hehe... patron saint of leather and lace... almost as cool as Vin Diesel being the patron saint of Guys You Don't Fuck With.
My middle name is and has always been 'Len'. Even when I changed my first name I kept the same middle name. For several reasons, such as nyah:
* I didn't want to touch on the spanky-ness that is completely renaming oneself, going with 'Daryn' was as spanky as I was willing to get, and I would have gone with just straight up 'Darren' as per the normal spelling if it really wasn't just so much easier to switch from 'Darcy' to 'Daryn'. And all this because I really wanted to change my name to Ryan but I just wasn't willing to get that wank-a-spank-a-licious
* I don't really care what my middle name is, I like Len OK and I think it made my parents feel better about the whole 'our kid is a transsexual and is changing her/his name from the one WE chose, boo hoo woe is us' thing that I was keeping the same middle name
* Less hassle in terms of changing documents
* 'Len', though generally associated with being a feminine name is really a unisex name like Drew or Alex
But yeah, so the reason that my middle name was ever 'Len' was cuz my dad has some aunt or something named Lenora and my mom has one named Lenore and so they figured they could make my middle name a namesake to both of them at once by just shortening it.
Oh, ok, I guess it's only in American, modern and certain areas that 'Len' is thought to be feminine and maybe it's just me cuz it's been my middle name always. I mean, I know it's the short version of Leonard... but apparently according to some stupid spank baby name site it's a masculine name and is like Hopi Indian and Scandanavian or something and means "flute, with a lion's hart"
Which translates to "my parents are a bunch of stupid fuckers who think they named me something OMG lyke to2lee kewl!!"
Uhhh... but I have a stick up my ass about people who name their kids stupid ass shit. But I think Crispin has the most awesome name ever. And I had no idea about Philip K. Dick's middle name til you just posted it today and now I think he's cool too.
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Date: 2005-06-07 03:15 am (UTC)My middle name is and has always been 'Len'. Even when I changed my first name I kept the same middle name. For several reasons, such as nyah:
* I didn't want to touch on the spanky-ness that is completely renaming oneself, going with 'Daryn' was as spanky as I was willing to get, and I would have gone with just straight up 'Darren' as per the normal spelling if it really wasn't just so much easier to switch from 'Darcy' to 'Daryn'. And all this because I really wanted to change my name to Ryan but I just wasn't willing to get that wank-a-spank-a-licious
* I don't really care what my middle name is, I like Len OK and I think it made my parents feel better about the whole 'our kid is a transsexual and is changing her/his name from the one WE chose, boo hoo woe is us' thing that I was keeping the same middle name
* Less hassle in terms of changing documents
* 'Len', though generally associated with being a feminine name is really a unisex name like Drew or Alex
But yeah, so the reason that my middle name was ever 'Len' was cuz my dad has some aunt or something named Lenora and my mom has one named Lenore and so they figured they could make my middle name a namesake to both of them at once by just shortening it.
Oh, ok, I guess it's only in American, modern and certain areas that 'Len' is thought to be feminine and maybe it's just me cuz it's been my middle name always. I mean, I know it's the short version of Leonard... but apparently according to some stupid spank baby name site it's a masculine name and is like Hopi Indian and Scandanavian or something and means "flute, with a lion's hart"
Which translates to "my parents are a bunch of stupid fuckers who think they named me something OMG lyke to2lee kewl!!"
Uhhh... but I have a stick up my ass about people who name their kids stupid ass shit. But I think Crispin has the most awesome name ever. And I had no idea about Philip K. Dick's middle name til you just posted it today and now I think he's cool too.