aryanhwy | there's a fifth Uckelman!

So, Joel's grandfather emigrated to the US from Germany when he was in his 30's; he had one son and two daughters. His son (my father in law) married and had one son (my husband). Joel's grandparents are now dead, so that meant that prior to our moving over here, there were precisely four Uckelmans in the U.S. - me, my husband, and my inlaws. I've always counted that as one of the added bonuses of married life. I like having such an uncommon name.

But we've found a fifth! There's an article in The Onion (America's Finest News Source) about one Dick Uckelman.

I gotta wonder...they can't have just made up this name out of thin air. So if they got it from somewhere, they probably got it from us... It's not horribly improbable, as one of the people on the business staff of the paper is the son of my dentist.

Ah, I miss The Onion, it was one of the highlights of the week in Madison. Good stuff. It had the only horoscope I ever read, and "Savage Love" has far more good advice in his columns than a lot of people would give him credit for.

And on the subject of unique names, it occured to me this evening that the last time I went googling for information about other Uckelmans (Uckelmen? Uckelwomen?) in Germany, they all uniformly spelled their name with two n's. Could it be...am I one of only four Uckelmans in the WORLD? Now that would be cool.