to think that user names that are spoonerisms should mean something?

[MardyBra]

There are a lot of spoonerised sweary names about at the moment.

PatFenis and BettySwollocks get a big tick because they suggest proper names

I love buppy's name, especially as it takes something as twee as cupcakes and bunting and completely subverts the concept.

CunningStunt gets a double tick because it forms two new words.

What I don't get are the names which don't create something else - along the lines of ShuckingFit.

Bups does not fulfil the brief, you just don't want to wrath her up

Fliss is a name.

who's norman?
Nor is the word I was after...

Oh. I didn't realise it was a shiny new name. Yes, it passes the irrational mardy test.

Good lord. Ouch.

GretaGip is fabulous! But not a spoonerism...

I envy you if this is all you have to worry about in life!!

always wanted to type that

'Tis true, I don't want to risk the wrath of buppy. There is no such thing as bupcakes, I suppose, although if there were I would imagine them to be delicious. Cunting is tricky, because cunt is a noun rather than a verb, so is unusual in the gerund form, but quite amusing.

Fanjo "Paps is a word for boobies where I come from!"

They're "baps" round this way. Never been asked to get my paps out.

I had an ex with a potty mouth who used "cing" in the same way as "fucking", e.g. "I'm late for cing work!" Urgh.

Blackholes GretaGip = Get a Grip

It is so.

Why isn't GretaGip a Spoonerism?

I know there isn't such a thing as a bupcake. But sounds as if there ought to be. So that's what makes Bups' name all right.

Oh yes, adjectival cunting. I was assuming buppy's name involves some weird cake and doing cunting.

What would a bupcake look like? something like this?

Blackholes - there's a lot of stony ground in these parts

I'm with Mardy, I like the clever ones that form names and words (including Fliss), I don't like the ones that lack imagination and creativity.

A HullyGully on the other hand is

A. A Fairground Ride
B. A type of Dance
C. A founder of PARD and professional love batoner
or
D. A small Labrador Puppy destroying my sage bush, the bastard
HTH

I am one of these failures you speak of.

Does it help that if I ever get a pet I will name it Bumsy? I think it sounds like a pretty, twee nickname for something...

Bumsy = borderline case. I take your point about the twee nickname.

That's not the first time I've been called a borderline case, I can tell you...

Bumsey

Anyhow.

Back to Frank.

And the unspoonered version.

What a great word thar is.

Wonder who could have thought that up?

Must have a brilliant brain.

Yes, fantastic word.

Got to go now. Feel free to bitch about me behind my back.

Bumsy and Buppers pass muster because they sound like the nicknames of characters from P G Wodehouse novels, or Malory Towers. Try inserting either name into this sentence: "I say, old chum, pass the gin/lemonade.". There is definitely something posh and pre WW2 about them.

Anyway.

Ooh, slicy fun. Pass the savlon!

I always thought it was odd that my ex used to read the paper whilst he was 'down there' !