Woman With "Boring" Last Name Enters Into "Bland" Marriage

[matcom]

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INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- While single life was Boring, marriage is going to be Bland for one new bride.

Katie Boring married Nathan Bland on June 12.

Boring was actually looking forward to the name change. She said she was subjected to a lot of kidding growing up. But her children may have it better.

She said she not many little kids use the word "bland" in conversation. But her friends found Katie anything but boring.

Her sorority sisters started calling her "Katie Exciting," a nickname that stuck. She says she never considered using the hyphenated name Katie Boring-Bland.

http://www.wftv.com/family/3685989/detail.html

[Catfight]

1. That's hysterical!

[Jack Rabbit]

2. Will they hyphonate the kids' names?

Let's hope not.

[drumwolf]

3. I've got one even funnier....

...and this involves someone I actually knew personally (a onetime co-worker).

My co-worker's last name was Wakoff, and she eventually married a guy with the name of Weiner.

[Richardo]

4. Heard this on NPR this morning - my first thought: "matcom will post this"

Am I spending too much time on DU? :crazy:

[fudge stripe cookays]

5. My mom's story...

She grew up with the unwieldy, desperately-hard-for-Americans-to-pronounce name: "Rennscheidt." (Renn' shite)

(My great grandparents were generation 0, ja!" ) :D

She desperately hated that name, as she was constantly called
Renn-SHIT, Rein-SCHNOTT...anything disgusting that could be concocted as a variation-- she heard it.

She met and dated this guy for awhile, and it got a little serious, but she just couldn't see beyond his last name, STEINKE, and kicked him to the curb.

She said she just couldn't go from Renn-SHIT to STINKY.

And that is how she ended up a Smith.
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[YellowRubberDuckie]

6. Matcom, where do you get your news?

Everyday it's one weird thing after another with you! LOL HAve fun dropping your pants in NYC!! I want a picture of you mooning me!! :hi:
Duckie