General Chat Thread, Strange names? in General; Hi,
I have just had to phone Samsung and i was looking for a guy called Dickie Baird. I had ...
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8th September 2009, 11:08 AM #1 Strange names?
Hi,
I have just had to phone Samsung and i was looking for a guy called Dickie Baird. I had to ask the receptionist to put me through. I was ready to laugh at any minute luckily i kept my cool.
What other name odd names have you come across in real life?
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8th September 2009, 11:16 AM #2 I don't know about odd but the catering school meal service at our LEA is I think run by a Mrs Cook
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8th September 2009, 11:19 AM #3 at the primaries i go to there is a few princesses and other kids which if they were in a class together could be the fruit and veg aisle in a supermarket.
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8th September 2009, 11:22 AM #4 I have known 3 guys called Richard Bird (Dickie Bird, geddit?) over the years.
Looking at the credits of something on TV the other night and was suprised to see a Kat Fish listed.
One of the producers at Radio 4 is a Jo King
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8th September 2009, 11:24 AM #5 Andy Andrews, a very scary man you just wouldn't cross.
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8th September 2009, 11:28 AM #6 I went to school with a few oddly named people...
Joe King, Richard Head (dick head), Phillip McRakkin (people called him phil), Benjamin (Ben) Dover....the rest of us had sane parents!
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8th September 2009, 12:59 PM #7 Dicken Minta (Televic) has the finest and most memorable name of any salesman I've ever spoken to. I also quite like Rachel Bravo (Bluebeam Security), but only because I envisage her as the sister of Johnny Bravo.
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8th September 2009, 01:33 PM #8 I went to school with a Richard (aka Dick) Head too...
Teacher's names mispronounced by the small ones have resulted in Mrs Apron (Miss Aikman) and Mrs Prawn (Mrs Vaughan)
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8th September 2009, 01:35 PM #9 I used to have a lecturer at college called Ann Drew.
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8th September 2009, 01:42 PM #10 
Originally Posted by
nephilim
I went to school with a few oddly named people...
Joe King, Richard Head (dick head), Phillip McRakkin (people called him phil), Benjamin (Ben) Dover....the rest of us had sane parents!
I'm sure I heard a joke once about a "Phil McRakkin" and a "Ben Dover" - something to do with Scottish dentists?!
How privileged you must have been to go to school with all those people with funny names. So many for one person, yet I know no-one with a daft name like that. 
Dread to think the area where you live....
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8th September 2009, 01:46 PM #11 I used to work with a Richard Head aswell.
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8th September 2009, 04:01 PM #12 Can we broaden this out to logins?
I used to have a user with the surname WATT and the first initial T, for example.
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8th September 2009, 04:12 PM #13 we have a Mr p. stains!!!
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8th September 2009, 04:16 PM #14 Had a flight a couple of years back with "Captain Miles Long". Maybe the parents were cruel with the name, but he chose the career!
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8th September 2009, 04:46 PM #15 There's an article in The Times today about children's names:
Baby names: Is he a Hugo or a Jack? - Times Online
I like the last sentence:
“Think about what your child’s name will sound like when called loudly across a park: ‘Cardamom! Stop hitting Flavian!’; ‘Cyrus. Put down that brick!’ If it makes you cringe or worry what other people think, then maybe have a rethink.”
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