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[MetalSlimeHunt]

It gets old after the fifty millionth damn time. In fact, it was old before the first time.

You should anticipate the next time they plan to tell a stone joke, then jump on a table half-way through it and throw a stone at them. I imagine they'll stop after seeing that.

[alway]

Last names, on the other hand, can get pretty awesome due to their permanence. So long as you aren't stuck with something mundane like 'Smith' that is. They last long enough to have, in some cases, undergone linguistic evolution alongside their native languages. 'Alway' started out either as aedelwig or allmhagh.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

I'm named after an implement for firing arrows. Sort of.

[ein]

I have two last names, one English, the other Scottish.

[Ricky]

I'm named after my dad. How boring is that?

Hey, I'm named after my dad too! But I still beat you... He's named after a street intersection at the hospital where he was born. So I guess I'm a second generation street intersection.

[ECrownofFire]

My last name is Scottish, and means "fire". (Well, technically "son of fire", I have one of those McSomething names)

[Aqizzar]

It takes a tremendous amount of douchebaggy imagination, but my last name can be turned into "jizzing".  You can see how helpful that would be in school.  But like I said, it takes a lot of imagination to get there.  Really, beginning with J is the only reason it works at all.

[ToonyMan]

My name is impossible to pronounce unless you know accents well.  Otherwise I'm an animal.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

My second name changes every few months, it currently doesn't mean anything, as I made it up while drunk.

[fqllve]

Hey, it's a pretty cool name compared to most given out. I'm named after a middle eastern guy from a religion I don't believe in.

I defy you to pronounce it.

I say dove-kin because that is obviously what the drunk men who came up with it had in mind.

Seriously though Dovahkiin? Why the H? Why two Is? I would sooner name my children Nerevar and Sotha Sil than Dovahkiin, which as far as I can tell is the single worst made up word in TES. (The single worst not made up word is sanguine, obviously)

[Heron TSG]

What's in a name? Sadness, happiness, and an unfulfilled prophecy. Also, this is now on topic.

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I'm not sure how it would have changed my life one way or another, but I do have an interesting butterfly effect story.

     My dad graduated from high school in 1983, hoping to become a mechanic and work on cars. He loved cars, and he also loved his sweetheart, who he was to be married to the following summer. They agreed to wait a year before going off to [REDACTED] State University together. They had a wonderful time, and lived a happy and prosperous life. His fiancee was pregnant, and she gave birth to twin boys in the spring of 1984. Everything was going swimmingly. A mere two weeks before their wedding, however, something terrible happened. They were driving home from a day at the beach when their car was hit by a car running a red light. The man driving this car was not drunk, but the man attempting to wrest control of the car certainly was. I don't know the whole situation there, but my dad's first children and his soon-to-be wife died that day. He was completely heartbroken. He became extremely depressed, and decided to put off going to college for a while. How could he go to college alone when he would always be reminded of his lost love? The men of my family don't deal well with sadness. Instead of dealing with the problem, we ignore it by throwing ourselves into projects and work. In my dad's case, he threw himself into working on cars. He worked twelve hours a day, plus a few projects he did at home on the side. One day he was fixing a man's car, and the owner noticed how intently he was working, how absolutely single-minded he was about doing a good job. After some conversation, it turned out this man was the head of the admissions department at the local community college. He was shocked to find out that such a brilliant mechanic had no college education, and eventually coerced my father into going back to school, even going so far as to waive all tuition.
     Once at college, he did as he did before. He worked extremely hard, and with the passage of time the sadness drained slowly but surely. In his second year, he found that he had to take a math class to graduate. He absolutely hated math, but he wanted to finish school. In this class he met my mother, who he became fast friends with due to their mutual love of cars. After graduation, they became roommates. Their friendship slowly morphed into love, and my dad was happy again. They went through rough times, but eventually everything worked out in the end. They were married, and my older sister was born a few years later. The guilt that my dad had about the death of his first children still lingered on, though. He always thought that he could have been more observant, that he could have reacted in time to change the outcome of that fateful collision. Instead, he proposed a different plan. He talked to my mom about it, and they decided to try for twins, so that he could move on fully. They named my brother after my father, but couldn't think of a name for me. I now bear the (unisex) name of my father's first love.

Not really a gigantic change story, but I thought it was an interesting place to get a name.

[Duke 2.0]

 My last name is a bastardization of a semi-rare Portuguese name. Rolling r's and strange uses of e's means nobody pronounces it right except Brazilians. It can also be stretched extremely easily to a type of weasel.

 Although people just make LOTR references with my first name.

[ToonyMan]

Hehehe, I just remember what your first name was.  That Lord of the Rings comment man, you should have never made it.

[Duke 2.0]

Sam is a rather common name, I have no issues whatsoever.

[Ultimuh]

I have a manly name.. 'Anders'