same last name...weird?

tallaght01

my friend just rang me from Ireland. In the course of the convo he starts tellin me about this girl hes been dating for a while. He's at the stage now where she's met his family etc.

Then he tells me she has the same surname as him. I started pissing meself laughing. He got a bit fruity and said there was nothing odd about that.

I don't know why, but I just thought it was weird. Does anyone else? or is it just me?

Does anyone here go out with someone who has the same last name as them....or in the case of the gay community, have you ever dated someone with the same first AND last name as yourself?

Xavi6

His surname isn't Fritzel by any chance?

reregholdsworth

are you serious?

maybe you should demand a DNA test.
if they share more than 80% DNA I think you
should demand that they be locked up in your
local friendly confession booth until eternity.

thefinalstage

Demand that they be sterilized

tallaght01

Xavi6 wrote: »

His surname isn't Fritzel by any chance?

LOL

reregholdsworth wrote: »

are you serious?

maybe you should demand a DNA test.
if they share more than 80% DNA I think you
should demand that they be locked up in your
local friendly confession booth until eternity.

whoa, take it easy dude. It's just banter. There are other, more appropriate places to stick that poker

javaboy

I have a pretty rare surname which is handy. If I was ever with someone with the same second name, at least I'd know my kids would have webbed feet etc.

I once set a friend up with someone and they were both O'Sheas. It didn't end well.

javaboy

On a slightly related topic, my brother is freaked out because both he and my sister's boyfriend have the same first name. Would that bother anybody here? I would have thought it would be a lot freakier for my sister.

thefinalstage

javaboy wrote: »

I have a pretty rare surname which is handy. If I was ever with someone with the same second name, at least I'd know my kids would have webbed feet etc.

I once set a friend up with someone and they were both O'Sheas. It didn't end well.

"I found the perfect girl for you buddy!"
"What, really?"
"Yep. She said she would meet you in the local later"
"Thanks man!"

3 hours later

"I'm heading out, thanks again man"

Friend returns dazed and saddened

"Whats up? Didn't go well? Damn, I thought she would be perfect...."
"It was MY MA!"

ironictoaster

That's quite funky alright when I think about it.

DanGerMus

reregholdsworth wrote: »

if they share more than 80% DNA I think you
should demand that they be locked up in your
local friendly confession booth until eternity.

Don't humans in general share like 99% ,or something high, of their DNA anyway.

Suppose it would mean no arguments about who's name goes first on the birth certs or whether or not she'll keep her maiden name.
Twould make for a funny double barrel name.
John theodore McMahon-McMahon

Also half price family plaques.

Tar.Aldarion

Mmm the kinky sex games. Uh, I know very few people with my sirname that I don't know for a fact are in my family. Risky business.

javaboy

thelastangryman wrote: »

"I found the perfect girl for you buddy!"
"What, really?"
"Yep. She said she would meet you in the local later"
"Thanks man!"

3 hours later

"I'm heading out, thanks again man"

Friend returns dazed and saddened

"Whats up? Didn't go well? Damn, I thought she would be perfect...."
"It was MY MA!"

Actually it went like this:

Javaboy: So cinema on Saturday?
Javaboy's GF: Yeah... I'm bringing my friend XXXXXX. Can you bring a friend for her?
JB: Eh.. what does she look like?
JB's GF: What? I can't hear you I'm going through a tunnel. Bye.

JB: Probably fugly.

Some time later

JB: So I'm going to the cinema on Saturday with the missus. She's bringing a wimmin. Oh.. I just had an idea. Why don't you also come along?
JB's friend: This sounds like a setup? She's not an uggo is she?
JB: Eh...what? I'm going through a tunnel.
JB's friend: You're standing beside me.
JB: Oh right yeah. I can neither confirm nor deny her fugliness.
JB: I'll buy you 10 Benson&Hedges
JB's friend: 40
JB: 20
JB's friend: Deal but if I see an Adam's apple, I'm out of there and it's 200 smokes.


Let's just say the price in cigarettes rose to unsustainable levels after two double dates.

Karoma

Wasn't this a PI thread once upon a time?

Adam

javaboy wrote: »

Actually it went like this:

Javaboy: So cinema on Saturday?
Javaboy's GF: Yeah... I'm bringing my friend XXXXXX. Can you bring a friend for her?
JB: Eh.. what does she look like?
JB's GF: What? I can't hear you I'm going through a tunnel. Bye.

JB: Probably fugly.

Some time later

JB: So I'm going to the cinema on Saturday with the missus. She's bringing a wimmin. Oh.. I just had an idea. Why don't you also come along?
JB's friend: This sounds like a setup? She's not an uggo is she?
JB: Eh...what? I'm going through a tunnel.
JB's friend: You're standing beside me.
JB: Oh right yeah. I can neither confirm nor deny her fugliness.
JB: I'll buy you 10 Benson&Hedges
JB's friend: 40
JB: 20
JB's friend: Deal but if I see an Adam's apple, I'm out of there and it's 200 smokes.


Let's just say the price in cigarettes rose to unsustainable levels after two double dates.

Great post

jester77

Same parents would be weirder!

Steve_o

The in-laws having the same surname could be very confusing...

dade

javaboy wrote: »

On a slightly related topic, my brother is freaked out because both he and my sister's boyfriend have the same first name. Would that bother anybody here? I would have thought it would be a lot freakier for my sister.

might have freaked him out when he came home unexpected and heard her screaming his name out

sam34

has happened two couples i know- my aunt and her husband (both now rip) and friends who're getting married soon.
at least it avoids the "whether to change your name" dilemma for the girls

Steve_o

dade wrote: »

might have freaked him out when he came home unexpected and heard her screaming his name out

lol, that would be a freaky experience...

javaboy

Mirror wrote: »

Great post

The funny thing is that the story is true. I took some liberty with the dialogue but yes I did bargain with my friend on how many cigarettes I would need to pay him to go out with my gf's friend. And they did have the same name.

dade wrote: »

might have freaked him out when he came home unexpected and heard her screaming his name out

Luckily she lives in Spain so it hasn't been an issue yet.

Blisterman

I've never heard of a couple having the same last name, which is surprising, because statistically, it must happen quite often.

latenia

I know a long standing gay couple who have the exact same name-first and last.

tribulus

javaboy wrote: »

On a slightly related topic, my brother is freaked out because both he and my sister's boyfriend have the same first name. Would that bother anybody here? I would have thought it would be a lot freakier for my sister.

My sister's boyfriend has the same the name as me. It's not a big deal if there's any confusion he's just called the "other one".

watna

I know a guy whose surname is McCarron. His ex was called Karen and everyone used to say it'd be hilarious if they got married!

robinph

This would suggest that having the same surname would indicate a high level of relatedness between those concerned.

WindSock

Well, I'm a Murphy and I wouldn't. That reduces my choice by about half the population of the country :cool:

KnifeWRENCH

WindSock wrote: »

Well, I'm a Murphy and I wouldn't. That reduces my choice by about half the population of the country :cool:

But what are the chances that a random Murphy will be directly related to you?
My surname isn't very common here, so if I met a girl with the same surname I'd be a little wary. But if my surname was Murphy or Kelly or O'Connor or something I probably wouldn't think much of it.

Steve_o

javaboy wrote: »

Actually it went like this:

Javaboy: So cinema on Saturday?
Javaboy's GF: Yeah... I'm bringing my friend XXXXXX. Can you bring a friend for her?
JB: Eh.. what does she look like?
JB's GF: What? I can't hear you I'm going through a tunnel. Bye.

JB: Probably fugly.

Some time later

JB: So I'm going to the cinema on Saturday with the missus. She's bringing a wimmin. Oh.. I just had an idea. Why don't you also come along?
JB's friend: This sounds like a setup? She's not an uggo is she?
JB: Eh...what? I'm going through a tunnel.
JB's friend: You're standing beside me.
JB: Oh right yeah. I can neither confirm nor deny her fugliness.
JB: I'll buy you 10 Benson&Hedges
JB's friend: 40
JB: 20
JB's friend: Deal but if I see an Adam's apple, I'm out of there and it's 200 smokes.


Let's just say the price in cigarettes rose to unsustainable levels after two double dates.

This post is priceless, for everything else there's mastercard...:D

Latchy

Well now that you mention it ,a same name story along the same lines.I use to live next door to a Linda Smith and also on the other side of me was another slightly older Linda Smith .Anyway, this guy had arranged a date with the first Linda who was quite a good looking blonde girl however by mistake he knocked on the wrong Lindas door and her poor mother was stumped to find this strange guy looking for to take her (married) daughter out he he

he talked himself out of that ok one but it was hilarious for all concerned at the time .

RedXIV

Met up with a girl one night in a niteclub, turned out very friendly and shared a quick kiss. asked her what her second name was, more to make convo that curiosity and it was same as mine. when i laughed and told her she ran away

timmywex

My parents had the same second name before marraige, both from the same city, but no relation altogether, the priest made them do a family tree back that went years back, but they just werent related, just 2 people with the same name! I know people with my second name that im not realted to, same thing realy!

junior_apollo

Ye guys think thats weird?..

My mother married my father taking his second name.

Some years later my mothers sister married her fella, again taking his second name.

Both my father and my uncle have the same second names - and they arent related.


Ok so that bad enough BUT...

My mother and father are both born on the 11th of the month - two months apart.
My aunt and uncle are both born on the 11th of the month - two months apart!...

(if I think of any other similarities ill apend...)

kevmy

WindSock wrote: »

Well, I'm a Murphy and I wouldn't. That reduces my choice by about half the population of the country :cool:

I'm also a Murphy.

There was 7 Murphy's in my year going to school (two were twins) so we'll say 6 separate Murphy's. None of us related at least as far back as 3rd cousins.

Now that I think about it one of those other Murphy's was pretty hot - ah memories

chopperbyrne

I know lots of Byrnes that I'm not related to.

I've even met another Ger Byrne.

Not sure if his nickname was Chopper though!

Spud83

I know a married couple who shared the same birthday. Ages were different but birthday the same.

junior_apollo

alanmurphy83 wrote: »

I know a married couple who shared the same birthday. Ages were different but birthday the same.

Nope my parents are same age (2 months dif obviously)as each other and my aunt/uncle the same age as each other. Both couple arent the same age though.. that would be way too weird

Pheonix Ski

javaboy wrote: »

Actually it went like this:

Javaboy: So cinema on Saturday?
Javaboy's GF: Yeah... I'm bringing my friend XXXXXX. Can you bring a friend for her?
JB: Eh.. what does she look like?
JB's GF: What? I can't hear you I'm going through a tunnel. Bye.

JB: Probably fugly.

Some time later

JB: So I'm going to the cinema on Saturday with the missus. She's bringing a wimmin. Oh.. I just had an idea. Why don't you also come along?
JB's friend: This sounds like a setup? She's not an uggo is she?
JB: Eh...what? I'm going through a tunnel.
JB's friend: You're standing beside me.
JB: Oh right yeah. I can neither confirm nor deny her fugliness.
JB: I'll buy you 10 Benson&Hedges
JB's friend: 40
JB: 20
JB's friend: Deal but if I see an Adam's apple, I'm out of there and it's 200 smokes.


Let's just say the price in cigarettes rose to unsustainable levels after two double dates.

That made me giggle and weirdly enough...Smile at the computer :pac:

cornbb

I dated a girl with the same surname as me. Got a massive slagging for it, predictably enough. Its a fairly common surname though, and we made absolutely sure there was no relation