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There are hundreds of unfortunate people out there with silly names desparately coping with the evil their parents perpetrated upon them at birth.

So far, I've met a woman called Rusty Tharp, a child health consultant called Peter Files and have the business card for "Fab Boolaky" on my desk.

We'd like you to tell us about the people you've met or work with that have silly, inappropriate or frankly wierd names.

(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 10:54)
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at the hospital where i used to work....
...there were gynaecologists going by the names of:
Dr. Topliss
Dr. Cockburn. (Conveniently pronounced 'Co-burn').
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 12:03, Reply)
I once worked
in a company where there was a Penny Sweet....

also went to school with a girl called Joy Maker

Parents are such cruel bastards
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:58, Reply)
Aah, the memories.
We had some belters when I worked in a bookshop in Harrogate.

Mr Twatt (owned an Artsy fartsy shop in the town centre, and has since dropped the 'T')

Mr Spanner... and

Mr Stilborn. Good god.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:56, Reply)
can't remember many
but here in Washington, flipping through the phonebook i came across Ben & Ileen Dover. Be funnier if Ben was a proctologist.

and if you do a images.google search for "slutz," with moderate safe search the second image is a gravemarker for Charles B. Slutz (without moderate safe search it's like the 9th image, after....porn! who'd've figured?)
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:56, Reply)
I know a few
For one, my old art teacher was called Melvin Kelvin Parkinson. No joke.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:56, Reply)
Mr Bollox
I was working doing data entry and I came across a file marked Mr Bollox.

I was like, "who's taking the piss?"

Apparently he was real, a good client and liked to be called Mr Balough.

What a load of bollox.

BTW: If this story is familiar to anyone it's because I once phoned it into the Mark and Lard show when they were riffing on a similar theme.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:54, Reply)
I have a business card
dating a few years back from the 'Head of Planning' for BA... his name? Ron Muddle.

Also, I used to know a guy called Stan Behind.

And my surname's Wood... as a kid I worked in a hardware shop, cutting wood all the time. Oh, the laughs everyone had.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:54, Reply)
Thanks to ScaryDuck
I am now aware of Councillor Michael Hunt:
213.210.33.3/mgUserInfo.asp?UID=203
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:53, Reply)
R. Singh Ghir
100% True, this was a customer of a large Highstreet Bank. As was Mies Wanapee. Ha.

Also, my Mum went to school with Annette Curtin.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:52, Reply)
I knew a Richard Head
Dick Head. Ho ho. He had ginger frizzy hair and liked playing with knives.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:51, Reply)
My friend's old school
head teacher was called Frank Lee Gay,
and quite frankly, he was gay
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:51, Reply)
I was rather amused by the American Olympic Tennis player.
He got in a bit of a strop because of a dodgy decision. His name was Mardy Fish.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:50, Reply)
went to school with a guy named richard head
on a hotel restaurant seating plan we found ourselves sat in between two other families,
the kunce, and the pusseys. its true, ask my dad.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:49, Reply)
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I knew a bloke called Phineas Anthony De Thornley Head III when I was at uni. Worth a shout just for the sheer implausable poshness of it. Nice bloke though.

Also knew a man called John Thomas at uni. Chortle.

I worked for a stupid large insurance company a while back. We had access to the phone numbers of all the non-ex-directory people in the uk through a cunning little program called BT Phone disc. Some of the highlights were:

Mr T Fucken of Aberdeen

The hundreds of Mr & Mrs Cuntis, Cuntas &
Cunto.

My fave, however, was Countess Labia. Must have been a deed pol jobby.

Knew someone in my dodgy metal phase as who changed his name to Dan Death. Hmm.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:49, Reply)
I work in a rather large...
...international organisation, with offices all over 't shop. Which leads to:

Sally Fudge-Hacker (say Hacker with hair lip)
Toi (pronoucned two) Wong (lucky bugger)
Jack Beaver (only in his spare time...)

I'll have post the outlook address list....
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:49, Reply)
Making a point...
I heard once of a chap who was a bit miffed with his bank because they charged him a silly amount of money for being fractionally overdrawn. So he changed his name by Deed Poll to "Mr Yorkshire Bank plc are facist Bastards".

Alternatively, an old favourite of mine is "Nigel La-Pooertrench" whose occupation was/is "artiste". Twat, more like.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:49, Reply)
Stoopid names
I used to deal with a tax inspector called Mr. Puddiphat (I tort I taw a pudditat.....)

And one of the Olympic drug testing team is apparently called Dick Pound.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:48, Reply)
I was working in a bar and I overheard the glass collector say, "and I thought about changing my name to Simon Templer"
I was like, "what?" This guy was a bit of tool, 40 years old and collecting glasses, not the brightest lightbulb really.

Him: Yeah. You know my name?
Me: You're called Bill.
Him: So what's my real name?
Me: Well, William I suppose.
Him: And my full name is Sleam. William Sleam.
Me: So why Simon Templer?
Him: Sleam is actually spelt Slime. So my name is actually Willy Slime.
Me: I see your point.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:47, Reply)
I once met a chap who used to work checking in VIPs at Birmingham International Airport.
He claimed to have met a man called Marvin Marmite. I do hope this is true.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:47, Reply)
I know of a certain
"Sausage Hendrix"
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:46, Reply)
Whats in a name?
My Godfather is actually called Michael Jackson. However, when I was little the name had not been besmirched enough to cause any fear or parental misgivings about placing me in his care.
One of the bosses here at work is called Mike Coyle, perhaps the first words of a mother wondering how she wound up impregnated? Or maybe not.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:44, Reply)
not someone I work with
but how can you ignore Gardeners Worlds Gay Search?
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:43, Reply)
seriously 2 kids....
when i was a tyke, i was friends with a kid called 'wayne payne'
emotially distressing for the young bloke, he moved to cairns(Queenland, AUS)

the next one is also a nutcracker...
nigel outman...
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:42, Reply)
Some names what I have heard.
Russell Sprout
Gordon Warden
And my personal favourite...
Miss I Lovett-Standing.
I bet you do love...
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:42, Reply)
I hope I'm anonymous
I won't use first names because some of these poor unfortunates still know who I am. I've worked with a guy whose surname was Kunt. He wasn't very good at his job so we nicknamed him Useless.

At another job there was Mr Chicken sat next to Mr Capon.

One of my few regrets in life though is that I've never worked for a manager called Mr Fucknutshitforbrains, because it would have been entirely appropriate for almost everyone I've ever worked for.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:41, Reply)
More skool names
We had a kid whose name was Anob, just like that
Also, a teacher called John Kerr, but I preferred to address him as the Spanish would, as Juan
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:40, Reply)
Someone on the production team of Air Force One:
Cricket Sloat.

So I opened a boots advantage account for him.

and buy all my weird shit on it.

also my cousins are called emma and dale.

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Oh, and

Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham Fiennes
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:40, Reply)
People with Stupid Names
there was a boy at my school called Richard Head
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:40, Reply)
One of my friends..
went for a job and was interviewed by a chraming woman named Gaye Macbeth.
Which I found hilarious.

Oh, and the guy who does the score on Buffy is called Brian Wankum.
Tee hee.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:39, Reply)
Some I've known...
I was at school with a lad called Crispin Dick, and there was also the frankly bizarrely named Merrigan Twelves!

On my course at university there were many suggestive surnames.....
Dix
Coxall
Rodham
Dunmore
Ffrench
Winkle
and Hardstaff.

also a Procter and a Gamble!
(, Thu 26 Aug 2004, 11:39, Reply)

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