>>Today I visited the website of Christof Lange, oh sorry, I mean Christof Wollenhaupt. Until today I thought it were two different persons, but it appears that he married two years ago and has changed his last name.
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>>What puzzles me is that no one here has wondered how this is possible. As far as I'm aware of, there's no law that allows a man to change his last name when he gets married.
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>>Christof, are you reading along?
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>I'm not sure about US (I know a woman can keep her own last name, can add a second last name or can change her last name after being married), but in Russia you can change your last name to your wife's name. It rarely happens, though.

This changing of names has got to stop. :) If not, then we should all be barcoded with a GUID! ;)

Hyphenating last names is bad. Think of the poor children. I had a male teacher that married and adopted the hyphenated lastname Mock-Harrington. Is that anything like mock chicken? http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1463327

What happens when a child of the Mock-Harringtons marries a child of the Something-Nosonovskys? The poor child will have chronic writer's cramp before grade 2!

Maybe we should find a person with the last name Just and another with the last name Married, then have them get a custom license plate. Everywhere they go people will throw rice, drink champagne, honk car horns and tie tin cans to their bumper!