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My daughters were born in Hawai'i where the birth certificates give you 240 characters for the name.

Their middle name is the periodic table.

It sounds like they're going to hate that in the future when they have to fill out paperwork and argue with bureaucracies that say their documents/paperwork don't/doesn't match.

Why?

They will have a lifetime of headaches filling out forms anywhere else.

It doesn’t seem wise to troll the people who will make choices about where you spend your final days.

> My daughters were born in Hawai'i where the birth certificates give you 240 characters for the name.

That tracks--now I'm imagining some doting parent cooing: "Who's my cute iddle-widdle Humuhumunukunukuapua'a? You are!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reef_triggerfish

for those who are passing by, it means "triggerfish with a snout like a pig"

With the subtext being: "Haha, yes, traditional Hawaiian names sometimes require a lot more characters than the average person might expect."

could you possibly have encoded the public part of a GPG key in there? Imagine turning each states ID system into the first step of assured communication

If that’s a joke, it’s a very good one. Otherwise, what happens at some point in the future when your daughter tries to get a boarding pass?

Antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium all get by, but that actinide series is going to be trouble.

I'd be worried they'd get teased for ASSEBRKR.

Luckily my second sentence was a joke ;)

I like you - that was a really good one. :)

I know someone who has a single letter first name and they already have this problem constantly and it is very not a fun game.

Why?

Well now whenever I hear "Jesus H Christ!" I know what the H really stands for.

As far as I know, the best available theory is that it comes from the first three letters of the name "Jesus", IHCOYC, but there's no real support for that (or for anything else).

First time I read about this middle single letter, must be some invention of Amerigo U Vespucci.

It was a joke, not an invitation.

It's because when he saw the moneylenders in the temple he went all Bruce Banner on them.

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