http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Wed, 22 May 2013 23:59:00 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185&page=2#post-111541 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:51:35 +0000 JohnA 111541@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>My old PE teacher knew a Peter Nutt (P. Nutt) whose wife was called Hazel. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185&page=2#post-111527 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:13:08 +0000 rikkor 111527@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>So boring (me, I mean), that's why most IT depts. use an underscore now. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185&page=2#post-111429 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:49:04 +0000 bonjonelson 111429@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>One company I worked with had a strict policy for corporate email addresses which was lastname + first initial (followed by a number for duplicates).</p> <p>Sadly this policy didn't work out too well for their IT guy, Richard Bone, </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185&page=2#post-111427 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:37:33 +0000 Immunis 111427@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I must finally crack and add some names.</p> <p>I know a Richard Head (this name seems more common than it should be, I blame the parents)<br /> My wife works with a Jacqueline Hyde<br /> The drama teacher at school was Michael Hunt<br /> and when I was writing software for a Norwegian Life Assurance Company we found Aars Hole in the test data and thought it was a joke until the group we were working with pointed out that he worked in accounts. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185&page=2#post-111396 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:19:56 +0000 beau-jolly 111396@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I beleive that in certain parts of Africa it is common to call your off-spring after what is most precious to you. There are a disproportionate number of kids called Parafin.<br /> &lt;Cue 2 dogs f*cking joke&gt;</p> <p>Mmmm Melon eclaires. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111390 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:40:18 +0000 dvo4fun 111390@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Some years ago the latest of the extended 4fun-related human being arrived and was labeled Melaine-Claire [insert surname here]. </p> <p>Being a droll fellow I suggested to my in-laws the name sounded like something on a dessert menu. F-i-L, who despite being one of the kindest people around has also had a full tact-bypass, duly passed on that little gem to the proud parents. I learned of this when F-i-L recounted to me that they hadn't found it funny. You don't say! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111376 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:46:59 +0000 cinquecento 111376@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>very first name changed for google purposes, but my son was at primary school with a girl called Fiona Isobel End </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111374 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:42:11 +0000 Son of Barnabas 111374@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I once worked with a chap who swore he went to school with a chap called Hugh Janus. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111363 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:26:38 +0000 beau-jolly 111363@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I know Hugh, but he's not French, he's a programmer from Nottingham. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111362 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:23:01 +0000 MADJEZ 111362@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Friend of mine used to deal with a French customer called Hugh Jardon.<br /> My GP is called Dr Patient. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111359 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:09:09 +0000 beau-jolly 111359@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I once had a lad working for me called Lillycrap. I bumped into him later when he was working in a shop. His name badge said Jones. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111319 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:03:11 +0000 FlashArry 111319@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Used to work with a lot of Wayne Kerr signal generators - hours of fun for smutty engineering types. Probably still in business - must trying ringing their support line.</p> <p>Form tutor during 'O' levels - Miss Turdgoose. Why she chose teaching .... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111318 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:58:15 +0000 bonjonelson 111318@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>There was a wonderful radio show back in the day when Danny Baker was on GLR and the theme was "names that sound a little like food", after meeting someone called Gordon Zola.</p> <p>Callers claimed to know a real Kate and Sidney Pye, although he refused to believe anyone was really called "Russell Sprout", and sent someone off to check in the phone books.</p> <p>A japanese gentleman called Tom Ato was identified, but my favourite was the man who called up to say that when he married his wife, who was from eastern europe, she took his surname and added 'OVA' to make the feminine version, as it generally done there. His name was Mr Appleton. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111314 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:06:36 +0000 Qoxiivi 111314@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I can't remember their first names (so I'll make those up) but New Scientist reported in their Feedback section on a scientist, George Hungry, marrying another scientist, Susan Bigmeal. A fine example of nominative determinism. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111309 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:46:33 +0000 John Ffitch-Rucker 111309@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I’ve always been impressed by the inventiveness and cruelty of children when it comes to nicknames. Here are a few from my own schooldays:<br /> David ‘five’ Watts - (not very bright). And no, the Jam song was not written about him.<br /> Michael ’shirt' Lifton - (possibly gay).<br /> ‘Nice’ Lee Dunne. (Also, on occasion, ‘cruel', ‘bad’ and ‘hasty’.<br /> Debbie ‘do-it’ Toomey. (I felt sorry for her, I really did).<br /> John ‘Birm’ Ingham.<br /> Graham ‘lacks’ Wisdom.<br /> There were so many others, I can’t remember them all. Happy days. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111308 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:39:44 +0000 Psycadelic Squirrel 111308@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I once met a military diver called Richard Head. I was warned before I met him by his subordinates not to say anything/ smirk/ do anything that implied he was a dick head. Apparently he was a bit touchy about it all. He must have had lots of fun with a name like that in the military. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111304 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:31:14 +0000 dvo4fun 111304@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Did you manage not to break down in hysterics midfield? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111299 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:47:38 +0000 Midfield Diamond 111299@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>We have a Wayne Anker at work. I thought he was the invention of the wag who hacked into the on-line internal phone directory and inserted such names as Captain Bollocks - then Wayne came to a meeting. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111294 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:37:12 +0000 pere floza 111294@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>LinkedIn search reveals a whole load of Wankers, including a Willie Wanker in Seattle. I worked on a team once with an Aileen Szucs and a Helen Chiew, which was an easy choice... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111269 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:54:35 +0000 The Paper Ostrich 111269@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Let us not forget Randy Bumgardner, the Assistant Chief of Protocol to the Bush White House. And I once knew a girl whose surname was Hunt and whose father was called Mick. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111266 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:37:01 +0000 tedweasel 111266@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>When I started work in the old Rates Office in Leeds there was an old girl named Fanny Cox who insisted on signing her name in full. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111265 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:30:11 +0000 beau-jolly 111265@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Talking of cool, my younger daughter's boyfriend is Johnnie Leather. I approve. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111263 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:25:03 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 111263@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Fucking hell Jeni, you or your family actually know everybody in the whole world don't you?</p> <p>One of my mates once did some work for a Hayley Adcock. H is an unfortunate initial for somebody with that surname. Either her parents didn't realise or she married into it.</p> <p>Best name I've ever heard is Des Rocks. Not funny, but pretty cool. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111261 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:15:48 +0000 Midfield Diamond 111261@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I also knew a Gordon Bennett who changed his name by deed poll following a series of surgical procedures - she is now called Gemma. </p> <p>There used to be an anaesthetist at Yeovil hospital called Dr Sleepy. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111256 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:48:25 +0000 beau-jolly 111256@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The inspector who checks out the pub kitchen is called Miss Grubb. She also has an unfortunate birth mark on her face which looks like ringworm. You just know she was bullied at school and called "Grubby". Lord knows why she chose environmental health as a career. Bloody hard to get a smile out of her. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111255 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:36:44 +0000 John Ffitch-Rucker 111255@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>There was an environmental health officer at Camden Council about 25 years ago; his surname was Drinkwater. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111244 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:16:50 +0000 The All New Jeni B 111244@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I have no idea Waylandy, but she went to the same school, so I shall have to ask at the next PTA. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111241 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:06:23 +0000 waylandsmithy 111241@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Is it true KT Tunstall was originally called Kunty Toadstool? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111240 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:04:07 +0000 beau-jolly 111240@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The CEO of Central Midlands Co-op was Willie Tucker. The IT bloke at MWB Business Exchange was Michael Michael. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39185#post-111238 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:23:44 +0000 The All New Jeni B 111238@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Mr Tunstall-Pedoe was in Mr B's class at school, his cousin is KT Tunstall, and his parents still live about 100yrds from me.<br /> He was also the chap who designed the Illuminati back-to-front-up-side-downy things for Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons".</p> <p>Ok, funny names, Mum's boss is Richard Stiff, she has also worked with Alexander Alexander, Gordon Bennett (who is her cousin) and had as a counter-part in another region, a lady by the lovely name of Emma Rainbow.</p> <p>I know a Willie Stoops, and a Willie Cumming, but have never seen them in the same place as the same time. </p>