I'd want to have a valid check in his valid name. I'd shorten my name to try to avoid creditors - bluffing credit reference bodies also. I'd be wide awake with this guy. Make sure you cover your back.
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Johnny - Owner of an overly-active keyboard.
A man who can read, yet doesn't, is in no way wiser than a man who can't.
I have an unusual middle name, which I very rarely use. As a kid I said to my mum, can I change my middle name? she said no you can't! I hated it as a kid but it doesn't really bother me now.
For those curious and can remember a TV series about a US Police Commissioner, assisted by his wife, it starts with M.
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John
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I dropped my middle names 20+ years ago, when I got fed up with all the wrong spellings. One of them used to some times be split into 2 separate names. From time to time my first & surname are also spelt wrong. It is so much simpler to correct just 2 names than all 4. My first name & surname together is quite unusual, so I would be surprised if there is anyone else in the world with, so hiding would be difficult!
There is case law about the right of a Mr Jones to call him self Mr Smith, when it was confirmed that Mr Jones was not breaking the Law calling himself Mr Smith as long as he did not do it to commit Fraud and did not deny doing so should anyone ask. Hence when a Will is written, it is not usual to also include the statement "also known as" as it is not illegal not to use the name (s) on your "Birth certificate".
When I got married, I just stopped using Miss, and replaced it with Mrs, to my maiden name. The bank (for our joint account) has all my names including my married name - which I do NOT use as they have a copy of my marriage certificate. My passport is not in my married name either. Most professional married women I know do not use their married names. It is not a legal requirement.
I'm going McMillan and Wife and McMillans middle name was Mac (thank you Google (for the middle name, not the TV show)).
Hope that I do better than the last quiz!
Mac isn't a full name though is it? Surely it has to be short for something else.... Googles not given me the full answer has it!
One of my youngest boys two middle names is SomChai... Now thats a real rumplestiltskin of a name for bet you can't guess my middle name.
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I don't recollect sharing my middle initial whilst you have been on the site Johnny? (reference removed from your post).
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FWIW, the name that appears in my sig here is my full, legal name, as it appears on my passport and driving licence. It is not, however, the name I was given at birth: In my case, my mother remarried when I was about five or six, and they didn't change my last name officially to that of my step dad, and instead just started using his last name. (And of course being five or six, I was oblivious to all of this).
In my teens, twenties and well into my thirties, I used the shortened first name and just my middle initial as my full name when it came to everything, including all officialdom. And it is perfectly legal to do so.
However, it wasn't until I needed a passport that I discovered there was no paper trail to get from my birth name to my step-dad's last name, so I went through the deed poll process to sort it out - and at the same time, made my full name match the full name I actually used.
And just like people spelling your name wrong, there does seem to be a compulsion with some people to add 'nt' to the end of my first name. It's bloody annoying I've signed off 'Vince' at the end of a letter or email (or filled in a form, or whatever) and then have something come back addressing me as Vincent. On the phone can be entertaining - if they ask for my name, and then ask if they can call me "Vincent" I say no. If they then ask why not, I say "Because it's not my name" - and that often causes confusion.
Similarly with the 'M' - people inevitably ask me what it stands for, and I have to point out it doesn't stand for anything, the letter on its own is my middle name. Then they start trying to guess what it stands for. WTF is wrong with people?
And don't get me started on online forms that insist 'M' is not a valid middle name. Grrr.
Some people think I shouldn't be so uptight about my name, but at the end of the day I changed it *to* what it is. It was a deliberate choice - and people should damned well respect that. If they can't, then I reserve the right to have absolutely sod all respect for whatever it is they're doing/the reason they're in contact with me. BAH HUMBUG!
Sorry, what was this discussion about again?
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(I only came here looking for fellow apiarists...)
Shaun, it is McMillan, Actually I've never been too sure whether it's McMillan or MacMillan, but I found my birth certificate this afternoon and it's the former. Of course the usual joke as a kid was wheres your wife McMillan?
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