thinking about legally changing my name

[EXTRAPOLATER]

very gay problem, here.

My parents apparently really procrastinated when I was a baby or something but they decided to call me by my "middle" name pretty much right from birth. Been a real pain in the ass at times. The latest headache came as I realized that my bank account has me down as Michael I <smith> while my VISA card says I Michael, which is correct. Issued from the same damn place and the fockers got it wrong. I'm sure I put I. Michael on the bank forms. Hasn't interrupted my banking, yet, :shrug: :scared :shrug: but I'm considering opening an INSTADEBIT account and they require your first name and middle initial (from your chequing account, where they have me wrong) and, further, their user agreement suggests that they do some credit checking and other funking around...only makes me think that they might reject me if I don't go down to the bank and get them to rearrange my friggin' names. Frig...gonna call the bank Tuesday--closed tomorrow for that Victoria nonsense.

Think I'd just nix the flippin' Ian already.
Thanks, ma & pa.
:mj16:

Stupid beef but I got a brew and a half left and nothing constructive to do.

Anybody else go by their """middle""" name?
Isn't that lame?

Did a search and I think it costs about $187 to do it in Ontario.
(less in the red-light district, of course )

Crap, I need some smoke.
sweat the small stuff?
funk that shiite cookie bomb

 

[THE KOD]

but I'm considering opening an INSTADEBIT account and they require your first name and middle initial (from your chequing account, where they have me wrong)

..........................................................

just open another checking account and save yourself the hassle.

If they do credit checks they will find you under all aliases anyways

 

[Morris]

I don't have a middle name. :shrug:

 

[vinnie]

I don't have a middle name. :shrug:

got two what one :shrug:

 

[MadJack]

i have had and still have, sometimes, problems with my name because my legal name is John but everything up until 5 years ago said Jack. everything except my birth cert and social security card. i've had to change bank accounts to John, drivers license, credit cards, everything i can think of. my house is still in Jack, my health insurance is still Jack, one or 2 credit cards still say Jack. eventually i'll get it all cleared up but have had some PIA problems because of it.

 

[ga_ben]

I go by my middle name, albeit a shortened version. (Benjamin ---> Ben) Never had a problem. Although I was known as Benjie througout high school. Had to stop that chit in college.

 

[Agent 0659]

i have had and still have, sometimes, problems with my name because my legal name is John but everything up until 5 years ago said Jack. everything except my birth cert and social security card. i've had to change bank accounts to John, drivers license, credit cards, everything i can think of. my house is still in Jack, my health insurance is still Jack, one or 2 credit cards still say Jack. eventually i'll get it all cleared up but have had some PIA problems because of it.

Oh no....please don't get ME started on that whole Jack/John nonsense! They ain't the same!:s1:

 

[freelancc]

whew....:00x10

i thought he was changing his name to "the boys" :0corn

 

[MadJack]

Oh no....please don't get ME started on that whole Jack/John nonsense! They ain't the same!:s1:

http://archives.stupidquestion.net/sq8204.html

Stupid Question ?

Aug. 2, 2004

By John Ruch

? 2004



Q: What is the deal with older men named John being referred to as ?Jack??

?anonymous, Chicago, Illinois





A: ?Jack? has been a nickname for ?John? since the days of Middle English around A.D. 1200.

It?s not only applied to older men, but in some areas may be dying out and retained only by relative old-timers. As a ?John? myself, dating to the 1970s, I?ve never been called ?Jack.? But President John Kennedy, for example, born in the 1920s, was famously known as Jack.

Originally written as ?Jacke? (or any other similar spelling variants), it was initially pronounced something like ?Jack-eh,? with two syllables, before settling into its snappy one-syllable modern form.

Where it came from is a matter of scholarly debate. The traditional assumption was that it came directly from the French name Jacques, itself a rendering of the Biblical Greek Jacob (or James, in English usage).

Very early on, ?Jack? was used as a generic name to refer to any (usually male) peasant or commoner?just like ?Jacques? was in France. (This sense is retained in the more recent US slang usage of ?Jack? meaning a generic name to call a male stranger, and in generic workman terms like lumberjack and steeplejack. And, it must be said, in generic names for male animals, such as ?jackass.?)

But in English, ?John? was also used as a generic name in the same way. So ?Jack? could just derive from that.

And indeed, there is a solid case for ?Jack? being derived from ?John.? In the earliest known uses of ?Jack,? it is clearly being used as a nickname for ?John.? (It?s worth noting that Jack and John sound much more similar in British pronunciations than they do in American; and that ?Jan? was a common rendering of ?John? in the era.)

Also, it is known for a fact that one diminutive endearment form of ?John? around the same time was ?Jackin? (also ?Jankin? and other forms). By the same token, ?Dickin? was a nickname for Richard and ?Robin? a nickname for Robert. Those nicknames became shortened through time to ?Dick? and ?Rob.? It is logical to think ?Jackin? followed the same course to ?Jack.? (Though language is rarely logical.)

An interesting sidelight is the word ?jacket,? which indeed came to us from French. It?s the diminutive form of ?jaque,? meaning any kind of outerwear for the upper body. Similar terms existed in a variety of European languages, including the Germanic ?jacke? and Dutch ?jak.? The origin of the term is unknown, but the Oxford English Dictionary says the French term seems to have inspired the rest, and that it may have originated as a reference to some garment typically worn by ?the Jacques,? the French peasantry.

This sheds little light on our discussion, however, because no one has found any direction connection between ?Jack? and ?jacket.? The nickname origin seems persuasive.

Whatever its source, ?Jack? was widely used enough to be treated as a name in its own right as early as the late 1200s.

 

[Agent 0659]

*but in some areas may be dying out and retained only by relative old-timers*


:00x33

 

[MadJack]

*but in some areas may be dying out and retained only by relative old-timers*


:00x33

yeah, well, i'm an old-timer now

and have been switching back to John :shrug:

just don't call me John :SIB

 

[Agent 0659]

I like Jaek:shrug: :00hour

 

[MadJack]

I like Jaek:shrug: :00hour

maybe i'll change it to that

 

[kickserv]

madjohnsports.com :mj07: