Author Topic: Funny names (Read 2036 times)

loulou · « **on:** July 18, 2005, 10:30:03 pm »

I got a letter from the bank today signed by M T Nutt.

goldencup · « **Reply #1 on:** July 18, 2005, 10:31:49 pm »

A brainless individual?

« **Reply #2 on:** July 18, 2005, 10:32:06 pm »

Tee hee. I know a solicitor who is D.D Fiddle. His letter heading is Fiddle DD.

I kid you not

goldencup · « **Reply #3 on:** July 18, 2005, 10:37:31 pm »

Excellent! I was thinking of calling my string quartet that.

smurfboy · « **Reply #4 on:** July 19, 2005, 10:26:41 am »

My dad had a colleague once called Mr D Duck. A friend of mine claimed her dad worked with someone called Wayne Kerr, but surely no one was that cruel to their child?

Cherry_Ripe · « **Reply #5 on:** July 19, 2005, 12:51:33 pm »

I used to work with a guy called Michael Hunt who called himself Mike. It was funny calling his name on the tanoy ... 'has anyone seen Mike Hunt?' You get the idea.

Also I know a girl whose surname is Boobier

« **Reply #6 on:** July 19, 2005, 01:22:05 pm »

That's a line from Porky's

goldencup · « **Reply #7 on:** July 19, 2005, 05:41:49 pm »

My nephew is called Christopher Peacock, which you would have thought is fairly harmless. But he hadn't been at school long before he became known as Crispy Cock!

chocolate chick · « **Reply #8 on:** July 20, 2005, 10:38:15 am »

Thats very unfortunate!

oldspice · « **Reply #9 on:** July 20, 2005, 10:44:07 pm »

I have taught a Richard Burton, a James Brown and a James Hendrix Dean. I even taught a Penny Lane who was the daughter of a friend of mine.

The strangest named student i ever taught was called Wi Wi Poo

goldencup · « **Reply #10 on:** July 21, 2005, 08:26:34 am »

Wi Wi Poo? Actually that's not really funny - it's positively tragic!

Did the poor person realise the implications and couldn't they call themselves something else?

oldspice · « **Reply #11 on:** July 21, 2005, 02:23:19 pm »

Well, you see, when translated into Chinese script, this is a very hard name to write, which is why some parents choose it for their children - because they want them to have challenge early in life. It's very much the Chinese way. Of course, the words translate differently too so it has a different meaning.

Often, when Chinese people Anglicise their name, they choose old-fashioned names so they are sometimes called Montgomery, Felix or Herbert, Doris or Gladys - I prefer Wi Wi!!

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Author Topic: Funny names (Read 2036 times)