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What's in a name?
By: Truman Overby Date: July 17, 2019, 7:59 am
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Have you ever thought of changing your name? Did you get as far
as making a list of possible contenders? As you all know, I went
ahead and made the leap, though it's not legal just yet. :D
Would you make up a list of names that sound real or would you
get creative? Maybe you'd borrow a famous person's name like the
singer Arnold George Dorsey did.
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Re: What's in a name?
By: SHL Date: July 17, 2019, 11:08 am
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[quote author=The Artist formerly known as Truman Overby
link=topic=1242.msg18117#msg18117 date=1563368383]
Have you ever thought of changing your name? Did you get as far
as making a list of possible contenders? As you all know, I went
ahead and made the leap, though it's not legal just yet. :D
Would you make up a list of names that sound real or would you
get creative? Maybe you'd borrow a famous person's name like the
singer Arnold George Dorsey did.
[/quote]
You changed your name?
I always thought it would be too much of a hassle. You have to
publish a notice in the paper for a month, go to court, get the
order, then notify everyone. It’s hardly worth it unless you
really hate your name, I would think.
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Re: What's in a name?
By: Truman Overby Date: July 17, 2019, 11:54 am
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[quote author=SHL link=topic=1242.msg18130#msg18130
date=1563379737]
You changed your name?
[/quote]
Yes, I started out as Issur Danielovitich, then I simplified it
to Izzy Dempsky, then came Truman Overby, and now The Artist
formerly known as Truman Overby. ::)
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Re: What's in a name?
By: Allie Date: July 17, 2019, 2:29 pm
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Interesting question!
I wasn’t crazy about my name growing up. The fact I didn’t know
any namesakes, got spelling mistakes all the time and had to
become a spelling expert when I was still a child really made me
want to change it.
Thing is: I didn’t want anything too obvious and something more
“original” would cause the same problems. There’s the hassle
too. I think the legislation is more flexible nowadays, but back
then, in order to change one’s name you had to present evidence
that it somehow affected you negatively.
I am ok with my name now. Recently I had a serious issue
regarding spelling mistakes, but I am used to double checking.
The only thing that bugs me is that I really don’t understand
why so many people have so many trouble with just 6 letters.
There’s also some debate regarding the origin of it and I can’t
help but rolling my eyes when some affected fuckwit erroneously
mention the Moon shit
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Re: What's in a name?
By: SHL Date: July 17, 2019, 3:03 pm
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Oh, Jerry, you are just talking about fake internet names? Well,
you can change those with a few key strokes.
Instead of “formally known as” why not just say “fka” like we do
on court documents all the time. You know when a wife takes back
her maiden name after divorce or remarries, but refiles a motion
in her old divorce case (for more child support or whatever) we
have to identify her as an “fka” because the court docket report
has her old name on it.
So, I put “In re the Marriage of John K. Smith, and Mary Jones
Jackson (fka Mary Jones Smith), Case No. FFL152257. That way our
dummy clerks don’t freak out at the courthouse, saying “that’s
not the right case name, What is Mr......... doing?” If I don’t
do that, they send the document back or scratch out the name or
something.
So, you are the Artist, fka Truman Overby. Right?
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Re: What's in a name?
By: Truman Overby Date: July 17, 2019, 3:38 pm
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I was trying to prod you into revealing a German name you've
been dreaming of taking on, Steve.
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Re: What's in a name?
By: Aliph Date: July 18, 2019, 12:40 am
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[quote author=Erik link=topic=1242.msg18135#msg18135
date=1563391761]
There’s also some debate regarding the origin of it and I can’t
help but rolling my eyes when some affected fuckwit erroneously
mention the Moon ****
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Don’t they know that you come from Mars? It’s obvious to all of
us.
Instead of Erik you could choose another masculine name that
clarifies it : Martial, a famous Roman epigrammist. The name is
still used in French.
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Re: What's in a name?
By: SHL Date: July 18, 2019, 2:15 am
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Jerry, a lot of young people now are getting American name in
Germany, like I have heard „Steve“, „Markos“ (could be spelled
slightly different), and other.
I always like Jürgen, or Hans, or Johann, less „hip“
American-Sounding names. It would like to change my French
adopted surname, adopted in the 1860s, back to what it should
have been to the Northern Irish Protestant surname, Sproule, but
it would be so much work. My paternal great grandfather and
great grandmother weren’t married is the reason he got her
surname at birth, McCort. She was from Glasgow, Scotland and a
cleaning lady in Boston, who put him up from adoption after he
was born in a poor-house in Tewksbury, Massachusetts.
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