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Was at school with Everton Rock which I think was a pretty cool name


 
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The Neville brothers Dad is Neville Neville apparently.

My OH's great grandfather was Griffith Griffiths or GriffGriff to his mates.


 
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Another one from the past... Richard Spray, who liked to go by the name of Dick


 
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That "Sexwale" bloke has a great name. And if I was him would pronounce it as it reads.

Max Wang has sent me over the edge here.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 2:43 pm
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Friend from schools dad was also called Richard Head,

Have someone in my company called Dick Long, it always puts the surname first in my email folder, 😆

Used to speak to a guy called Gyan Dikshit at my old company which always made me chuckle.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 2:45 pm
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I recall a Mingita and Flangita Patel (twins) from infant school. Obviously it wasn't funny at 5 years old - they were just Min & Flan.

On the "name of power" front, I used to work with a Rupert Charles Emit Alexander Barth Von Werenalp. Rupert BVW for short.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 2:50 pm
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There's a guy at work who's surname is Lovelady.

Nice chap.


 
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My Niece had a friend called Iona Gunn!

I see your gun and raise you... Iona Dragon.
Sadly she wasnt Welsh


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 2:58 pm
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I used to chuckle at work when cars were booked in for auto-painting with "Dick Lovett - Spraymaster"

There is a garage here in Norwoch too called BOB BASTID


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 2:58 pm
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Yes Emma roads was real, my all time fave was a colleague who could neve transfer to Glasgow - wee Ming kok


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 3:01 pm
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A former girlfriend worked with Perri 6. He changed his surname to 6 as a protest.Made getting a passport , driving licence etc. difficult, but that was the point.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 3:20 pm
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I few years ago I worked with a D.R.Love.


 
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Went to school with Jenny Teale, she was always well groomed from memory


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 3:24 pm
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I work with a Randy Snowman, and another forum member here - when employed by GE - discovered a colleague on the intranet called Randy Gaylord.

Both are American, should there be any doubt. And I believe that only the word 'Snowman' raises a smile in their respective country.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 3:28 pm
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Pimp, you've just reminded me, a few weeks ago I created a new account for a guy called Robert Sleigh.

I had to check with HR to ensure that someone wasn't taking the P.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 3:32 pm
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I was once at a whiskey tasting event, and got introduced to a man named Steve Enema.

There was a man on my paper round as a kid, whose name was Larry. He was nice enough, but obviously extremely proud of his name. His two cars both had personalised reg plates:

Larry 1
Larry 2

His son's name was Larry Jr., and his daughter's name was Gerry.

Yep. Bizarre.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 3:40 pm
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A lad at schools dad was called Roger Myring

Roger Myring was the landlord of my local in Stafford. Moved to Derby over 10 years ago.

Ex Aston Villa owner - Randy Lerner. A driving instructor's fantasy.

The best name of anybody I've met is Wilfred Makepeace Lunn.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 3:40 pm
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There's a chap on Gigha called Willie McSporran who regularly made the local paper.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 3:44 pm
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Years ago I spotted a Robin Bastard in some TV programme credits

I knew a cop called Nick Moore.

One of my daughter's schoolmates was called Beth Gash.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 3:49 pm
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An ex-girlfriend had a work colleague called 'Ivor Hoare'


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 3:51 pm
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Used to work for an American company which employed people called Dick Bollock and Sandy Beaver. There were some other good names but I've forgotten them.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 3:56 pm
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Not someone I've met but I'm aware of a bloke called Wayne Bruce - who goes by the nickname Man Bat.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 3:58 pm
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Calling the register as a supply teacher

Ikea.

As a first name. I read it out expecting a fit of giggles and a voice said "Here"

Nothing else!

I never plucked up the gumption to ask why!


 
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A couple more, encountered professionally:

Dr. De'ath
Dr. Cockshot

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With reference to some of the contributions above, a colleague in the office has also come across a Dikshit.

Another colleague reports dealing with a Thai woman named Porn Rat.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 4:03 pm
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I remember working at a call centre and help a Anil Batterer


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 4:08 pm
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Not someone I've met but I'm aware of a bloke called Wayne Bruce - who goes by the nickname Man Bat.

Proper tea-spitting lol at the nickname. 🙂


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 4:17 pm
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probably Nimrod Ping


 
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I used to work with a guy from Belgium who was called Dick Ayres.

I worked in an office with Alastair Dick so he had the user name adick. Same company but different office had a lovely lady called Furii Butt.

To top it all off we had 2 developers in the same office,one called Matt White and the other Matt Black,i kid you not. Although Mr Black insisted you call him Matthew, he hated anyone calling him Matt.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 4:33 pm
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Almost forgot. I once stopped a car and asked the control room to run the reg number through PNC. I then asked the fabulously polite young driver for his name and address. He had a slightly haunted look about him and handed me his driving licence. I was just reading the name on the licence when the control room operator called me back on the radio. Having read his name I stepped back so he couldn't hear the now impending message that was going to be sent by the far from politically correct old lag in the control room (this was the 1980s before any knickers get in any twists about professionalism). His name was Dildar Butt.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 4:34 pm
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The greatest name in the history of the world will always be Goodluck Jonathan!!

There was a reverend Canaan Banana!


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 4:36 pm
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I've had emails from a guy called Don Dondon - I always read it in the style of a 50's shock movie soundtrack

I used to work with a girl called Anita Banghar too.

Mrs P used to temp at the hospital when she was at Uni and there was an old guy there called Randy Kiss (pronounced kish)

We keep a list of amusing names at work, there's some corkers on there, but I can't remember anything good at the mo.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 4:46 pm
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I work with a guy called Dickon Payne, there's a guy who works for the company we share an office with called Russel Hobbs.

My old Bank Manger was called Julie Fullalove.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 4:54 pm
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Asked a woman twice what her surname was the other day, then asked her to spell it, turns out it actually WAS Rainbow!


 
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Working in schools gives you so many names to chuckle at - Alban, Ace, Precious, Princess, Pebbles, not forgetting Hastings and his sister Scarlet.
I'd never come across the name Cian before, then got two in one group of ten kids.
But, c'mon, Pebbles... WTAF?


 
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But, c'mon, Pebbles... WTAF?

Don't speak ill of the Flintstones


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 5:32 pm
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Mr & Mrs Sogi had a son called Kuntal.

They are a memorable family


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 5:37 pm
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We've got a guy at our German office called Helmut Schmelling. I kid you not...


 
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Dr Wolfgang Funk

A Chinese employee called King Wang, I.T. did not do last name first for their emails!


 
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Met a Dragon Danger Rodriguez at a wedding.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 5:47 pm
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Bruno Jelly went to my school, as did his brother Ben Jelly.
Nicola-Jane Sheringham-Smith was a small child I knew.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 5:48 pm
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I saw a video the other day where a supermarket has introduced a special "slow lane" at the checkouts, so people can check out without feeling rushed. The colleague they interviewed about it was "Kerry Speed."

Used to have a supplier called Chris Cross & always imagined him going to work with his clothes on back to front.

Risky, you could have your goods caught between the moon and New York City.

A couple more, encountered professionally:

Dr. De'ath

We used to have a Dr De'ath as a customer (back when I worked in tech support in the 90s, as I was talking about the other day). The computer system had him entered as "DR. DEATH" so whenever he rang we'd ask quite innocently, "is that Doctor Death?" Thing is, he massively overreacted every time, bellowing "IT'S DEEE-ATTHHHH" down the phone. Which, of course, we asked not-so-innocently from then on.

Oh, one of our other customers was Wayne P. Kitkat.

Tom Tom

I've mentioned this before too, but I once interviewed a bloke called Satnam. Cue me and my colleague getting quite giddy making "sat-nav" jokes for a good half an hour before he arrived. When he turned up, my colleague a stride ahead of me greeted him, "hi, I'm Bob," [i]*beat*[/i] "find us all right?"


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 5:49 pm
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Dr Mustafa Megahed. It's apt.


 
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The greatest name in the history of the world will always be Goodluck Jonathan!!
There was a reverend Canaan Banana!

I'll raise you a

[url= http://www.linkedin.com/in/max-fightmaster-6586a576 ]Max Fightmaster[/url]

And my favourite the CEO of Food For The Poor

[url= http://www.foodforthepoor.org/about-us/leadership/president-ceo.html ]Robin Mahfood [/url]


 
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Knew a chap called James Manly-Grafting once. He Moved to Cornwall and apparently changed his surname to 'Leisurely-Strolling.'


 
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There was also the Archbishop of Manila - Cardinal Sin


 
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Recently met a Christopher Peacock who unsurprisingly didn't want to be known as Chris.


 
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Hamish Dolphin is one of my best friends.

FB wouldn't accept it as a real name so he went for an alternative unlikely first name paired with an animal and it did like it...


 
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Did a First Aid course back in the summer and the guy was called Alan Bent.

He told us he used to be a sales rep and it really broke the ice with clients when he handed his business card over as it read " A Bent - Salesman "


 
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Two ladies from our Hong Kong office at a previous employer.

Angel Xu and Crystal Kau.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 6:50 pm
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I've a mate called Dr Rod Large


 
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But, c'mon, Pebbles... WTAF?

I thaught a Kid last year called Pebbles. None of my my colleagues had the courage to say anything till the one guy who just can't keep quiet clocked the name in the register. He said out loud " pebbles ? Do her parents know she's gonna be an adult one day....." 😯


 
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pebbles ? Do her parents know she's gonna be an adult one day....."

Exactly my thoughts!


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 6:58 pm
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in Uphill cemetery there is the gravestone of one Fanny ****es


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 7:02 pm
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I met a Pebbles Wilkins many years ago - she'll be in her 50's by now


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 7:03 pm
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Just now reading the local news:

Wiltshire Council cabinet member for finance, Dick Tonge


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 7:19 pm
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Wife used to work in a bank call centre in '90s... Best name I remember her tell me about was Mrs. Shight. After running through the security checks, and bringing up her details on screen, my wife attempted to address her by the name displayed, mangling it completely in a desperate attempt to avoid pronouncing it as ' shite '.

There was an audible sigh from the other end of the phone, and the poor woman confirmed in a resigned voice, 'it's pronounced shite'.


 
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I once got introduced to a guy named Kevin Wardrobe in a meeting,

I've seen an A. Wardrobe in a phone book.

Cal Clutterbuck plays in the NHL for New York Islanders.
Miroslav Satan used to play in the NHL.

Not that unusual but when I worked on C wing at our place we had a Holmes, Watson & a Moriarty in adjacent cells.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 7:48 pm
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I met a Chartererd Accountant who was in charge of Members Services for ICAS. His name was Dick Taylor. I still have his business card!

My friend worked with an Irish geologist by the name of Eamonn Haliday.

😆


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 7:50 pm
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There's a couple in Teddington cemetery, Henry Branch and his wife Olive.


 
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Guy I sometimes see at at work called Willie Hunter, always makes me s****...


 
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Windsurfer designer Helmut ****e. An editor of mine in the States was Otto ****e.
I used to deal with a Michael Hunt at a bikini company.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 8:09 pm
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I went to college with a lad named Guy Feeler, apparently his father was called Richard.


 
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My ex Mrs went to school with Penny Hoare.


 
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Fanny Forest is a friend.


 
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My first Inspector in the police really was Robin Banks


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 8:42 pm
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We know a Dr Pepper, who received a formal complaint from a patient who thought he was taking the piss, because she was called Mrs Salt 😀

We also know a Dr Death, and a Doc Marten.

Two of our friends got married, Dr Wright and Dr Payne, but sadly they refused to go for the double-barrelled surname despite lots of suggestions 🙂


 
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I used to work for a share registrar, Where you have to provide legal proof of your name..

Henry Shaw-Twilley.
Chris P Bacon
Johann Sebastian Bach (4 different ones)
Seema Butt
Mrs (yep, she's elected to take this name) Fanny Gash.
I had to call a man named David forskin

I went to school with a girl called Emma Royds.

Some of my customers names include...

Mohammed Ali
Jim Davidson
Gary Neville
Phil Neville
Wayne Kerr
George Galloway
Dane Bowers
Jed Ward

I nearly had some reconstructive surgery done by a plastic surgeon by the name of Dr Sharp

Someone at my company has the same surname as the people Eddiebaby mentions. His first name is Horst. He came to give a presentation to the uk office, when he announced his name, one of the directors had to pretend to take a call to leave the room as he couldn't stifle the laughter...


 
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Ragina Sexwhale. He was asking for advice on going to university, I felt like the only good advice I could give was go to a non-english-speaking country.


 
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On our hols in the States my friend was chatting with the receptionist who admitted he liked to pass the time by laughing at guests names..at which point my friend told him to open the guest book and pointed out his own name .. Dick Hoare. People I've worked with or had a customers include Rick O'Shea, **** Hing Wong, Richard Head, Paul Mycock, Friendy Sin.


 
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The other football one which makes me chuckle is Rod Fanni


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 9:14 pm
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I used to have a customer called Dr Ivan Slaughter. Dr I Slaughter to his unfortunate patients!


 
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A girl in my year at secondary school was called Wendy House. She had one younger brother called Glynn, and another brother called Maxwell.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 9:45 pm
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I work with a Mike Hunt.

Lived next door to a lovely old lady, only knew her by Mrs Bethel, as you do when your in 20s and she was in her 80s. At her funeral I found out her name was Ethel. Ethel Bethel.

My SiL works with a Dr Die. She also knew a boy at the Mums and Tots group called Magic.

I went to school with a Paul Hard.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 9:47 pm
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I know a Richard Spink. Not sure if he prefers R Spink or Dick Spink.


 
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Chuck (ie Charles) Spears
Dickie (ie Richard) Bird
Mr Bonefide (a lawyer)
M. T. (Eg empty) Head - headmistress of daughters school


 
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Gary and Phil neville's Dad was definatly Neville Neville.

He sadly passed away not long ago heading to Oz where his Daughter Tracey was coaching the Netball team I think.


 
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Some cracking names I've come across over the years.....
Ivor Broome
Mike Litt
Mike Kuntz
Gideon Fireman
John Shatwell
Daniel Orson Dawson
Mavis Davis
Dr Mort (otherwise known as Dr Death!)
Dr Patchett
Mr Burns (ex fireman)
Ms Gash + Ms Beaver, job shares + in our office, we quite frequently get our gashes + beavers confused.....


 
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Roman Minge


 
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Royston Nutbeam. Got caught in possession of a porn mag, by a teacher, on a school trip once.
Rhiner Kunkle.


 
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Visited the custody suite one morning and saw that amongst the detainees we had a Burger, Lettuce and Onions. I asked whether CID were currently out looking for Mr Chips, and perhaps a Shakir. Onions, I'm told was pronounced O'Nyons.


 
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