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Comical mishaps

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Tea1Sugar · 23/02/2015 06:26

I had a Paige Turner in my class at school and dp use to work with a Ben Dover. Grin Do you know any others?

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Mutteroo · 25/02/2015 00:45

Wendy Day, Harriet Peacock & Teresa Green. Seems I'm not the only one on this thread who went to school with someone of that name?

StaircaseAtTheUniversity · 24/02/2015 22:56

Know of these two via a friend of a colleague. The fiancée is now married and called Amber Glasscock. It kind of sounds like a high end dildo Grin

Comical mishaps
DrElizabethPlimpton · 24/02/2015 22:46

There is a radio 4 producer call Jo King.

maggiethemagpie · 24/02/2015 22:40

I like this thread! Can I add that I once knew a Donald McDonald?

maggiethemagpie · 24/02/2015 22:39

I couldn't decide between Faye and Leah for my daughter and did think of calling her Faye Leah at one point with Leah as middle name, but luckily thought better of it!

maggiethemagpie · 24/02/2015 22:38

I knew a Mr. Shaw-Twillie at my brother's school. And never fail to mention him on these boards (not quite a mishap as in first name-surname but someone must have decided to double-barrel those names at some point!)

annielewis · 24/02/2015 22:31

I also know a Theresa Green! And Hazel Wood. And Dn went to school with Thomas Thomas (imaginative...)

BikeRunSki · 24/02/2015 22:21

DSis went to college with a Theresa Green.

carbolicsoaprocked · 24/02/2015 22:19

I know a Rob Hiscock... Don't know why he doesn't go by Robert!

shutupaboutstarwars · 24/02/2015 22:02

Used to be in the retired section of members of my profession. Everard Cock.

mynameisnotmichaelcaine · 24/02/2015 19:28

My friend used Faye Leah for her baby's first name and middle name. Not ideal!

DannyShouldHaveChosenRizzo · 24/02/2015 19:23

At my DCs school there are DTs called Evan and Elle.
The parents must be bonkers!

BlueChampagne · 24/02/2015 19:19

Richard Payne (work)
Julius Caesar (school)

trevortrevorslattery · 24/02/2015 14:04

Vernon Poole and Chris Tingle.. also Warwick Hunt (worra cunt) Grin

HollyJollyDillydolly · 24/02/2015 13:59

Someone on my friends list on Facebook bakes cakes. She had one on recently that was for Isla-Skye. I'm not sure if the parents chose the name deliberately or not.

someone else I went to school with has dcs called Kia and a Kai Confused

squoosh · 24/02/2015 13:52

And Fred West. That would be particularly unfortunate.

squoosh · 24/02/2015 13:49

I feel sorry for people like Bridget Jones who have a really ordinary name that suddenly becomes linked to one person or fictional character. There must be loads of Harry Potters and David Camerons.

StrawberryTallCake · 24/02/2015 13:39

I also heard 'Bridget Jones' over the tannoy in Tesco last week, couldn't see her anywhere though.

StrawberryTallCake · 24/02/2015 13:37

Richard Head (he's more of a cunt than a dick but his parents didn't go for that).

Northumberlandlass · 24/02/2015 13:35

I knew a Shirley Knott.

jazzyjenbo · 24/02/2015 13:33

I worked with a chloe mycock.... Shouting her name over store tannoy 'will C. Mycock please come to reception'

Aprilbaby24 · 24/02/2015 11:13

Went to school with a spencer fortune ??

RL20 · 24/02/2015 09:25

I can't believe some of these names ha ha, has made me giggle. I don't know any particularly funny ones but I know of a Robyn Robinson and a Fynn Findley. Why, just why?

dalekanium · 23/02/2015 21:00

I knew a Tim Lydd

Vastra · 23/02/2015 20:33

I've shared these on MN before, but I know Jack Potts, and two of my friends went to primary school with Wendy House.