In response to Bill Cunningham's futile and moronic attempt to try to strike the fear of Saddam into American voters by *Did the Bill Cunninghams of the world rhyme your name with a part of the female anatomy (for example)? Did they make fun of you because your hippie love child mom named you Cloud or Moon? Did they tease you incessantly because your name could be a girl's name (and you are a non-girl, for example)?Well, if we wanted to, we could do some stuff with Cunningham, couldn't we? But instead? Just call me Hussein. My children all have four names, three of them they use all the time. And we're not talking about names like Mary Kay Jones or Kara Ann Smith, we're talking about names that contain as many or more letters than are in the entire English alphabet, with as many as ten syllables. When the Girl learned to write her name, it was like learning to write Tulip Shennandoah Smithington McVargas (for example). In addition to the sheer voluminousness of the name, generally, people don't like to recognize a double surname on a child. They think they're being clever and say things like, "Well, what happens when a Smithington McVargas marries a Pennington O'Toole?" And I say, "What the hell is wrong with being Tulip Shennandoah Smithington McVargas Pennington O'Toole (for example)?"
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You already know part of my name story--I was named one name, but always called by my middle name.
My maiden name was un-correctly-spellable and unpronounceable (unless you are from Massachussets or England, then it's a name everyone knows). My married name is un-correctly-spellable and unpronounceable (unless you are from Quebec, where it appears on street signs!).
Fortunately, I am very patient with the whole name thing. Otherwise I would spend my entire life teed off (instead of just part of it).
When I got married I decided to just add the K-man's name onto mine...no hyphens, just tacked it on. My name takes up two lines on my passport!!! Personally, I think it's kind of cool!
My boys, in Japan, have only 2 names (given and family), but their American passports sport a middle name...a non-Japanese name...each name works well with the first name AND when mom is angry, all names roll out very well when yelling!!!
And I would love to have a name like Tulip Shennandoah Smithington McVargas Pennington O'Toole...after that, "Debbie" just sounds too....regular!!
:-D
As a person that was born with one name, but was later changed due to divorce, I have to ask (or aks depending on your point of view) what is the big deal about a name? Personally I would vote for someone with the middle name Hussein because they are obviously much much much much much much much smarter than someone we know that is named George.
Just my humble opinion.
And commenter Mike's logic makes EXTREMELY good sense to me!
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Anyway, George couldn't even get beyond spelling the first letter of his middle name...
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I love names! Both my children have 2 middle names.
Not being in the US, I did not catch the debacle regarding Obama's middle name....but I have to shake my head at the new low in political debate. In fact, I think Mike summed it up brilliantly.
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Heidi
H a double r i g-a-n spells harrigan .. now I will have that earworm all day .. LOL .. thanks for stopping by my place .. I'll be back! :)
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I will give credit (as I always do when sharing his gems) to the late Michael J. O'Brien for teaching me one of my favorite "coping mechanisms.
Subsequent to listening attentively to the railings of a county judge about the injustice ... of the paneling in his chambers being of a quality inferior to that of a junior judge ... Mister O'Brien answered my question as to how he endured the absurdity of the rantings, with, "What we have just been privy to, Michael, my lad, is a very BIG MOMENT in a very SMALL LIFE.
I have returned countless times to that thought when confronted with just such inanities as those to which you make reference.
Alas, our world is heavily populated with myriad SMALL LIVES trying to inflate themselves with their own creations of a BIG MOMENT.
My husband and i could not even agree on the first name for the boy...let alone 3-4.
I think the more names the better. People only spell my last name right about 11% of the time. My son has a last name for a middle name.
Just for the record: names don't scare me. Right wingers are going to have to do better than that!
Nice!
We changed our middle child's name 3 months after she was born. So she has like 5 flipping names on her passport.
Nice!
Talk about middle child syndrome!
My poor daughters have had enough surnames to have earned them a full-on identity crisis. First they had biological father's, then mine, and then the combination of mine and my husband's (who adopted them), but no hyphen between their two last names (Smith Jones, for example) which causes people to question, computers to crash, and pharmacists to never be able to find their prescriptions on the shelf. I don't suppose Carolyn Bessette Kennedy had that problem, I mean did people go around putting random hyphens between her last names? But then again, she didn't get to enjoy her two last not-hypenated names for very long, but that's neither here nor there.
Um, what were we talking about?
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