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The Velveteen Ocelot

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65. My first name is boring and ordinary.
Tue May 28, 2019, 09:50 PM
May 2019

When I was a kid I often wanted to change it to something a little more glamorous, but I never did.

Yea. Several times rpannier May 2019 #1
I was named to honor a devotion to the patron saint of barren women Xipe Totec May 2019 #2
Do you realize how much your story reminds me of the story of Isaac? ProudLib72 May 2019 #8
No, I love my name. IrishEyes May 2019 #3
My first and middle name work really well together in French ProudLib72 May 2019 #9
I will worry about it when the time comes. IrishEyes May 2019 #25
It's not been requisite for a woman to change her name PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #57
Honestly, I don't see the point in women changing their name to their husband's ProudLib72 May 2019 #70
Right. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #71
My late wife kept her surname 40+ years ago (with my support, fwiw). Dale Neiburg May 2019 #77
Here's what we did. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #78
My dad named us. MFM008 May 2019 #4
Yes. To spite my father. Cartoonist May 2019 #5
First and Middle, no. But have wanted to take my mother's last name for a long time. Lady Freedom Returns May 2019 #6
Everyone should occasionally use their drag queen name. Funtatlaguy May 2019 #7
Maggie Tanglewood here ProudLib72 May 2019 #10
Stinky 37th??? Nah, no thanks. ret5hd May 2019 #18
Oh hell yea, you should. I'd ride that train. Lol. Funtatlaguy May 2019 #24
Guess I should be glad I wasn't raised on 69th. ret5hd May 2019 #27
Classic. Funtatlaguy May 2019 #29
... happybird May 2019 #28
Barney Adams. Harker May 2019 #35
"Simone Sixth" missingthebigdog May 2019 #55
Myrtle Eightieth? Yeah, that'll work. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2019 #59
Red Olive? Codeine May 2019 #60
Many times when I was young... uriel1972 May 2019 #11
I'll just say 'yes' and let it go at that. But -- madamesilverspurs May 2019 #12
When I was five I did change my name Brother Buzz May 2019 #13
I DID change my name! Laffy Kat May 2019 #14
Your story is very much like mine lillypaddle May 2019 #22
I like my name. no_hypocrisy May 2019 #15
Yes... Mike Nelson May 2019 #16
My Starbucks name is Thayrone. safeinOhio May 2019 #17
LOL lillypaddle May 2019 #21
I likely will. Harker May 2019 #19
I did change my name in the early 1970s lillypaddle May 2019 #20
Love your story. Laffy Kat May 2019 #23
And me, yours lillypaddle May 2019 #32
Yes, in 6th grade. TygrBright May 2019 #26
That story is all too familiar to me ProudLib72 May 2019 #31
In 1922 my gran was a pregnant single LakeArenal May 2019 #30
Yep. I was a Dick. OxQQme May 2019 #33
Love to get rid of ex-husband's name. Irishxs May 2019 #34
Yes. When I was a kid I couldn't stand my first name. raccoon May 2019 #36
Kind of... flotsam May 2019 #37
I insist I have two different "street" names and one CB Handle TlalocW May 2019 #38
Yes. I always hated my first name. Ugly sounding, unusual spelling, just awful. It didn't help that lunamagica May 2019 #39
But you didn't change it? Just accepted it eventually? ProudLib72 May 2019 #40
Orphie? I can't even...I did change it No one who didn't know me as a child even knows that name lunamagica May 2019 #41
When I was about to enter high school OriginalGeek May 2019 #42
WTF? Why would they ask and then change it anyway? ProudLib72 May 2019 #43
Because that mother fucker is an asshole OriginalGeek May 2019 #44
Ok, now I get it. The last name of your biological father ProudLib72 May 2019 #45
I got over the physical abuse long ago OriginalGeek May 2019 #46
you're an awesome fella, OriginalGeek Skittles May 2019 #50
:) OriginalGeek May 2019 #66
In "Funeral in Berlin" Harker May 2019 #47
Rock Hunter? Wasn't he a geologist? ProudLib72 May 2019 #48
Yes. He was taken for granite. Harker May 2019 #49
LOL. Really cute! nt Ilsa May 2019 #51
Have to shift a lot of ore Harker May 2019 #52
Your story is my story Codeine May 2019 #61
"stepfucker" OriginalGeek May 2019 #67
Yes, when I received US citizenship at140 May 2019 #53
when people hear my name NJCher May 2019 #54
I am thinking of changing to Sneederhunk. Sneederbunk May 2019 #56
No, never. I have always loved my real first and last name. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #58
Nope TexasBushwhacker May 2019 #62
No, I like my name so much I didn change it when I got married csziggy May 2019 #63
Oh, gawd, only all my life. Still do. 3catwoman3 May 2019 #64
I like your rejoinder. Shut him up ProudLib72 May 2019 #74
It was a moment of triumph that I still... 3catwoman3 May 2019 #75
My first name is boring and ordinary. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2019 #65
I share my name with a halfway decent Codeine May 2019 #68
That's true - my last name is also boring and ordinary, The Velveteen Ocelot May 2019 #69
My married last name is a female first name too. nolabear May 2019 #72
Nope. Love my name. Always have. First, Middle, Last. It flows. Solly Mack May 2019 #73
Yes. MontanaMama May 2019 #76
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