> > > I don't know if their inspiration was the saints of the same name, but I do recall reading
> > > an account of the life of St. Paul at a very young age, and being massively impressed that
> > > Paul was not just a name, but a *Christian* name. :o)
> >
> > My parents never gave me a name because it was *Christian* or whatsoever, they just gave me my
> > name because they liked it.
>
> Ah. I somehow suspected that if there was one person here who missed the point of the anecdote, it would be you. :o)
>
> There's nothing special about Paul being a Christian name; "Christian name" is just another term for "first name" or "given name".
>
> Paul

LMAO, *blushing..a lot*
OF COURSE, stupid me, i knew that (gee, whats wrong with my brains? I'd better go home for the weekend!)
We, in dutch, call it "frontname" and "lastname".
But i knew that "frontname" was "christian name" in english. I must be confused by the Christian (religious) environment, here at Rinkworks.

Jom"i'd-better-shut-up-and-stop-writing-such-nonsense"meke