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Weird Personal Names

This is a regular topic for radio shows keen to fill some time. One of the better ones - Danny Baker on London Live FM (GLR to everyone else) - has a list on his website which includes a:

Jerryl and Beryl Werril and their son Merril
 
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Renigirl said:
there was a sharon peters, a child named 'astro' something or other, we get 'jack daniel's every so often ... ive seen 'markayla,' 'jame (jay-me),' increasing amounts of 'savannah's and 'santana's, and loads and loads of 'creative' spellings, i.e. 'tiffanee' or 'kristale'.
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I'm I being thick but I don't understand why Sharon Peters is odd?

I have to say that I do hate 'creative' spelling of names. I once met a girl called Shervorne!
 
Where's the emoticon for 'not entirely kidding'?

The ones I hate are the parents who insist on giving their daughters' trashy double names like 'Kelly-Ann' or 'Traci-Anne': Scottish Council Estate Scum naming their daughters like they were Southron Trailer-Park Cracker-Trash??

They don't name their boys 'Bubah' or 'Cletus', but the daughter gets lumbered with 'Shannon-Ann MacGiro'?? :eek!!!!:

(And why's it always Something-Ann(e)? Except on the increasingly rare instances when it's 'Anne-Marie'.)

What's wrong with a guid one-word Scottish name like 'Senga' anymore? 'Senga' = 'Agnes' backwards: genius and class in the one name!
 
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Zygon said:
Scottish Council Estate Scum naming their daughters like they were Southron Trailer-Park Cracker-Trash??

They don't name their boys 'Bubah' or 'Cletus', but the daughter gets lumbered with 'Shannon-Ann MacGiro'?? :eek!!!!:
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:D Careful Zygon, i got jumped on for using the very phrase 'Council Estate Scum' on a thread. If it looks like a duck...:rolleyes:
 
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The Yithian said:
:D Careful Zygon, i got jumped on for using the very phrase 'Council Estate Scum' on a thread. If it looks like a duck...:rolleyes:
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Why? It's a perfectly good descriptive phrase for a specific (antisocial) subset of Council Estate tenants. Had I intended it to mean 'everyone who lives on a council estate' I'd have phrased it differently.

Honest. :)
 
My name of the day at work (a company name, as will be obvious to those still awake)
Fuch Lubricants (UK) PLC

:rolleyes:
 
I read in the paper the other day about a woman with a pet alligator whose name was actually Gator Bait. I dunno. Only an American :rolleyes: :p
 
Lauren Churchill said:
I read in the paper the other day about a woman with a pet alligator whose name was actually Gator Bait. I dunno. Only an American :rolleyes: :p
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that's rather normal compared to Frank Zappas kids names Dweasel(sp?) and Moon Unit, then the famous Doctor Patch Adams has a kid named Atomic Zagnut Adams. Then we go to the city of NY where we have Orangelo and Lemongelo (yes that's right, "Orange Jello" and "Lemon Jello") who were named when as the stories goes, the mother read the desert menu as a birth certificate. no that is only in America :D. remember to stay in school children. :blah:
 
Miscellania

I discovered a packet of something or other in a Chinese grocery which was made or imported by the "Hung Gay" company in Vancouver, British Columbia. This sounds like the sort of thing that Jay Leno reads occassionally on his television show.

Euphrosyne is an odd Greek/French name that has cropped up in my genealogical researches. I think it may be the name of one of the Greek Muses. Herménégilde is at least as unusual. Gildas is also a genealogical find. The English family name "Twaddle" must have nearly disappeared from the face of the Earth by now, but the old English name "Bastard" is still going strong. Bastard County, Ontario voted NOT to change its name some years ago, which I applaud.

As for place names, Dildo, Newfoundland is famous largely for being named Dildo. It is near Conception Bay. In Nova Scotia, there is an "Ecum Secum", in New Brunswick a "Push and Be Damned Rapids" (from the difficulty of navigating with a pole against the current) and a Groundhog Landing. There are a number of places named "Booger Hollow" in the United States--two of them have turned up in Fortean news stories in the last year or two. "Booger" is a variant of "Bogey".

I have always fancied the idea of naming a son, "Random Event", because if I were to have one, he would be.
 
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littleblackduck said:
As for place names, Dildo, Newfoundland is famous largely for being named Dildo.
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I always get her that was sampled by Eminem mixed up with that:D
 
Some astronomical research was done by student Ben Panter and Professor Alan Heavens at Edinburgh University, along with Raul Jimenez at the University of Pennsylvania. It will be detailed in the Aug. 21 issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

:)
 
Had a good "name day" at work today. A Joan Jones and a Jason Mason.
 
A friend of my husband claims that he once went out with a girl called Penny Chew . . .

Carole
 
me like council estates

Are council estate scum allowed to post on this site? Or do I have to get permission from someone living in a nice house in Surbiton? If so, please forward your name and address and I will pop round with the relevant "paperwork".

Incidentally we have a big council estate in the Tees Valley where all the street names begin with the letters H, A, R, D, W, I, C, K - can you geuss what it is called?

Well done, clearly living in the nice part of town has paid off for some of you.
 
Um, Hickdraw? Drawhick? Rickwhad?

Oh, I give up, it's too hard for me. (But then, I do live in a council flat...)

:D :rolleyes:
 
Rick Whad? Isn't he a porn star?
 
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lordshiva said:
Are council estate scum allowed to post on this site? Or do I have to get permission from someone living in a nice house in Surbiton? .
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Blimey I hope not, or I'm in trouble with the mods :p
 
A Mrs D'eath came into where I work the other day. My collegue had to call her over. She called "Mrs D'eath" twice before she responded. The lady appologised explaining that she had only recently married and had not got used to the name yet. "To be honest" she said "I'm not really too keen on it" "You could have double barrelded it" my collegue suggested. "Yes, but my maiden name was ....................Dyer"



I would have joined the to names just to be Mrs Dyer-D'eath
 
Strange, but funny names...

At the company that I used to work for,we had access to a large database of names and SSN's. Sometimes, when myself and a few of my coworkers were bored we would alpha search for people with obscene names. Here's a few that we found, some you've probably seen or heard before and some you probably haven't, but keep in mind these are real names:

Harold Butts
Harry Palmer
Cheri Hole
Harold Beaver
Dewey Head
Peter Stanke
Peter Funke
Harry Dick
Richard Head
Mike Hunt
Michael Assman
Richard Dicks
Rod Cockburn
Rusty Cockman
Anita Woody
Peter Spitz
Peter Harder
Dickey Long
Peter Cummings
Dick Hardin
Peter Hummer
Peter Long
Harold Heine
Richard Harder
Bridgette Bloemhard
Peggy Sukoff
Harry Box
Peter Power
Harry Pusey
Peter Dangler
Harless Kuntz
Harold Boner

:cool:
 
philfort said:
See if you can get her to sign a copy!
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How do you know Kim is a she?

Kipling's Kim was a (young) bloke.
 
From work, in the last four days:
Colin Lunt (the well known spoonerism)
Barnaby Pout :kiss:
Peggy Tooth (I think I'd just call myself Margaret if I were her)
 
Re: AMUSING NAMES

The Yithian said:
I know i'ts puerile but i had to post this:

http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/live/dynamic/cllr/CllrDetails.asp

Drag down the 'select a councillor' list and look up the gloriously named Councillor Ramon Mycock - Churnet Valley - Can't miss him, he's the legend with the eye-patch!

I'd assumed that this was a joke but it appears to be his actual name.

Anyone got any better names?
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UPDATE: It seems Ramon has decided that his name is too silly and so Now goes under his middle name Barrie. Anyway, seeing as everyone's in a pirate mood see

before:http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/live/dynamic/cllr/CllrDetails.asp?CllrID=18

and after: http://www.blackfeather.co.uk/mycock.htm

A simple but vital addition.
 
Not surprising on a forum like this that 'weird' is a favourite word -

it occurs in the titles of 75 threads (so far!)
 
During my apprenticeship (all those years ago), I worked with an engineer going by the name of Mike Janus. Nothing wrong with that, I hear you cry, except he signed all his work off 'HMJ'. His parents, those considerate souls, had named him Hugh Michael Janus...:eek:
 
Filcee said:
During my apprenticeship (all those years ago), I worked with an engineer going by the name of Mike Janus.
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And did he pronounce his surname with a long or a short "a"? Because one would be bad, but the other would be worse!
 
Not sure what you mean by long and short 'a', but he pronounced his surname as if it had a double 'n', Jannus, rather than a 'y', jaynus. (Naturally, the rest of us, being young, responsible adults, respected his choice of pronounciation, then blatantly ignored it :D .)
 
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