sweasel.com

Try thumbing through some Dicken’s novels for inspiration. He came up with some really wonderful names somehow. Liquor I suspect. And talk about authentically British!

I thought the US tradition was to keep your first and middle name and take your husband’s last name? I never heard of moving your last name to middle, then husband’s name – maybe that is an east coast blue-blood thing?

I’m from the South originally. But…thinking about it…yeah, all the women in my family took their old last name for their middle name and dropped their old middle name.

Maybe it’s a Southern thing. We’re real fussy about family relationships, mostly so we don’t accidentally interbreed more than we intended.

Ahh…I forgot you were from the south. Could quite possibly be a southern thing.

As usual, I will be of absolutely no help, being suthren and all. No big surprise there, eh?

Being stuck with an onerous middle name, and being a Junior to boot (Cornpone Mushmouth Mumble, Jr. – a mouthful), I kinda sorta feel your pain, Sweasel.

I once had a true love who broke up with me on this very issue…. she had professional aspirations (and rightly so) and understood that her ‘professional name ‘would have to be carried. Our names, combined were a disaster – not so much when written but definitely when spoken.

While this has been cleverly disguised to protect my secret identity as Clark Kent, it would have been close to

Maurice Lotta-Milk

She dumped me.

the other girls in my family did the name maiden name hubby’s name thing. Me…had to be different-name maiden yphen hubby’s name. That’s the kind of stupid shit you do when you get married at 21. 23 years later, everytime I have to sign my legal name it’s a pain in the ass to write out 16 letters. Just do what most of my professional collegues do (because it’s a pain in the ass to change names on licenses) keep your name and introduce yourself as the badger’s wife.

I kept my middle name and took my husband’s last name. Was happy to shed my 10 letter maiden name – mostly because my maiden family are a constant source of irritation.

I’ll have you know, my pet lice are very friendly. They frequently sing me to sleep.

Okay Badger, I went looking for a pic of ‘Milquetoast the cockroach’ (remember him whispering subliminals in Opus’ ear as he slept?) for a sassy comeback to your singing lice.
I swear that on the dogpile page of milquetoast cockroaches, Kucinich’s website popped up. Now it is not there. Hmmmm……

Just wait a couple of years after you are married and have your name legally changed to @.

I know, big help.

So far I’ve come as close to the big M as I’ve come to the zone of exclusion around the Chernobyl NPP. Don’t get me wrong though – I’d really love to do it one day. If I can find the right person (to tell me where the deadly pockets of radiation are).

Honor the Badger and take his name outright. Cleave to your furry guy. The two shall become one – of what we aren’t quite sure. What do you get when you cross a badger and a weasel?

Really. Not a joke. Anybody? Beuhler?

I don’t know, but you wouldn’t BELIEVE how bad it smells.

Incidentally, I hope you guys followed the link. I was rolling. I didn’t make up any of those names in the picture.

I think Hardy – Harr is my favorite.

S’once again, SWeasel gains 15 nanos of infamy fame.

Hmm. I think Mrs. Mike C. (AKA TGoP at GCP) did the southern thing and moved her family name left and dropped the middle one. her middle name was also a family name and even wierder than her real one.

I say I think this is true. We’ve only been married almost 36 years, so I’m not sure.

Yes, I was suprised to hear that wasn’t universal. I guess when your own family does something, you assume everyone does.

My grandmother didn’t get any name at all on her birth certificate. She took this cue to change her name any time she wished, usually to whatever was most fashionable at the time. I know she was Maude for a while.

I do think it’s a southern thing to move the maiden name to the middle name, it’s what my mom did. But then again, she was usually called by first-middle anyway.

I’d go w/ whichever I liked the sound of better.

My mom also dropped her middle name and moved her maiden name over. It’s gotta be a Southern thing. She always claimed she was a Southern Polack, because she was from the South Bronx.

my folks are yankees and my mama did the maiden name as middle name thing after they got married. Next year is their 50th, so something worked for them.

I’m Southern, and it’s never even occurred to me to take my last name as my new middle name. My mom certainly didn’t.

As for me, I do like my middle name (it comes from my grandmother) and don’t like my last name, which doesn’t sound good with my first name. Unfortunately, the boy’s last name doesn’t sound great either, and it’s French. Quelle horreur! His family has anglicized the pronunciation, and may have been in Texas longer than my family, so that’s something, I guess.

I should probably append some sort of in-the-event-that-we-get-married disclaimer to the above remarks, but somehow, I don’t feel it’s necessary.

The good thing about going to England is that they name babies just about anything, so whatever you choose you will fit right in.

So relax, and put as many names on your chequebook as will fit.

Poore-Sapp and Crap-Beer are my favorites.

Where my dad grew up in Indiana, there was a HUGE amount of folks named Beer, I always thought it was the greatest last name: “Stoaty Weasel Badger Beer” is quite lyrical.

lol…lmao…rotflmao…what?

Woohoo! Fresh meat! I mean, ummm…hi!