$100,000 For A Name Change ?
 

I was listening to the listeners talk about this today on the radio....


If you were offered $100,000 in return you had to legally change your full name, would you do it?


Im thinking "hell why not, it's not like my name got me anywhere where it stands". :) It's just a name right? It's in my thinking that it's not really what defines who you are as a person.

Honestly...I've been called "MANY" names and I still respond. LOL :D

LOL ~ oh i would definatly do it... why not, it's just a name. They can call me anything, as long as it's not "late for dinner"

Heck yes! $100,000 would mean we'd have to spend very little to buy our first home--if anything! Having my own home would mean more to me than having a certain legal name. Everyone would still know me as Angie or Angela, it would only be driver's license and official stuff that you'd really have to change.

Truth is - it depends on the name! Would you want to be known as "Coca-Cola" or some other brand name - "Nabisco" "Purina Dog Chow"????

I would do it for sure...no problem. Does someone else get to choose your name or do you get to do it?

Your new name would be changed through the entire courts system. Everything, every document you've had and will be having will be your new name. I am guessing if you want to choose "Nabisco" then by all means. But either way you change your name.

Okay then...where do I pick up the money?????

You can Janet - anything ya want. ;)

Sounds like a DEAL to me! :D :D

Lately, people have been selling their skin for commercial tattoos and offering to change their names for commercial purposes alos. Is this a choose your own proposition or take what they give you?

So now that we've decided we want the money...what are we changing our names to?

Mine will be: Frances Darlene (My dad's first name, my middle) don't really want my last or maiden name on-line..not sure why though, but I would probably go back to my maiden name.

I have no idea Janet. I'd probably have Brendon pick or I'd make a poll here. lol. How pathetic am I? :p

Friends in college who planned to marry were not sure about changing their names to each others so the groom-to-be sought something different. Star Trek must have been his inspiration because he wanted to be The Starwalkers or something like that! lol (They broke up about a month before the wedding!)

You bet I would! $100K is nice.

I've changed my name a few times.

I was born Judith Lois Bloom; called Judy. I married ex#1, became Judy L. Weiner,
got divorced, became Judy L. Bloom-Weiner legally, but Judy Bloom for real. I never took ex#2's name. When we got divorced, I legally changed my name to Judith Lois
Eve Bloom. Everyone knows me as Judy Bloom, and I never bothered changing
it from Judy Weiner on anything like my license, etc.

I think I deserve $100,000 just for remembering all of that. Where do I call for my money? (I share!).

To feed my family, to secure a roof over our heads, I'd put my husband in for it!

I am published under my name so long term it feels like it might create some career difficulties. On the other hand, I do have pseudonyms... Maybe I could use my existing name as a pseudonym in which case - who cares!