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[minionofmidas]

Going to a wedding later. Civil function, small celebration. Oh, and a textbook case of triumph of hope over experience - neither partner is divorced long, and though I only know one ex-spouse by all accounts the other one was even worse.

[minionofmidas]

My girlfriend's pregnant.

Congratulations!  That's awesome! 

Thanks. It was unexpected, but you know... these things happen. This isn't actually news, since she's 7 months pregnant, but we didn't know until a few months ago (it's complicated).

is it gonna be a shot gun wedding?

Ironically, this will push wedding plans off to the distant future instead of within 2 years like previously envisioned. Weddings cost money; so do babies.

oh makes sense. never thought of that before. hmmm.

Not the kind of wedding I was at yesterday. Depends on what you want, I guess...

Anyways, congrats Earl! That's awesome! (Poor baby, saddled with that father. My prenatal commiserations. )

[minionofmidas]

Well, you can always have that official last name but casually use one of them.  I had a friend who had a hyphenated last name.. Risch-Jansen... everybody just called him Risch... but Risch-Jansen isn't that long.  It'd be worse if it was like Oppenheimer-Bromenschenkel or something ridiculous like that.

Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger?

[minionofmidas]

Anyways, I don't see what's wrong with Eisner as a standalone name or why you would want to saddle her with anything as preposterous as "Washburn".

[minionofmidas]

My girlfriend's pregnant.

Congratulations!  That's awesome! 

Thanks. It was unexpected, but you know... these things happen. This isn't actually news, since she's 7 months pregnant, but we didn't know until a few months ago (it's complicated).

is it gonna be a shot gun wedding?

Ironically, this will push wedding plans off to the distant future instead of within 2 years like previously envisioned. Weddings cost money; so do babies.

oh makes sense. never thought of that before. hmmm.

Not the kind of wedding I was at yesterday. Depends on what you want, I guess...

Anyways, congrats Earl! That's awesome! (Poor baby, saddled with that father. My prenatal commiserations. )

Well, all the planning and organizing of even a cheap wedding is too much work for us to worry about right now.

The big question though is whether she will grow up to vote NDP like her father or Green like her mother.

She can support the NDP in Canada and Greens in Europe; doesn't that sound like a deal?

[minionofmidas]

I'm surprised you didn't point out Michael Eisner, the most famous one.

Because I had never heard of him and wouldn't have considered him an advertisement for the name if I had... but Will and Kurt were both badass in their respective ways.

[minionofmidas]

Anyways, I don't see what's wrong with Eisner as a standalone name or why you would want to saddle her with anything as preposterous as "Washburn".

The whole point of a hyphenated name is to abandon the misogynistic tradition of only the male's last name being passed on to the children.

Ah, I was suggesting to just use the cooler name, as is basically what people in Germany do nowadays. And which in this case is the female name (though the male name is no bad either.)

[minionofmidas]

I read something about some swedish kid being admitted to law school.

[minionofmidas]

I have some giant hogweed scars.

[minionofmidas]

I flew a kite today.

Haven't done that in over twenty years. 100m line.