M. Night and M. Mullen and ?

[Scott Cohen]

And a few other people with big names use the M.

 

What does this stand for? Is it a Royal title similar to Commander or Knight?

 

What am I missing

 

SC

[John Holland]

I should really let David Mullen answer this but as he is half Japanese i have always asumed its a Japanese first name . Sorry David if i am wrong .

[Chad Stockfleth]

I think it's just an initial there friend, and I believe David's first name is Merritt. Wouldn't you go by David too :P jk David.

 

My last name is Stockfleth....try using that your whole life, especially in the South. :huh:

Edited March 6, 2007 by Chad Stockfleth

[Scott Cohen]

I think it's just an initial there friend, and I believe David's first name is Merritt. Wouldn't you go by David too :P jk David.

 

My last name is Stockfleth....try using that your whole life, especially in the South. :huh:

 

I think it is something else far more sinster... Far too many people are using the M. for it to be just their first name abbreviated. I don't see any other first names abbreviated this way.

 

I think M. must stand for something. Some title, religeous, political or similar endorsement.

 

What is it?

 

SC

[Jonathan Bowerbank]

My dad's first name is Melvin...yeah, needless to say he goes by his middle name Ryan and writes his name "M. Ryan Bowerbank"

 

:)

 

btw, I think this topic is miscategorized.

[Chad Stockfleth]

I can't tell if he's joking or confused.

[Phil Rhodes]

Hi,

 

I think you're going to be disappointed by a singular lack of intrigue here. I suspect it's just that odd American tendency to name your sons after their father (and grandfathers, and great-grandfathers) and then realising, hang on a second here, this is confusing.

 

My family had a tradition of alternately naming the men John and Albert. I'd have been Albert. Thanks for putting your foot down, mum...

 

M. Phil Rhodes XVI

[Francesco Bonomo]

What does this stand for? Is it a Royal title similar to Commander or Knight?

 

it's just the initial for the first name: in the case of M. Night it stands for his birth name, Manoj.

[Matthew Buick]

M. Night Shyamalan's "M" is for Mount. David Mullen did mention his first mane being "Merritt" once.

 

My "M" stands for "Matthew", and I hate that name. However, M. Adam Buick doesn't sound any better. :D

[Max Jacoby]

Madam Buick?

 

I do apologize, but I just couldn't help myself

[Guest]

M. Night Shyamalan's "M" is for Mount. David Mullen did mention his first mane being "Merritt" once.

 

My "M" stands for "Matthew", and I hate that name. However, M. Adam Buick doesn't sound any better. :D

 

Whilst we're on the topic I have noticed that many people simply call me by my last name. Hint hint Matthew.

 

Why this occurs I have no idea? Maybe if I was at an English private school in 1906 that would be the custom?

 

I usually don't correct the folk that call me Boddington, I just can't figure out why my last name causes people to use it as a stand alone.

 

R,

[Matthew Buick]

Madam Buick?

 

I do apologize, but I just couldn't help myself

 

YOU BASTARD!!! :angry: . . . :lol:

Edited March 6, 2007 by Matthew Buick

[Michael Nash]

I usually don't correct the folk that call me Boddington, I just can't figure out why my last name causes people to use it as a stand alone.

 

Happens to me all the time. For some reason people latch onto the name "Nash" and call me that. Maybe Michael is just too common.

 

I don't fight it and instead go with it, content that people at least find it memorable...

 

 

 

M. Nash :P

[Phil Rhodes]

It's not terribly memorable round here, Michael...

 

Phil

[David Mullen ASC]

My grandfather, dad and I all have the same name; my dad has always been Merritt D. Mullen so I became M. David Mullen. I only used the "M" on my credits out of respect to my parents who didn't want me to completely drop my first name, and "Merritt David Mullen III" is a bit long for non-Cinemascope main titles...

[Hal Smith]

My family has alternated Harold and Frederick as first son given names for four generations. I don't like Harold and used to credit myself as H. Frederick Smith. Years ago when one of my crew buddies started calling me Prince Hal for fun, I decided I liked Hal, adopted it, and have used it since then.

[Daniel Sheehy]

I usually don't correct the folk that call me Boddington, I just can't figure out why my last name causes people to use it as a stand alone.

 

You're probably the only Boddington they know, but not the only Richard. How many other (un-related) Boddingtons do you know?

 

There are several Daniels' on this forum... but only one Sheehy. In fact, I'm one of only 9 Sheehys in the whole of Fiji, and the others are all family. :)

So I can completely understand the way people latch onto last names as identifiers.

[Leo Anthony Vale]

My dad's first name is Melvin...yeah, needless to say he goes by his middle name Ryan and writes his name "M. Ryan Bowerbank"

 

He could use Vinnie.

[Matt Pacini]

My "M" stands for "Matthew", and I hate that name. However, M. Adam Buick doesn't sound any better. :D

 

Hey, I heard that!

 

Matthew means "Gods gift" so you shouldn't think it's a bad thing.

 

I think I'll change my name to M.Z.X.X.E.H. Matt Pacini just to sound mysterious and confuse people.

[Rodrigo Llano]

As a latino I had a second last name.. in my case Muñoz..

 

Rodrigo Llano M. (another option for the M circle) B)

 

all the best

 

Rodrigo

[Leo Anthony Vale]

Matthew means "Gods gift" so you shouldn't think it's a bad thing.

 

St.Matthew was a tax collector. Which was then considered the social equivalent of a prostitute.

[Hal Smith]

St.Matthew was a tax collector. Which was then considered the social equivalent of a prostitute.

Which is why his conversion was such a miracle of early Christianity. Come to think of it, wasn't prostitution Mary the Magdalene's trade before her conversion?

[Matthew Buick]

Forgiveness is such a strong ethic in Christianity. :)

[James Steven Beverly]

St.Matthew was a tax collector. Which was then considered the social equivalent of a prostitute.

 

That's deplorable! St. Matthew should have been at least the equivalent of a High class call-girl, you know one of those REALLY HOT ONES with long, tapered legs that start at her neck and a REALLY great rack. Kinda the Julie Roberts in Pretty Woman type, only with a REALY great rack. The kind of chick that you'd spend 2 months salery on and it'd be worth it because you'd NEVER get a chick like this in real life so you'd take her out for like a night on the town at ALL the best places, even though she's a hooker because you're just WAITING for your friends to show up with thier wives that they think are OH so hot then when they see this chick they start druelling over her and completely ignoring thier wives until the wife gets pissed off and storms out of the resturant, knocking over a waiter on the way out but the guy doesn't care cuz he's now in love wioth your date but she, of course, plays it off like she was madly in love with you, completely blowing him off so he gets all jealous and humiliated so he finally goes running after his wife trying to apalogize but she ends up devorcing him anyway and he winds up a wino begging for change on the street corner. Then as you share a laugh at him wallowing around in the gutter, asking for a quarted for boozes, she suggests that the two of you head up to the 5 star hotel room you got and have a nightcap. So you go up there with her and end up having the best sex ever had by anyone in the history of sex. And in the morning when you wake up, the money you gave her is on the pillow next to you with a note that says she couldn't possibly take any money for the wonderful night you gave her and she's availible for a free-bee anytime you want one and she left the keys to her Ferrari in your pants pocket and if you hurry you can meet her at the dock and join her for a criuse to every erotic spot around the world.....Man, I never thought St.Matthew could be so HOT! :blink:

Edited March 11, 2007 by James Steven Beverly

[Leo Anthony Vale]

Which is why his conversion was such a miracle of early Christianity. Come to think of it, wasn't prostitution Mary the Magdalene's trade before her conversion?

 

That's a common misconception. I think she had five demons in her which were expelled.

A couple of nearby stories deal with prostitutes, including the one who cleans Jesus' feet with her hair and extremely expensive spices, which Judas objects to because of the expense. He showed the makings of a producer.