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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: finnster01 on July 15, 2011, 05:46:01 AM

Title: NFR - Strange names
Post by: finnster01 on July 15, 2011, 05:46:01 AM
Just came across a chap called Francis Fitzherbert-Brockholes, a banking and capital markets partner at law firm White and Case :005:

No comment necessary.
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Post by: Edwatch_Winston_Malone on July 15, 2011, 07:04:42 AM
yeah - how could anyone name their child Francis...
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Post by: nevzter on July 15, 2011, 07:07:13 AM
"Dick Pole" a past figure in US baseball.

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Post by: Gozorich on July 15, 2011, 08:10:06 AM
My brother had a friend who was called Jimmy Riddle.
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Post by: Gozorich on July 15, 2011, 08:13:07 AM
I also worked many years ago with I.B. Jolly (Isaac Berlin - since you ask.
And the office manager's surname was Mudd.
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Post by: luckykat on July 15, 2011, 08:26:29 AM
I was in hospital once and there was a nurse called Rosie Bottom!
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Post by: CorkedHat on July 15, 2011, 08:58:36 AM
I went to school with Mary Christmas
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Post by: King_Crud on July 15, 2011, 09:00:33 AM
Nascar driver Dick Trickle
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Post by: Ron Sheepskin on July 15, 2011, 09:01:09 AM
There was (is?) an Irish politician fairly recently called Dick Spring.
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Post by: TonyGilroy on July 15, 2011, 09:04:41 AM


Not to forget the Scottish Doctor named Donald Duck who was born before his Disney namesake.

I had a client whose first name began with P and who married a Mr Nutt.
Title: Re: NFR - Strange names
Post by: luckykat on July 15, 2011, 09:39:02 AM
Quote from: TonyGilroy on July 15, 2011, 09:04:41 AM


I had a client whose first name began with P and who married a Mr Nutt.

Used to work with a girl called Hazel Nutt
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Post by: The Bronsons on July 15, 2011, 10:42:14 AM
People I know called Bath have twin daughters Amelia and Imogen:

A Bath
I Bath
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Post by: sipwell on July 15, 2011, 10:47:23 AM
You have the Irish conservative-Catholic (homosexuality is a sin, etc. etc.) MEP Gay Mitchell. He must damn his parents on a daily basis.
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Post by: LBNo11 on July 15, 2011, 11:01:34 AM
...I was introduced to a Theresa Green, and I responded "except in the winter" - this was met by  094.gif you know when you have to expalin something and all the fun drains away - hey-ho...
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Post by: CorkedHat on July 15, 2011, 11:15:29 AM
i also went to primary school with Albert Hall. I still keep in touch with him even after sixty years.
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Post by: Snibbo on July 15, 2011, 11:40:23 AM
There was a vet in Zimbabwe, when I lived there in the 80s, called Everard Koch.   He published a research paper on flaccid trunk disease in elephants.
Title: Re: NFR - Strange names
Post by: Mr Fulham on July 15, 2011, 12:04:06 PM
Quote from: luckykat on July 15, 2011, 08:26:29 AM
I was in hospital once and there was a nurse called Rosie Bottom!

phahahahaha...just spit out my coffee. :011: :011: :011: :011: :011: :011: :011:
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Post by: King_Crud on July 15, 2011, 12:05:48 PM
my mum said where she grew up the woman across the road's name was Rose Rose. She had married into the last name. They used to say:

Rose Rose sat on a rose
so Rose Rose rose
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Post by: HatterDon on July 15, 2011, 01:05:50 PM
While in the USAF, I served with a very nice lady named Capt. Randy Handy. We also had a Captain Greco and a Captain Roman who, despite all our urging, never got into a wrestling match.

At another unit I worked with a Captain Sylvester and a SSgt Tweedie.
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Post by: Burt on July 15, 2011, 01:44:15 PM
My wife is a GP and she knows a urologist called Dr. Dick.
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Post by: cebu on July 15, 2011, 02:14:32 PM
Quote from: Burt on July 15, 2011, 01:44:15 PM
My wife is a GP and she knows a urologist called Dr. Dick.

Is his first name Richard by any chance?
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Post by: King_Crud on July 15, 2011, 02:44:44 PM
Australian motor racing legend Dick Johnson
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Post by: FP on July 15, 2011, 02:53:32 PM
Last year while in London i bought a couple of books by Harry Sidebottom
Title: Re: NFR - Strange names
Post by: King_Crud on July 15, 2011, 03:04:16 PM
Quote from: FP on July 15, 2011, 02:53:32 PM
Last year while in London i bought a couple of books by Harry Sidebottom

there's a Yorkshire cricket player Ryan Sidebottom, has played for England.

I went to school with a Brett Muddyman
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Post by: finnster01 on July 15, 2011, 03:17:02 PM
I worked together with a Chinese gentleman called Ying Yang once.

His business cards were a collectors item
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Post by: GoldCoastWhite on July 15, 2011, 04:47:40 PM
We had a guest by the name of Mr Nacard in the hotel last week, and one by the name of Dung Tran. Probably not even mildly amusing in his native Vietnam but it made me snigger, and think of the headline/rude song possibilities if he were a sportsman !!!

And I've always thought it's better to be a Sidebottom than a front bum  :011:
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Post by: TheDaddy on July 15, 2011, 08:51:02 PM
I work with a Richard Head.

Theres a shoe shop near us called R Soles...
Title: Re: NFR - Strange names
Post by: finnster01 on July 15, 2011, 08:55:08 PM
Quote from: TheDaddy on July 15, 2011, 08:51:02 PM
I work with a Richard Head.

Theres a shoe shop near us called R Soles...

:011: That reminds of a TV commercial when I was going to Asia on business a good few years back. It was for a shampoo and the product name was "Maipee"... A lovely Asian lady explaining how she wash her hair in "my pee" always cracked me up.
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Post by: Peabody on July 15, 2011, 08:56:08 PM
I went to school with Roy Rodgers

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Post by: jarv on July 15, 2011, 10:42:36 PM
My friends daughter, Christy, married now and the couple are introduced as Chris and Christy Christo.