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Van B
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Posted: 20th Mar 2003 17:47
Arghhhhh!!!

The company secretary at my work just gave me a letter, and it has my full name on it - I HATE my middle name and never use it (been trying to phase it out), but there it is staring me in the face. My fiance did'nt find out what it was till we'd been going out for over a year!. Now half the people at my work know what it is and their giving me serious grief!

I'll tell you guys what it is but you gotta tell me yours first - I'm searching for a worse middle name than mine first.


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Posted: 20th Mar 2003 18:47
mine us ... me_own_throat ....

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Posted: 20th Mar 2003 19:55
Sorry, mine is James. It seams some people get screwed over for middle names.

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Posted: 20th Mar 2003 20:56
William

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Posted: 20th Mar 2003 22:23
Let me guess! let me Guess!
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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 20th Mar 2003 22:24
(^_^) ya'll pry mine from my cold dead body which will be clinging to my birth certificate ... now all i have to do is figure out howto get Rose to keep quiet and i'll be golden

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Posted: 20th Mar 2003 22:59
Robert, tis my brothers first name too, and his middle name is the same as my Dads first name (but he doesn't have a middle name).

Why the hell'd you ask me for crying out loud!?!
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Posted: 20th Mar 2003 23:12
Mine's Scot, now you've got to tell us. Here are some other bad ones; Cole, Gibbons, Port, Ladly, Broc... (and those are actually middle names of people in my school)

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Posted: 20th Mar 2003 23:24
Mines Victor. and my first name's Samuel. All laugh now

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Your surname isn't Meldrew is it ?

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Posted: 21st Mar 2003 00:58
you're not alone Van, I try to never use my middle name too, but on the bright side, it seems almost half of the people in the world think the same way


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Posted: 21st Mar 2003 01:29
unless your a woman dean... then oftenly they take thier second name over thier first (and i say second cause most have 2 middle names that i've met)

mine isn't bad... i just hate it is all :: sighs ::

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Posted: 21st Mar 2003 05:06
Kangs first name is my middle name

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Posted: 21st Mar 2003 07:31
I dis like my first name, it's very common. I was going to be called Zain, but my mom thought I'ld be made fun of. Zain's insain, or somthing like that.

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Posted: 21st Mar 2003 10:57
Stop dodging the question people - Answer it

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Van B
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Posted: 21st Mar 2003 13:27
Hehe, yeah - I haven't heard anything close to the torture of mine .

Ok, new deal - I'll tell you guys my middle name, but you can't laugh at me unless you tell us your name too.

My full name is...

Andrew Heathcliff Vanbeck. :-s

People have been singing that stupid cartoon cat song to me all morning. The worst thing is that my new nickname at work is Cliff (at least the one they say to my face) - so I've been getting renditions of Cliff Richard songs too.


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Posted: 21st Mar 2003 13:40 Edited at: 21st Mar 2003 13:46
My middle name is Philip, however om the Flight Academy people tend to affectionately call me Pheebs.

Maybe I should clarify this a bit more: Not that I have long blond hair and walking and talking neurotic all the time... ah well... maybe I am, but I refuse to believe that is the reason for people to call me like that!
Anyway, on my nametag my initials are spelled R. Ph.
So people asked what Ph. stands for (it's very seldomly seen in Holland) and my flightbuddy told him it was Phoebe, or Pheebs for friends...
<giggle...> <...laugh...><...pointing...> followed...
From there on I was Pheebs.

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Posted: 21st Mar 2003 14:13
My middle name is Charles, a bit old fashioned but not too bad.

I must admit Van B's middle name has given me a Kate Bush moment, I've been singing Wuthering Heights ever since. I think I'd better put some Coldplay on the CD to get me over it.

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Posted: 21st Mar 2003 20:16
That's not so bad, I know a few guy that have super girly middle names. I would tell you some but last time I spoke of them I suffered a massive head injury and forgot them.

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Posted: 21st Mar 2003 20:43
there was a kid named Barbara at my Jnr School ... but we all called him Jacob cause he prefered his middle name (^_^) wonder why lol

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Posted: 21st Mar 2003 21:45
lol mine is Glenn heh

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 01:18
For some reason my mum gave me a middle name of Leslie, named after some distant dead relative. Charming.

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 01:49
Andrew Logan Peters Ray

catchy aint it?

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 02:00
"there was a kid named Barbara at my Jnr School ... but we all called him Jacob cause he prefered his middle name (^_^) wonder why lol"

Then he later changed his name to Robert Lettan via deed poll

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 02:10
My full name is Paul Daniel Joseph Taft

Feel free to make fun of my name, like "Paul Daniels", you know, the crappy pint sized magician

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 02:21
My middle intials is "J" for john ....... I've noticed a lot of people's middle name begins with a J. Maybe it's because it's close to the middle of the alphabet ??

As for Heathcliff >> hehe !! reminds me of withering heights ( or was it wathering/wothering... something like that ? ) LOL

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 04:57 Edited at: 22nd Mar 2003 04:57
Mine is Joseph , but in ARK it is chucky joe billy bob - inside joke
PS no longer in ARK

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 14:17
Simple - It's Wuthering Heights, i had to study that damn book for my English Language and Literature 'A' Level Course

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 15:33
In Sweden it's quite common to have your middle name as your primary name (the one you are called by). For example my full name would be "Per Andreas Mattsson". Per is also my dad's first name and I have never been called by it.

BTW, is Andreas a strange enough middle name for you to reveal yours? (Perhaps it doesn't count with names from non-English language countries, especially when they are called by their middle names after all?)

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 17:10
Leia Mary Jean Fortin is my full name and no starwars jokes most of my friends called me MJ while I was growing up.

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 17:14
Andreas its how alot of girls i know do it... i mean one of my best friends is called Tiffiny Helen - but she prefers to be called Helen, god knows why.
My mom is the same about her name. Has always seemed weird to me - but then i prefer my given name to most of my other names

family on my moms side calls me Robert (even though mom wanted me to be called James),family on my dads side calls me Rai (not pronouced how you'd think), friends and workmates call me Raven

hey speed ... he was a weird short-arse of a magician, but that women he got as his wife - jebus ... surely he MUST be loaded, i mean he looks almost dead and she looks (or looked) like she was barely outta school.

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 19:55
Robert J Lettan - ( james )

Stephanie J Latten - ( mother )

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 20:16
thats not my mom's name but your right about my middle name

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 20:20
My initals: RPH
Though my middle name does not mean anything to me so I only obey RH. I gonna kill whoever gave me my middle name.

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 20:23
lol, I'm lucky, I got no middle name (not that that stopped people pointing and laughing at me )
Also, I have 2 uncles, both from the same family, one's called Hendrik Jan, the
other Jan Hendrik, they must have been stuck for middle names hehe.

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 20:28
-but your right about my middle name

So Robert is your first name?
You change your opinion about your first and middle name on a monthly base?

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 20:41
Robert J Latten ...... from Hertfordshire. Who's Stephanie then ??

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 20:41
nope i have 2 legal names ... depending on where i am depends on which name i have to legally use, i can't wait until i'm 21 then i can sort all this crap out once and for all

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 20:43
i don't know you tell me who she is!! you seem to wanna be the one with all the answers. The only person i know named Stephanie is my brothers best friends mom!
And i'm kinda wondering, how do you know i'm from Herts? i've never mentioned that have i?

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 21:05 Edited at: 22nd Mar 2003 21:06
Quote: "
nope i have 2 legal names ... depending on where i am depends on which name i have to legally use,
"

?

Quote: "
i can't wait until i'm 21 then i can sort all this crap out once and for all
"

So your profile is wrong about your age?

Quote: "
And i'm kinda wondering, how do you know i'm from Herts? i've never mentioned that have i?
"

You have.

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 21:27
You are from Abotts Langley ( Hertfordshire

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 21:36
A friend of mine was a teacher in Abbots Langley School.

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 21:40
ahh oki ... well then thats not so weird.
yeah i have 2 legal names - and its best not to ask why cause its confusing enough knowing i have them let alone why.
and yeah my profile is wrong with my age, its what i set it to originally by accident and i've not got around to change it... not out by much so never figured it would matter much.

lmao actually technically i'm not from Abbots Langley, Herts because technically there is no such village as Abbots Langley, its counted as Kings Langley (thought i'm still not sure why, as it is now almost big enough to be a small town). But then again not that it matter much cause i barely could be counted as living there anymore, and its improbably to actually be from there as there is no hospital there ... that would be IF i had been born in the UK to be from there hehee (^_^)

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 21:44
Abbots Langley School is the one off Love Lane isn't it? or is it that Catholic one near Hazelwood?
i never did get used to all the schools in the area, seemed weird to me for such a small place we had like 5 schools.

used to goto Hillside School, although they changed the name cause there was another school called Hillside and they kept getting all of our equippment by accident lol - so they changed the name to Tanners Wood, seemed more sensible as it was actually situated right behind Tanners Wood lol

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 22:18
You live in Gable Close too I won't go any further with your address + phone number.

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 23:13
Well..... I think you do know who Stephanie J Lettan, cos it turns out that you are just a nobody who live with his mum, in a little back bedroom

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 23:25
Oooh came down lads this is getting too personal!

RPG Nice1 m8 I have nothing against the name Samuel really, ppl call me Sam cos it sounds less posh, I'm kinda common

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2003 23:42
rotflmao Kang

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Arghhh!!! - that song again :-s

S'pose it's better than bachelor boy.


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