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Post by Kath on May 4, 2023 12:12:39 GMT
We had a conversation about 'unfortunate' names this weekend. My friend swears that she works with someone called Chris Peacock. I have a friend called Iain Thomas Smart although he usually puts the Thomas down as just the first initial. He regualrly recieves mail addressed to I Aint Smart.
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Post by davem399 on May 4, 2023 12:30:49 GMT
Does anybody know whether there is actually a company called Mike Hunt Whistles, or is one of those urban myths?
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Post by stevewmh on May 4, 2023 15:05:41 GMT
Does anybody know whether there is actually a company called Mike Hunt Whistles, or is one of those urban myths? I once worked with a Chris (C) Hunt who was forever getting the H scratched off his office door Also worked along with a Colin Sheepwash . ..poor guy |
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Post by dorsetmike on May 4, 2023 15:25:38 GMT
Does anybody know whether there is actually a company called Mike Hunt Whistles, or is one of those urban myths? Or the rumoured receptionist who Tannoyed "has anyone seen Mike Hunt?" |
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Post by davem399 on May 4, 2023 16:07:53 GMT
Does anybody know whether there is actually a company called Mike Hunt Whistles, or is one of those urban myths? Or the rumoured receptionist who Tannoyed "has anyone seen Mike Hunt?" The lads in the workshop of a factory I worked in many years ago used to get the receptionist with this, along Don Keebles. |
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Post by lesleysm2 on May 4, 2023 18:30:16 GMT
My sister swears that her music teacher was called Melody Beat. The meanest toughest teacher in my secondary school was Miss Cross-Sterne and boy did she live up to her name!!!! I recently had a manager whose surname was "Hassard" but she wasn't one |
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Post by Kath on May 4, 2023 18:35:27 GMT
My sister swears that her music teacher was called Melody Beat. The meanest toughest teacher in my secondary school was Miss Cross-Sterne and boy did she live up to her name!!!! I recently had a manager whose surname was "Hassard" but she wasn't one My English teacher at one school was a Mr Fear. He certainly lived up to his name! |
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Post by lesleysm2 on May 4, 2023 18:37:41 GMT
He regualrly recieves mail addressed to I Aint Smart. Friend of mine used to work in the IT Department of a bank and the way they made email addresses was your surname followed by the first letter of your first name Bit unfortunate when some bigwig from China came to manage quite a large department ...his first name was Kam and his surname was Wan.... A company I used to work for used first letter of first name followed by surname. I think the IT set it up on purpose because the company "Yes" man and all round brown noser ended up with an email address of Sheap |
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Post by andy on May 4, 2023 18:42:18 GMT
The meanest toughest teacher in my secondary school was Miss Cross-Sterne and boy did she live up to her name!!!! I recently had a manager whose surname was "Hassard" but she wasn't one My English teacher at one school was a Mr Fear. He certainly lived up to his name! We had a Mr Hair that was bald and a Mr Bald that had hair. |
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Post by willien on May 4, 2023 18:52:51 GMT
When a company I worked for had a Paris office mainly staffed by locals, one of the guys was called Guillaume Le Petit.
The internal phone list pinned to the office wall of course listed everyone by Surname first so he became - Le Petit Guillaume.
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Post by Ivor E Tower on May 4, 2023 18:57:28 GMT
One of my late father's good friends was a bricklayer who knew a Ben Dober (I think Ben was a nickname) but also a Mr and Mrs Cart who named their son Orson
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Post by dreampolice on May 4, 2023 18:59:51 GMT
I used to work with a PC Constable at Reading.
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Post by Ivor E Tower on May 4, 2023 19:06:59 GMT
Weird names always remind me of:
(from 39 seconds onwards)
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Post by andy on May 4, 2023 19:31:55 GMT
Or these...
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Post by dorsetmike on May 4, 2023 19:57:42 GMT
In the RAF I recall a Cpl Dover, always known as Ben;
There is also the possibly fictitious Scottish pair Ben Doon and Phil McCavity, or the Irish couple Patrick FitzMaurice and Maurice FitzPatrick
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