We WON!

[freyakitten]

I am now an under-25 champion at bridge. *do the dance of victory* According to the captains of opposing teams, I played brilliantly all week. One of these captains was severely miffed during the Victory Dinner that I had my name on yet another trophy that he didn't... Said trophy has typos that have not been fixed yet. I particularly like the matching teams for 2001 on the winners and runners-up trophy. Apparently the same six players got both titles.

Next job is to make the people doing the engraving on the honours boards at my local bridge club to put a 'Miss' in front of my name this time, instead of a 'Ms' which is not accurate. And while they're at it, can they modify the other instances?

Comments

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

Fair enough :-)

I just find it amusing after all the fighting the 1960s feminists did on behalf of making "Ms" a legitimate usage.

I've been married several times, and it never had anything to do with Lurve (although coincidentally I was, and largely remain, madly in love with those wot I married) - it was strictly a tax dodge and a way to give two fingers to The System. Having spent my life as a travelling rock minstrel, I've always found the Mrs appellation to be a wonderfully useful Clark Kent suit. There I am, outlaw and liver-in-the-cracks and stainless steel rodent, but as soon as I announce myself as Mrs Somebodyorother I gain this demure unthreatening cachet in the eyes of the Grey Men...

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

My SO and I count as de-facto for the tax dodge business. I forget when the tax laws started to include de-facto as well as by-law marriages. Probably in the 1997 'rewriting' of the laws (if they rewrote the lot, then why are we still using portions of the 1936 Tax Act?)

And I probably wouldn't be this militant about wanting 'Miss' not 'Ms' if, when I ask, 'Miss' is consistently used. The only organisations that get it right have asked me to fill out forms that have included 'Miss' as an option for my title.

[(Anonymous)]

The tax changes were in effect in 1988 at least. The law even meant that if you got a job, and then entered a de-facto relationship, the unemployment rebate was to be calculated at the "Married" rate. I didn't believe it when I was told.....

Iestyn