to snigger at this person's name?

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Just caught sight of this on the credits at the end of a programme as I waited for something else to start..."Victoria Hamburger". Seriously, you'd change your name, wouldn't you?

I suppose the only thing that could be worse is if she married Mr Sponge

Wld that be Fenella Fudge? Isn't she a newsreader on BBC R2?

God, sorry -- didn't realise there were more pages on ths ithread. Doh.

Fenella is on radio 4 too. Beautiful voice.

I once met Mustafa Koch
I don't think he was gay but you never know....!

When I was a little girl, there was a girl named Rainbow Scribler who moved into our neighbourhood. Unfortunately there was an iceblock of the same name (shaped like a pencil in multiple colours - rainbow scribbler) and she got a lot of ribbing over it.

In my DD's classes, there have been a few boys of Indian descent whose names are spelled/pronounced ending with a certain four letter word beginning with s or close to it. ak--, dix--, Kaushik etc. Since many of them were born here and their families have been here for years, I really wonder what on earth their parents were thinking at the time although I guess there isn't much you can do about it when it's a surname.

I've encountered a Hugh Wanker (German) and a Jean Luc Bastard (French) through work. Keeping a straight face when they're handing out business cards is really tough...

When I worked in the blood transfusion service years ago, we went through a spate of people donating blood purely to get a free HIV test without it being requested (because of the insurance companies at the time who would hike your premiums if you even had the test, regardless of outcome).
We had a few Donald Ducks, Mickey Mouse names etc; and then a Mr Carey Oakey. I of course assumed he was another joker - but no! It was his real name.

Mimi - it might depend on their religious choices - I worked once with a Tamil girl who had a baby and her name was chosen on the basis of numerology. She had the choice of two names, one of which rhymed with wanker and the other started with Prat. It was a hard call!

I always feel a great deal of 'good on ya' to people that just go with it.

I too know an Annette Curtain and lots of the Deaths. Although not the best for some reason one that still really tickles me is a surname of 'Blowing-Scott'. Lucky Scott.

Some other favourites have been Rusty Kuntz, Dick Seaman, Mrs Street-Walker, an internet one Marijuana Sawyer and an illustrator called Trina Schart Hyman.

I did not have my thinking hat on when naming DS as his initials would have been S.H.I-T. Luckily DH's expression of incredulity was enough to make me think I wasn't that mad on Stephen and he actually probably didn't need a middle name if he's stuck with a double barrelled surname.

My DH had to do a conference call with a woman in HK called Fanny Pong. H kept having to put himself on mute so she couldn't hear that he had a ridiculous attack of the giggles.

On a flight in the US the voice-over introduced our pilot as Captain John Thomas - I think I was the only person who laughed.

Oh and remember Sara Cox from Radio 1 named her son Isaac?! Poor kid.

Isaac Cox? You're shitting me?

Fanny Pong on the other hand has just caused me to to spit coffee over my desk because I am a child!

There was a Turkish Diplomat called Mustafa Kunt.

I love this bit of correspondence from Moscow Embassy to the FO:

www.lettersofnote.com/2009/10/we-all-feel-like-that-now-and-then.html

Not quite as funny as most of these but my Aunty is called Stella Tape

I used to have a job that involved processing multiple applications. There was one from a Miss. Vickie Minge.

I can't believe that you wouldn't change it if your surname was Minge. And I think I would have been sticking with Victoria, not using something that sounded that close to Icky Minge!

I love Stella Tape!

I once booked a flight for a Turkish man called Fatih Kok!