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?
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Anonymous
offlineUnregisteredPosted 2 years ago # -
rickwestwell
offlineMemberIt's a bit of a coincidence - apparently the app's developer is Alan Khidi-Fiedler.
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Anonymous
offlineUnregisteredVW has a 'Dr Funck'. You would never want to change that name, though.
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberMr 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.
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beau-jolly
offlineMemberThe CEO of Central Midlands Co-op was Willie Tucker. The IT bloke at MWB Business Exchange was Michael Michael.
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Anonymous
offlineUnregisteredIs it true KT Tunstall was originally called Kunty Toadstool?
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberI have no idea Waylandy, but she went to the same school, so I shall have to ask at the next PTA.
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beau-jolly
offlineMemberThe 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.
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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.
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beau-jolly
offlineMemberTalking of cool, my younger daughter's boyfriend is Johnnie Leather. I approve.
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The Paper Ostrich
offlineMemberLet 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.
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Psycadelic Squirrel
offlineMemberI 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
offlineMemberI’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 2 years ago # -
bonjonelson
offlineMemberThere 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.
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beau-jolly
offlineMemberI 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.
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beau-jolly
offlineMemberI know Hugh, but he's not French, he's a programmer from Nottingham.
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dvo4fun
offlineMemberSome 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!
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