Let's say Fred Jones and Sally Smith have a child that they name Richard Jones-Smith.
Then Richard Jones-Smith marries a girl named Betty Swift-Kelly and have a child that they end up naming Patty Jones-Smith-Swift-Kelly who then marries a guy named Ben Harris-Cook-Carroll-D'Angelo. Then they have a child that they then name Linda Jones-Smith-Swift-Kelly-Harris-Cook-Carroll-D'Angelo.
You can see how this quickly gets out of hand.
I can think of many a ribald combination.
Exactly. So, at some point to stop it from becoming absolutely ludicrous (somewhere between 8 and 64 last names), you will have to start dropping names. Which names will get dropped? Will the court step in and tell you that you can’t drop any of the maternal names? Will you flip a coin to choose which names to keep?
So, to prune names down to something manageable, does Linda Jones-Smith-Swift-Kelly-Harris-Cook-Carroll-D’Angelo become:
a) Linda Smith-Kelly-Cook-D’Angelo or
b) Linda Jones-Swift-Harris-Carroll?
Politicians and judges never think beyond what alcoholic beverage they will have after work. They have to be the stupidest people alive.
It’s like green politicians not thinking about a hundred million rusting windmill hulks s all over the landscape 40 years from now and nobody thought about how to take them down, remove the millions of tons of concrete, steel, and blades, and restore the landscape.