Unfortunate names

[Christopha]

Does anyone know of any unfortunate names? Tease anyone by turning their name into something stupid?, I think we are a twisted enough bunch to know some good ones! I was in the CMF many years ago with a Richard Head, calling him Dick was fine, just don't call him Dickhead! I also heard of a family who called their daughter Courtney...... surname? Salmon!
OK, go for it!:2tsup:
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[Mick C.]

Best i ever heard was a woman rang into Triple J with the name Jenna Taylor... :D

[boban]

No word of a lie, I attended a hearing with a person named Ana Bolic. I couldn't help but think of the 12th man.

Oh my God, is that a testicle...........

[Gra]

I used to work with Anita Ho, and Frank lee... Oh we have about three Micheal Jackson's at work at the moment

[Carry Pine]

My only claims to fame are that I taught Glen Campbell singing, and one of my best readers was Paige Skippen.

CP

[woodcutta]

Someone I deal with in the states

Debbie Fugger

A builder in the Barossa Valley F.R. Kurnell

[mcchaddy]

If Claudia Schiffer married brains from the thunderbirds she would be....

Claudia Schiffer Brains........

[bsrlee]

I posted these on another, similar discussion some time ago:

Teressa Greene - a very odd girl, I think her parents were trying to encourage her to marry early. I knew one of her old boyfriends, and he was scarred for life :oo:

Peter Ennis, forever immortalized on my old school 'Honours' board as P Ennis.

[thesupervisor]

david hicks he works as the manager at Lt Venables in malarga wa i have his card so funny

[nev25]

early. I knew one of her old boyfriends, and he was scarred for life :oo:

Peter Ennis, forever immortalized on my old school 'Honours' board as P Ennis.


I have hear of a member of the police force called Ian Bashum

I.Bashum

[Schtoo]

Dunno about unfortunate, but rather funny.

A mate of mine here who comes from Chicago is called Bob.

His full name is Robert Roberts Jr.

That's what happens when you get Comedians for grandparents, and dad takes over the family business. :D


That's about as exciting as I get.



I did work with a fellow named Russell Drysdale though, painter he was.




Of buildings...

(I think his grandfather used to paint too. Not buildings.)

(If that last one doesn't make sense, Google it.)

[kekemo]

Lightening does strike twice....

When my mother & father married....there best man was FRANK Starcivich..WW2 Pilot...ACE & decorated hero....& close family friend...so much so when my parents had their first-born...already decided they would name him/her....either.... Frank or Francis which ever....until...the day my brother was born....and the Doctor asked my mother what they would call HIM...my brother.....
"We're naming him Frank...after "Starcy"...she replied...
"Oh no you're not"...answer her Doctor " Have you really thought this one through?

Our surname was FOOTE (said just as FOOT) my brother name would have been called,
FRANK FOOTE

So...now Steven as he was then named.....married and his wife Merle....loved the name Anthony......until they were reminded of the same story.....

my newphew was nearly called "ANTHONY FOOTE" ....An toe knee foot...

Honest & true:2tsup:

[Wild Dingo]

Went to school with a kid named... Wayne Kerr... seriously! nah we didnt take the phiss... MUCH!!! :U :U nice kid took it well he did :2tsup:

When I was a young fella I went out with a girl named Missy Tipts yes silent "p" and no I didnt tease her much either!!

Names can be a real hoot! :U

[Lignum]

Journo covering the Bali nine - Justin Hale.

My fav, Drew Peacock

[jow104]

I could tell you a few. I was an insurance man years ago and thousands and thousands of names passed through my hands.
The most mild was a Mrs. Bastard. pronouced by the lady with a long ah on the last sylable.
A few names were also part of the anatomy, unrepeatable on the forum.

[Howdya do that]

Ben Dover
theres another one that cant be witten here.

[Harry72]

How bout Tony Handcock... or Wanita Cundy

[LGS]

I found this on an IT forum a few years back. It caused great hilarity among the forumites. There was a girl who was a student at a US uni (could have been Columbia), whose name was Mary Elizabeth Cummings. The rule for email addresses at the Uni was first 6 letters of the surname and the two initials.:) She said she couldn't wait till she finished Uni. True dinks!

[jow104]

OK this is a true story.

I had a client to go and see and the details given me by head office was.

Mr. C. Dickup. So I felt I couldn't address my client as such in case the office were putting me on a wind up. So I addressed him as Mr. Dickens (just as bad really) but no the gentleman corrected me and I somehow got caught up by the clients wifes eyes which had a strange expression.

[Gra]

I had a staff member of Pakisatni origin, His surname was harkeem. One of the user Id supplied by work, used the surname and your first initial. The problem was his first name started with F.

I got a call from security, when they were setting this up and asked me if I was taking the (I hadn't worked it out yet). When they explained, we both ourselves. Poor guy, he didn't deserve it

[Wood Butcher]

Had a customer once "G Wagenfeller"

[silentC]

Used to work with Kwok Wong.

[Koala-Man]

I went to school with a bloke called Robin Hood.

[jmk89]

There is a street in a Northern Sydney suburb called Lois Lane

[patty]

Oh Yeah good old Wayne King And Wayne Kerr heard that one all before a mate of mine use to work with a bloke in Sydney and his name was Lorne Bowlin seriously i am sure there is a politician named Richard Face another clanger!

[silentC]

Richard Face was the Minister for Gaming in NSW a couple of years ago.

[HappyHammer]

What about Rosie Date. Can't tell you where that one is from:cool:

I also know an Andrew Date. A Date.

HH.

[wheelinround]

Dr Sleep a GP
Dr John Thomas unrinary specialist
Constable Constable true police office who puled me over once

[Doughboy]

Place down on the Murray River called Burrumbuttock

Mike Hunt was my maths teacher.

[Terry B]

Dr Sleep a GP
Dr John Thomas unrinary specialist
Constable Constable true police office who puled me over once
There is a Dr Winkle in Qld that is also a urologist.
Cardinal Sin in the Philipines is another good name.

[Ruddigar]

Mr McMath was my maths teacher.
Mr Workman was my industrial arts teacher.
I once had a regular Vietnamese (I think) customer called Phuoc Hue.
I've also had a client called Hugh Wysh.

[patty]

yeah I recall a while back a suburb on the central coast in NSW the Suburb was called Watanobbi and the females of the suburb were up in arms putting a petition together to try and change the name of the place because they seemed to think it was a sexual gesture.. they went that far wth the petition and all the rest of it, It was actually on the news and on A current Affair!

[markharrison]

A general surgeon in Sydney (he repaired an inguinal hernia for me): Dr Gillette!

A woman I worked with (I won't mention the company for her benefit) was named Samantha Lees. The email address rule was first initial plus surname!

I'd love to tell you what I call my current manager behind her back!!!! Maybe another time...

[JDarvall]

Mr Ben Dover.

[echnidna]

Heart Surgeon in Melbourne - Mr Gutman

[AlexS]

When my daughter & her hubby (surname Carr) were going through names for their soon-to-be, they immediately eliminated Wayne and Manuel.

I also worked with a Teresa Green, and had Dr. Clapp as our GP in Adelaide, & his nephew as a surgeon in Sydney. There's also a Dr. Surgeon in Sydney. Also worked with a bloke named Dudley Sledge, always known (but not to his face) as deadly sludge.

[joe greiner]

I have a list of fake employees around here someplace, but I'll spare you even if I find it. (At least for now)

About 20 years ago, there was a dentist in Anchorage Alaska named Dr. Paine. I might have posted a pic of his office sign on the forum a while back.

I once worked with an engineer of Indian (Asia) extraction in New Orleans. I forget his original name, but he changed the spelling to "Dixit" to avoid obvious offense.

William Lear (Lear Jet and 8-track tape players) named his daughter "Shanda." Really. Now a gospel singer IIRC.

Very odd that many veterinarians have animal names: Dr. Fox, Dr. Wolfe, etc.

Joe

[jerryc]

This is true. I worked with a teacher whose name was S Pitt. worse still he was unaware of the humour because he told me how careful his father was to avoid calling him Cecil after himself. "You wouldn't shorten Cecil would you?" he said.

[womble]

local hospital had a Dr Splatt working there

went to school with a kid with the last name Raper, nickname Hand

[jerryc]

Don't have to try too hard to find the odd name. Treasurer of Victoria is John Lenders

[Gingermick]

Very odd that many veterinarians have animal names: Dr. Fox, Dr. Wolfe, etc.

Joe

New Scientist called it nominative determinism. (on their feedback page anyway)

[mic-d]

There is an IOC official called Dick Pound.

[woodcutta]

Some more that come to mind

We had an IT guy named Richard Marks.
We would always comment " you have a good job when you get Dick Marks on the job.

Funeral Directors in Maitland NSW - Fry Brothers.

And add a spoonerism to Brad an Angelina's Baby Shilo Pitt

Pilo Shitt

[rpepper]

I have it on good authority that this is true.

A friend of mine lived near the Dick family.

Named their daughter Ophelia. :o

[Christopha]

New of a girl named Win Unwin

[munruben]

Knew a lady in Sydney who's name was Amanda and she married a guy who's surname was Amanda, so she became Amanda Amanda

[bsrlee]

Unfortunate names for Police:

I went to the NSW Police Academy with Constable Ray Constable, but he's broken the jinx & is now Sergeant Constable.

Spare a thought for Peter Shonk, last I heard an Inspector in the NSW Police.

[jow104]

brslee.
we had a pc bunny here in Paignton.

[arose62]

All the Allianz letters are signed by Mr Terry Towel.

Even shortened, it's still T. Towel

My name's Andrew Rose, so I cop ... "and then he sat down"
One job already had an "arose" computer account, so they dropped the "o" in the first account they offered me...

(and just as an aside, the Watanobbi residents are sick of the council calling referendums, polls, and surveys trying to change the name. They couldn't be bothered with it, they knew the name when they moved in.)

Cheers,
Andrew

[wheelinround]

Unfortunate names for Police:

I went to the NSW Police Academy with Constable Ray Constable, but he's broken the jinx & is now Sergeant Constable.



Read post #28 bsrlee

Never thought of it until just now almost 12 months after breaking my tib n fib my Orthopidic's Name was Dr Richard Walker ( Rigid Walker was how one nurse pronounced it)

[Phil Spencer]

My name is ok but my initials usually get the ladies going, initials are PMS :oo:



Phil

[Christopha]

My Mother in Laws' ( lovely lady!) maiden name was "Virgin", she had a number of brothers whose wives married them and became Virgins....

[nev25]

I use to work with a gent
Last name KEY
First name HANK



I also new a lady who's maiden name was dragon
She was always telling people that before she was married she was a DRAGON


Some friends of mine name there son
RICHARD EDWARD
Didn't realize until I told them the name could be shortened to DICK ED

[wheelinround]

New a girl how married a fellow last name Dallas her first name Debbie

Just look at Federal politicians Abbott & Costello

[Driver]

I knew a bloke called Horace Morris. His wife's name was (no kidding!) Doris.

Also knew a Don Hancock. We called him Han.

[Kaiser Soze]

My dentist in Glen Waverley when I was a kid was Dr Payne!
My woodwork teacher at Mt Waverley high was a Mr Fluck. kids gave him hell.

[Gra]

My dentist in Glen Waverley when I was a kid was Dr Payne!
My woodwork teacher at Mt Waverley high was a Mr Fluck. kids gave him hell.

I went to primary school with a kid whose surname was Fluck... Got called Fluffy duck for some reason...

[Christopha]

New an old chap named Max Ewer, he married a lady called Mignon.... fine except she was always called Min.....

[Driver]

There used to be a firm of lawyers in England called Doolittle and Dally and a real estate agent called Gascoigne Pees.

[rtfarty]

I used to go to a Dentist in Wellington, New Zealand, who was a Dr. F.A.Payne.
He was too much of a gentleman to use his initials to advantage.

[forunna]

My sister married a "Payne"I still laugh, always called her a pain.
Dentist near my work Dr Feng.

[jow104]

I came across a forum member with the name of R.T.Farty.:rolleyes:

[jerryc]

I worked at an all boys school with an attractive young female teacher who married a guy whose name was Alcock. She had the sense to keep her maiden name.

Jerry

[notenoughtoys]

I met a girl once who's surname was Hunt, I couldn't believe it her parents had actually named her Safari, she went by her middle name, Annie I think it was but Safari is the one I remember.
I have a mate whose first name is Reg but his initials are R C James so of course he's simply known as RC James.

[AlexS]

Two brothers who went to my daughter's school - Andrew and Peter Nuss. Always known by their initials and surname, of course. What were their parents thinking?

[Driver]

One of my son's mates at primary school was a kid named Jose (pronounced, of course: Hosay).

When Jose's little brother turned up at school a couple of years later, he was immediately named Hose B.

They're all in their 20s now. Hose B is still Hose B. They are all so used to it that most of them struggle to remember his real name (Manuel).

[Pulse]

A friend of mine called Jorgen introduces himself and spells his name... little "J", big "orgen".

mmmm....

[artme]

How about Colin Gates-aka Colgate; John Quill, Basil Uganda Munday (born in Uganda) initials proudly emblazonned on brief case- BUM. Another strange set of parents also named their son after the place of birth- Richard Adelong Cock!!!:C:C:C

[Rookie]

Used to work with Kwok Wong.

Check your PM's Silent