$100,000 For A Name Change ?

rivermom · 10-25-2007, 01:55 PM

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

Mandy · 10-25-2007, 01:58 PM

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"

AngieDoogles · 10-25-2007, 04:27 PM

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.

katepoet · 10-25-2007, 06:45 PM

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"????

Janet · 10-26-2007, 03:31 AM

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

rivermom · 10-26-2007, 04:00 AM

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Originally Posted by katepoet

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"????

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.

Janet · 10-26-2007, 04:01 AM

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

rivermom · 10-26-2007, 04:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Janet

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

You can Janet - anything ya want.

Mandy · 10-26-2007, 04:07 AM

Sounds like a DEAL to me!

katepoet · 10-26-2007, 09:21 AM

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?

Janet · 10-26-2007, 10:24 AM

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.

AngieDoogles · 10-26-2007, 12:05 PM

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

katepoet · 10-26-2007, 06:03 PM

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!)

judy · 10-26-2007, 06:06 PM

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!).

katepoet · 10-26-2007, 08:34 PM

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!

10-25-2007, 04:27 PM	#3
AngieDoogles Donating 4WT 4000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 6,509	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. __________________ "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~MT

10-26-2007, 03:31 AM	#5
Janet Moderator Donating 4WT 18K Club Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: INDIANA Posts: 21,624	I would do it for sure...no problem. Does someone else get to choose your name or do you get to do it? __________________ To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. ECCLESIASTES 3:1

10-26-2007, 04:01 AM	#7
Janet Moderator Donating 4WT 18K Club Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: INDIANA Posts: 21,624	Okay then...where do I pick up the money????? __________________ To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. ECCLESIASTES 3:1

10-26-2007, 04:07 AM	#9
Mandy Donating 4WT 4000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Who cares! Posts: 4,587	Sounds like a DEAL to me! __________________ Many people will walk in and out your life, but only true friends leave footprints!

10-26-2007, 10:24 AM	#11
Janet Moderator Donating 4WT 18K Club Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: INDIANA Posts: 21,624	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. __________________ To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. ECCLESIASTES 3:1

10-25-2007, 01:55 PM	#1
rivermom Donating 4WT 500 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Tontitown, Arkansas Posts: 2,475	$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 __________________ ~_/> , /\/\ ,,, Sheryl When I grow up I want to be a horse whisperer!

10-25-2007, 01:58 PM	#2
Mandy Donating 4WT 4000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Who cares! Posts: 4,587	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" __________________ Many people will walk in and out your life, but only true friends leave footprints!

10-25-2007, 06:45 PM	#4
katepoet Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 992	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"????

10-26-2007, 09:21 AM	#10
katepoet Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 992	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?

10-26-2007, 12:05 PM	#12
AngieDoogles Donating 4WT 4000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 6,509	I have no idea Janet. I'd probably have Brendon pick or I'd make a poll here. lol. How pathetic am I? __________________ "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~MT

10-26-2007, 06:03 PM	#13
katepoet Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 992	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!)

10-26-2007, 06:06 PM	#14
judy Donating 4WT Yakker Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Denver, NY Posts: 8,097	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!). __________________ *Judy*

10-26-2007, 08:34 PM	#15
katepoet Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 992	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!

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