Originally Posted by
tougher
My real name is Christoffer and where I live it's normal to be called Stoffer (pronounced stuffer in english, like the fetish
). An old friend of mine saw the similarities with the word 'tougher' and thought it did fit me well, for some odd reason.
Originally Posted by
catonec
My name is also Christopher, I have no middle name. In 3rd grade we played a game where we tried to guess one kids middle name, if you got it right then the class would try to guess your middle name. I guessed right one time and the teacher asked me to whisper in her ear what my middle name is I told her "topher" she got a pretty good laugh out of that.
I have a cousin named Christopher, and my mother told his parents that we already knew too many Chrises and that we'd be calling him Fur.
Lo and behold now 25 or so years later there's a movie star named Topher Grace.
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