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Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Mon Dec 12, 2016 4:31 pm

BSF21 wrote:A friend of mine and her fiance just asked me to marry them in 2 weeks.

Still a little taken aback that she would think that highly of me but it's very exciting to be asked to do something like this. Anyone else around here ever gotten ordained to marry a friend/family member? I've got no problem with public speaking, but it's a lot to think about!

So you going Church of the Latter-Day Dude or Church of the Universal Life?

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Mon Dec 12, 2016 4:35 pm

That is really a great honour.

Congratulations!

Our wedding was conducted by a Rabbi that we had met once for 20 minutes a week before the ceremony. He had a pulpit at a local synagogue, but he was the only "rent-a-rabbi" available on the day of our service in a downtown hotel.

He was very specific about being paid in cash. My brother (best man) hates anything to do with religion, so he thought it was hilarious that he avoided the rabbi after the ceremony and made the guy look for him for 20 minutes or so!

In hindsight, how much more meaningful to have a loved one officiate.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Mon Dec 12, 2016 10:32 pm

I think my buddy did some online thing and paid money. He's basically a watered down JP. He's married a couple of couples. The most recent was the of the ever so common "military dude gets military girl prego and he's deploying soon" variety Good times!

But congrats on everything. That's pretty cool.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Mon Dec 12, 2016 11:22 pm

A friend officiated at the wedding of a different friend. The groom and his wife are into golf, so they put all sorts of golf references and puns into the vows.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Tue Dec 13, 2016 12:28 pm

sancarlos wrote:A friend officiated at the wedding of a different friend. The groom and his wife are into golf, so they put all sorts of golf references and puns into the vows.

That's par for the course.

Post by **Sabo** » Tue Dec 13, 2016 12:46 pm

The Sybian wrote:
sancarlos wrote:A friend officiated at the wedding of a different friend. The groom and his wife are into golf, so they put all sorts of golf references and puns into the vows.
That's par for the course.

Hey, marriage is no gimme. Unless it's in the hole!

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Wed Dec 14, 2016 9:16 pm

The Office (US) jumped the shark after Jim and Pam's wedding. They needed to have a way to have the other (CT) branch closer to Scranton, so as to interject the Scranton branch with some of the other office's staff here and there, and that includes Ed Helms' character. They could've cut a ton of dead weight and ended the series after Jim and Pam's wedding.

MMQBing at its finest.

Post by **brian** » Wed Dec 14, 2016 9:37 pm

Burt Young is somehow only 76. I thought he had to be 90. He was only 36 in Rocky.

Post by **brian** » Wed Dec 14, 2016 9:39 pm

Actually it's kinda freaking me out a little that he was the same age in Rocky IV as I am now.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 11:17 am

There were about 6.3 million different surnames reported in the 2010 Census and 62% of them were unique. That is crazy.

Post by **Shirley** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 11:32 am

Ryan wrote:There were about 6.3 million different surnames reported in the 2010 Census and 62% of them were unique. That is crazy.

Surnames or first names?

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 11:35 am

Post by **brian** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 11:37 am

Ryan wrote:There were about 6.3 million different surnames reported in the 2010 Census and 62% of them were unique. That is crazy.

Fuckin' immigrants! Trump was right!

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 11:42 am

The downloadable data has any name occurring at least 100 times and I noticed a few hyphenated names, so I bet that's a decent percentage of the uniques.

Post by **Shirley** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 11:47 am

Ryan wrote:Sur

That's crazy.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 11:52 am

Names submitted on exactly 101 responses include:

Sourjohn
Thirunavukkaras
Ped
Girl
Buyze
Wisdo
Van Compernolle
Van der Bogart
Van Wieringen
Van Staalduinen

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 12:00 pm

We're #36 baby!

(I really want to see the full list. I have a friend without any proper vowels and I'm curious if I know everyone with that last name.)

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 12:13 pm

A strong 33rd over here!

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 12:16 pm

#908 for me.

Interesting that Nguyen is #38. Vietnamese-Americans aren't a particularly large group, but Nguyen accounts for like 40% of Vietnamese surnames.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 12:17 pm

Post by **brian** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 12:24 pm

Johnny Carwash wrote:#908 for me.

Interesting that Nguyen is #38. Vietnamese-Americans aren't a particularly large group, but Nguyen accounts for like 40% of Vietnamese surnames.

Spend some time in San Jose and you won't be surprised at all.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 12:29 pm

71,486th is Cux

Post by **Sabo** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 12:29 pm

9,322! Right between Keffer and Pasley. And only 14 spots behind Staab!

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 12:46 pm

275! Surprising. The alternative "EE" spelling is in the 70's.

Post by **brian** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 12:52 pm

#1395. Right behind Xu and Gore.

Baloney · Post by **Baloney** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 1:00 pm

Down in the 60,100's

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 1:01 pm

I'm not saying sort the top 1000 according to most-white, but if you did, you might need to go get a bagel.

Post by **Sabo** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 1:13 pm

A_B wrote:I'm not saying sort the top 1000 according to most-white, but if you did, you might need to go get a bagel.

Or some scrapple.

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 2:34 pm

Both first and last name in the top 30. Woo!

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 3:01 pm

My wife's surname occurs less than 100x nationally, according to the 2010 census. How do I break this news to her?

Of course, I'm sitting strong at 38,640 (572 of us nationwide)...Of course, my father was adopted, and his actual, birth-given surname would rank me #295, along with 105,079 others. That'd fill a particular Big Ten stadium...

Post by **brian** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 3:03 pm

EnochRoot wrote:My wife's surname occurs less than 100x nationally, according to the 2010 census. How do I break this news to her?

Of course, I'm sitting strong at 38,640 (572 of us nationwide)...Of course, my father was adopted, and his actual, birth-given surname would rank me #295, along with 105,079 others. That'd fill a particular Big Ten stadium...

Three of them, actually.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 3:06 pm

EnochRoot wrote:My wife's surname occurs less than 100x nationally, according to the 2010 census.

Same.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 3:09 pm

brian wrote:
EnochRoot wrote:My wife's surname occurs less than 100x nationally, according to the 2010 census. How do I break this news to her?

Of course, I'm sitting strong at 38,640 (572 of us nationwide)...Of course, my father was adopted, and his actual, birth-given surname would rank me #295, along with 105,079 others. That'd fill a particular Big Ten stadium...
Three of them, actually.

I had my heart set on the reunion occurring in the CST, east and north of a chunk of the EST.

Was hoping to create some kind of rift in the time continuum. A temporal rift, of sorts..

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 3:11 pm

mister d wrote:
EnochRoot wrote:My wife's surname occurs less than 100x nationally, according to the 2010 census.
Same.

Help me with the takeaway here:

Mad that I came up empty after drilling through a cumbersome dot xls, or appreciating her uniqueness?

Post by **brian** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 3:15 pm

EnochRoot wrote:
brian wrote:
EnochRoot wrote:My wife's surname occurs less than 100x nationally, according to the 2010 census. How do I break this news to her?

Of course, I'm sitting strong at 38,640 (572 of us nationwide)...Of course, my father was adopted, and his actual, birth-given surname would rank me #295, along with 105,079 others. That'd fill a particular Big Ten stadium...
Three of them, actually.
I had my heart set on the reunion occurring in the CST, east and north of a chunk of the EST.

Was hoping to create some kind of rift in the time continuum. A temporal rift, of sorts..

Kinda lost. All three Big Ten stadiums with capacities of 105,000+ are EST.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 3:20 pm

brian wrote:
EnochRoot wrote:
brian wrote:
EnochRoot wrote:My wife's surname occurs less than 100x nationally, according to the 2010 census. How do I break this news to her?

Of course, I'm sitting strong at 38,640 (572 of us nationwide)...Of course, my father was adopted, and his actual, birth-given surname would rank me #295, along with 105,079 others. That'd fill a particular Big Ten stadium...
Three of them, actually.
I had my heart set on the reunion occurring in the CST, east and north of a chunk of the EST.

Was hoping to create some kind of rift in the time continuum. A temporal rift, of sorts..
Kinda lost. All three Big Ten stadiums with capacities of 105,000+ are EST.

Yeah, I just noticed that. Parts of MI are in the CST. Dunno why I thought Ann Arbor was Central.

Timezones are lame anyway.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 3:22 pm

Where would this last name rank?

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 4:11 pm

EnochRoot wrote:My wife's surname occurs less than 100x nationally, according to the 2010 census. How do I break this news to her?

Same with my wife's name.

When my first sister got married, I gave her a hard time about changing her name. Parroted the feminist lines and all that.

When we got engaged, my wife told me that she was changing hers. And it made sense, her surname is terrible.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 4:45 pm

Pruitt wrote:
EnochRoot wrote:My wife's surname occurs less than 100x nationally, according to the 2010 census. How do I break this news to her?
Same with my wife's name.

When my first sister got married, I gave her a hard time about changing her name. Parroted the feminist lines and all that.

When we got engaged, my wife told me that she was changing hers. And it made sense, her surname is terrible.

Is that Dutch?

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 5:11 pm

EnochRoot wrote:
Pruitt wrote:
EnochRoot wrote:My wife's surname occurs less than 100x nationally, according to the 2010 census. How do I break this news to her?
Same with my wife's name.

When my first sister got married, I gave her a hard time about changing her name. Parroted the feminist lines and all that.

When we got engaged, my wife told me that she was changing hers. And it made sense, her surname is terrible.
Is that Dutch?

Nice!

No, it's "Klupt" Which I believe means "to smack" in yiddish or lithuanian.