half elf archer if he wants to.

[CountDeMoney]

He can be a genderfluid half elf archer if he wants to.

Definitely a Drow.