Fresh Goods Friday 657 – The Hand Dryer Edition

Hannah says: I have a conundrum of the most modern and first world variety. I need to decide what to do with my name when I get married next week. May …

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Fresh Goods Friday 657 – The Hand Dryer Edition

Names? It doesnt matter what you choose, you will always be SingletrackHannah.

For what it’s worth, my daughter always used her maiden name professionally, and now her scoundrel of a  husband has got his just deserts (hooray!) she only uses his surname when it is helpful to match the boys. If she marries again her new husband should change his surname to match her maiden name.

Mmmm, that gold saddle. 🤘

My wife retains her maiden name for all the professional reasons you do (but with the added Library of Congress hoity-toitiness of academia) my kids have my surname but were provided at birth with the same middle name (their birth mother’s maiden name) JIC they felt like they wanted a change. I don’t think anyone really cares no more, do the thing that feels right for you.

I’d go back to Reeve – it’s 2023 (and the Spanish have done this for centuries anyway, I think).

Can have an alias in your passport for travelling with kids (wife has this having retained her maiden name for all purposes apart from, oddly, getting post from her auntie)

Hannah Banana
Hannah McHannahFace
Hannah Guessthatswhytheycallittheblues

No love for the double barrel?

Ms Hannah Dobson-Freeride has a certain ring to it…

We named our first son with my wife’s maiden name to keep it going. She chose to have my surname (not sure why).

 

Your name, your title, you do whatever feels best for you.

Yours sincerely, Mr Landslide (they/them) and Ms Original Surname (she/her).

go spanish

Hannah Dwyer Reeve

hasta la vista

Mrs The Spider kept her maiden name when we married. Kids have both of our surnames. Hers, then mine. They also have two forenames, so writing out any official documentation for them takes time and runs the risk of running out of those little squares.

Oh, and I got thread of the week again! So I have asked for the bottle opener to be sent to someone else.

my friends got married and generated a new surname – one Patchman and one Marchwood became Patchwood – but I think just generating a completely new one could also be good

Having no surname would be a right pain trying to fill in forms on the interwebs because a non-response in the surname field would generate an error message everytime…

Sadly there’s little more USA! than an entirely gun-themed model naming scheme.

go spanish

Hannah Dwyer Reeve

That’s not Spanish-  their format is:

First name; father’s family name; mother’s family name and the women never change their name on marriage.  So Hannah would be Hannah Reeve + whatever her mother’s maiden name was.

her children would be first name Dobsen Reeve

 

 

On a lighter note, it’s hard not to see that model without hearing Banky from Chasing Amy screaming “Your mother’s a tracer!”

Intense aren’t the only ones – I still have vaguely fond memories of my Tomac Revolver…

Or go Icelandic, the women take their mum’s given name and the fella’s their dad’s. So you’d be

Hannah [your mum’s first name]dottir

100% vest looks interesting. 🤔

Friends of mine got hitched and they both changed their name, creating a new family name. They became HerFamilyName-HisFamilyName. The names were only that way round because they sounded better like that.

Obviously they now have a pretentious middle-class hyphenated name.

Obviously they now have a pretentious middle-class hyphenated name.

Not sure that double-barrelled names are a middle class thing.

My wife shed her ex-married surname and took mine. To get over the problem of her daughter having a different surname we changed her surname by deed poll to be double barrelled with my name (and now also her Mum’s) and her Dad’s name. Obviously with her Dad’s agreement.

It also helped when I had to show that I was guardian to my step-daughter as I had shared at least part of her surname.

Not sure that double-barrelled names are a middle class thing.

chap I work with has a double barrelled first name and second name. Not sure if he’s a redneck or posh.

Have all the names.

Singletrack-Hannah Reeve-Dobson-Dwyer.

SHRDD for short. Probabaly get on the Canyon Collective with a name like that.

Name: why not choose a completely new name and get it legally changed?

Esmerelda Anneka von twenty-nine III?

Name: why not choose a completely new name and get it legally changed?

Esmerelda Anneka von twenty-nine III?

You take the name of your first pet and your mother’s maiden name 😉

Oh, and I’m not the only one looking at that bead dropper/tyre lever and thinking, well, butt plug, right?

you may need to spell out dwyer as often as reeve.

Hannah McHannahFace gets my vote.

How about the Icelandic thing where you get your dad’s first name? (I don’t know his name, but let’s call him Harry… – you’d be Hannah Harrysdottir… )

my friends got married and generated a new surname – one Patchman and one Marchwood became Patchwood – but I think just generating a completely new one could also be good

Honestly not seeing the problem with Manwood.

How about the Icelandic thing where you get your dad’s first name?

Ahem, keep up

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Or go Icelandic, the women take their mum’s given name and the fella’s their dad’s. So you’d be

Hannah [your mum’s first name]dottir

Maiden name – thats you not a mans chattel

Ms – the whole aim was that does not denote if you are married or not

So its Ms H. Reeve

Thats you told woman 😉

The solution to the name problem is obviously anagrams.

Also, that Birzman shock pump would be good if it weren’t a 400psi one. The big gauge would add really useful subtletey to a lower pressure one buit if you’re going to 400psi you don’t care and if you’re going to 150 with a 400psi gauge the margins for error are massive so it doesn’t really matter.

Ask the kids if they want to go double-barrelled?

Also, that Cushcore tyre lever is THE BEST THING EVER for fitting inserts. Worth every penny of its expensive price. Wish I’d got one years ago!

HRH

HANNAH REEVE HANNAH

you can just sign everything HRH

Then regardless of everything you will still be called Hannah regardless

Whilst I understand Hannah’s new name is maybe more prescient surely “Ex-Pat Fahzure” needs a new name more pressingly since they’re still using the name they’ve given up?

Hannah Lou Jah

I rather like Hannah Job 🤔😳

Point of technicality, Jesus did actually have a surname, “Jesus Ofnazareth” was his full name.

chap I work with has a double barrelled first name and second name. Not sure if he’s a redneck or posh.

It’s a fairly easy two part test:

are either of both first names better suited to being surnames – yes? Proceed to step two. no? Redneck.
Are either of the surnames anachronistic names for counties or similar (additional points for whole countries) – yes? Posh. No – grasping middle class.

Hannah Dwyer as I’d have never thought of Handwyer and it’s made me chuckle whilst sitting on the loo just now!

Just Hannah.
Not just “Hannah”, “Just Hannah”.

How about just a random one based on your job like medieval families did?

Hannah Write/Wright?

Hannah Editor?