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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: Donnywolf on November 10, 2013, 07:44:48 pm

Title: Names (the stranger the better)
Post by: Donnywolf on November 10, 2013, 07:44:48 pm
We have had the Famous names thread but what about "strange" names ?

I knew a bloke (very nice chap) called Preston Wallhead and I knew via a mate of a mate a guy called Findley Stalker ... over to you lot
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Post by: Draytonian III on November 10, 2013, 08:20:38 pm
I used play cricket with a lad called Gail Morris
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Post by: jonnydog on November 10, 2013, 08:37:19 pm
Heathcoat Glasscock


... Could always see him coming!!
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Post by: Bentley Bullet on November 11, 2013, 10:50:39 pm
There was an Indian kid at our school called Piggy Sink.
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Post by: keyser_soze on November 12, 2013, 10:08:54 am
Used to work for an MD called Randy Cox.

An article in the trade press appeared once with the headline 'Randy Cox Seeks Further Growth'
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Post by: Donnybax on November 12, 2013, 10:23:47 am
Used to know someone called Joe King and someone called Peter Day
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Post by: River Don on November 12, 2013, 10:29:07 am
I knew of a Rebecca bas**rd.

It takes a bit of gumption to hold on to a surname like that.
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Post by: Bentley Bullet on November 12, 2013, 10:30:00 am
When I was a kid I knew a lass called Pauline Titcone.
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Post by: Bentley Bullet on November 12, 2013, 10:32:03 am
I used to knock about with Tony Hookham and his brother Alf.


Sorry I made that one up.  :whistle:
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Post by: River Don on November 12, 2013, 10:37:09 am
Interesting that on my last post about Rebecca 'B-stard', the name has been amended, it's an automatic thing. If the family still use the name unaltered I bet they have terrible trouble trying to register for anything online.

Of course IT people had tremendous trouble dealing wiith the town name of Scunthorpe for similar reasons.
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Post by: CusworthRovers on November 12, 2013, 03:13:15 pm
Guys, I chucked this one in on the old site. I know I can sometimes make some up, but this is 100% true. My mates mum was a driving instructor and one of her clients was a young asian girl called Fart Sultana
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Post by: Bentley Bullet on November 12, 2013, 05:11:22 pm
I knew a bloke called Gaylord Kitson. He was so embarrassed he changed it to Gaylord Smith.
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Post by: Filo on November 12, 2013, 05:13:43 pm
I knew a bloke called Gaylord Kitson. He was so embarrassed he changed it to Gaylord Smith.

I thought you were going to say he changed his first name to Dave



EDIT: in fact forget that, I'm a bit slow today and I've only just got it
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Post by: Nudga on November 12, 2013, 05:56:43 pm
There's a bloke who lives in Scawsby called Wayne Kerr. This is true.
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Post by: keyser_soze on November 12, 2013, 06:46:44 pm
One of the post grads at Uni was the excellently named Wan Chi Fun. (I assumed Chi was pronounced 'kee')
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Post by: Nudga on November 12, 2013, 08:15:38 pm
A Chinese fellow has just moved in a couple of doors down from me, I don't know his real name but I like to call him Deep Wang.
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Post by: RobTheRover on November 12, 2013, 09:16:27 pm
I used to work with a woman called Ann Zoff back in the late 80s.  Her husband was Italian.

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Post by: Filo on November 12, 2013, 09:20:51 pm
I used to work with a woman called Ann Zoff back in the late 80s.  Her husband was Italian.



Was it Dino?
Title: Re: Names (the stranger the better)
Post by: RobTheRover on November 12, 2013, 09:40:33 pm
Never found out his name. She left about a week after I started.
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Post by: Filo on November 12, 2013, 09:45:45 pm
Lets put it another way, did he play in the World Cup ;)
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Post by: RobTheRover on November 12, 2013, 09:51:14 pm
Never found that out either.

It's a question I usually ask my workmates about their other halves too.

;)
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Post by: JonWallsend on November 12, 2013, 11:17:22 pm
Played football against a kid from Maltby called Brian Bryan and taught a lad called called Jed Burrough.  My mate swears he went to school with Ann Orange but its never been verified.
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Post by: Mike_F on November 15, 2013, 10:52:40 am
My dad has recently retired from teaching and has told me a few odd names he's encountered but the one that sticks in my head is a lass called Cherry Tart.

I also have a colleague called Ian Taylor. His wife is Jenny Taylor so we obviously refer to her as Genitalia. But not to her face!
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Post by: Bentley Bullet on November 16, 2013, 09:29:13 am
My sister's class at school had Mary Hule (hairy mule) and Kay Malender (may calender) in it.
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Post by: Donnywolf on November 16, 2013, 10:11:14 am
Unbeef Uckinlievable

Not someones name ... just celebrating that I may have originated a thread that goes to 2 pages !

I did once read in a Magazine of a woman who had just popped a sprog and had been agonising for about a week on what to call the Lad

After a week she said to her Husband " I have finally thought of a name - it just came to me after reading this Book - its by Orson Wells - so my vote is firmly for Orson now"

Nice name said the Husband but is it wise with our surname .... and at the bottom of the Letter was the Name Mrs A Carter   
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Post by: Orlandokarla on November 19, 2013, 05:50:38 pm
I had a black classmate called JoJo Coco Brown. I honestly thought it was a joke in poor taste, until I heard the teacher call his name for registration.
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Post by: not on facebook on November 19, 2013, 10:23:08 pm
There was a main face at chelsea in 1970s,who had his own firm
Of lads .

He was Black and known as ....one armed babs....because he did
Have one arm

Who would have thought it ,a Black man with one arm Leading many
A many chelsea Charge


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Post by: Dr Fundlekrotch on November 20, 2013, 08:24:27 am
A mate has the surname MacKenzie-DuLieu.  The DuLieu bit (pronounced duloo) is his Mother's maiden name and only appears on official documents.  He is Mackenzie as far as anyone else is concerned.  His first-born was called Finn for 2 weeks.  Nowt wrong with Finn MacKenzie.  They only realised their crass mistake when they went to register her as Finn Dulieu
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Post by: rtid88 on November 20, 2013, 03:20:07 pm
There used to be a couple of people that worked at Barclays bank when I worked there years back with classic names. Dick Cheeseman, Einstein Wanabiro & Principal Babar

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Post by: Orlandokarla on November 20, 2013, 06:03:20 pm
My wife used to work with an Indian bloke named Gollum.
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Post by: not on facebook on November 20, 2013, 07:54:42 pm
Girl at school was called Tressa green

And another girl Ann Maria jablome

Also Natoli perrhoneni
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Post by: LincolnDonny on November 20, 2013, 08:17:10 pm
I Knew a Carpet Manufacturers Rep called Dick Burn.
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Post by: belton rover on November 20, 2013, 09:46:06 pm
A long running (and largely unfunny) joke with my kids is whenever they say half a ...something, my response is 'I used to go to scool with him!' : Arfur Minute/Arfur Glass/Arfur Nour/ Arfur Chance, etc.