# Lauren Bush marries David Lauren **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 4, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lauren-bush-marries-david-lauren/605042 "2011-12-04T18:37:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lauren-bush-marries-david-lauren/605042/1 "2011-12-04T18:37:43Z")
and changes her name to [Lauren Bush Lauren](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Bush). She is the niece of Dubya, and he is the son of Ralph Lauren. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lauren-bush-marries-david-lauren/605042/2 "2011-12-04T20:41:43Z")
You know it must be love if she’s willing to live the rest of her life as Lauren Lauren. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lauren-bush-marries-david-lauren/605042/3 "2011-12-04T22:25:16Z")
So now we have “Lauren Bush Lauren,” having survived “Bush Clinton Bush.” ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lauren-bush-marries-david-lauren/605042/4 "2011-12-05T00:24:17Z")
So does it make it better or worse that the accented syllables in her first and last name are different? ---
**Author:** ![missinformation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@missinformation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missinformation)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lauren-bush-marries-david-lauren/605042/5 "2011-12-05T00:32:21Z")
Ralph Lauren’s real last name is Lipschitz. Actually she is Lauren Bush Lipschitz!!! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lauren-bush-marries-david-lauren/605042/6 "2011-12-05T00:40:22Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > You know it must be love if she’s willing to live the rest of her life as Lauren Lauren. She probably didn’t know that’s what it would be. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lauren-bush-marries-david-lauren/605042/7 "2011-12-05T02:09:43Z")
Did Duran Duran play at their wedding reception? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lauren-bush-marries-david-lauren/605042/8 "2011-12-05T02:33:21Z")
I’ll bet that she married him to get access to her new father-in-law’s [auto collection](http://www.ralphlaurencarcollection.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lauren-bush-marries-david-lauren/605042/9 "2011-12-05T03:42:41Z")
> [@missinformation](#): > > Ralph Lauren’s real last name is Lipschitz. Actually she is Lauren Bush Lipschitz!!! It was Lifshitz. And Ralph changed it to Lauren when he was a teenager so I think it’s safe to say that his son David’s legal last name is Lauren. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lauren-bush-marries-david-lauren/605042/10 "2011-12-05T03:43:45Z")
I foresee a lifetime of “Bond. James Bond” jokes. > [@andygirl](#): > > So does it make it better or worse that the accented syllables in her first and last name are different? **andygirl**! Long time, no see 'round these parts. Welcome back. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lauren-bush-marries-david-lauren/605042/11 "2011-12-05T21:34:30Z")
LORE-inn Luh-RIN. Sounds cool, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lauren-bush-marries-david-lauren/605042/12 "2011-12-05T21:39:12Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > It was Lifshitz. And Ralph changed it to Lauren when he was a teenager so I think it’s safe to say that his son David’s legal last name is Lauren. Ralph gouged out his eyes with his thumbnails just so he could be called Lauren! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lauren-bush-marries-david-lauren/605042/13 "2011-12-05T21:42:28Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Did Duran Duran play at their wedding reception? Yes, but playing the bass was Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond. And Humbert Humbert was on the guest list. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lauren-bush-marries-david-lauren/605042/14 "2011-12-06T04:57:10Z")
David Lauren Bush. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lauren-bush-marries-david-lauren/605042/15 "2011-12-06T06:28:31Z")
David Penis Lauren ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lauren-bush-marries-david-lauren/605042/16 "2011-12-06T07:13:40Z")
Yeah, they aren’t pronounced the same, and the result is pretty cool. –though I did think of Rochelle, Rochelle from Seinfeld. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lauren-bush-marries-david-lauren/605042/17 "2011-12-06T15:04:36Z")
Seventeenth post and I’m the first to suggest that the poetry of William Carlos Williams should have been read at the wedding ceremony? For shame. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lauren-bush-marries-david-lauren/605042/18 "2011-12-06T16:51:30Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > Seventeenth post and I’m the first to suggest that the poetry of William Carlos Williams should have been read at the wedding ceremony? For shame. And a reading by author **Ford Madox Ford**. With musical accompanyment by \*\*Sylvain Sylvain \*\*of the New York Dolls and \*\*Steve Stevens \*\*(nee Schneider) of Billy Idol’s band…oh, and the band **The The**. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lauren-bush-marries-david-lauren/605042/19 "2011-12-06T22:42:20Z")
Hopefully no one present will get shot by Sirhan Sirhan. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lauren-bush-marries-david-lauren/605042/20 "2011-12-06T22:47:23Z")
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