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Truly awesome names

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lucysnowe · 24/04/2017 11:39

I have just come across someone who proudly bears the name of Buckmaster de Wolf. It is the awesomest name I have ever heard! Does anyone have any similar awesome names?

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BikeRunSki · 25/04/2017 08:15

Gimble I knew someone whose surname was Bedgood Shock!

BikeRunSki · 25/04/2017 08:14

DDad had a hand Japanese/half Scottish colleague called Yakimoto Hamilton. As a child in the 1970s, I loved that combo, and the exotic imagery it conjured up.

GimbleInTheWabe · 25/04/2017 08:09

I knew a family whose last name was Gotobed, pronounced exactly as it sounds! Always thought that the nighttime routine at theirs would be funny!

And we had a teacher at school whose name was Gay Hancock, always had to stifle a laugh with her.

FairNotFair · 25/04/2017 07:55

Justmadeperfectflapjacks - my orthodontist was also Gordon Bennett! Were you in the NE?

elQuintoConyo · 25/04/2017 07:37

Oh and I have had dealings with a gynaecologist named Dr Fuca. This was in Italy. I told him what it sounded like in English - luckily he thought it was hilarious.

I've always loved that Ralph Feinnes full name is triple-barrelled: Ralph Thistleton-Twickham-Feinnes* fancy-schmancy!

  • if memory recalls - i get a bit wobbly brained and thigh-rubby thinking about lovely Ralphy
Chelsea26 · 25/04/2017 07:32

I knew a jo king, she was married to Paul king (p-king) they didn't call their son Juan sadly.

I also know two brothers called Anthony and Peter nut, a nut and p nut!

CherryLips1980 · 25/04/2017 07:15

@ShatnersBassoon the woman that did my dating scans for DS was a Jo King. Made me Grin every time I looked at her report!

Greycat11 · 25/04/2017 06:38

Maggie Macsporran. Love it.

Laird MacLean a real sweetie, mature student at college. Wasn't a Laird or Scottish but always wore a tartan tie.

Crawford Moxley - bought my house through him!! Small world.

MrsMontgomerySmythe · 25/04/2017 06:15

Used To work (abroad) with a Mr Wanko - pronounced van-co.
Always amusing when London based clients would call asking to speak to him.

Littlefish · 25/04/2017 06:08

As a child, there was a lovely old lady who lived near us. She had the absolutely wonderful middle name "By-the-sea". Her surname was Shaw, making her xxxxx By-the-sea Shaw (pronounced Shore). I remember being fascinated by this very elderly lady with such a romantic name and always wondered about her creative/wacky parents who must have named her in about 1910.

n0ne · 25/04/2017 05:55

No way, FamilySpartan! I wish I actually knew her. I only came across her as my friend took her booking at Ticketmaster many years ago and was really tickled by her name.

cantthinkofabloodyname · 25/04/2017 00:18

I once worked with a lad called Chris P Bunn

MaybeAFool · 25/04/2017 00:09

Ooh - and Romeo Shakespeare

MaybeAFool · 25/04/2017 00:09

I know a Veritas True, a Peregrine Ambler and a Crispin Butterthief
Grin

FamilySpartan · 24/04/2017 23:59

n0ne, I know Jackie Patoto too!Wink

SomewhatIdiosyncratic · 24/04/2017 23:54

A classmate at junior school called Noel Varnish. Festive birthday!

Had a uni lecturer called Dr Strange.

pieceofpurplesky · 24/04/2017 23:37

Desiree Brackenbury
Was on a list at university. I imagined her as a bosom heaving heroine!

Tortycat · 24/04/2017 23:37

Loving these names. Now wondering why we didnt give dc more outlandish names...

At school
Mr English (German teacher)
Mrs blood and Mrs leech (lab technician)

Ohyesiam · 24/04/2017 23:35

Two doctors at University College Hospital in the early 90s always stick in my mind.
Dr Speachly-Dick, and Dr Cinderella Noonoo, both female.

MrsMoastyToasty · 24/04/2017 23:25

I had a classmate at primary school called Chris Massey.

PuntCuffin · 24/04/2017 23:24

I bring this one out every time one of these threads comes round - Everard Cock. He is a South African vet.

I knew a professor at uni called Reginald Von Zugbach de Sugg. And another called Dr Love, pretty sure is Professor Love now.

KurriKurri · 24/04/2017 23:23

Oh I know a very old lady with the last name Hazard - her first name is Bunny - I think Bunny Hazard is a fantastic name.

PlummyBrummy · 24/04/2017 23:19

Meant to say Colonel Hazzard (at work)! Not
Coloneand...

pineappleeyes · 24/04/2017 23:19

Ivan seeballuck.
Mr heaven & miss innocent

JennaRainbow · 24/04/2017 23:15

A teaching colleague, Fanny Payne. That's her married name too, she really should have kept her maiden name!

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