New law: As of today every adult must legally change his or her first name. My new name is…

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Areallylongnametoannoythemanbecausetheyshouldntbeallowedtomakeapersonchangetheirnameanywayanditwouldbemywayofportestingagainstheinhumanityandassaninityofthelaw.

  1. Make paperwork harder for those who thought this was a good law.
  2. I’d keep going by my real name anyway.
  3. Hi Opal.
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I’d change it to “Your Name”.

Them: What’s your name?

Me: Your Name.

Them: Oh! Your name is (their name) too?

Me: No, it’s “Your Name”.

Them: It’s Your Name?

Me: Yes

Them: Your Name is Yes?
Oh it would be just beautiful…

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John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt.

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Gahan

  1. Gahan Wilson is a cool cartoonist
  2. It’s pronounced like “Gone” with a slight expulsion of breath in the middle
  3. Those who say “Gay Han” would be wrong and I get to castigate them for it
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Lorelai

  1. It means “Alluring Enchantress” . Who doesn’t want to be called that every day?
  2. It has nicknames I like: Lor, Lori, Lora, Rory,
  3. My same first initial. That means my typical username online (my initials, spelled out) doesn’t have to change and the things I have that are monogrammed are still right.

A close second for me was Morrigan because I feel like it fits my personality. But I liked Lorelai better.

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Thor

  1. Its God-like
  2. Means Thunder
  3. Easy to Spell
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Eliel.

  1. It is Hebrew.
  2. It is pleasingly recursive.
  3. It bends gender.
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My new first name is Steve, because:[ol]
[li]People call me **Steve **when they mis-hear my name on the phone[/li][li]**Steve **is the prototypical cool American male, you know what I’m talkin’ about?[/li][li]Hi, Opal! has already been used, so no third reason [/li][/ol]

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I choose…Richmond.

  1. It’s pretty uncommon; the only person I know with the name is ex-NFL player Richmond Webb.

  2. For some reason, people decided to pick “Brooklyn” and “Bronx” from the NYC boroughs and counties. “Richmond” is much more organic as a person’s name.

  3. For those who must, they can easily shorten it to Rich.

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It should come as no surprise that I would choose Rhiannon.

  1. It has been my online name for nearly 20 years

  2. I like the Celtic myth

  3. I like the Fleetwood Mac song

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Linus

  1. I always liked that Van Pelt boy in “Peanuts”

  2. I think it’s cool that Linus Pauling won Nobel Prizes in two different fields

  3. I’d enjoy keeping track of how many people pronounced it to rhyme with “sinus” (as I would) as opposed to how many opted for “linn-us”

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The latter would be clueless computer folk who never bothered to read the old Linux Pronunciation FAQ. (What’s worse, these people “correct” my pronunciation.)

As for 2, then you might be interested in “William” as a middle name, after Nobel laureate William Parry Murphy who as a child lived in the same small town as Pauling.

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Adelheid

  1. I could go by Heidi.
  2. I like the book Heidi.
  3. I like Germanic names.
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Kyle

[ol]
[li]Cool sounding[/li][li]Short[/li][li]No obvious nickname[/li][/ol]

Somewhat diminished in appeal since the rise of South Park, but I’m old enough that I don’t care.

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Ainsley

Feminine yet still adult sounding
No good nicknames (hate 'em!)
I really like the character Ainsley Hayes on “The West Wing”

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Marius

  1. It’s short.
  2. Easy to spell and pronounce.
  3. Unusual enough that I won’t run into more of them every day.