[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry]
A week or so ago I kept hearing promos for Bob Edwards’ show, in which a man was interviewed whose father edited a small-town newspaper in, I think, Wisconsin. The bite they played featured the intervewee saying that his dad’s paper covered small towns like Normal and Oblong, "… so he got to write headlines like ‘Oblong Woman Marries Normal Man.’ "
I laughed out loud every time I heard it. 
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[QUOTE=freckafree]
A little south of where I grew up is a town by the name of Big Ugly, leading to headlines like “Big Ugly woman injured in accident.”
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In Oregon, two towns in close proximity are Boring and Drain. I was told there was a story in the paper titled “Boring man drowns in Drain”.
A friend once forwarded me a real wedding announcement. The union of Mann and Whitney.
Stats geeks will find this amusing.
[QUOTE=Barrels]
I am getting married in August. We will not be hyphenating our last names, no one would ever be able to keep a straight face if we did.
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Gee, somehow I don’t find your anecdote quite as amusing as you. Because you have provided no details whatsoever.
It’s like saying “I heard this joke once, it was really funny!” and expecting people to laugh.
[QUOTE=GuanoLad]
Gee, somehow I don’t find your anecdote quite as amusing as you. Because you have provided no details whatsoever.
It’s like saying “I heard this joke once, it was really funny!” and expecting people to laugh.
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With a name like Barrels, what’s the other name? Pickle? Herring? Beer?
My wife was a Peters. I am a Payne. Hypenating would have created a urological symptom. 
My husband and I (we kept our names when we married) joke about hyphenating. They are very similar but spelled differently. Imagine it’s something like Williams Walliums. Only, you know, not.
I am usually a full time lurker, but had to come out of the shadows on this one.
I am absolutely not making this up. I know a woman with the last name Cox who married a guy named Pat Tucker and she hyphenates. Yep, she’s a Cox-Tucker. (say it together real fast).
I have two friends whose wedding announcement was actually used on the Tonight Show. His last name was Saylors, hers was Hay… they were the Hay-Saylors wedding.
I know of a couple here in Vancouver: Beaver-Finger.
Ouff.
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry]
A week or so ago I kept hearing promos for Bob Edwards’ show, in which a man was interviewed whose father edited a small-town newspaper in, I think, Wisconsin. The bite they played featured the intervewee saying that his dad’s paper covered small towns like Normal and Oblong, "… so he got to write headlines like ‘Oblong Woman Marries Normal Man.’ "
I laughed out loud every time I heard it.
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HM, maybe Iowa?
my mom is from Diagonal and dated a guy from Normal, and there is an Octagonal [so I understand …]
Then they moved to Grinell, and there isn’t any decent joke going on there=(
Well, there’s the hostage negotiator, Amatalia Watt-Amaghanadu. 
My mom told me of an aquaintance of hers by the last name of Hollopeter married a woman by the name of Longerbone. oO
I dated a girl named Zimmerman. After we broke up, she was dating a guy named Orndorffer. All of her friends were hoping she would marry him so her last name would be Zimmerman-Orndorffer.
Not real funny as a combo, but what a pain in the ass to spell for people.
[QUOTE=GuanoLad]
Gee, somehow I don’t find your anecdote quite as amusing as you. Because you have provided no details whatsoever.
It’s like saying “I heard this joke once, it was really funny!” and expecting people to laugh.
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Kind of hard to provide a lot of details with out telling the entire world who I am. Both last names are not run of the mill.
Ahh screw it, stalk me if you will… If I were to go by both last names I would be a Chestnut-Mess.
These guys shouldn’t hyphenate, should they marry.
We have an athletic building on campus with a hyphenated name. I love hearing the football fans talk about the Butts-Mehre building.
I know a couple like this. Actually, I’m related to a couple like this.
Mr. Ball and Ms. Lust were married some 10 years or so ago. She actually uses the name “Lust-Ball” as her official last name, although she was kind enough not to inflict it on her kids.
I knew a Ms. Kirsch, who had thought about this topic enough to have mentioned that she wouldn’t want to marry a Mr. Platt.
[QUOTE=lieu]
These guys shouldn’t hyphenate, should they marry.
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I think you should suggest it to them. 
