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Weird Personal Names

... That reminds me there used to be (perhaps still is ?) a physics tutor at Cornwall College called Bob Tugwell - a name which caused great hilarity amongst the students.. and even generated it's own metaphor in Cornish Rhyming Slang... As there were many teenage boys at the college, you can probably guess what the metaphor means if I put it in context...

ie 'Did you get lucky with that girl last night or did you just end up having to go and see Bob Tugwell ' !!;)

....I know it's a bit naughty, but I felt duty bound to record it here !!

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

It would be well cool if it was though being a fortean I am very skeptical about it.


luce
 
Yes I agree.... I think we should hound the Lard for more info !

Haarp
 
This is not really a weird name but does anyone remember that show Dave Gorman did where his flatmate bet him he couldn't find 54 Dave Grormans? People were changing their name to help him reach his target but the best one was a husband and wife who both changed their names to Dave Gorman.
He has a website that has a link to a random generator for the 54 Dave Gormans.http://www.davegorman.com/randomdaves.htm
 
dave gorman

i did not realise it was a tv show but i read the book -very funny,

i grew up near a place called upper dicker and there was also a lower dicker

now i want to live in heavens cloud near bristol.. i would loveto introduce myself as ""elona from heavens cloud" it just sounds really cool
 
Yes Spook, there was a Gropec*nt Lane, or to give it's spelling of 1260, Grope Countlane. This was the original name for Threadneedle Street, (think about this name!!!). It was a place where the young men of mediaeval London, met ladies of (ahem!) negotiable affection.
 
There is a "World's End" in Berkshire. I have a JPG of a temporary road sign saying 'Long Delays at World's End"! (Come to think of it, I may have scanned it from FT!)
 
levmania said:
This is not really a weird name but does anyone remember that show Dave Gorman did where his flatmate bet him he couldn't find 54 Dave Grormans

Yup, I remember that show. It was quite strange that several women were prepared to change their names to 'Dave Gorman'

An American film-maker by the name of Alan Berliner made a film on the same subject. He invited as many Alan Berliners as he could to a get-together at his apartment.
I think he found the whole experience a bit disturbing.
 
Nick-names are always fun. I had a headmaster called Baxter - known by us as 'the Wall'!!

There was also a teacher with a prominent moustache - the boys called him Zebedee!

BTW, why NICK-names? Anything to do with Old Nick?
 
I'm from Ryme Intrinseca
(yes it is in the UK)

Now there's weird!!
 
rynner said:
Nick-names are always fun. I had a headmaster called Baxter - known by us as 'the Wall'!!

There was also a teacher with a prominent moustache - the boys called him Zebedee!

BTW, why NICK-names? Anything to do with Old Nick?

The original spelling was 'An eke name' but the N got stuck to the wrong bit of the phrase; as is common in English as it evolves. For example A Newt was formerly An Ewt, etc. etc.

Have an ice day.
 
. . . a napron, a nadder, a norange . . .

Nobody's mentioned the Land of Green Ginger in Hull!

Carole
 
Well what exactly is a name ? You might say 'that word by which something is known', but you only know this because the phrase is in current common usage. The phrase 'eke name' meant something in itself in its own time, something very similar to what we now use the phrase 'nick name' to imply.

Bibble
 
Lard said:
Well what exactly is a name ? You might say 'that word by which something is known', but you only know this because the phrase is in current common usage. The phrase 'eke name' meant something in itself in its own time, something very similar to what we now use the phrase 'nick name' to imply.

Bibble

You are making this stuff up, aren't you?

Cujo
 
Re: More names

Johnnyboy said:
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.

This probably belongs on the UL forum, but wasn't there supposed to be a Mr. and Mrs Wanker in an episode of Mork and Mindy?
 
Re: Re: More names

Dark Detective said:
This probably belongs on the UL forum, but wasn't there supposed to be a Mr. and Mrs Wanker in an episode of Mork and Mindy?

Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.
Maybe someone can explain the meaning of "wanker" in Australia; I've never been sure how subversive the name of Paul Hogan's inept stuntman Leo Wanker was to its native audience.
 
I apoligise for my language.....

There's a place called "Shit" in Iraq and I think there's a place called "Fuck" in Turkey. No doubt victims of translation.
 
barndad said:
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.

My name is Ayre (prounounced Air) does that mean I'll be a weather person or a chemistry teacher?
 
Alright, I can hold back no longer. I work for a large company with offices in every part of the world and I've come across a few howlers.

There still is Mr Kokleong Ooi in a Singapore office, there was
a lady with the first name of Supaporn in, of course, our Bangkok office. And there was a client of ours from Turkey with the lovely name of Yufuk Anal - and I still have his business card!

There are many more, but those were the best ones.

:p
 
At first I thought Ricky 2002 was joking then I remembered that at our graduation cermony Mr Kok and Mr Fuk succeeded each other accross the platform ! I'm sure the Vice Chancellor was trying not to laugh !
 
About the Gropec*nt thing , I think most towns have them , usually with the names changed to something like Grape Lane ,
probably in Victorian times - do you know they changed common bird names ? Wheatears and Redstarts used to be White Arses and Red Arses . Anyway the Grope lanes were usually by churches and were where men took prostitutes and lovers to do naughty things . There is one in Glastonbury too .
Names I have come across include ' Coleta Rose ' and someone with the surname ' Forekin ' . I had a teacher called Mrs Seaman , my mother wouldn't believe me ! When my sister was at school she had a supply teacher with such a ridiculous name the class were told to call her simply 'Miss' , my sister's friend found out the teacher's real name and made her cry !
Marion
 
The Arsenal and England goalie is David Seaman. It's also somewhat amusing that ARSEnal have a manager named ARSEne Wenger. Perhaps by analogy (oops! an 'anal' in there) with the birds, they should be renamed Earnal and Earne...? Nah, it'd never catch on.

Sort of a literary synchronicity (or something) that in commenting on the Seaman in the previous post, I have also brought in 'arses'...

PS: I had a music teacher called Fluck
 
Funny thing, a lane near here is called Rope Lane. It has deep laybys often occupied by cars with steamed-up windows and is nicknamed locally Grope Lane and Rape Lane!
 
Hey, I'm working currently with a female Chipchase! I really wonder what the history of that name is. I mean I can understand where Smith and Butcher come from, but who was chasing chips in history?

;)
 
Bristol has a "There and Back again Lane" - a dead end that you can walk in the time it takes to say it.

There's a village near Bristol called "Old Sodbury" nearby.

My High Wycombe friend had a teacher called Peter File.

I'm sure "Mr Hammond Eggs" has to be made up!

Cheers

Nick

Oh yes - I've also got a Marvel Comic (Part of the Atlantis Attacks crossover in the late 80's, IIRC) where some Spandex hero smites a villain, and to paraphrase "Take that, you wanker!" - Also didn't Phil Collins call someone by the W word when appearing on Miami Vice???
 
There is a place in the middle of scotland called Dull. I just noticed it on a map.
 
Isn't there a police station somewhere on a road called "Letsby Avenue" ?

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Yes, it's here, point 21 :D
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nicktf said:
Oh yes - I've also got a Marvel Comic (Part of the Atlantis Attacks crossover in the late 80's, IIRC) where some Spandex hero smites a villain, and to paraphrase "Take that, you wanker!" - Also didn't Phil Collins call someone by the W word when appearing on Miami Vice???

That (rather fun if you're in the mood) no-brain action film, Tango and Cash has a "British" character who like most supposed Brits in Yank films talks like a pissed Australian. At one point, his witty response to being got the better of by Sly 'n' Kurt is "You facking wanker!". On the version that was shown on the telly though, 'twas rather obviously redubbed as "You foolish wanker!" Maybe our colonial chums think it's a cosy little Brit slang term like bloody, cripes, or I say chaps, that just isn't cricket!

Back to funny names - my old woodwork teacher was called Mr Fretwell, which always seemed rather appropriate.
 
The Letsby Avenue is a real street and was thus named by someone in an office dealing with a map of the new streets in the area. The avenue concerned does indeed contain a police station.
(Read this in the Guardian about a couple of years back.)
 
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