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   Bradley M. Kuhn (bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org)'s status on Monday, 22-Sep-2025 00:40:39 JST Bradley M. Kuhn

   For various reasons, I'm seriously considering changing my middle name. Not legally, since the only place it appears in full is my birth certificate (Although I don't have my long-form birth certificate, so who knows if it's right or even if I was born at all? 🤔

   Anyway, all other official documents have just “M.”.

   So, I can go wild & unilaterally declare the M now stands for something else.

   But, I can't think of anything cool… best I came up with is that it's just “M” period. Ideas welcome.

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     Bradley M. Kuhn (bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org)'s status on Monday, 22-Sep-2025 00:40:37 JST Bradley M. Kuhn

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     I've been looking to change my middle name, but to one still starting with ‘M’. I decided:"Maximiliano".

     I know it seems a haughty choice—but HMO:

     I was reviewing my high school papers & remembered in Spanish class, my 1ˢᵗ teacher gave everyone a name of Spanish origin (eg, “John” ⇒ “Juan”).

     She (apparently) couldn't think of a Latin-origin equiv. to “Bradley” & said
     > «Tu será Maximilano»

     I stopped using it when I graduated HS, but — just like The Big Lebowski — “it fits right in there”.

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: likes this.
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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Sep-2025 11:33:34 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Richard Fontana

     @bkuhn @richardfontana

     And, like, a hundred famous futbol players

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

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Sep-2025 11:33:35 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Richard Fontana

     @bkuhn @richardfontana like the Emperor of Mexico!

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

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     Bradley M. Kuhn (bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Sep-2025 11:33:36 JST Bradley M. Kuhn

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     • Richard Fontana

     @richardfontana

     I seen London, & I seen France, but I never seen no queen in her damned undies, & I definitely I seen stupifying stuff in Los Ange-ales …
     & I'm a hard working man. Possibly the hardest working man who ever lived in Boston, NYC, then Portland …which would put me in the running for hardest working man worldwide.

     But, sometimes there's a guy — and I'm talking about myself,Bradley Maximiliano Kuhn, here — who is just the right person for his time &place. I just fit right in here.

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     Richard Fontana (richardfontana@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Sep-2025 11:33:37 JST Richard Fontana

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     @bkuhn It's the name for your time and place.