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'Funny' names in real life

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beau-jolly

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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.
<Cue 2 dogs f*cking joke>

Mmmm Melon eclaires.

Posted 1 year ago #
Immunis

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I must finally crack and add some names.

I know a Richard Head (this name seems more common than it should be, I blame the parents)
My wife works with a Jacqueline Hyde
The drama teacher at school was Michael Hunt
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.

Posted 1 year ago #
bonjonelson

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One company I worked with had a strict policy for corporate email addresses which was lastname + first initial (followed by a number for duplicates).

Sadly this policy didn't work out too well for their IT guy, Richard Bone,

Posted 1 year ago #
rikkor

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So boring (me, I mean), that's why most IT depts. use an underscore now.

Posted 1 year ago #
JohnA

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My old PE teacher knew a Peter Nutt (P. Nutt) whose wife was called Hazel.

Posted 1 year ago #

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