Conversely (or is it inversely?), I've got a coworker whose entire, full, legal name is a single word. It just shows up twice in all of our systems.
What is his nationality, out of curiosity? Or was he born with name and surname? BTW Just found this list, pretty short. Is it common in some societies still to have just one name? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legally_mononymous_p...
I'm not sure, he works in a different office than I do. As far as I know, he's American, and I'm not sure if he had a mononym from birth, or if he changed his name.
Ireland is like that throughout the whole country, except maybe Dublin. It's worked for them for ages; there's been articles written about wackily-addressed mail being sent to people in Ireland and arriving to the correct destination. (I remember one that was just a long description going something like "the lad who..."). The problem is if someone in Ireland tries to order something from a company in another country,…
> UK addresses will have a postal code, and a city name, but after that there's no telling; it'll frequently list smaller and smaller towns and then some hamlet, and not have any kind of street or house number. Royal Mail don't recommend these long addresses; there's a form on their website to produce a canonical address, something like [Building name] [Number] Street [Hamlet/village/town] TOWN PO57 C0DE However, goo…
The fact that addresses don't come in canonical form is an interesting challenge for anybody who wants to verify addresses, e.g. for fraud preventing. Actually, many banks, when verifying addresses for online transactions, just strip out all non-numeric characters when doing address verification.
A few years ago I ordered a custom license plate 'NULL'. What should have been a 2-3 week process lasted 8 months, with the order being canceled multiple times, and at one point a blank plate being shipped to the county clerk's office. More recently I've gotten out of a parking ticket in a certain municipality when a frustrated meter maid told me they saw my plates were valid, but the handheld device used to issue ti…
I've always wanted a license plate I1II0O0O just to mess with the automated license plate scanners and video tolls
A few years ago I ordered a custom license plate 'NULL'. What should have been a 2-3 week process lasted 8 months, with the order being canceled multiple times, and at one point a blank plate being shipped to the county clerk's office. More recently I've gotten out of a parking ticket in a certain municipality when a frustrated meter maid told me they saw my plates were valid, but the handheld device used to issue ti…
I've always wanted a license plate I1II0O0O just to mess with the automated license plate scanners and video tolls
Lots of quotes of Bobby Tables, but here's the really relevant XKDC :)
A few years ago I ordered a custom license plate 'NULL'. What should have been a 2-3 week process lasted 8 months, with the order being canceled multiple times, and at one point a blank plate being shipped to the county clerk's office. More recently I've gotten out of a parking ticket in a certain municipality when a frustrated meter maid told me they saw my plates were valid, but the handheld device used to issue ti…
I have an LLC called "NULL VENTURES LLC". I often get mail that is addressed to:
A few years ago I ordered a custom license plate 'NULL'. What should have been a 2-3 week process lasted 8 months, with the order being canceled multiple times, and at one point a blank plate being shipped to the county clerk's office. More recently I've gotten out of a parking ticket in a certain municipality when a frustrated meter maid told me they saw my plates were valid, but the handheld device used to issue ti…
I've always wanted a license plate I1II0O0O just to mess with the automated license plate scanners and video tolls
From an online form: Location (City, Country): Singapore Nope. Singapore, Singapore. >:(
UK forms which ask for a city and a county present the same problem for residents of London. US forms which ask for a city and a state present a similar problem for residents of New York. You're part of a select club!
Not sure I understand. The city of London is in the county of Greater London. New York City is in the state of New York. But Singapore is a city-state.
There have been a few British tourists over the years that have tried to visit Sydney NSW (New South Wales) and ended up in Sydney NS (Nova Scotia), perhaps because some computer system incorrectly truncated the state abbreviation to US/Canadian 2 letters.
I have a close friend who lives in rural Ireland. That's not in a town, but on a small farm in a general area of about 15-20 other small farms. His address is just the name of the general area and the county. The Irish postal system is clever enough to know that the person with this name, in that general area lives in that house. In fact, he probably still isn't even really classified by his name, rather as the husba…
In Northern Canada there are a lot of towns that don't have street names, just references like "brown house". Everyone in town knows everyone, so it's simply not needed.
Lately Canada Post has been trying to force them to have street names, so in the provisioning system of the telco that serves the area you get awesome addresses like "next to brown house" or "around corner from house next to brown house".