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.
yeah - how could anyone name their child Francis...
"Dick Pole" a past figure in US baseball.
My brother had a friend who was called Jimmy Riddle.
I also worked many years ago with I.B. Jolly (Isaac Berlin - since you ask.
And the office manager's surname was Mudd.
I was in hospital once and there was a nurse called Rosie Bottom!
I went to school with Mary Christmas
Nascar driver Dick Trickle
There was (is?) an Irish politician fairly recently called Dick Spring.
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.
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
People I know called Bath have twin daughters Amelia and Imogen:
A Bath
I Bath
You have the Irish conservative-Catholic (homosexuality is a sin, etc. etc.) MEP Gay Mitchell. He must damn his parents on a daily basis.
...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...
i also went to primary school with Albert Hall. I still keep in touch with him even after sixty years.
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.
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:
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
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.
My wife is a GP and she knows a urologist called Dr. Dick.
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?
Australian motor racing legend Dick Johnson
Last year while in London i bought a couple of books by Harry Sidebottom
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
I worked together with a Chinese gentleman called Ying Yang once.
His business cards were a collectors item
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:
I work with a Richard Head.
Theres a shoe shop near us called R Soles...
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.
I went to school with Roy Rodgers
My friends daughter, Christy, married now and the couple are introduced as Chris and Christy Christo.