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Who the Fuck was that Guy? (The Middle Name Thread)

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by toytoy88, Oct 3, 2015.

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  1. Flat_Rate

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    Cooper, after my grandfather, my parents gave both my brother and I the same middle name.
     
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    My middle name is Richard, which is the name I use. (Close friends and family call me Rich).
    First name is William. On the one hand, I'm glad I wasn't William Francis __________ III. On the other, obviously my parents were looking for a nickname and almost all of them would have been better than the one they settled on - Richie.
    (I know we covered this at some point before as someone repped me and said something along the lines of, "hey, Willie Dick.")
    I hated that name.

    The best is when I get an email or IM at work from someone that doesn't know me:
    "Hey Will, can you..."
    "Bill, you got a second?"
    "Billy, can you check on....?"


    Those pretty much go ignored.
     
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    My middle name is Molly, after my paternal great-grandmother. My dad was really close with her. She was, in fact, not an Irish potato farmer but an Austrian Jew who came to Brooklyn with my great-grandfather when they were 21 to run a candy store.
     
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    My first name is my middle name, in that I go by my second name, as did my dad, and his dad, and his dad before him.

    Some stupid Scottish tradition meant that ever male in our family for the past 400+ years has had the same first name, Ernest. It plays hell with all official paperwork when you go by your second name. And then there's that one fuckwit at the family reunion who goes by Ernest, and when his wife bellows, we all turn around.

    I don't have kids, and I don't really plan on having any, which is a shame... because I so would have stuck them with the same fucking tradition.
     
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    Mine is Michael. Boring, I know.

    My (step) Dad is William Wallace the 8th. Seriously. The family did that 8 times in a row.
     
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    Lot of unoriginal parents around here. I'm a Thomas as well. Unfortunately, mine is after my alcoholic grandfather who is pretty much a shithead. My mom's brother on that side is also a Thomas, so I'll just pretend its after him. My Dad wanted to choose my mother's maiden name, which is Anderson, which would have been cooler.
     
    #26 JWags, Oct 9, 2015
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    The middle name on my birth certificate is Angelque. Supposedly named after the character in the 1970s Dark Shadows, but someone involved in recording it on the birth certificate didn't know/care that there should be an i in there - Angelique. When I got divorced and had to get a judge to sign off on going back to my maiden name, I used that opportunity to correct the error of my middle name. Now it officially has the fucking i in it.
     
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    I'm a middle namer too.

    My first name is William (after my dad), but I go by my middle name, Joe.

    School was fun.

    More than twenty years of:

    Teacher: "Is there a William [last name] here"

    Me: *sigh* "I go by Joe"

    Even more fun when cashiers try to play Sherlock Holmes. I'll use my credit card (my main one uses Joe) and when they ask for my ID they get all Columbo on me.

    "Ah Ha! The first names don't match!"

    "Do you see my middle initial of J?"

    "Oh! Oh!!!! Oh........."

    Thanks Mom and Dad. I'm truly grateful for the lifelong headache.
     
    #28 bebop007, Oct 9, 2015
  9. dixiebandit69

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    Same here.
    I try to make things a little interesting when people ask about my initials, (and they know my first and last name), and I'd say "what do you think my middle name is?"
    But 90% of the time, they guess the right name.

    But I'll bet no one can guess Li'l Bandit's middle name (free rep point to anyone who does).
     
    #29 dixiebandit69, Oct 9, 2015
  10. Crown Royal

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    Mine is Roger. Named after a minister friend of my dad's. Considering most of you have serial killer names, I got off light.

    I'm named after my grandfather. Figure that's why he didn't beat me like the other cousins.Good thinking, mom.
     
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    That would be agitating. No wonder you jumped off the Tallahatchie bridge.

    My dad goes by his middle name because he shares his first name with his alcoholic seven-beatings-a-week (and dead) WWII veteran father.
     
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    I actually learned this a few weeks ago. Mine's from a character on Hill Street Blues--Kiel.
     
    #33 effinshenanigans, Oct 9, 2015
  14. The Village Idiot

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    Mine is pretty normal: David. I wasn't named for anyone, my parents just couldn't decide which name they liked better so they used both.
     
    #34 The Village Idiot, Oct 9, 2015
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    Trans Am?
     
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    "I popped out of a very hairy pussy?' Admittedly, a bit long for a driver's license, but certainly a worthy name.
     
    #36 The Village Idiot, Oct 9, 2015
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    Harry, after my maternal grandfather. It's kind of boring.
    My actual first name (Arthur) is pretty meh too, especially considering I'm the sixth generation to have it (some oldest-son of oldest-son thing) - bonus round is my great grandfather getting with two women and naming his son with each of them Arthur
     
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    Edward. After my maternal grandfather, I also passed it along to my son. I didn't want him to have my first name, it was my generation's John. I hated being one of 4 Ryans in a classroom.
     
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    Officially I am named after a great uncle on my mother's side who I can't say I ever knew. Unfortunately, it is also the same name as an uncle on my mom's side who is the black sheep of the family. Dad later told me that he was always against me having that middle name.
     
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  20. toytoy88

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    Truthfully I came out lucky in my grandmother's Name the Baby game. I had an Aunt Billie and Uncles Shirley, Audley, Jiggs, Elsy, & Wilborn. Nope, you can't tell my family is from the south.

    In retrospect, my name isn't so bad at all.
     
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