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to think this is the worst name ever given to a child?!

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lollypoplady · 07/11/2010 20:44

Me & DH are thinking of baby names and I've just remembered a boy from my secondary school who was called Richard John Uren and got nicknamed Dick Toilet Piss, what where his parents thinking?!

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PinkieMinx · 07/11/2010 20:46

NOT TRUE!!! please tell me that's not true!?!

lollypoplady · 07/11/2010 20:50

Yes it's true!! At first it was just Dick Piss then people found out his middle name was John.... Kids can be so cruel!

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Manda25 · 07/11/2010 20:51

I just looked up all the Richard Uren's on FB and there are a fair few LOL ... there is even a William Richard Uren!

Look how many Jenna Taylor's there are lol

lollypoplady · 07/11/2010 20:56

Willy Dick Piss, oh no poor child!!!!

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saffy85 · 07/11/2010 21:30

Charlie Ryan Adam Perkins. in my sister's class. Grin (names changed to protect the innocent.

Drew Peacock. Name on a headstone.

Richard (Dick) Small. (went to school with my dad)

Beverly Cleverly (went to school with my stepmum.)

MedusaIsHavingABadHairDay · 07/11/2010 21:34

Chris Peacock was a guy in the RAF with my DH.. doesn't sound too bad til you run it together :D

My mother SWEARS she was at school with a Rhoda Horsey....

SoMuchToBats · 07/11/2010 21:36

Well I have seen a Hugh Dunnett and a Lavender Basket....

Unrulysun · 07/11/2010 21:37

There was a guy at my uni called Ewan King

FreudianSlimmery · 07/11/2010 21:37

First thread to make me actually LOL for a while :o

DH went to school with a Wayne Kerin

DancingThroughLife · 07/11/2010 21:38

My dad used to work with an Anne Drew.

And I had a music teacher called Mrs Sharpe. Not sure what her first name was, but it began with a G. I kid you not...

goodlifemummy · 07/11/2010 21:39

My DH went to school with a Lovely Strange. Do I win??

DancingThroughLife · 07/11/2010 21:40

Thinking about it, did she choose her DH based on his surname and the nominative determinism that would ensue??? Grin

inspookexplosive · 07/11/2010 21:40

My great uncle is, wait for it - Richard Head Shock

HalfTermHero · 07/11/2010 21:40

Lad I went to school with had the surname Peacock and was mocked constantly for having a pea sized cock. A girl who went with him later confirmed that his surname was indeed appropriate, lol.

blushingm · 07/11/2010 21:42

a woman down the road is helen mellin and a teacher at dc school is carol barrell

Icoulddoitbetter · 07/11/2010 21:44

I went to uni with a Ewan Kerr, and I know a Jenny Taylor.

Oh and I used to know a Jo King.

Poor buggers!

TheCrackFox · 07/11/2010 21:45

I went to school with a Willie Dick and an Iona Wrench. What where their parents thinking?

I have also met a Gordon Bennet. Confused

eidsvold · 07/11/2010 21:46

know pearl and sydney harbour. I taught with a richard Head and a Miss Kock.

FreudianSlimmery · 07/11/2010 21:46

My art teacher was called Gay Standing Hmm

MetalMummy · 07/11/2010 21:46

My Dad swears blind that when he went to register my birth the man in front of him, who's surname was Pig, named his son...........Percy!!!! :o

TmiEdward · 07/11/2010 21:47

I know an Ollie Day.

MrsDinky · 07/11/2010 21:48

Heard of a dentist once called D.Kay.

MetalMummy · 07/11/2010 21:48

My Geography teacher was a Richard Head :o

MiasmARGGG · 07/11/2010 21:50

I know a Teresa Green Grin

Clary · 07/11/2010 21:51

I love Beverly Cleverly and Ollie Day!

Came across an Anna Hannah the other week. Grin It was her married name tho so nobody's fault.

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