Please ... at least state your first name

[JMP]

Sounds like a good idea. I've added my first name to my signature.

 

[iñaki]

<------ Iñaki it´s my name.
The "ñ" letter is used only in Spanish or vasque, and sometimes in RFF my name appears wrong with an "?" instead of the "ñ", I didn´t know it would happen, but it´s not a problem for me 😉 .

Now I have my name in the signature, It would be better in my mesages, but I´lll forgot it.

 

[traveller]

So this is the coming out 😀

John Alan De Vine and my nickname comes from being born in Toronto, grown up in Austria, after some time aboard a ship now living in Germany and thinking about living in Spain when I retire.

John

 

[vincentbenoit]

In the French-speaking world my surname, Benoit, is also a common first name. More common, in fact, that my first name, Vincent. So people in France always get it wrong and call me "Benoit" or "Monsieur Vincent".

Here in the UK Vincent is quite a common first name whilst Benoit is a completely exotic surname, so there's no confusion between the two. However people always try to avoid having to call me by my surname because they can't pronounce it.

When I lived in the States people were always puzzled by the fact that I don't have a middle name, hence no middle initial. My standard reply was "What do I need a middle initial for, do you happen to know another Vincent Benoit ?"

In the German-speaking part of Switzerland where I spent a few years people usually believed I was a fellow citizen of theirs from the French-speaking part of the country...

Vincent

 

[Paulbe]

OK I confess---first name is Paul. I'm busting out of the federal witness protection program...
Bill-Babs---you drinkin' again? I love it keep it up.
We'll meet in Wilson and have a martini contest.

Pherdinand---how do you pornounce Csaba? You're not the editor of Car and Driver Mag are you???
Paul

 

[Paulbe]

Uh Ohhhhhh! Make that "pronounce"--amazing what a triple martini will do---
Paul---again

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

When I lived in the States people were always puzzled by the fact that I don't have a middle name, hence no middle initial.

ohhh how "I feel your pain". I had to give in, because when I would fill in documents (during my first years in the US), they wouldn't accept an empty middle initial box (don't get me started on the phenomenon). Simple solution: use one of my "last names" and voila. Sometimes even when I spell it out it's futile, they slash it to my initial. So I just use my initials. Hence the "M. A."

O, so moch 'splainin to do, Lucy!

 

[Socke]

When I lived in the States people were always puzzled by the fact that I don't have a middle name, hence no middle initial. My standard reply was "What do I need a middle initial for, do you happen to know another Vincent Benoit ?"

I know that!
I once had "business"cards made for exactly that situation, in the center 'Volker 'no-middle-name' Hett" and in the corners "no Job", "no Money", "no Phone", "no Address"

 

[bmattock]

My wife has no middle name, but a hyphenated first name. Many places give her trouble over this. Either they insist that the second part of her hypenated first name is actually her middle name, or they insert her maiden name as her middle name. Aggravating.

My own sitation is fun too. I'm a "II," pronounced "The Second," named for my grandfather, not my father. If I were named for my father, I'd be "Junior." If my father was named for his father, he'd be "Junior" and I'd be "The Third." But none of these except the first is correct. I am properly appended as "II".

Most government agencies I deal with either make me a Junior, or they make me a Third (III). Some have insisted that there is no such thing as a "II". Funny, I always thought I knew my own name.

When I moved to NC two years ago, they insisted that I produce my original Social Security card as ID, despite it not being ID. It was issued when I was 12, and it has my middle name spelled wrong. They spelled it wrong on my Driver's License, and hence, it is now spelled wrong on my paychecks. To correct it, they wanted me to go to court and hire a lawyer to change my name from what it isn't to what it is. In other words, lie to the judge in order to make my name what it already was, if the idiots would use my passport, military discharge, or birth certificate as ID like everyone else has for the last 44 years of my life. Sheesh.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[ch1]

When I lived in the States people were always puzzled by the fact that I don't have a middle name, hence no middle initial. My standard reply was "What do I need a middle initial for, do you happen to know another Vincent Benoit ?"

Vincent

Vincent.

That's interesting - now that you mention it - all the forms I've filled out over the years always asked for a Middle Initial! Since I have a MI it never occurred to me that someone might not.

But did anyone ever "hassle" you about leaving the "blank" blank?

Guess you could've really screwed things up if you had put in a number or an punctuation mark! 😉

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

But did anyone ever "hassle" you about leaving the "blank" blank?

Hmm, my theory that I type with invisible pixels isn't as cuckoo as I once thought... 😛

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

...either make me a Junior, or they make me a Third (III). Some have insisted that there is no such thing as a "II". Funny, I always thought I knew my own name.

😱 you dared question BB? my...

 

[back alley]

for use in the middle initial box when you have no middle initial = you write in NMI (no middle initial)

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

I can just see it: "Mr. Gabriel NMI Aguirre, you may have won $10,000,000!"

 

[wierdcollector]

Much shorter than wierdcollector and spelled correctly too--- Curt or Curtis if you insist on being formal.

 

[bmattock]

for use in the middle initial box when you have no middle initial = you write in NMI (no middle initial)

That's old military lingo - NMI for No Middle Initial. Drill Instructors refer to recruits that way "Private Joe NOMIDDLEINITIAL Jones, front and center!"

Some boxes for middle initial literally have only one space - same with online forms. You can't put NMI in there.

Best Regards,

Bill 2MI Mattocks

 

[raid]

I ran into a gentleman with nick name Goat's Lips. Figure this one out! In fact, he owns a deli with great sandwiches here in Pensacola.

My first name, Ra-id, means "Leader", "Pioneer", and it is the military rank of "Major". It is also used for "Astronaut".

 

[chenick]

Well to join the fray, my name is Nick, although I usually do sign my posts!
The 'che' bit is from Argentinian Spanish and could be translated loosely as 'Hey!'

Nick

 

[JimG]

"Rudeness has no place in any discussion and it's particulary loathsome when practiced behind the anonymity of a web forum." From Charlie

As Charlie suggests using our own names might make people think twice about being insenstive. Jim Gibson

 

[franceluxemburg]

As i said : my first is Jean-Baptiste, it is a double first, i never seperate it and in continental europe no one would.

But in the english world : try to have people spell properly my first double name is pretty hard.
And i cannot translate : would you go with "john-the-baptsite as your first name 🙁

Therefore in the english world and on the net, just call me J-B

Cheers.