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Weird Personal Names

Christopher Lee Quackenbush
Prince Albert Rollins

Apologies to both for using their names in vain.
 
I have, in a capacity I can't divulge, dealt with paperwork relating to Oral Staples and Amber Sprunt.
 
There's a wealth of amusement to be found in foreign names. My boss met a Mr Miaow in Singapore, and a common surname in Northern Nigeria is Shittu . . .

Carole
 
re. street names: Gropec*nt Lane in London. Renamed in Victorian times apparently.
 
....Yeah that Gropec*nt Lane rings a bell with me too, Bill Bryson talks about it in his 'Notes from a small island' - apparently he under took an extensive investigation to reveal the site of the original Gropec*nt Lane, but found that the victorian coverup had been so extensive that no trace could be found in any records !

There was also a rumour that there was a place called 'Bell End' in Carharrack, but exhaustive late night sorties in the area (made by myself and company during our college days) while on the way home from various drinking establishments close by proved this rumour to be untrue !

Haarp
 
I was at college with a young lady called Marjorie Parchment.
She was from Jamaica, which possibly explains the old-fashioned name.
 
I was going to be called John Thomas after my grandfathers if i had been a boy.
I once met a Jonny Tough.
My partner works in the call centre for a nationwide company so gets to hear lots of fantastic names including
Mrs Olive Olive (ie first name Olive surname Olive)
Mr Wayne Karr
And a Mrs Ku*t (she said that she hated to give her name but said "well it's spelt the nice way with a K not a C". Just imagine having to give that name over the phone!)

They are all true
 
Evidence !!! Radio One DJs are on this forum !!!

I Don't know if anyone else was listening to radio one this morning (Jo Wylie Show I think ?)......? But guess what they did a phone in on ?? Yes - weird names !! They had allsorts calling in who claimed they lived next door to a Donna Kebab, Jenny Talia etc. etc

If you ask me they've been earwigging on our forum - in fact I had a breif period of listening to Kiss 100 a while ago and the DJs there were always complaining that radio one had pinched thier ideas (no budget advertising campaign on white vans, on air answer phone for dates and others).... I can't believe they are sneakily infiltrating the FT website now !!


(Disgruntled) Haarp:hmph:
 
Two cases of parental cruelty I ran across:-

Justine Case (no, she hadn't married)

and

Mike Hunt

I make no further comment

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CF Gropec*nt Lane

It was in York and is now called Grape Lane

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Isn't there a street in york called something like Whip-ma-whop-ma gate?

I think it was a place where husbands used to take there wives for a beating?
 
How Topical

This is sooo Spooky !

At work I was sending a letter to BP Amoco's Senior Geologist... and when I checked his name in my directory it turned out he is called Martin Bedrock - I suppose he couldn't really have any other career with a name like that !!

Haarp:D
 
liveinabin said:
Isn't there a street in york called something like Whip-ma-whop-ma gate?

I think it was a place where husbands used to take there wives for a beating?
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A legacy of a simpler time...


Apropos appropriate names Haarp, a chap called Blow was convicted of carrying 5 kg of Cocaine with intent to supply in 1992, in the town where I was born ...

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A guy at my secondary school (four years senior) - who was always getting into trouble, and therefore had his name called out regularly at assembly - was called Gordon Bennett.

My sister's boyfriend at the time had a classmate called Wayne King.

The bladder/urinary specialist at the local hospital was called Mr Flood.
 
Just remembered that my third yeah english teacher at secondry school was called Mr. English.


luce
 
Getting back to place names, isn't there a Pratt's Bottom somewhere near London?

My personal favourite place name is Helions Bumpstead in Suffolk.

Carole
 
Yup Carole, there is a Pratts Bottom!

And there is also a Steeple Bumpstead close by Helions Bumpstead!
 
There's a Spital-in-the-Street in Lincolnshire, and there used to be a place called Dead Dog in Alaska. Also a Tar Heel in South Dakota

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Place names

There are some oddly-named places in North Yorkshire including:


Blubberhouses

Crackpot

Swine

Booze

Thwing

Timble

The Land of Nod

Near to where I live are villages called Ugly, Nasty, and Cold Christmas.

There are some fantastic place names in the USA (too many to mention).
I think there's a town called Maggie's Nipple in Wyoming???
 
There is a place called Lost (can't recall where in the U.K. it is right now). Apparently it lost it's one and only road sign so people didn't know they were at Lost.


luce
 
Placenames

More weird placenames apologies if you've heard of these:

No Place, County Durham
Pity Me, County Durham
Once Brewed and Twice Brewed, both in Northumberland near Hadrian's Wall, I think.

:D
 
You're quite right. I've been through Once Brewed and Twice Brewed and they are indeed near the wall in Northumberland.

Beautiful countryside, but extemely cold in winter.
 
True - I was there at Steel Rigg in August once a couple of years back and it rained, snowed a blizzard and got so hot that I had to take my coat off all in a period of an hour!
 
FOAF Alert

A couple of people I know think they know someone called Dwain Pipe :D. I think this is a FOAFtale, but if he does exist, his parents surely can't have survived that long...
 
HAARP said:
....Yeah that Gropec*nt Lane rings a bell with me too, Bill Bryson talks about it in his 'Notes from a small island' - apparently he under took an extensive investigation to reveal the site of the original Gropec*nt Lane, but found that the victorian coverup had been so extensive that no trace could be found in any records !
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According to Peter Ackroyd it was in the parish of St Pancras but that's as far as the records went.
 
How about a place in Devon called Chip shop, and another in Cornwall called Indian queens, how do these names originate?.:)
 
lucydru said:
There is a place called Lost (can't recall where in the U.K. it is right now). Apparently it lost it's one and only road sign so people didn't know they were at Lost.


luce
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It's in the North East of Scotland in a part of Aberdeenshire called Tarland. It's not very big but it has an Art Gallery - The Lost Gallery - which seems to me to be slightly surreal. It must be weird to get an invtation to a show at the Lost Gallery.

Cujo
 
More names

Working for the YHA, I've come across a few funny names when people have booked to stay at various hostels.

In North Wales, we had the Twatt family one weekend. I would've thought that in later life the little Twatts would either have to develop a sense of humour or take up a martial art.

We also had the Wank family, but they came from Germany, so probably remained blissfully unaware of the hilarity they were causing on their tour.

A Michael J Fox come to stay at York, which may not be particularly weird, but it gave us a laugh...

Not many have popped up recently, though we did have a Mr Prodwell come along, which is the sort of name I thought only people in Carry On Films have.

With regards to place names, there is indeed a place called Bell End, somewhere in the West Midlands. When I was teaching during the mid 90s, one of the girls in my tutor group lived there. She got quite a bit of stick from the others about it.
 
Talk about synchronicity. I was just walking along the corridors of the agriculture building: animals division, and saw the office of Dr. Richard Spoor.

New Scientist did a whole series of this and coined the term "Nominative Determinism" for the people whose name draws them to an appropriate job e.g. Bedrock the geologist or English the teacher.

p.s. re: radio1 stealing our ideas. Is the Lard on this board the Lard? Might explain a bit.
 
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