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My middle name is Jan. Yes. I am Edward Jan. I hate it. It's awful. I don't care if it just means "John" - my parents called my older brother "Jon", as they clearly knew calling him "Jan" would result in him being beaten up, so why didn't they spare me it as a middle name?

Anyway, I was toying with the idea of a complete name change a few years ago, but I've come to accept - even like - my first and last names well enough. But JAN, no, this really, really has to go.

So, I'm taking suggestions. It was mentioned that I should perhaps keep the middle initial and go with another J name, but I don't know. But something must be done. In the state I used to live in, it was dead cheap to change your name, so I figure if I get a good 'un, I'll do it next time I'm "home".

(Argh, first thread in months, please do not stiff on me).

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Howsabout "the erotic story of" ?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

...get...coat

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Apple

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

It'll make the thread connections thread sooner or later, but why not Spiderman?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Stewart
Thomas
William
Sr. Haggartnh the VI of Austria Proper

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

my mum's name is jan

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)

If O is really your final initial, it might be wise/fun to pick something that will make an interesting monogram. Like Gus, for EGO, or Morris, for EMO, or Laverne for ELO.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, O is my final initial. ELO is better than all EMO put together. I do enjoy "Livin' Thing", so that's worth thinking about.

Can't do William. Another person I've had this discussion with wants to change his middle from Wayne to William, so I MUST BE DIFFERENT. No "J" suggestions?

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

james!

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

jason
jarrod
jock

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Take Wayne. Take Wayne.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

justin
jasper

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Josephat.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm with Gem, Edward James is always nice together.

xxpost

― kate/papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Edward J.o

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i love the name james

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

James is good. My mother, horrified as she was, reluctantly suggested Joel. My university professor, who thinks I'm an idiot for asking, proffered "Jodhpurs". She may not have been serious.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:36 (twenty-one years ago)

haha jodhpurs is pretty funny though

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

How about Janne?

― thee music mole, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Hihihihihihihi.. no.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I always thought I'd end with a James. Theres something noble sounding about the name.

― kate/papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Horatio (E-HO)
Prince (E-PrO)
Bez (E-Bo)
Gary (EGO)

― Matt Chesnut, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:43 (twenty-one years ago)

You can't have James because that's my middle name and it was the last James in stock.

― Matt Chesnut, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)

James James Morrison Morrison
Weatherby George Dupree
Took great care of his Mother,
Though he was only three.
James James said to his Mother,
"Mother," he said, said he;
"You must never go down
to the end of the town,
if you don't go down with me."

James James Morrison's Mother
Put on a golden gown.
James James Morrison's Mother
Drove to the end of the town.
James James Morrison's Mother
Said to herself, said she:
"I can get right down to the end of the town
and be back in time for tea."

King John put up a notice,
"LOST or STOLEN or STRAYED!
JAMES JAMES MORRISON'S MOTHER
SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN MISLAID.
LAST SEEN WANDERING VAGUELY:
QUITE OF HER OWN ACCORD,
SHE TRIED TO GET DOWN
TO THE END OF THE TOWN -
FORTY SHILLINGS REWARD!"

James James Morrison Morrison
(Commonly known as Jim)
Told his Other relations
Not to go blaming him.
James James said to his Mother,
"Mother," he said, said he:
"You must never go down to the end of the town
Without consulting me."

― thee music mole, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Humongo

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:45 (twenty-one years ago)

On the other hand, you could be Edward James O. Almost.

― Matt Chesnut, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Moxbib

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned. Oh wait.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Zingo

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Orgazmo

― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:46 (twenty-one years ago)

My dad's name is Jan. I don't know if it ever got him beaten up.

My suggestion is Henry.

― Oblivious Lad (Matthew Lazowski), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:47 (twenty-one years ago)

You're just getting silly. I'll prove I'm serious. Or something. James possibly too noble for me, as I am in no way noble.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Coph
Dingle
Foxen

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Double-double!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)

no no i've got it...goldman!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Gaz, you remain oddly, disturbingly mystifying.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Goldman is grate!

Hand Job
Scrabble
Oxidizer
Prong
Pixel
Buster

― thee music mole, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Front extension!
Nongo!

(is the blog coming back ed?)

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Nongo! Ugh. I hate that "term".

The blog is not coming back, but a new one will start next month. I've just moved to Wollongong, broadband being hooked up SOON SOON SOON, etc. Actually, likely to be starting TWO of the little blighters.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Pakora
Fedora
Eudora
Adorer
King Adora
King Prawn
Ping
Prawn Pakora
Pwn Pakora

― thee music mole, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

will one be all indie ;)

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Nah. One will be all country. No, really, I'm not kidding.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 06:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Cols on a roll!

With sauce!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 06:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Quizno
Huxtable
Golightly
Munch
Rocky

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 06:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Fish Fingers raises the bar!

Sauce
Horse
Borscht
Manny
Septimus
Thaddeus
Eukola
Banjo
Pancho
Sanchez
Panzer
Faust
Panzerfaust
Deepdish
Houseboy

― thee music mole, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 06:03 (twenty-one years ago)

country? excellent!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Edward "diddly"O

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 06:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Edward Oh No O

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Jackie O
Jel O

― estela (estela), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Juicy (would be even better/hipper if you add Lucy)
PrOn
Phwar

― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Billy or Jiminy

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The Raggle-Taggle Gypsies O

― estela (estela), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

wait, what's your full surname? it kinda all depends on that no?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I left it out because I liked the idea of batshit insane suggestions, and also to get a nice field of random sensible responses. Which seems to have worked, in the sense that it hasn't. Marvellous.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

make a thread where people try to guess yr surname too.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

A few of the people (yes, even those being silly) on here know it!

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I think something in "..." works OK.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Stick with Edward J. and when asked what it stands for alternate between the following:

'Jiggle-tits'
'Jelly-filled'
'Jism Hands'
'Jerusalem Artichoke'
'Jim Dandy'
'Jason XIII'
'Jinormopizzle'
'Jansenist'

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Jiggle-tits. Pure genius.

I've got to get back on the electoral roll at my new address, so I reckon I can "try" one of these out and see how it looks on the acknowledgement card I'll get back when it's done. (Yes, it's perfectly legal to do this.).

James, I suppose, seems to be consensus!

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 24 February 2005 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

yay!

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 24 February 2005 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Jan is good - i wish i were called Jan.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 24 February 2005 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Start pronouncing it "yan" like Jan Hammer.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 24 February 2005 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I already tried that, Aaron, just to underline the fact that it is not a woman's middle name. What's the correct pronunciation of "Jan" if you're a Slav? Is it to make the "J" a "Y"? Why don't I already know this?

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 24 February 2005 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

oh i just assumed it WAS Jan with Y-sound.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 24 February 2005 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

It really ought to be, but since I seldom actually use it in speaking, I only notice it WRITTEN, and my brain still processes it as a J as in the feminine name. My parents pronounce it as a J as well.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 24 February 2005 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Why don't I already know this?

you hav clearly just made the whole thing up!

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 24 February 2005 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i think it might possibly be jan with a 'y' if you're slav. my gran was croatian and her name was jacobina but pronounced yacobina

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 24 February 2005 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Jacob! there's yr answer!

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 24 February 2005 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

hey i think jed could be onto something!!

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 24 February 2005 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"yed"

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 24 February 2005 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"Fuckin' "

― Pangolino again, Thursday, 24 February 2005 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't really like the way "Yan" sounds either, especially between the two other names.

Yed, hehe.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 24 February 2005 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

My uncle is Swedish and his first name is Jan, pronounced Yan.

― kate/papa november (papa november), Thursday, 24 February 2005 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, can't be Jacob, because I've only ever met one Jacob in my life and I really, really hated him and he really, really hated me. So nix to Jacob.

I'll write James on the form and see if I can scan it in for general approval. That sounds good.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 24 February 2005 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay!

― kate/papa november (papa november), Thursday, 24 February 2005 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, this baby's going to the post office, now!

ihttp://home.iprimus.com.au/edwardo/edwardjames.jpg

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 24 February 2005 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

All interesting details whited out, obv.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 24 February 2005 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, man, did no one suggest "Edward Edward O."? Because that would be awesome.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 February 2005 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

How do you pronounce your surname, Edward?

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman v1.0 (Ferg), Thursday, 24 February 2005 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

With considerable difficulty. My Polish relatives use o/koolich - that first O being short. My father, who's long since Anglicized himself and thus the name, says Okyu/litz. I prefer the former, more melodic.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 24 February 2005 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Then your middle name should be pronounced as something like 'yawn', right?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Yep, that's vaguely how I say it when I'm forced to. Liking the way "James" looks there, right about now.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

If your family's of Polish origin and gave you a Polish name why are you letting a mob of anglocentric Aussies incite you you to self-loathing? Has Australia ever come up with a Chopin or a Paderewski (whose middle name, incidentally, was Jan too)?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Only one half of my family is Polish, and it's not down to self-loathing at all. I like my surname a LOT, but I have never warmed to "Jan". I wouldn't particularly have liked "John", "Jean", "Ivan" or "Sean" or any of the other myriad names that mean the same thing as "Jan" either.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Johannes neither? My favorite version of 'John' is Old French 'Jehan'. I knew a girl once named 'Jehanne' which is probably what Joan of Arc was called.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, what am I talking about? Ivan is GRATE. Jehan, interesting, pronounced the same way as "Jean"?

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

why are you letting a mob of anglocentric Aussies incite you you to self-loathing?

I have no problem with Jan, it was Edward who said he didn't like it. Edward and James just work together. Only reason why I suggested it.

― kate/papa november (papa november), Thursday, 24 February 2005 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

jack

(or yack)

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 25 February 2005 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, Edward pronounced basically like 'Jean'. Wasn't aimed at you, kate, it's just that the thing he's sending to the Post says 'New South Wales'. I was merely trying to be polemical anyway.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 25 February 2005 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, I see.

― kate/papa november (papa november), Friday, 25 February 2005 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Edward Greengrowth Rashes O.

― Pangolino again, Friday, 25 February 2005 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

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