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Poll
Question: Would you change your name if it was a very simple process one time only?
Option 1: Hell yeah votes: 4
Option 2: Possibly votes: 7
Option 3: No way votes: 39
Option 4: I have changed my name already votes: 0
Title: Name changes
Post by: merithyn on August 26, 2009, 01:04:30 PM
If you had the option to change your name one time only by simply filling out a form and turning it in, would you do so? It doesn't matter if you're talking about first name, last name, middle name, whatever. I'm just curious if anyone would.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: The Brain on August 26, 2009, 01:06:01 PM
No. Unless I'm getting married to the love of my life who demands it AND I am a complete fucking pussy.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: DGuller on August 26, 2009, 01:07:24 PM
Not yet, my name hasn't be burned yet.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Syt on August 26, 2009, 01:09:35 PM
Possibly. My first name is female in some countries,s o I might go for the non-diminuitive, Alexander.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Berkut on August 26, 2009, 01:10:55 PM
I don't particularly care for my name one way or the other, but no, I would not change it.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: MadBurgerMaker on August 26, 2009, 01:13:10 PM
No.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Savonarola on August 26, 2009, 01:13:33 PM
Yes, my middle name is an ethnic family name and was misspelled on my birth certificate.  It isn't a big enough deal that it's worth the hassle of changing, but if it was simple then I would do it.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: callmeclemens on August 26, 2009, 01:16:54 PM
Your first and middle name don't matter when your last name is Tingle, like mine.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: DisturbedPervert on August 26, 2009, 01:17:08 PM
No.  But how much of a hassle is it to change your name anyway (in the US)?
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Jos Theelen on August 26, 2009, 01:20:10 PM
No, I love my name. I even plan to put it on my tombstone when I die.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Zanza on August 26, 2009, 01:27:18 PM
No. My name is fine.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Slargos on August 26, 2009, 01:35:28 PM
I've been tossing around the idea of making "Slargos" my real name, but I have decided against it thus far.  :P
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: ulmont on August 26, 2009, 01:35:40 PM
Quote from: merithyn on August 26, 2009, 01:04:30 PM
If you had the option to change your name one time only by simply filling out a form and turning it in, would you do so?

No, because it isn't the form that's the pain in the ass, it's the correcting every damn business and government authority you've ever dealt with.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Grey Fox on August 26, 2009, 01:51:20 PM
Yes. I'd change it to Max Powers :cool:
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Valmy on August 26, 2009, 01:55:42 PM
My name is glorious and someday it will echo through history.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: DontSayBanana on August 26, 2009, 02:01:02 PM
Possibly. I'd been thinking of changing mine, but the family politics have since become light enough that I don't feel it necessary, so it's up in the air.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: KRonn on August 26, 2009, 02:05:43 PM
I wouldn't, don't see a need nor have any reason to. Besides, I've had this name, well, ever since I can remember! Kind of grows on ya...   ;)
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Scipio on August 26, 2009, 02:10:03 PM
Unless I was going to change my name to Rockin' McAwesome The Fourth.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: DontSayBanana on August 26, 2009, 02:11:05 PM
Quote from: KRonn on August 26, 2009, 02:05:43 PM
I wouldn't, don't see a need nor have any reason to. Besides, I've had this name, well, ever since I can remember! Kind of grows on ya...   ;)

There are good names, and there are bad names; when you've been subjected to over two decades of "Old MacDonald" and "do you believe in magic?" jokes, it's tempting to use Daddy Issues as an excuse to rid yourself of the baggage.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: The Larch on August 26, 2009, 02:35:35 PM
In case someone needs sugestions:

http://www.cracked.com/article_14982_9-manliest-names-in-world.html (http://www.cracked.com/article_14982_9-manliest-names-in-world.html)
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: HVC on August 26, 2009, 02:49:22 PM
It's been part of me for 25 years now, so no.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Tamas on August 26, 2009, 02:53:21 PM
Well if I would be settling in an english-speaking country, I could end up changing my last name to have it sound like the original hungarian pronouncation, and above all to lose it's english meaning. :P
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Zanza on August 26, 2009, 02:57:49 PM
How is it pronounced? Similar to "fish"?
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Agelastus on August 26, 2009, 02:59:34 PM
No way; I am me.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: derspiess on August 26, 2009, 03:01:10 PM
Not a huge fan of my name, but no I wouldn't change it.  My last name kicks ass 'cuz it rhymes with 'hammer'  :menace:
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Tamas on August 26, 2009, 03:07:14 PM
Quote from: Zanza on August 26, 2009, 02:57:49 PM
How is it pronounced? Similar to "fish"?

yep
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Jaron on August 26, 2009, 03:55:40 PM
Quote from: Tamas on August 26, 2009, 03:07:14 PM
Quote from: Zanza on August 26, 2009, 02:57:49 PM
How is it pronounced? Similar to "fish"?

yep

:kiss:
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: merithyn on August 26, 2009, 05:35:14 PM
Quote from: DisturbedPervert on August 26, 2009, 01:17:08 PM
No.  But how much of a hassle is it to change your name anyway (in the US)?

Something like $250 and four weeks buys you a new name around here. You have to run an ad in three local papers for two weeks, then apply to the courts to change your name. Pay the fee, and voila! It's done.

But it's a lot easier to just change it on a marriage license. One signature, and it's done. Women do it all the time with minimal hassle, so long as they're changing it to their husband's last name. Any other changes or men changing their names require the above.

Since the majority of Languishites are male, I just wondered how many would change their name given the chance.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Capetan Mihali on August 26, 2009, 05:36:02 PM
Never in love with my name either, but there's no point in changing it now.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: garbon on August 26, 2009, 05:39:52 PM
I said possibly.  Rather unlikely with the business world and what not, but who knows.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Razgovory on August 26, 2009, 05:52:11 PM
Quote from: derspiess on August 26, 2009, 03:01:10 PM
Not a huge fan of my name, but no I wouldn't change it.  My last name kicks ass 'cuz it rhymes with 'hammer'  :menace:

Crammer?  That's not so kick ass.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: crazy canuck on August 26, 2009, 05:53:18 PM
Quote from: The Larch on August 26, 2009, 02:35:35 PM
In case someone needs sugestions:

http://www.cracked.com/article_14982_9-manliest-names-in-world.html (http://www.cracked.com/article_14982_9-manliest-names-in-world.html)

If your name was Dick Pound would you change your name?
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Siege on August 26, 2009, 05:57:25 PM
Why would anyone want to change his name?

My last name is my family's name, my clan's name, older than the House of Daavid.
Why would I change it?
Are you crazy?


Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: HVC on August 26, 2009, 06:21:26 PM
Quote from: Siege on August 26, 2009, 05:57:25 PM
Why would anyone want to change his name?

My last name is my family's name, my clan's name, older than the House of Daavid.
Why would I change it?
Are you crazy?



What if your last name was Alah Ackbar? :P
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: merithyn on August 26, 2009, 06:23:55 PM
Quote from: Siege on August 26, 2009, 05:57:25 PM
Why would anyone want to change his name?

My last name is my family's name, my clan's name, older than the House of Daavid.
Why would I change it?
Are you crazy?

:mellow:

My surname is Williams. It means nothing to me, nor did it to my father. The whole "clan" name thing is lost on me, as there are thousands of people running around with the name that are not connected to me or my family at all.

The only reason to keep it is convenience, not identity or family history.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Scipio on August 26, 2009, 07:13:37 PM
In Mississippi, it takes $32.00 and legally sufficient notice to all interested parties.  That's it.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Grallon on August 26, 2009, 07:18:47 PM
Quote from: Scipio on August 26, 2009, 07:13:37 PM
In Mississippi, it takes $32.00 and legally sufficient notice to all interested parties.  That's it.


Gods!  You need to have that smugness scourged out of you!  But I'll let that mail bride of yours do it for me.  Now or in 5-10 years time it will happen, don't you ever doubt it. ^_^



G.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Maximus on August 26, 2009, 07:21:28 PM
The concept of a family name has long outlived its purpose anyway.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: jimmy olsen on August 26, 2009, 07:28:23 PM
Quote from: Grallon on August 26, 2009, 07:18:47 PM
Quote from: Scipio on August 26, 2009, 07:13:37 PM
In Mississippi, it takes $32.00 and legally sufficient notice to all interested parties.  That's it.


Boy you need to have that smugness scourged out of you!  But I'll let that mail bride of yours do it for me.  Now or in 5-10 years time it will happen, don't you ever doubt it. ^_^



G.
:huh:

Where did that come from.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Grallon on August 26, 2009, 07:32:39 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 26, 2009, 07:28:23 PM


Where did that come from.

Tommy, I think you should mind your own business.  Our friend Scipio will understand. :)


G.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Siege on August 26, 2009, 07:40:22 PM
Don't you mean timmy?

If you pull that stunt with me, misspelling my name, I would get REALLY angry.

Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Ed Anger on August 26, 2009, 07:42:49 PM
Okay, Sorge.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Razgovory on August 26, 2009, 07:42:58 PM
Quote from: Maximus on August 26, 2009, 07:21:28 PM
The concept of a family name has long outlived its purpose anyway.

Indeed, who needs records? 
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Grallon on August 26, 2009, 07:44:11 PM
Quote from: Siege on August 26, 2009, 07:40:22 PM

...I would get REALLY angry.


Why don't you?  Perhaps I'd finally get a kick out of you for a change?!



G.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: merithyn on August 26, 2009, 07:47:01 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on August 26, 2009, 07:42:58 PM

Indeed, who needs records?

What does knowing that my last name was Williams, as my father's was and his father's, do for any of us? They aren't necessary. It's been said here many times that we're not the sum of our ancestry but rather the sum of our personal experiences. Family records have little - if anything - to do with it.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: dps on August 26, 2009, 07:47:06 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on August 26, 2009, 07:42:58 PM
Quote from: Maximus on August 26, 2009, 07:21:28 PM
The concept of a family name has long outlived its purpose anyway.

Indeed, who needs records? 

Yeah, we don't even use tape anymore;  it's all CDs now.



;)
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Siege on August 26, 2009, 07:48:27 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 26, 2009, 07:42:49 PM
Okay, Sorge.

:lol:   You fail, at understanding what the Master of Sieges really means.

Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Siege on August 26, 2009, 07:49:14 PM
Quote from: dps on August 26, 2009, 07:47:06 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on August 26, 2009, 07:42:58 PM
Quote from: Maximus on August 26, 2009, 07:21:28 PM
The concept of a family name has long outlived its purpose anyway.

Indeed, who needs records? 

Yeah, we don't even use tape anymore;  it's all CDs now.



;)

Whoa, that was witty.

Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Razgovory on August 26, 2009, 08:11:08 PM
Quote from: merithyn on August 26, 2009, 07:47:01 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on August 26, 2009, 07:42:58 PM

Indeed, who needs records?

What does knowing that my last name was Williams, as my father's was and his father's, do for any of us? They aren't necessary. It's been said here many times that we're not the sum of our ancestry but rather the sum of our personal experiences. Family records have little - if anything - to do with it.

Good for tracking property, debts, taxes, etc.  Oh and probably makes looking up things like family diseases easier.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Monoriu on August 26, 2009, 08:12:18 PM
I dislike my Chinese name, but I won't change it.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: lustindarkness on August 26, 2009, 08:24:41 PM
I would never change my name. I don't see the need and I am proud of my family names.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: merithyn on August 26, 2009, 08:50:10 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on August 26, 2009, 08:11:08 PM
Good for tracking property, debts, taxes, etc.  Oh and probably makes looking up things like family diseases easier.

Changing your name doesn't change your history. That's all still available to you. In fact, when you change your name, you've leaving even more of a trail since it's another court document.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: garbon on August 26, 2009, 09:00:57 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on August 26, 2009, 08:11:08 PM
Good for tracking property, debts, taxes, etc.  Oh and probably makes looking up things like family diseases easier.

Name's are hardly an efficient manner of tracking down info what with many people having the same name.  Probably isn't coincidental that many things ask for your social.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: DontSayBanana on August 26, 2009, 09:05:52 PM
Quote from: garbon on August 26, 2009, 09:00:57 PM
Name's are hardly an efficient manner of tracking down info what with many people having the same name.  Probably isn't coincidental that many things ask for your social.

:yes: There are 5,000 people with my first and last name residing in the United States as we speak. Good luck backchecking through that. ;)

EDIT: In fact, there's more than one at the college I go to. Makes talking to advisors a real pain in the ass. :P
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Liep on August 26, 2009, 09:35:25 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on August 26, 2009, 01:51:20 PM
Yes. I'd change it to Max Powers :cool:

I know a couple whose last name is Powers, they didn't go with my idea (Max) for their first born, said it wasn't a girl's name. I said with a name like Max Powers gender doesn't matter, they still disagreed. :(
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Valmy on August 26, 2009, 09:39:50 PM
Quote from: Maximus on August 26, 2009, 07:21:28 PM
The concept of a family name has long outlived its purpose anyway.

How exactly does it not still have the same purpose it always has had?
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 26, 2009, 09:40:55 PM
Quote from: Liep on August 26, 2009, 09:35:25 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on August 26, 2009, 01:51:20 PM
Yes. I'd change it to Max Powers :cool:

I know a couple whose last name is Powers, they didn't go with my idea (Max) for their first born, said it wasn't a girl's name. I said with a name like Max Powers gender doesn't matter, they still disagreed. :(

Maxine Powers sounds like a good name for a chick detective.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Valmy on August 26, 2009, 09:42:05 PM
Quote from: merithyn on August 26, 2009, 07:47:01 PM
What does knowing that my last name was Williams, as my father's was and his father's, do for any of us?

Well really nothing does any of us any good and we should all kill ourselves.

But as long as I am still alive, I sorta like having a last name traceable back hundreds of years.  What does anything beyond that do for me?  Heck what does my wife, my friends, my anything do for me except what I choose to take from it?  If you declare your last name meaningless then that is your choice, but I choose to take a bit more from it than that: a bit of my ancestors I take with me wherever I go.

But Williams is a cool name, it sounds like the last name of somebody really hot or important, like a supermodel-super heroine or something.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Siege on August 26, 2009, 09:52:29 PM
Sergeant Powers sounds amazing.

Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Korea on August 26, 2009, 09:58:14 PM
Quote from: Liep on August 26, 2009, 09:35:25 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on August 26, 2009, 01:51:20 PM
Yes. I'd change it to Max Powers :cool:

I know a couple whose last name is Powers, they didn't go with my idea (Max) for their first born, said it wasn't a girl's name. I said with a name like Max Powers gender doesn't matter, they still disagreed. :(

Maxine and Max for short!
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Korea on August 26, 2009, 10:00:47 PM
Yes. I hate my first and middle name. Jennifer Renae :(


Also, I am really curious about everyone else name now.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Valmy on August 26, 2009, 10:10:13 PM
Quote from: Korea on August 26, 2009, 10:00:47 PM
Yes. I hate my first and middle name. Jennifer Renae :(


Also, I am really curious about everyone else name now.

What the is wrong with Jennifer?  That sounds like a good name to me.  I mean you could be named Taylor or something.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Liep on August 26, 2009, 10:27:25 PM
My first name is too monarchistic (if that's a word), but it's after my grandfather so I'll keep it for that reason. Besides, I think it is actually quite easy to change one's name in Denmark.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Valmy on August 26, 2009, 10:34:10 PM
Quote from: Liep on August 26, 2009, 10:27:25 PM
My first name is too monarchistic (if that's a word), but it's after my grandfather so I'll keep it for that reason. Besides, I think it is actually quite easy to change one's name in Denmark.

Is it Christian or Frederick?
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 26, 2009, 10:35:26 PM
Quote from: Valmy on August 26, 2009, 10:10:13 PM
What the is wrong with Jennifer?  That sounds like a good name to me.  I mean you could be named Taylor or something.

Too common.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Valmy on August 26, 2009, 10:36:57 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 26, 2009, 10:35:26 PM
Too common.

That is because it is good.  Some things are popular for a reason.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Liep on August 26, 2009, 10:38:45 PM
Quote from: Valmy on August 26, 2009, 10:34:10 PM

Is it Christian or Frederick?

Christian. It could've been worse I suppose, Kresten. :bleeding:
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 26, 2009, 10:42:30 PM
Quote from: Valmy on August 26, 2009, 10:36:57 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 26, 2009, 10:35:26 PM
Too common.

That is because it is good.  Some things are popular for a reason.

I agree, it's a pretty name. But I wouldn't want to be constantly running into people with the same name as me.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Siege on August 26, 2009, 10:45:15 PM
My first name is standard sefaradi.
Made of the first sylabels for Dictator for water, or water dictator, or dictatr for water but without the "for", because you don't use it when naming children.
In typical sefaradi fashion, my mother named me, without my father's input.
I cried a lot not for milk, like my older brothers, but for water. Go figure.
So my mum named me accordingly.

Funny how important water have been for me over the years.
Sefaradi traditions do WORK.


Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Siege on August 26, 2009, 10:46:43 PM
The bad part of my first name though, is that it sounds like an american name misspelled.
People always wright it down wrong.

Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Liep on August 26, 2009, 10:47:33 PM
Quote from: Siege on August 26, 2009, 10:45:15 PMFunny how important water have been for me over the years.

Quite funny how important water is to most people.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 26, 2009, 10:48:37 PM
Quote from: Siege on August 26, 2009, 10:46:43 PM
The bad part of my first name though, is that it sounds like an american name misspelled.
People always wright it down wrong.

Sometimes it's hard to get things write.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Siege on August 26, 2009, 10:57:46 PM
Tell me about it. It is really hard to get them rite.

Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Siege on August 26, 2009, 10:58:07 PM
English is a funny languish.

Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: jimmy olsen on August 26, 2009, 11:05:19 PM
Quote from: Liep on August 26, 2009, 09:35:25 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on August 26, 2009, 01:51:20 PM
Yes. I'd change it to Max Powers :cool:

I know a couple whose last name is Powers, they didn't go with my idea (Max) for their first born, said it wasn't a girl's name. I said with a name like Max Powers gender doesn't matter, they still disagreed. :(
Maxine's a girl's name right?
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: HVC on August 26, 2009, 11:07:22 PM
Quote from: Siege on August 26, 2009, 10:45:15 PM
My first name is standard sefaradi.
Made of the first sylabels for Dictator for water, or water dictator, or dictatr for water but without the "for", because you don't use it when naming children.
In typical sefaradi fashion, my mother named me, without my father's input.
I cried a lot not for milk, like my older brothers, but for water. Go figure.
So my mum named me accordingly.

Funny how important water have been for me over the years.
Sefaradi traditions do WORK.



My names old. means "funny". My last name is portuguese for rabbit. So i'm Funny Bunny. So far funny bunnies haven't been an important part of my life.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Liep on August 26, 2009, 11:15:42 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 26, 2009, 11:05:19 PM
Maxine's a girl's name right?

It is, but not really a name that I thought of as it's very very rarely used in Denmark, if ever.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Unplugged on August 26, 2009, 11:23:24 PM
I like my name for the very opposite reason of popularity, because not a lot of people have it. Have only seen 2 other people with my name in recent years.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Unplugged on August 26, 2009, 11:24:10 PM
Although I must say, the name Staff Sergeant Max Fightmaster is pretty impressive.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: dps on August 26, 2009, 11:45:46 PM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on August 26, 2009, 09:05:52 PM
Quote from: garbon on August 26, 2009, 09:00:57 PM
Name's are hardly an efficient manner of tracking down info what with many people having the same name.  Probably isn't coincidental that many things ask for your social.

:yes: There are 5,000 people with my first and last name residing in the United States as we speak. Good luck backchecking through that. ;)

EDIT: In fact, there's more than one at the college I go to. Makes talking to advisors a real pain in the ass. :P

My family name isn't a particularly common one, but oddly when I lived in Virginia, my doctor had another patient (who was no relation to me AFAIK, and who lived in a different town several miles away) who had the same first, middle, and last name as me AND the same date of birth.  The only way they kept our records seperate was by our Social Security numbers and addresses.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Korea on August 27, 2009, 12:22:09 AM
Quote from: Valmy on August 26, 2009, 10:10:13 PM
Quote from: Korea on August 26, 2009, 10:00:47 PM
Yes. I hate my first and middle name. Jennifer Renae :(


Also, I am really curious about everyone else name now.

What the is wrong with Jennifer?  That sounds like a good name to me.  I mean you could be named Taylor or something.

Well, Jennifer isn't that bad but I just dn't think it rolls off the tongue well. But it sounds terrible with my middle name.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Octavian on August 27, 2009, 06:52:23 AM
Quote from: Liep on August 26, 2009, 10:38:45 PM
Quote from: Valmy on August 26, 2009, 10:34:10 PM

Is it Christian or Frederick?

Christian. It could've been worse I suppose, Kresten. :bleeding:

Or Henrik
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: merithyn on August 27, 2009, 07:21:25 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 26, 2009, 10:42:30 PM
I agree, it's a pretty name. But I wouldn't want to be constantly running into people with the same name as me.

Exactly. Try being Mary Williams, for hod's sake.  <_<
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Octavian on August 27, 2009, 07:40:16 AM
Quote from: merithyn on August 27, 2009, 07:21:25 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 26, 2009, 10:42:30 PM
I agree, it's a pretty name. But I wouldn't want to be constantly running into people with the same name as me.

Exactly. Try being Mary Williams, for hod's sake.  <_<

Ahh a traditional Mexican name
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Ed Anger on August 27, 2009, 07:45:24 AM
Only if my last name was a first name (never trust a man with two first names) or something like 'Raper'. Which would be cool sometimes, but annoying if you had kids.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: The Larch on August 27, 2009, 07:45:56 AM
Quote from: merithyn on August 27, 2009, 07:21:25 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 26, 2009, 10:42:30 PM
I agree, it's a pretty name. But I wouldn't want to be constantly running into people with the same name as me.

Exactly. Try being Mary Williams, for hod's sake.  <_<

Could be worse, could be Mary Smith.

I also have some experience on that, I'm a Juan PĂ©rez after all.  :lol:
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: KRonn on August 27, 2009, 11:33:00 AM
Quote from: Korea on August 26, 2009, 10:00:47 PM
Yes. I hate my first and middle name. Jennifer Renae :(


Also, I am really curious about everyone else name now.
Actually, pretty names and a more rare and unique middle name.  :)
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: BuddhaRhubarb on August 27, 2009, 11:40:50 AM
Quote from: Slargos on August 26, 2009, 01:35:28 PM
I've been tossing around the idea of making "Slargos" my real name, but I have decided against it thus far.  :P

and the world is poorer for it. Think of the children! :p


I would if I had reason to, and it was easy, like most things. If it's not easy why bother?
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Valmy on August 27, 2009, 11:42:46 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 26, 2009, 10:42:30 PM
I agree, it's a pretty name. But I wouldn't want to be constantly running into people with the same name as me.

I love it.  As many people as possible.  There used to be four guys in my English class in High School with my name and we all sat together.

But then you sorta have to love it when you are named 'John'.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Valmy on August 27, 2009, 11:43:45 AM
Quote from: merithyn on August 27, 2009, 07:21:25 AM
Exactly. Try being Mary Williams, for hod's sake.  <_<

I love your name it sounds like a hot girl's name.

I mean you could be named La-a
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Caliga on August 27, 2009, 11:50:48 AM
Yes, to Peter North. :)
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Valmy on August 27, 2009, 11:53:11 AM
Quote from: Caliga on August 27, 2009, 11:50:48 AM
Yes, to Peter North. :)

Can you grow a mustache that cheesy?
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: lustindarkness on August 27, 2009, 12:50:45 PM
Languish has like 5 Tom/Tomas/Thomas/Tommy members/relatives.  :cool:
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Razgovory on August 27, 2009, 02:39:24 PM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on August 26, 2009, 09:05:52 PM
Quote from: garbon on August 26, 2009, 09:00:57 PM
Name's are hardly an efficient manner of tracking down info what with many people having the same name.  Probably isn't coincidental that many things ask for your social.

:yes: There are 5,000 people with my first and last name residing in the United States as we speak. Good luck backchecking through that. ;)

EDIT: In fact, there's more than one at the college I go to. Makes talking to advisors a real pain in the ass. :P

There's exactly one other person with my first and last name in the US.  He doesn't share my two middle names though.  So really I only have to hunt down and kill one other person.  Looks like you have alot of work ahead of you.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Korea on August 27, 2009, 11:02:52 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 27, 2009, 07:45:24 AM
Only if my last name was a first name (never trust a man with two first names) or something like 'Raper'. Which would be cool sometimes, but annoying if you had kids.

Ide has a first name for a last name. It gets people confused all the time. His last name is Allen.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Korea on August 27, 2009, 11:03:30 PM
Quote from: KRonn on August 27, 2009, 11:33:00 AM
Quote from: Korea on August 26, 2009, 10:00:47 PM
Yes. I hate my first and middle name. Jennifer Renae :(


Also, I am really curious about everyone else name now.
Actually, pretty names and a more rare and unique middle name.  :)

Renae sounds like a hick. :(
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Korea on August 27, 2009, 11:04:14 PM
Quote from: Valmy on August 27, 2009, 11:43:45 AM
Quote from: merithyn on August 27, 2009, 07:21:25 AM
Exactly. Try being Mary Williams, for hod's sake.  <_<

I love your name it sounds like a hot girl's name.

I mean you could be named La-a

:lol: I forgot about La-a
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 27, 2009, 11:04:21 PM
Quote from: Korea on August 27, 2009, 11:02:52 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 27, 2009, 07:45:24 AM
Only if my last name was a first name (never trust a man with two first names) or something like 'Raper'. Which would be cool sometimes, but annoying if you had kids.

Ide has a first name for a last name. It gets people confused all the time. His last name is Allen.

And he has a last name for a first name.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Korea on August 27, 2009, 11:05:02 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 27, 2009, 11:04:21 PM
Quote from: Korea on August 27, 2009, 11:02:52 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 27, 2009, 07:45:24 AM
Only if my last name was a first name (never trust a man with two first names) or something like 'Raper'. Which would be cool sometimes, but annoying if you had kids.

Ide has a first name for a last name. It gets people confused all the time. His last name is Allen.

And he has a last name for a first name.

Is Hunter a common last name? I didn't think it was.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: DontSayBanana on August 27, 2009, 11:29:11 PM
In terms of backwards names, I had a friend named Hollis Bruce in high school - the school was convinced he was dyslexic and kept trying to "correct" his name to Bruce Hollis. :lol:
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 27, 2009, 11:34:29 PM
Quote from: Korea on August 27, 2009, 11:05:02 PM
Is Hunter a common last name? I didn't think it was.

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Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Korea on August 27, 2009, 11:35:33 PM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on August 27, 2009, 11:29:11 PM
In terms of backwards names, I had a friend named Hollis Bruce in high school - the school was convinced he was dyslexic and kept trying to "correct" his name to Bruce Hollis. :lol:
:lol: Poor kid.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Korea on August 27, 2009, 11:36:22 PM
Also I don't know who any of those people are.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: DontSayBanana on August 27, 2009, 11:37:00 PM
Quote from: Korea on August 27, 2009, 11:35:33 PM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on August 27, 2009, 11:29:11 PM
In terms of backwards names, I had a friend named Hollis Bruce in high school - the school was convinced he was dyslexic and kept trying to "correct" his name to Bruce Hollis. :lol:
:lol: Poor kid.
...the 3rd. They did it to his dad, too. :face:
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 27, 2009, 11:46:52 PM
Quote from: Korea on August 27, 2009, 11:36:22 PM
Also I don't know who any of those people are.

:face:

:P

But as a general rule of thumb, a TON of English surnames come from occupations. Hunter, Farmer, Smith, Painter, Taylor, as well as some whose meanings have been lost or just become very obscure- Kellogg(butcher), Cooper(barrelmaker), Wright (makes shit), etc.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Korea on August 27, 2009, 11:51:07 PM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on August 27, 2009, 11:37:00 PM
Quote from: Korea on August 27, 2009, 11:35:33 PM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on August 27, 2009, 11:29:11 PM
In terms of backwards names, I had a friend named Hollis Bruce in high school - the school was convinced he was dyslexic and kept trying to "correct" his name to Bruce Hollis. :lol:
:lol: Poor kid.
...the 3rd. They did it to his dad, too. :face:
:lol:

Hollis is a cool name though.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Korea on August 27, 2009, 11:52:00 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 27, 2009, 11:46:52 PM
Quote from: Korea on August 27, 2009, 11:36:22 PM
Also I don't know who any of those people are.

:face:

:P

But as a general rule of thumb, a TON of English surnames come from occupations. Hunter, Farmer, Smith, Painter, Taylor, as well as some whose meanings have been lost or just become very obscure- Kellogg(butcher), Cooper(barrelmaker), Wright (makes shit), etc.

Oh, well duh. That makes sense. I can't remember ever meeting anyone in the states with the last name Hunter though.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 27, 2009, 11:53:11 PM
Quote from: Korea on August 27, 2009, 11:52:00 PM
Oh, well duh. That makes sense. I can't remember ever meeting anyone in the states with the last name Hunter though.

Have you met more than one person with the first name Hunter?
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: DontSayBanana on August 27, 2009, 11:54:33 PM
Quote from: Korea on August 27, 2009, 11:51:07 PM
Hollis is a cool name though.

Agreed, but then I'm biased. "Jim" is the lamest name one could have. It's kind of like having "Brand X" on your birth certificate.
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: jimmy olsen on August 28, 2009, 12:07:35 AM
Quote from: Octavian on August 27, 2009, 07:40:16 AM
Quote from: merithyn on August 27, 2009, 07:21:25 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 26, 2009, 10:42:30 PM
I agree, it's a pretty name. But I wouldn't want to be constantly running into people with the same name as me.

Exactly. Try being Mary Williams, for hod's sake.  <_<

Ahh a traditional Mexican name
I loled
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Korea on August 28, 2009, 12:26:01 AM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on August 27, 2009, 11:54:33 PM
Quote from: Korea on August 27, 2009, 11:51:07 PM
Hollis is a cool name though.

Agreed, but then I'm biased. "Jim" is the lamest name one could have. It's kind of like having "Brand X" on your birth certificate.

Jim isn't so bad. I think I've only met one or two people named Jim in my entire life. Does anyone ever call you Jimmy?
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Korea on August 28, 2009, 12:26:37 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 27, 2009, 11:53:11 PM
Quote from: Korea on August 27, 2009, 11:52:00 PM
Oh, well duh. That makes sense. I can't remember ever meeting anyone in the states with the last name Hunter though.

Have you met more than one person with the first name Hunter?

I don't think so...
Title: Re: Name changes
Post by: Ed Anger on August 28, 2009, 06:30:01 AM
Quote from: Korea on August 27, 2009, 11:51:07 PM


Hollis is a cool name though.

Hollis Wood.

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You won't get shit out of me. I've been constipated all week!