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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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Clary · 07/11/2010 21:51

Oooh I know a Teresa Brown actually. Maybe that's in the winter then?

1973magpie · 07/11/2010 21:55

I've met a Theresa Green too! And I went to school with a Nicholas Crotch (what were his parents thinking?)

mylifewithstrangers · 07/11/2010 21:55

I know an Anna Spanner

DP works with Super (might be Supa) Jolly

paganmummsy · 07/11/2010 21:56

hahaha thhis brightened my day :)

Marjee · 07/11/2010 21:59

I used to work with an April Flowers Grin

spiderlight · 07/11/2010 22:00

I know a Melanie Bellamy

frgr · 07/11/2010 22:02

my sister swears she works with a woman called Mary who refused to change her name upon getting married to her husband (Mr Christmas)

thesecondcoming · 07/11/2010 22:02

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TigerFeet · 07/11/2010 22:02

I know a Wayne Carr

and we once had a family GP called Dr Pillsworthy

and a priest called Fr Devine

thesecondcoming · 07/11/2010 22:02

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WhatNo · 07/11/2010 22:03

I worked with a Tracy Spalacy

YourCallIsImportant · 07/11/2010 22:04

I once met a Dawn Kay, and knew a Richard Dick.

KaraStarbuckThrace · 07/11/2010 22:05

I used to work with a Shirley Knott (she was married!)
DH went to school with a Wayne Anchors.

Bellagio · 07/11/2010 22:08

Has anyone met......

Mike Hunt ? Grin

paganmummsy · 07/11/2010 22:09

nothing can be as bad as dick hitchen, was in a pub once and somebody had phoned to see if a dick hitchen was there of course the bar lady was shouting IS THERE A DICK HITCHEN IN HERE TONIGHT imagine the roars of laughter, i dont think there was a dry seat in the pub that night

BrainMash · 07/11/2010 22:11

I went to school with a Richard Head and I worked with a Gordon Bennet.

I also heard of a girl called Ophelia Cox - but I don't know if that was true or not.

Charlie Ryan Adam Perkins - I don't geddit Blush

TheCrackFox · 07/11/2010 22:12

I used to fancy the pants off a Mike Hunt at school. Sadly, he hasn't aged well.

faverolles · 07/11/2010 22:15

Brainmash - C R A P

I met someone called Owen Owen. Why would you do that?

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MadAboutQuavers · 07/11/2010 22:16

I know a 3D modelling artist called... Dusty Rhodes

Dusty is his original first name
I've never been able to ask him what his parents were on for fear of being rude/laughing Grin

Mowiol · 07/11/2010 22:20

There are school textbooks for Chemistry up here in Scotland written by the late great Norman Conquest (absolutely true).

Apparently he named his dog Hastings - also true.

StayingDavidTennantsGirl · 07/11/2010 22:20

On the same theme - Frederick Ulysses Charles Kelly.

Or the twin sisters my dad taught, whose surname was Boob....

Mowiol · 07/11/2010 22:21

There are school textbooks for Chemistry up here in Scotland written by the late great Norman Conquest (absolutely true).

Apparently he named his dog Hastings - also true.

Mowiol · 07/11/2010 22:23

oops - what happened there??

paganmummsy · 07/11/2010 22:27

fanny craddock just sounds wrong Hmm

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