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Post by petrochemist on May 4, 2023 20:36:12 GMT
I had a friend called Simon Ehler which sounds a bit off to me.
I also knew a couple with the surname Awre who had trouble coming up with names for their kids that wouldn't lead to teasing:
BAwre (=Bore), CAwre (Core), DAwre (Door), EAwre (like a donkey), GAwre (Gore), JAwre (Jaw), RAwre (Raw)... They'd managed to rule out pretty much the whole alphabet.
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Post by gray1720 on May 4, 2023 20:39:13 GMT
My previous employer gave everyone an electronic ID for signing into the IT systems, which consisted of the first three letters of your last name followed by the first three letters of your first name. I was the rather boring graadr, but I did work with souliz, jandan, and nanjam and dodcat, who we all reckoned sounded like a 90s Eurobeat act. Anyway, at his retirement do, possibly after drink had been taken, the chap who created the system explained that he'd created it that way because the company's founder was one James Noble!
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Post by Chester PB on May 4, 2023 20:42:33 GMT
My father informed me that I was named after the place in which I was probably conceived, so it could have been worse.
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Post by willien on May 4, 2023 20:53:06 GMT
My father informed me that I was named after the place in which I was probably conceived, so it could have been worse. I think I remember hearing that Sid James (carry on films) was eternally greatful he was not conceived in Adelaide. |
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Post by lesleysm2 on May 4, 2023 21:03:25 GMT
A cousin of mine lives in the wonderfully named Stanstead Mountfitchet
Whenever he mentions it I imagine Stephen Fry in Blackadder 4 shouting "STANSTEAD! MOUNTFITCHET! and Fitchet stop complaining!"
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Post by Kath on May 4, 2023 21:10:43 GMT
I've been reminded of a lecturer I had at college back in the 80s. His name was Philip Hart and he always wrote his name at the top of the blackboard with very close together writing as PHart. His wife taught there too and she did the same. Her name was Sheila.
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Post by dorsetmike on May 4, 2023 21:27:33 GMT
A lad at school had Tapping as his surname, the English mistress, Mrs R, was getting on in years; young Tapping used to sit there and tap with his pencil, Mrs R would eventually almost scream "Stop tapping Tapping" sometimes twice or three times in a lesson, before term was out she had a breakdown - we never saw her again.
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Post by willien on May 4, 2023 21:47:11 GMT
And when I was in secondary we thought it hilarious the when role was called we had a Young Gordon.
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Post by davem399 on May 4, 2023 21:50:26 GMT
My brother used to have a boss called George Dyer, who always answered his phone with “Dyer here”.
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Post by davem399 on May 4, 2023 22:08:28 GMT
I’ve been watching the women’s Vuelta (tour of Spain) this week.
There is Dutch cyclist called Amber Kraak taking part.
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Post by Ivor E Tower on May 7, 2023 20:10:16 GMT
I’ve been watching the women’s Vuelta (tour of Spain) this week. There is Dutch cyclist called Amber Kraak taking part. Reminds me of one place I worked where one of my colleagues who sat nearby to me would regularly have to call a lady at one of our suppliers, called "Amber Stratton".... only she always referred to her as "Amber Strap-on" |
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Post by gray1720 on May 7, 2023 20:17:21 GMT
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Post by Chester PB on May 7, 2023 21:22:30 GMT
I always liked Biggus Dickus in 'Monty Python's Life of Brian' - a joke that didn't outlive its welcome. However, my sense of humour is sometimes perverse. There was a Latin joke in the film Gladiator and I was the only person in the cinema that laughed, on a evening when it was full. |
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