Another Data-Entry Observation:

[moon_custafer]

Either:

A surprising number of people who fill out forms don't get why there's a space marked "initial" between the "first name" and "last name" spaces;

Or:

A surprising number of people have two middle names, which just happen to bear the same initials as their first and last names.

Comments

[donald hutton (from livejournal.com)]

Maybe they only have two names and are initialing the form to show that these are indeed them.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

I think that's the logic - it's just that the train of thought must go something like "OK, first name - huh - now they want me to initial this space before moving on to write my last name. Seems a bit redundant, but who am I to argue, etc."

[georgiamagnolia.livejournal.com]

My real first name, last name, and middle name all start with the same letter. Makes my monogram easy, yes it does. *grin*

[donald hutton (from livejournal.com)]

My friend, Olav Victory Randoja, has a name where the last letter of each name is the first of the next: making it easy to run them together if he wants.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't he be Olav Victory Yrandoja, then?

[donald hutton (from livejournal.com)]

Ooops, that's "Victor" not "Victory".