DeanT - Posted - 01/30/2012:  19:06:07

I'll never tell my middle name...

OM45GE - Posted - 01/31/2012:  04:33:48

Does it begin with an A?

DeanT - Posted - 01/31/2012:  07:33:19

Nope :)

dat - Posted - 01/31/2012:  07:34:16

my middle is Arthur, named after my uncle and my grandfather, we have a lot of names that stay in the family and used over and over and over and over, it makes it easy at the family reunions, you can holler John, Daniel, and Art and 9 10 ths of the men look up

OM45GE - Posted - 01/31/2012:  09:19:17

My Mother-In-Law is a huge fan of Queen Elizabeth. She had six daughters and gave everyone one of them the middle name Elizabeth, except the youngest who she named Elizabeth. She goes by Liz.

dat - Posted - 01/31/2012:  10:48:03

My sisters middle name is Elizabeth, my neices first name is Elizabeth, Lala, Lala Mae are used a lot too

Mr. Quimby - Posted - 01/31/2012:  18:23:16

My mom, her sisters and me and my sisters are all Anne.

DeanT - Posted - 01/31/2012:  18:25:13

I think you should be able to choose your own name. Not sure how that would work though

OM45GE - Posted - 02/01/2012:  04:28:10

What name would you choose?

dat - Posted - 02/01/2012:  06:01:59

you can after you turn 18, I think it costs 200 and something to file at the courthouse.

I would stick with the same name I have, I've gotten used to answering to it in the last 42 years

DeanT - Posted - 02/01/2012:  08:51:31

What if you changed your name to "Let me give you $20"

dat - Posted - 02/01/2012:  10:20:42

quote:

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Originally posted by Mr. Quimby

My mom, her sisters and me and my sisters are all Anne.

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 Anne all these years we've been calling you Ace, 'Niffer, Mr Quimby, and Jennifer, we should have been calling you Anne.   that in one of  my sisters middle name too, Sherry Anne

DeanT - Posted - 02/02/2012:  16:53:20

My first crush ever was a girl named Anne. Redhead. I was 12 , she was in my Sunday school class.

OM45GE - Posted - 02/03/2012:  04:49:34

Have you seen her since?

DeanT - Posted - 02/03/2012:  05:31:44

Nope... only in my dreams

dat - Posted - 02/03/2012:  05:43:44

now she is a 50 year old red head mean as all get out

DeanT - Posted - 02/03/2012:  05:56:09

With a big butt and 10 grand kids

OM45GE - Posted - 02/03/2012:  07:13:32

...and $35,000,000.00!

DeanT - Posted - 02/03/2012:  11:19:21

in debt?

OM45GE - Posted - 02/03/2012:  11:56:58

LOL, Now you're talking about my old girlfriends!

DeanT - Posted - 02/03/2012:  14:15:25

Or my x wires

OM45GE - Posted - 02/04/2012:  07:37:08

Yeah, I've got a few of those too - although one passed a year or so ago so I'm down one.

DeanT - Posted - 02/04/2012:  07:51:09

Hey one of mine died too, sad story of drugs and booze.

OM45GE - Posted - 02/04/2012:  07:52:43

Mine was the big C but it could have been liquor just as easily.

DeanT - Posted - 02/04/2012:  08:17:42

The reason she became an x is because I was no fun anymore... I had quit drinking.

OM45GE - Posted - 02/04/2012:  12:11:38

Mine just didn't like men - me included.

Mr. Quimby - Posted - 02/05/2012:  12:43:01

I'm still in touch with most of my exes. Went out to dinner with one around Christmas. Got an email from him about a week ago asking if I'd be a job reference for a job he was applying for here in the DC area. I know very little about his work experience, so I'm not sure what good I'll do as a reference, but I gave him my information.

DeanT - Posted - 02/05/2012:  17:43:23

Last time an x tried to contact me (phone, about 12 years ago) I said sorry wrong number, and hung up.

OM45GE - Posted - 02/06/2012:  04:52:33

I don't have any desire to stay in touch with them.

DeanT - Posted - 02/06/2012:  07:28:28

That's why they are x's

OM45GE - Posted - 02/06/2012:  09:17:37

"Ex"actly!

DeanT - Posted - 02/06/2012:  10:29:26

I saw my last x's name in the newspaper for theft and insurance fraud. Nice going.

OM45GE - Posted - 02/06/2012:  16:16:24

Strange, my first exe's name was in the paper for illegally filling in wetlands at a campground she owned.

DeanT - Posted - 02/06/2012:  17:02:57

We knew some bad girls...

OM45GE - Posted - 02/07/2012:  03:59:04

Yup. Bad to the bone. She bought the campground after leaving town for defrauding homeowners who bought into a trailer park she and her boyfriend developed.

DeanT - Posted - 02/07/2012:  07:57:48

That's big time. Mine just moved in with a guy, waited till he was at work, then cleaned out his apartment... all the while, still using her military dependent health insurance card... that was canceled when she divorced me. Naughty naughty girls....

Mr. Quimby - Posted - 02/07/2012:  11:47:28

None of my exes are all that interesting. One of them is a minister and is married to the younger sister of a good friend of mine. They had a baby just over a year ago who has had some serious health problems but she seems to be doing better recently. One of them joined the army five or six years ago because he's a lost soul and doesn't really need to make decisions about the future if he's in the army. The one who was always telling me I was only dating him for his money is down in Florida somewhere making less money than I do. Him I don't really keep in touch with.

Well, then there's the one who is married but I reconnected with a couple of years ago and he pretty promptly told me he and his wife have an open relationship and are always looking for a third partner. He lives in Las Vegas.

None of these are ex-husbands. Just ex-boyfriends. If I had an ex-husband I might be more bitter about things. I don't know.

I do have a couple of ex-roommates I never want to see again. Ever.

DeanT - Posted - 02/07/2012:  12:59:08

I couldn't even remember the names of all my x-room mates. Or girls friends for that matter. Yikes... I don't know some of them old brain cells were still working...

Mr. Quimby - Posted - 02/07/2012:  17:44:49

One of the advantages to being a social pariah is that you don't need to remember as many names. Plus half the guys I've dated were named David.

DeanT - Posted - 02/07/2012:  18:02:09

Being an old drunk makes all that stuff rather hazy. Man we had some good times.

OM45GE - Posted - 02/08/2012:  04:11:55

Yeah, we did have some great times. I just wish I could remember more of them.

DeanT - Posted - 02/08/2012:  07:35:12

I sure wouldn't want to chance a do-over though!

OM45GE - Posted - 02/08/2012:  09:16:22

Agreed, I was pretty on the edge for a while there and would be afraid I wouldn't make it on a do-over.

DeanT - Posted - 02/08/2012:  17:00:49

I bought one of our city's guard rails. That was my sentence! I still smile a little every time I drive past it.

paulac7 - Posted - 02/08/2012:  18:39:17

I have some guard rails that I bought, too!! This was in my younger, MUCH wilder days. Even *thinking* about half the crap I did back in the day makes me feel hung over.....In some ways, it's nice to get old!!

DeanT - Posted - 02/08/2012:  18:53:54

I agree... we still play at local bars... it's SO COOL to be on the "other side" now. Sometimes it hurts to watch...

OM45GE - Posted - 02/09/2012:  04:22:26

I can't believe I actually played as messed up as I did back in the day. Probably didn't sound half as good to the audiences as it did to me.

dat - Posted - 02/09/2012:  05:52:26

I was lucky enough that my bride didn't turn into my X and she put up with me through the "Hazy" years.   I had fun, but I'm proud that I lived through it and wouldn't want to try again.

Mr. Quimby - Posted - 02/09/2012:  06:08:55

You all make me feel so boring.