"Miller, Jeffrey" wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 6:48 PM
> > To: Brin-L
> > Subject: Re: And here we go again.
> >
> > OK, not much got done with my *first* name (although there's
> > some potential there), but there's nothing quite like being
> > the human rope in a game of tug-of-war where the two
> > opponents are yelling at each other, "Leggo my Deggo!"
>
> Will you forgive me if I chuckle jsut a tiny bit?
Absolutely. I was able to look back and laugh at it when I was in high
school, so I'm pretty much over it now. :) Besides, it's been long
enough since I got married and took my husband's name that no one has
used my maiden name as taunting ammo in ages.
> (ObTang: everytime I think about Eggos, I remember back to the giant
> box.. the box of 144 that an ex-gf and I bought together and never ate.
> There is sat, a giant breakfast-food brick in the freezer for a year,
> until we broke up... when it became a source of much yelling and
> shouting. :D)
Oh, my.
Anyway, I'm just as glad my husband prefers a different brand of frozen
waffles, and doesn't *want* me getting the huge container of the stuff.
(I offered to get a package of 64 waffles, but he said that getting the
packages of 16 a little more frequently would work out better for him,
because he doesn't eat them quickly enough for that 64th waffle to be
anywhere near as nice as the 1st one was, by the time he'd get to that
last one.)
> > And then, much later in life, there was the way my middle
> > name got truncated on my student ID at college. My
> > ex-boyfriend's family was calling me "Rando" from the moment
> > they heard about it until they moved to California, and even
> > then, one of them brought it up the time I went out there to
> > visit them. But that was just funny and not hurtful, so it
> > probably doesn't count on this thread.
>
> At least you've only got ONE middle name.. no one understood why I was
> nearly-psychotic about not telling people my middle name, until they
> find out that all three of them are wierd [0]
>
> -j-
>
> [0] that's what I get for having a mother into geneology - I'm named
> after all sorts of dead people
My middle name was apparently given to ALL the children of some relative
of mine -- maybe my grandmother's cousin or my father's second cousin?
(I think I can track down one of them on-line and figure out the exact
relation, but I'm not sure it's worth the effort this year.) My mother
thought it was a bit excessive, but I think that if she had been
planning on giving all her children the same middle name, that might
have been the one to use.
I'm kind of into genealogy, but most of the names I've come up with from
my family to use as middle names didn't meet Dan's approval for one
reason or another. (The only one I can think of offhand that I threw
out for consideration that he didn't like was "Tucker". There were
others, though.) Sammy has my middle name, since Dan agrees that it's a
really good middle name.
(If you're wondering exactly what it is, just add the "lph" that got
truncated on my student ID as mentioned above.)
Julia
