Significating Silliness

The hyphenated generation is on the verge of creating a linguistic train wreck:

Despite many creative ideas, Brendan Greene-Walsh and Leila Rathert-Knowles have yet to hit on a good solution for their last name, should they get married.

Once again I bow to the wisdom of the inimitable Robert Heinlein:

"This sad little lizard told me that he was a brontosaurus on his mother's side. I did not laugh; people who boast of ancestry often have little else to sustain them."

A name does not make a person special; it's the other way around.