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   waylandsmithy
   

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   Just read about the Android 'evi' app, a sort of search engine for bored people. The designer is called William Tunstall-Pedoe. I guess he doesn't come to Stoke very often.

   Any others out there who should be considering a change by deed poll?

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   rickwestwell
   

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   It's a bit of a coincidence - apparently the app's developer is Alan Khidi-Fiedler.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   bonjonelson
   

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   There was a list once of stupid names encountered by the people i worked with at the time (BP).

   They included:

   Sheikh Al Ab Slimy

   Rick de'Bric

   Wynyard Donkers (who was the training coordinator for BP in Brussels)

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   waylandsmithy
   

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   VW has a 'Dr Funck'. You would never want to change that name, though.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   cinquecento
   

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   Cardinal Sin was my favourite in the name-suits-job category back in the Seventies. There was a Sheikh Yamani around the same time.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   The All New Jeni B
   

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   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.
   He was also the chap who designed the Illuminati back-to-front-up-side-downy things for Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons".

   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.

   I know a Willie Stoops, and a Willie Cumming, but have never seen them in the same place as the same time.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   beau-jolly
   

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   The CEO of Central Midlands Co-op was Willie Tucker. The IT bloke at MWB Business Exchange was Michael Michael.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   waylandsmithy
   

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   Is it true KT Tunstall was originally called Kunty Toadstool?

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   The All New Jeni B
   

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   I have no idea Waylandy, but she went to the same school, so I shall have to ask at the next PTA.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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    John Ffitch-Rucker
    

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    There was an environmental health officer at Camden Council about 25 years ago; his surname was Drinkwater.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    beau-jolly
    

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    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.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    Midfield Diamond
    

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    I also knew a Gordon Bennett who changed his name by deed poll following a series of surgical procedures - she is now called Gemma.

    There used to be an anaesthetist at Yeovil hospital called Dr Sleepy.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    Vertically Challenged Giant
    

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    Fucking hell Jeni, you or your family actually know everybody in the whole world don't you?

    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.

    Best name I've ever heard is Des Rocks. Not funny, but pretty cool.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    beau-jolly
    

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    Talking of cool, my younger daughter's boyfriend is Johnnie Leather. I approve.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    tedweasel
    

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    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.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    The Paper Ostrich
    

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    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.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    pere floza
    

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    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...

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    Midfield Diamond
    

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    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.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    dvo4fun
    

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    Did you manage not to break down in hysterics midfield?

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    Psycadelic Squirrel
    

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    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.

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    John Ffitch-Rucker
    

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    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:
    David ‘five’ Watts - (not very bright). And no, the Jam song was not written about him.
    Michael ’shirt' Lifton - (possibly gay).
    ‘Nice’ Lee Dunne. (Also, on occasion, ‘cruel', ‘bad’ and ‘hasty’.
    Debbie ‘do-it’ Toomey. (I felt sorry for her, I really did).
    John ‘Birm’ Ingham.
    Graham ‘lacks’ Wisdom.
    There were so many others, I can’t remember them all. Happy days.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    Qoxiivi
    

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    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.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    bonjonelson
    

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    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.

    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.

    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.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    FlashArry
    

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    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.

    Form tutor during 'O' levels - Miss Turdgoose. Why she chose teaching ....

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    beau-jolly
    

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    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.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    MADJEZ
    

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    Friend of mine used to deal with a French customer called Hugh Jardon.
    My GP is called Dr Patient.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    beau-jolly
    

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    I know Hugh, but he's not French, he's a programmer from Nottingham.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    Son of Barnabas
    

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    I once worked with a chap who swore he went to school with a chap called Hugh Janus.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    cinquecento
    

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    very first name changed for google purposes, but my son was at primary school with a girl called Fiona Isobel End

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    dvo4fun
    

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    Some years ago the latest of the extended 4fun-related human being arrived and was labeled Melaine-Claire [insert surname here].

    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!

    Posted 1 year ago #

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