Unfortunate Names

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 09:23

Justin Case, Barb Dwyer and Stan Still.

It sounds like a bad joke, but a study has revealed that there really are unfortunate people with those names in the UK.

Joining them on the list are Terry Bull, Paige Turner, Mary Christmas and Anna Sasin.

And just imagine having to introduce yourself to a crowd as Doug Hole or Hazel Nutt.

The names were uncovered by researchers from parenting group TheBabyWebsite.com after trawling through online telephone records.

Retired airman Stan Still, 76, from Cirencester, Gloucestershire, said his name had been "a blooming millstone around my neck my entire life".

"When I was in the RAF my commanding officer used to shout, 'Stan Still, get a move on' and roll about laughing," he said.

But 51-year-old Rose Bush, from Coventry, West Midlands, said she loved her name.

"I always get comments about it but they are always very positive," she said.

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 09:26

I went to school with Gordon Bennett

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No1Doyen


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Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 09:27

The website also claims that Mohammed will probably become the most popular boys' name in England and Wales by next year.

The name was second only to Jack in 2007, which has been top for the last 13 years.

No1Doyen


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Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 09:31

Apparently there was a guy who worked for a friend of mine called, Ben Dover

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 09:32

My Uncles name was Horace Augustus, when every one of his siblings were given ordinary names, they must have hated him poor devil.

My Mums name was Ruby and her Maiden name was Rose what a lovely combination Ruby Rose

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 09:38

Hi No.1



Seem to remember a businessman in Gloucester called Richard Head..



As he was built like a "brick out house", I doubt too many folk called him by the normal nick name....

No1Doyen


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Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 09:45

Unless you could run fast I suppose Mark )

James


Joined: 03/05/2007
Posts: 15

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 11:33

Wayne Kerr !!

Ian02


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Posts: 25

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 11:40

Ophelia Dick

Steve1953



Joined: 04/12/2008
Posts: 298

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 12:34

I used to update the local electors register and the best name I saw was Marigold Bogg.



We also had a married couple in a local old folk's home called George and Victoria Cross - I kid you not.....



.... we used to say that when they had kids,had they been meddling around?

regards,Steve

spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 12:37

My daughter married an Orrell. on telling her grandmother of 70years.she

said.what do you mean like sex.!! my daughter was quite taken aback.!!















spider.

dickyboy


Joined: 31/12/2008
Posts: 129

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 12:48

I once sold a car to a customer Mr Richard Smallcock

Stubs


Joined: 01/07/2008
Posts: 641

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 12:54

Our postmans wife's name was Lydia which sounds ok but his surname was Kettle.

snakes



Joined: 28/10/2008
Posts: 1512

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 13:29

there's a reporter on brit tv called Sonia Leg !!!

snakes



Joined: 28/10/2008
Posts: 1512

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 13:49

Met a surgeon called Doctor bodger ! Chase farm Hospital Enfield

tattlad


Joined: 13/12/2008
Posts: 479

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 13:56

There was a bloke that worked at a factory where I lived with the unfortunate name of Nicolas Mann, he was telling us how he wanted to change his name when he was old enough as he wanted to kill himself when he was at school, but the pi** taking stopped when he left school so he stuck with the name.

suntanman



Joined: 18/04/2007
Posts: 721

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 13:58

I used to work with a girl called Annette Curtain.

tattlad


Joined: 13/12/2008
Posts: 479

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 14:02

I heard of a Bernadette Quiggley once.

spider


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Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 14:34

i went to church and met a girl called Threasa Green.

sparta


Joined: 24/10/2008
Posts: 226

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 14:48

Paul Skinback, went to my school

ROBnJO


Joined: 30/06/2008
Posts: 1289

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 15:04

There was, & I think still is, a Coach firm in Olney Bucks, called Soul Coaches, run for years by a family son.



What first name initial would you avoid?



Err,.. no,.. they called him Robert!

James


Joined: 03/05/2007
Posts: 15

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 16:08

When I was teaching in Zambia we often used to fall about when filling in the marklists.... Anal Chishala followed by Member Chishanga



Spokes Mulenga .......Cement Banda (we wondered if he'd ever have a son called Elastic)



I'll remember a few more in time...it was over 30 years ago!

Olaytrans


Joined: 15/05/2008
Posts: 61

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 16:17

Hi all.



once upon a time I had a teacher called Mrs Gotobed



senay

Al the Badger


Joined: 06/02/2008
Posts: 130

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 16:58

Well, I work with this character called Velupillai Puvanendrampillai.



Try saying that after a few Effes's !

joseph


Joined: 17/04/2008
Posts: 709

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 17:03

Worst I ever heard was Faye Cauff... honest.



Regards Joseph

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 18:00

I once knew a Denise R. Nockin.



Sorry I made it up

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 18:09

This is the truth too , i hope to god he does'nt read these boards i know he does have property in Cyprus . He was my tutor on a course i did in at Nene Unniversity . His name , wait for it .................. Ram Toofanni .

Simbas

frontalman



Joined: 28/02/2008
Posts: 499

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 18:11

The Serbian prostitute - Slivodan Mikokubic?

ROBnJO


Joined: 30/06/2008
Posts: 1289

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 18:16

How about some 'posher' names?



Sir Jical Ward.



Uranus Tinks.

skybluesam


Joined: 24/12/2008
Posts: 447

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 19:46

True Story!, when running a blackout card to raise funds for our football team, we had a punter called Rueben Sole, and whenever he won we would shout out "winner of the card was R,Sole". always raised a laugh!

Coachie



Joined: 29/07/2008
Posts: 2135

Message Posted:
26/02/2009 19:59

Aserving officer in the RAF on mysquadron was called B,astard and he named his son Yes..Robin.What a name to be blessed with.He either hated his wife or his son,could never make my mind which one..

No1Doyen


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Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
27/02/2009 16:36

Jerry Attrick

fatboy



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Posts: 244

Message Posted:
27/02/2009 16:56

Back in Blighty we have a washing m/c repair man called William Shakespeare but He will only answer to Bill.

elko2



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Posts: 4400

Message Posted:
27/02/2009 17:33

I remember the London University Graduation ceremony at Albert Hall in 1965. There was the queen mother on stage presenting the diplomas and there were some smiles when the name "William Shakespeare" was announced. So it looks as though he bacame a washing machine repairer

ismet

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
27/02/2009 18:23

our coalman was called tommy gunn /

scoobydoo


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 2434

Message Posted:
27/02/2009 20:14

I used to deal with a guy and thankfully it was over the telephone because I don't think i could keep a straight face if I met him, his name is Richard Whatsize.



An elderly lady at my local GP's was called Olive Grove.



A lad at school was called Cornelius Lily, poor lad.

Mr Vince


Joined: 24/07/2008
Posts: 696

Message Posted:
27/02/2009 20:27

I used to work in the office in Glasgow which composed the voters roll. best name I can remember were

Chow Chung Crawford

Elphinestone Forrest

Farquhar Farquharson

Tristen Shout

AlsancakJack



Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
27/02/2009 20:40

Back in the dark and distant past I worked for an engineering company and it was part of my remit to deal with reps from potential suppliers. One particular rep (and I still have his business card to this day) presented his card and I almost fell off of my seat. His name was Dick Slipper.

AJ

keithcaley



Joined: 13/06/2008
Posts: 2521

Message Posted:
28/02/2009 10:23

There used to be a funeral Directors in Hull called Boddy's, don't know if it's still there...

Perhaps Newlad / Dodger knows - it was at one end of Wincolmlee

michelle3012


Joined: 07/11/2008
Posts: 578

Message Posted:
28/02/2009 19:43

I know an accountant called Dave Fidler!



And i once worked in a dentist and we had a patient called Dwain Pipe

RubberDuck


Joined: 16/02/2009
Posts: 72

Message Posted:
28/02/2009 20:11

Used to know someone who named their kids after cars. Ferrari and Lamborghini - poor girls

airy____fairy


Joined: 14/06/2008
Posts: 813

Message Posted:
28/02/2009 20:20

I had a saturday job when i was 15 in an instore bakery at the co - op, there was a department manager called Wayne King - it used to cause fits of giggles when they called him acroos the tannoy system

joandjelly


Joined: 24/02/2008
Posts: 2953

Message Posted:
28/02/2009 21:50

Teachers I had at school Mr Bender, Mr Bullock (got called Mr Bollock obviously) and Mrs Bottomley.

KickingK


Joined: 14/09/2008
Posts: 90

Message Posted:
01/03/2009 01:17

A man in my office is called..................Mike Hunt. I bet he thanks his parents!

UPNorth


Joined: 20/01/2009
Posts: 107

Message Posted:
01/03/2009 06:39

The Vice President of Nigeria is called Goodluck Jonathan. And my mum had a boss named Mr A Trumper

rosieposie


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 99

Message Posted:
01/03/2009 08:51

In my school we had a collection of people with animal names - Mr Chicken, Mr Sparrow, Mrs Sparrow, Mrs Badger, Miss Otter and Ms Farmer. Maybe it should've been a zoo instead of a school!

mia100max


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Posts: 404

Message Posted:
01/03/2009 15:49

I went to school with a girl called Constance Bacon. Poor thing.

The-Wicks


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Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
01/03/2009 16:03

We had a music teacher whose name was Mr Fackrell. Imagine what that poor sod got called.

sunseeker09


Joined: 01/03/2009
Posts: 2

Message Posted:
01/03/2009 20:40

At my last job, there was a department manager called Ronald McDonald.





...ouch

pilgrim



Joined: 11/05/2007
Posts: 1404

Message Posted:
01/03/2009 21:01

Two of my former work colleagues took the plunge, Norma married Brian Lee.

kelvin


Joined: 18/12/2008
Posts: 377

Message Posted:
01/03/2009 21:22

Saw a news reader on bbc world news this morning..



Tina Bangs.......... Nice one..

stickle


Joined: 20/02/2008
Posts: 172

Message Posted:
01/03/2009 22:02

Warren Organ

Mike Litterus

Phil McCavity

Ben Doone

Pat(ricia) Micock

Teacher: Vanessa Childe Harmer

Alexi Kutzkatscokov (Russian Vet)

Ivor Woppa

Ivan Illich

Warwick Hunt

dodger



Joined: 29/07/2007
Posts: 1895

Message Posted:
01/03/2009 22:58

Ben doone and phil macrackin.

James


Joined: 03/05/2007
Posts: 15

Message Posted:
02/03/2009 11:03

Similar to names etc on this thread...



Zimbabwe Coach service called Tombs Motorways!



Here in Oman you can buy a ring from Faiq Jewellers!

joandjelly


Joined: 24/02/2008
Posts: 2953

Message Posted:
02/03/2009 20:14

I worked with a guy called Paul Dumper.