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From: whitehur@tymix.UUCP (Pamela K. Whitehurst)
Newsgroups: soc.women,soc.singles
Subject: Re: Changing names
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Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 12:07:58 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  2 12:07:58 1986
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In article <2750@cae780.UUCP> gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon) writes:
>In article <730@ur-tut.UUCP> huds@ur-tut.UUCP (Andrew Hudson) writes:
>>A few years ago when my sister got married she decided neither to take
>>her spouse's last name nor keep her own but to hyphenate the two.
>>	[...]
>>keep the lineage alive!  So now she goes by Hudson-Hankins.
>>We kid her about being a Hudhank, or a Hudkin, or a Hankson but you
>
>That always struck me a short-sighted.  My spouse and I could have become
>Troublefield-Gordons, then the children from the families could marry to
>form Troublefield-Gordon-Hudson-Hankins.  In the meantime, the offspring of
>the Barton-Smiths and Kelsey_Gonzales (former co-workers) could have married,
>and eventually, the 
>Troublefield-Gordon-Hudson-Hankins-Kelsey-Gonzales-Barton-Smith family's 
>children could look forward to seeing THEIR grandchildren's names ...
>
>If you aren't both comfortable with one of the existing names, pick a new
>one, don't combine the existing ones.

Unless what you want is a combination of the existing ones... I just
can't sit back and let someone preach absolutes about what to do with 
last names! Next thing you know someone is going to legislate a maximum
length (how about 8 characters)!

I assume the children will have better sense than to continue the tradition
past a reasonable point.  They know that
Troublefield-Gordon-Hudson-Hankins-Kelsey-Gonzalas-Barton-Smith will not
fit in a 10 character computer name field (or on the top of a check), but
then that may be a reason they would choose to continue the tradition.

-- 
Disclaimer: This is just my responding, with an ambiguous language, to
what someone else wrote, in an ambiguous language. At no time did I
read anyone's mind to find out what they really meant.

       Pamela K. Whitehurst 
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"Yes, it is bread we fight for, but we fight for roses too."