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Worst name combinations you've heard

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Fibilou · 11/10/2009 02:20

Recently dealt with a woman at work who had called her daughter Beau - all very well but unfortunately this was teamed with the surname Lock.
I wonder sometimes if people think through how names will work together.

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radstar · 14/10/2009 20:01

Half of these I didn't get at first, so when naming ds it helped that my partner was a teacher with a somewhat juvenile sense of humour he kept saying "oh no they'll get called this... at school" to my choices.

had a teahcer at school though Mr Nice not too bad you think except he insisted it was pronounced neece, his initial was P - I got that one!

4andnotout · 14/10/2009 08:24

I met the presenter Wayne Kerr once and tbh he was living up to his name

I still think my mil had a sauce fetish with the names she chose for dp and dbil, Lee and Perry

TheBlairSnitchProject · 14/10/2009 08:12

I went to uni with an Edward Ward. We called him Ed - Ed Ward!

I also know an Alison, known as Ali, who married and changed her surname to Slinn - Ali Slinn!

Yikess · 14/10/2009 07:52

Nothing like waking up to a full fit of giggles - I cant believe these parents!!

lotspot · 13/10/2009 23:56

Boy up the road is called Joe King - my kids took a good 10 years to put two and two together lol

I used to work with a Peter Filan (pronounced File-en) who was Irish so prnponced it more like Peeder Filan (ignore my naff phonetic spelling!!) and he was infact a Peadiatrician!!! honestly!! His brother is also in DDs favourite boy band lol

VivClicquot · 13/10/2009 12:57

Oh and there's a bloke at the company at which I work called Richard Whittington. (Think about it...)

Madsometimes · 13/10/2009 12:57

Teresa Green (She was a Mrs Green though, so you cannot blame her parents).

JohnnyYellowHat · 13/10/2009 12:55

I know someone who went to school with a Mars Bari.

And I once met a Willie Winkler.

VivClicquot · 13/10/2009 12:55

There's a journalist at the Manchester Evening News called Wayne Ankers.

Heat magazine picked up on this and ran a story about him and included his photo, which then prompted loads of girls to write into Heat / the M.E.N asking him out on a date. Trufact.

jeee · 13/10/2009 12:50

And I taught Omar Sharif, and Elvis Goodluck.

jeee · 13/10/2009 12:49

I was at school with Jo King and Wayne Payne

naptime · 13/10/2009 12:48

I know a Bob Roberts...

lupa · 13/10/2009 12:30

Used to have a customer at work called Mr T Bagg - he must have a sense of humour about it as he always used his initial.

mumof2222222222222222boys · 13/10/2009 12:22

There is a senior officer in the Navy called Captain Twitchin. Fair do's, but why for the love of God would he chose to call himself Dick?

I also came across a Dwayne Pipe.

BarakObamasTransitVan · 13/10/2009 12:09

I rather like names like "Alister Mcalister". And I think Luke Skywalker is rather cool

Arsed · 13/10/2009 09:37

I looked after a chap called Randy Workman for a while.

Cortina · 13/10/2009 09:29

I worked with an American called Ed Wanker! You'd change your name, surely? He was bemused at first as to what the problem was, maybe wanker isn't used in the USA?

chaostrulyreigns · 12/10/2009 23:13

Friend's nephew was Thaddeus Frogley now known to everyone as tadpole.

Customer where I worked was Mr Major Khakh.

Friend of friend (fof?) knew 2 brothers - Peter and Andrew Nurse. Not so bad you think but they become formally - Mr P Nurse and Mr A Nurse.

JuJusDad · 12/10/2009 23:08

Once upon a time I worked in a call centre. Few of the names I remember:

Maximum Velocity (somehow he got married and became Velocity-Hanks, as did his wife )

Treasure Island

Ufuk Gur (a doctor, doubtless is something completely normal in his own language)

Can't remember any more just now.

snice · 12/10/2009 22:58

KNew an Adam Wooff years ago-he had a lot of trouble once when a policeman asked for his name and thought he was pissing about.

bran · 12/10/2009 22:48

I used to have a data supplier in the States called Ed Case, not at all funny over there apparently.

LittleWhiteWolf · 12/10/2009 22:42

I know a prisoner (not socially I work in a prison!) called Micheal Hunte. Also knew one called Hector Akhter.

Tee hee

Boober · 12/10/2009 22:41

Connell Angus.

SixtyFootDoll · 12/10/2009 22:35

Knew two vietnamese brothers
Hei ( pronounced High) Ho
Diep Ho

and Dh went to Uni with a german girl
Heidi Doodie

I know of a Jenna Taylor

LovestheChaos · 12/10/2009 22:34

Dick Wilt
Robin Hood
Mona Lotts

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