Thursday, November 02, 2006

Unnecessary Punctuation

I'm sure someone has already considered this.... There's a guy who works here whose last name is hyphenated. He's probably a couple years younger than me. That got me to thinking about hyphenated names and how much of a pain in the ass they must be. Hyphenated names are sort of a phenomenon of the 80s, aren't they? That means that pretty soon, all those poor bastards whose parents couldn't decide on one last name for whatever the reason are going to start getting married. What if they want to hyphenate their already hyphenated names? Is some priest or minister or whatever really going to stand up in front of the congregation and say, "It is my great pleasure to introduce to you for the first time as man and wife Mr. and Mrs. Thompson-Du-Romanowski-Farthington"? That sounds more like a law firm than a last name.

1 Comments:

At 1:09 AM, Blogger Waan said...

Allo? Pablo?

 

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