# Too Mundane for GQ: The Same Last Name, Hyphenated

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**Created:** [January 2, 2009, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-mundane-for-gq-the-same-last-name-hyphenated/479586 "2009-01-02T13:38:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-mundane-for-gq-the-same-last-name-hyphenated/479586/21 "2009-01-04T07:02:55Z")

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> [@TWDuke](#):
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> [Introducing the Tollemache-Tollemaches](http://www.thepeerage.com/p25195.htm#i251944).
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> One member of the family received the name Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache, but is said to have gone by Leone Sextus Tollemache (probably after being asked “How many Tollemache’s is that?” one too many times).
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> This name originated not with a mother who was a pretentious twat, but with a father who was a nutter and married his cousin.

On reflection, I now see that if I were to marry a cousin, I should change my last name.

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