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I recently got it in my head that I wanted the suffix “Esq.” after my name.  For those of you who don’t know, the “Esq.” suffix is short for “Esquire”, and is typically used to indicate that the bearer is a lawyer.   Notice that I say “typically”.  So after being told that I was ridiculous and out of line by most of my friends, I did what I always do.  Set out to get it anyway, so I could throw it in their faces.

My fascination with the whole esquire thing started when I saw a lawyer buy something with his credit card, and after his name were three gleaming angelic letters, followed by the boldest and most authoritative of all punctuation

Esq.

I had to have that.  So naturally my own personal “pimp my name” process started at the bank (what? you didn’t think it was going to star at law school did you?), well on the phone with the bank anyway.  The conversation went something like this: (more…)