Happy Birthday, Preston Michael Spears Federline and other Certain Special Someones!

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Of 17 kids in my first grader's class, 3 hyphenated, 12 different last names, 2 same last names.

The Displaced Dog and the Puppy are in a single parent household and the vet puts them down under my last name.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Normally I am a progressive,

And normally I am consistent and get right to the point.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
HA!

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Indeed.

Jesus. Would you two just make out or something already?

[dtb]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I believe that the norm these days is two. But you know dtb - she's such an overachiever and a real dynamo with the time management - so my guess would be somewhere in the 5-7 range.

And you're not even counting the girlfriends!

You guys are making it sound like it's a bad thing. I mean, there may be 5-7, but that doesn't mean that there isn't one special one!

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
2.

[true story] Normally I am a progressive, but I just assumed my first wife would take my last name. A month before the wedding the issue came up in earnest, and she was balking. For a two day period the wedding was actually off, but then we decided on a compromise. We would compete to see who took the other's last name. If I won, she took mine, and if she won, I took hers. I suggested a sporting contest, a pure physical contest, a (metric)mile running race on the track. At first glance this did not seem fair as the only chick in Chicago at the time, whom I knew of, who was faster than me was Jenny Spangler. So, being a sportman of the fairest order, I agreed to spot her 800 metres. I nipped her after the last turn in the final 50 with a ferocious finishing kick in 4:21. My fastest mile ever (hi coltrane). [/true story]

Fast forward to today: She has to deal with having the last name of a fattie who can't let go of the past.

TM

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
The Displaced Dog and the Puppy are in a single parent household and the vet puts them down under my last name.

I'm assuming this is so the names on the headstones are consistent, no?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by tmdiva
One of my girlfriends and her husband agreed that sons would take his name, daughters hers.

tm

I've been strongly considering this change as the Littlest Bagette approaches - nay, passes, overwhelms, and beats into sobbing submission - puberty.

Originally posted by Not Bob
No, he's a saint (St. Nicholas), who celebrated the birth of Jesus by giving gifts back in the day.

From http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11063b.htm

• In Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, they have the custom of making him the secret purveyor of gifts to children on 6 December, the day on which the Church celebrates his feast; in the United States and some other countries St. Nicholas has become identified with Santa Claus who distributes gifts to children on Christmas eve.

This sounds like the work of an industrious German capitalist. No wonder Karl Marx invented socialism (he was jewish, right?)

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
And normally I am consistent and get right to the point.

It's not friday, why the FB-PoPD?

[dtb]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
And normally I am consistent and get right to the point.

Ping!! Pow!

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by spookyfish
You are such a romantic.

Indeed. In fact, I may be the ultimate romantic. I just keep it under wraps until a sappy Amazing Race "My wife is the strongest person I've ever met; I'm so proud of her!" clip comes along to jerk the tears right out of me.

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Fast forward to today: She has to deal with having the last name of a fattie who can't let go of the past.

TM

Claus?

Originally posted by dtb
Ping!! Pow!

Jesus, woman. It is "Ping! Pow!. I am sure your little handbook, Eats, Shoots and Leaves has a section on this.

And that wasn't really a "Ping! Pow! situation.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Fast forward to today: She has to deal with having the last name of a fattie who can't let go of the past.

TM

I was going to respond in like kind, but coincidentally, in an ironic fashion, I was opening a fortune cookie with one hand, while typing with the other, and my fortune read as follows:

YOUR PERSONALITY IS GREAT; USE IT PROUDLY-DON'T DEBATE

<eom>

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Indeed. In fact, I may be the ultimate romantic. I just keep it under wraps until a sappy Amazing Race "My wife is the strongest person I've ever met; I'm so proud of her!" clip comes along to jerk the tears right out of me.

Well, you know folks, Mrs. Not Bob is really the one y'all should be honoring here today. I'm just thankful that she dropped out of law school to marry me and to edit all of my seminar papers, otherwise I never would have gotten that first job at Dunning Sponget, heh-heh.