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Original poster

White-Knight/Knight-White... We can't, can we?

90 replies

duvetttpol · 02/02/2017 17:12

DP's and I's first baby together. WWYD WRT the surname?

OP posts:

Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

reuset · 12/02/2017 19:51

I suggest an anagram. More a reinvention than a mashup

NewtHighKit

KenHighTwit

WetThighInk

Any of those, OP

reuset · 12/02/2017 19:47

Somebody already suggested that. Have you seen us arguing about discussing why you can't use Wight up thread? Also OP doesn't want a 'mashup' apparently.

temporarilyjerry · 12/02/2017 19:12

This reminds me of 'The big bang theory', where Sheldon suggests take the 'Koo' from Koothrappali and the 'per' from Cooper. Do that! Take the beginning of your surname and the end of his.

reuset · 11/02/2017 20:23

Even if the term falls out of usage in the context mouseclogs describes, it's still incredibly silly as a surname (with or without the hyphen). The OP's child would be the first person in the UK to use that surname.

RosettaPebble · 11/02/2017 20:01

I like it and I would pay little heed to it being a term of abuse. It will have fallen out of the vernacular of the relatively few people using it, by the the time your child starts nursery.

nooka · 11/02/2017 20:01

I'd really not worry too much about millennial slang. It's likely to be fairly ephemeral. The OP's child isn't going to be messing about in online fora for 10 or 15 years by which time millenials will be considered old and irrelevant - two generations away.

PostTruthEra · 11/02/2017 19:44

I was joking with the hashtag.

I know obviously some think it's a term of abuse, but I don't think it's that common or more people would have heard of it.

Anyway, op asked for opinions. I like Whiteknight, you don't like it, all is fine with the world. Hopefully the op will find a solution she's happy with.

reuset · 11/02/2017 17:53

#Teamwhiteknight

Eh? How old are you?

Just because you haven't heard of the derogatory meaning of white knight, doesn't mean it doesn't apply.

PlumsGalore · 11/02/2017 14:57

White Knight make tumble dryers .... oh and those hostess trolley type things.

No, just no.

Mrsknackered · 11/02/2017 14:55

No fabrication whatsoever, I know a Garlic who married a Mustard. Not sure if the children were double barrelled...

PostTruthEra · 11/02/2017 14:16

A) I've never heard white knight as a term of abuse.

B) Names become just the name of whoever has them.

#TeamWhiteknight

reuset · 10/02/2017 23:26

I agree, don't double-barrel but just make it one name - Whiteknight

How does that change it, other than visually? I'm not getting at you, you weren't the only poster to make that suggestion.

Biscuitsneeded · 10/02/2017 23:16

I agree, don't double-barrel but just make it one name - Whiteknight. Honestly, it will be a part of your child so other children won't question it. I know a family whose surname is Kitcat. The children don't even blink, even though I thought it was a joke when I first heard it. Now I just think it's cool!

VocalDuck · 10/02/2017 23:12

Please don't double barrel it! I fully support a child having both parents' names, but not when there is a strong likelihood that it will lead to ridicule. Your surname or his but not both.

MakeItStopNeville · 10/02/2017 23:07

No worries mouse. You should see some of the crap I've spouted over the years!

MakeItStopNeville · 10/02/2017 23:05

Who knew you could feel so ancient at 41?!

reuset · 10/02/2017 22:54

I loved that you said millennial lexicon!

Poor old Neville

LolDeLol · 10/02/2017 22:02

What about making up a nice new family surname that you can all have.

MouseClogs · 10/02/2017 21:52

Sorry, that was deeply pompously worded on reflection

MakeItStopNeville · 10/02/2017 21:35

Haha! To think this was the first @ 'd MN message I received!

Duly noted. Self flagellation for said gross misunderstanding has duly begun.

Backs out of thread sniggering at millennial lexicon. A putdown that patronizes AND makes you feel old. Double whammy!

MouseClogs · 10/02/2017 20:04

And it really does not mean a guy who's a bit of a dick in front of a girl he likes, that I'm afraid is a gross misunderstanding on your part!

MouseClogs · 10/02/2017 20:03

@MakeItStopNeville that's not how it's used.

It's used (by sad misogynists) to mean a weak/pathetic man that pretends to stick up for women in a desperate bid to get laid because he has no other redeeming features.

I can absolutely assure you of this - this is how it is understood by most familiar with millennial lexicon.

MagicChicken · 10/02/2017 19:56

No. Sorry but you just can't. It would be terrible.

MakeItStopNeville · 10/02/2017 19:55

According to Urban fictionary it's when a guy tries to impress a woman and treats her as a Princess. So it means a guy who's a bit of a dick in front of a girl he likes.

Still makes an awesome surname.

Shannith · 10/02/2017 19:48

Outs self totally. if I married DP that would be the surname if we double barrelled. Except he is double barrelled already.

I did NOT know it's a term of abuse! Why?

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