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My daughters were born in Hawai'i where the birth certificates give you 240 characters for the name. Their middle name is the periodic table.
by breck 2y ago
My daughters were born in Hawai'i where the birth certificates give you 240 characters for the name.
Their middle name is the periodic table.
- ThePowerOfFuet 2y agoWhy?
- mulmen 2y agoWhy? They will have a lifetime of headaches filling out forms anywhere else. It doesn’t seem wise to troll the people who will make choices about where you spend your final days.
- meowster 2y agoIt sounds like they're going to hate that in the future when they have to fill out paperwork and argue with bureaucracies that say their documents/paperwork don't/doesn't match.
- sidewndr46 2y agocould you possibly have encoded the public part of a GPG key in there? Imagine turning each states ID system into the first step of assured communication
- Terr_ 2y ago> My daughters were born in Hawai'i where the birth certificates give you 240 characters for the name. That tracks--now I'm imagining some doting parent cooing: "Who's my cute iddle-widdle Humuhumunukunukuapua'a? You are!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reef_triggerfish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reef_triggerfish
- bangaladore 2y agofor those who are passing by, it means "triggerfish with a snout like a pig"
- Terr_ 2y agoWith the subtext being: "Haha, yes, traditional Hawaiian names sometimes require a lot more characters than the average person might expect."
- hluska 2y agoIf that’s a joke, it’s a very good one. Otherwise, what happens at some point in the future when your daughter tries to get a boarding pass?
- throwaway81523 2y agoAntimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium all get by, but that actinide series is going to be trouble.
- qingcharles 2y agoI know someone who has a single letter first name and they already have this problem constantly and it is very not a fun game.
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- some_furry 2y agoWell now whenever I hear "Jesus H Christ!" I know what the H really stands for.
- thaumasiotes 2y agoAs far as I know, the best available theory is that it comes from the first three letters of the name "Jesus", IHCOYC, but there's no real support for that (or for anything else).
- psychoslave 2y agoFirst time I read about this middle single letter, must be some invention of Amerigo U Vespucci.
- some_furry 2y agoIt was a joke, not an invitation.
- pfdietz 2y agoIt's because when he saw the moneylenders in the temple he went all Bruce Banner on them.