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There's got to be more to your working day than loafing around the internet, says tfi049113. How do you fill those long, empty desperate hours?

(, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 12:18)
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Special names
I have access to a large number of databases containing personal information and there is noting more satisfying that finding those people with special names ...

Ahem. May I present some of the all time greats and todays special

Sarah Hogsflesh - the M4 will take you to her lair
Wayne Kerr - from somewhere near the A30
Jane Adcock - I bet she did
Knowledge Kutekwa - not a native English man I suspect
Anita Bush - indeed ...

And the best thing? It looks like work ...
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 16:59, 14 replies)
Some gems here too
I work for a company that was until recently a subsidiary of a large multinational. For the moment, we share their IT systems.

Here's some of the actual names from the corporate Outlook address book:

Jenny Taylor
Ginger Pratt
Rudi Bender
Randy Trout
Dick Payne
Dick Bender
Dick Spray
Juergen Porn
Geoffrey Bumbarger
Ron Seal
Willie Hunter
Urban Tiger (WTF?)
Roger Staines
Wally Crapps

We've got a list of similar ones going - currently ~200 long
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:13, closed)
A friend of mine
tells me that when she was a child her parents had a maid to help with the housework. She didn't know how it was spelled, but the name was pronounced "Clo-reen".

A maid named Chlorine. O lawdy...
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:14, closed)
I've got some of those
Janet Cumm
Harold Bellende
Jonathan Plums
Karen Shitehawk
Abdul Mutafuk
Jenny Clitt
Doris Bollocks
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:17, closed)
Using one of the above stories
if you look , you will see Sarah Hogsflesh has a facebook account!!!
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:56, closed)
Hong Kong english first names are the best
In my time there I collected business cards from:
Ida Ho
Fanny Sit
Spoon Poon

and got served in Maccy Ds on separate occasions by a Turbo Wong and an Alien Chan.

*visits www.deedpoll.org.uk to look at viability of changing first name to Turbo*
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:01, closed)
Working in Hong Kong
Looking to buy container loads of umbrellas (a long time ago) I eventually bought them from a gentleman called: Umbrella Wu.

Nice.
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 1:19, closed)
I've forgotten most of the good names I've seen
Mrs Hoggsblood springs to mind.
As does Mr Dickshit

But my favourite was Troy Challenger.

Mr Bin had a Mrs Kunt once when he worked at a call centre, along with Mrs Olive Olive, First Name: Olive. Surname: Olive.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:05, closed)
Troy Challenger...
...is arguably the most manly name ever. Sound like a rather statuesque fellow, a human adonis if you will.
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 3:03, closed)
Really?
After trying to buy some new equipment and being told to email a sales manager called Dick Dastardly I had to phone up to check.

What were his parents thinking!
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:21, closed)
there's a woman that works for BT
whose name is Beena Wankar.


if you work for BT look it up on the directory, and you'll find her. also, quit your job as i've never worked for a bigger bunch of cunts...
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 19:46, closed)
re: Funny names
Well,

There's a KFC in my hometown which employs a Thor Smith. He was a little scrawnier than your average norse god though.
(, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 22:40, closed)
Good Special Names
There was a guy at my former employer called:

TOBY BEAGLEHOLE

For some reason, this still cracks me up.
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 2:44, closed)
Just one for now..
Eileen Forward.
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 9:16, closed)
We've
got a Katie Lunt...

on emails we have she comes up as Klunt...
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:58, closed)

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