Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHONI've been tagged by BC-based Vic Grace, who in turn was tagged by Wisconsin-based Anna, so I have to reveal my middle name. But because blogging by nature is an interactive medium, I'll throw the question open to all of you - can YOU guess my middle name? Leave me a comment with your guess and I'll eventually reveal the answer.
About ten years ago, when I worked for The Sunday Age newspaper, there were two tickets up for grabs to a really good concert. The tickets were promised to the person who could reveal the most middle names of the staff. It was great to watch the contest unfold. Eventually there were only two journalists - yours truly and one other writer - whose middle names had not been revealed.
The winner, a good friend of mine, used an innovative method. She rang the human resources department and uncovered the fact that the other bloke's middle name was Fleetwood. Then, chuckling at her own creativity, she rang my wife and asked what my middle name was.
But YOU can't ring my wife this time around - so hazard a guess in the comments section ...
Charles?
ReplyDeleteI think Fitzgerald would be a very nice middle name for you. Of course, all those names in the picture were probably just to throw us off the track.
ReplyDeleteI should have thought of this! I almost used my daughter's middle name because I like it better than mine. I never liked my middle name, ever since 1st or 2nd grade when I met a girl with that name. For reasons I can no longer recall, I did not like that girl. After that, I did not like the name. I figure it's been a year or two since then and I ought to be getting over that by now. So I went ahead and used my real middle name.
It's a step...
Is it "Rumplestiltskin", by chance?
ReplyDeleteMy first guess was Charles but allan beat me to it. How about Lewis?
ReplyDelete"Mc"
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking Michael.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure it's not wayne because then you would be robbing convenience stores ;)
It would be nice to have your signature to make an art work out of it. Just a thought.
ReplyDeleteJames?
ReplyDeleteIts Winston isnt it, David Winston Mcmahon...
ReplyDeleteHi Allan,
ReplyDeleteI've been called a right Charlie at least once in my life, but no, not Charles.
Keep smiling
David
Hi Anna,
ReplyDeleteHow nice of you to visit. Fitzgerald? Fits me.
But it ain't correct!
And there's still time for you to change to your daughter's middle name!
Do keep in touch
Keep smiling
David
Hi Les,
ReplyDeleteNow THAT is a classic answer. Very clever.
But, no ....
Keep smiling
David
Hi Dot,
ReplyDeleteLewis would have been great, after Lewis Carroll.
But no ...
Keep smiling
David
Hi BTBear,
ReplyDeleteYou;re a a very clever bruin. Yes, I've been called Mc at many stages in my life.
But, sadly, you're wrong ...
Keep smiling
David
Hi Hammer,
ReplyDeleteClose, but no cigar. I do have a close relative called Michael.
Wayne would be good - like John Wayne. But, alas, no ....
Keep smiling
David
G'day Camplin,
ReplyDeleteWe could do that one day. Wouldn't be worth anything - but it'd be a lot of fun.
Do keep in touch
Keep smiling
David
G'day Mur,
ReplyDeleteThe sort of name my parents might have considered, especially given his sainthood.
But no ....
Keep smiling
David
G'day Your Eminence,
ReplyDeleteWinston? Like John Winston Howard or a bloke called Churchill?
Er, no .... which just proves that not even Popes know everything!
Keep smiling
David
I'm thinking Walter for some reason.
ReplyDeleteAnd Anna - it's never too late to change. My middle name is legally no more, doesn't take much to change one's name.
Hi Victorya,
ReplyDeleteWalter would have been nice. As in the gallant Sir Walter Raleigh.
No, not this time, Victorya ....!!
Keep smiling
David
Henry
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing it is a family name... but that could be anything.
ReplyDeleteReynier?
It's Malcolm
ReplyDeleteMalcolm? That would be a pretty cool piece of double-bluff if it were.
ReplyDeleteAlloius? Henry? Peter? Paul?
ReplyDeleteDarn, I'm late with the Rumpelstiltskin suggestion!
ReplyDeleteHow about Vince? David Vince McMahon...
Last chance? Reinhold.
On the basis of a Catholic Education and an Irish surname, I deduce Patrick or Kevin, and if I am allowed additional long odds attempts, Xavier or Bosco.
ReplyDeleteDavid,
ReplyDeleteIs it Dominick by chance? That is the middle name loathed by DH.
I saw the name "Algernon" (That's not my guess.) and I thought it could be "Ernest." That's a wilde stretch, I know.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm...
ReplyDeleteMatthew?
-your book mentions that that's your son's name, so maybe he was named after you?
I have four names, so I don't have a middle one. HAHAHA.
What a tease you are! I will throw my chance away ... Prandesh? I dunno, it just sounded like a lovely name to honor India some how.
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