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Rachelswipe says: My niece - after months of begging - was finally allowed to get a hamster, and her grandfather was utterly horrified to learn that it had been called "Nipples", a pretty good name for a pet if you ask us. Alas, it was only the more mundane "Nibbles" - what have you misheard or misunderstood, with truly hilarious consequences?

(, Thu 28 Aug 2014, 21:35)
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Surely a made-up name.
In a new workplace I overheard someone referring to a co-worker called 'Barbed Wire'. I thought it was a nickname until I saw the name 'Barbara Dwyer' on a staff list.
(, Mon 1 Sep 2014, 21:57, 9 replies)
Yer had the same trouble with a colleague called
Colin Onicirrigation.
(, Mon 1 Sep 2014, 22:28, closed)
Funny, coz
I knew a part-Scandinavian, part-Spanish woman called Doomi Uppa Diaz.
(, Tue 2 Sep 2014, 0:25, closed)
What a coincidence ... I knew her brother Goran Ärm Uppa Diaz

(, Tue 2 Sep 2014, 7:56, closed)
And her other sister who filmed the whole thing.
Cameron Diaz
(, Tue 2 Sep 2014, 8:49, closed)
*applause*

(, Tue 2 Sep 2014, 9:00, closed)
True story - no, really true. Truer than a true thing telling the truth.
I started work at a company in the US, and was introduced to my cow orkers. One of them had the rather wonderful name of "Majik Fountain". When I was given an email list, I noticed that his name was "majikxfountain@...". I asked him about the "x"; he replied, "Well, I use that because in the last place I worked there was another Majik Fountain"...

/boggles/
(, Tue 2 Sep 2014, 10:23, closed)
How do you 'ork' a cow by the way?

(, Tue 2 Sep 2014, 12:39, closed)
Sounds awkward.

(, Tue 2 Sep 2014, 21:01, closed)

uk.linkedin.com/pub/wei-ling-ho/45/99b/473
(, Tue 2 Sep 2014, 13:53, closed)

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