Couldn’t you just have your checks as T. Dante Hilfiger?
You know, like J. Edgar Hoover?
My last name contains an apostrophe. Ordering anything personalized is a game of chance.
No doubt about that. My names are pretty common except that full-length version of my first name is has two letters reversed from their usual order. If my full name is on something, chances are either those two letters get reverted to the “normal” way or the “e” in my last name becomes an “o” or both are wrong. I received two diplomas when I graduated high school, a large version and a laminated wallet-sized card. One had my last name wrong and the other had my first wrong.
There’s a singular?
Your name is GOEFFREY???
What the hell were your parents thinking!!
My husband does not have a middle name. No initial, nothing. He doesn’t know why, that’s just the way his parents willed it. But apparently, he doesn’t truly exist because of it. I can’t tell you how many electronic forms and the like will NOT accept his information because he did NOT fill out the middle initial field! A line doesn’t work, a dash doesn’t work…one bank he had in the past actually asked him to just please make up a middle name so their computer would accept his information. :rolleyes:
One advantage to ordering checks through your bank is that you can pick them up from your bank, instead of having them mailed to an outside, accessible mailbox. My next-door neighbor had two boxes of reordered checks stolen from his mailbox two months ago, and numerous fraudulent checks have been written on the account, even though he immediately closed it upon realizing what happened. It has cost him a great deal of time and effort to defend his identity, including having to file an affidavit for each bad check written to assure the recipient that it was fraud.
I urge you not to have your checks mailed to your outdoor mailbox…
I have the joy of having the same name as my Grandma who also goes by her middle name. ie her middle name is my first name.
The most fun we had was when we had bank accounts at the same bank. Somehow they will accept her middle name as her ‘real name’ but they will not accept mine, so their computers say I am Ruth [mylastname] and my Grandma is Ruth [herlastname]… and our last names are the same. Until I changed branches every time I went in to do a transaction, even with my own account number handy, I had to tell them that I was the younger Ruth. Oh… I was also living with her at the time so we had the same address too.
Finally, though, I moved out and changed branches. Now if I could only get them to go by my middle name. I did legally find a way around my having to acknowledge my first name. Now when I sign anything legal I sign R. [middle] [last]. (Someone once told me that if I sign any legal documents, like my drivers license, without my first name it rendered it invalid. Is that true?) Where I work doesn’t care that I go by my middle name. The only people who seem to care are the banks and the government.
You know how shit just strikes you as funny? I read that in the exact voice/sound that the monster that appears to be Godzilla in Monsters Inc makes at the crosswalk. Holy crap.
Sorry your bank people are all idgits.
LOL!
My name’s not that unusual.
Heh, heh, heh. “Bah-gawk!?!” Sheer genius.
For some inexplicable reason, my ATM is encoded with my middle and first names reversed. It’s the oddest thing. When I use it as a debit or credit card, they’re in the right order, but every single ATM does it backwards.
If only I could get them to reset my friggin’ account so that the ATM doesn’t give me an extra screen every stinkin’ time I try to get cash from my savings asking if I want it to come from my regular savings or my vacation savings. I closed my vacation savings account three years ago, and I’ve tried to get this straightened out twice. The first time they said they fixed it, and didn’t. The second, they claimed it was impossible to fix. One of these days I’m going to go to the main branch and park myself in the middle of the lobby and sing commercial jingles until it’s fixed.
No, no, no. Obviously it’s Goeffery. Goeffery Elson.
It’s not that hard, eh?
As is (I assume) the other form of Irish surname.
Mc clure
McLure
Maclure
…
Ugh.
Ha ha ha. I have a hyphen. I generally like my name, but you wouldn’t believe how many people don’t even know what a hyphen IS. I have had a few people hear “hyphen” and write in an apostrophe. Which is just bizarre! I mean, have you ever seen a name like “Johnson’Green”? An apostrophe! I just can’t over that. Plus, an apostrophe denotes that it’s basically one name, whereas my two names are pretty obviously - if you have a brain, anyway - from two different cultural groups (my mom’s family is Irish, my dad’s an Ashkenazi Jew).
You’re Tommy Hilfiger’s son? You must be RICH!!!
I work with lists of names (people that want to come work for us). It took me the longest time, puzzling over all the people who’s middle name was NMI [gee, what a wierd middle name - must be a Missouri thing…], to figure out it stands for No Middle Initial.
:smack:
Holy shit! I don’t have a middle name, and it never occured to me that I had to. Forms here (uk) seem to be first name(s) and surname so it’s ok. I like it - everyone’s middle name is something they hate, and I never get “You’re ‘Shade Middlename Surname’? You can’t be; you signed ‘Shade Surname’?” It’s also uniquer than any middle name could be.
I’ve seen that on the forms I process, I’ve also seen NMN (No Middle Name). What the hell is wrong with the people that fill out these forms? If you’re filing on behalf of someone without a middle name then don’t put anything!
Heh. Guess I’m not awake enough yet, took me a while to get that one.
