Comments on: Really, REALLY unfortunate wedding announcements

By: S. Weasel

S. Weasel — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:45:19 +0000

Woohoo! Fresh meat! I mean, ummm…hi!

By: Gremlin

Gremlin — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:42:24 +0000

lol…lmao…rotflmao…what?

By: Pupster

Pupster — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:00:34 +0000

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.

By: Nina

Nina — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:16:28 +0000

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.

By: Mrs. Peel

Mrs. Peel — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:06:53 +0000

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.

By: armybrat

armybrat — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:20:14 +0000

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.

By: lizardbrain

lizardbrain — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:03:20 +0000

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.

By: TattooedIntellectual

TattooedIntellectual — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:31:39 +0000

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.

By: S. Weasel

S. Weasel — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:18:37 +0000

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.

By: Mike C.

Mike C. — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:47:34 +0000

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.