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To wonder why my brother signed my birthday card "Kenneth Branagh" when he isn't

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firemansamisnormansdad · 30/08/2012 19:39

WTF.

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LineRunner · 30/08/2012 20:16

Is it a witty allusion to Branagh's role in the Olympic ceremony?

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Hassled · 30/08/2012 20:19

Ken B was Brunel in the Olympic Ceremony. Is your DB an engineer?
Plus - he quoted from The Tempest (as Brunel). Is your DB on an island?

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TiggerWearsATriteSmile · 30/08/2012 20:22

YouMakeMeWanna. Your brother is fab :)
Thought went into that.

Op, WTF is right. Kenneth Branagh? Did you ask him yet what he meant.

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firemansamisnormansdad · 30/08/2012 20:23

I think he is on his own island in his head.

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Chubfuddler · 30/08/2012 20:26

I don't know if I am more astonished that there are grown ups who have never heard of Kenneth Branagh, or that Kenneth Branagh = professor Lockheart

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WilfSell · 30/08/2012 20:27

Does he work in IT? According to Google Apparently Kenneth Branagh is slang for computer scanner. But probably only among sad nerds.

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Funnylittleturkishdelight · 30/08/2012 20:28

My brother does the best birthday cards with drawings and bits of twig, stone, pennies inside. It is a long standing family tradition that he does 'odd' cards, often signed from different people, all dating back to when he was a little boy. Brightens up birthdays no end.

Write a thank you card for the birthday card and sign it from Helen Mirren?

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OutrageousFlavourLikeFreesias · 30/08/2012 20:29

I'm going to sign all my greetings cards "Kenneth Branagh" from now on. Especially the relatives I don't see very often.

While we're all sharing, my brother once signed our next-door neighbour's Christmas card with the word "Slight" and a drawing of that symbol they used to have on the weather that showed when the sea would be a little bit rough.

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Shakey1500 · 30/08/2012 20:29

Art thou sure he isn't Ken though? Hast thou been estranged for over 40 years perchance?

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HappyAsChips · 30/08/2012 20:30

Oh my goodness teamumizumi "Who's Kenneth Branagh anyway?"

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achillea · 30/08/2012 20:31

He's hiding something. Kenneth Brannagh is an actor, it's his way of saying that he's pretending about something. Perhaps. Or he could have been pissed when he wrote the card, or even has issues about something you said to him in the past. Who knows. Brothers are weird, it is their destiny. I had four.

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FrillyMilly · 30/08/2012 20:34

Could you please just phone him and ask him? I really want to know now.

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LineRunner · 30/08/2012 20:35

Has he recently been mistaken for mouldering president Abraham Lincoln?

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Yama · 30/08/2012 20:36

Happy Birthday by the way.

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FelicitywasSarca · 30/08/2012 20:36

What Chub said. I am more that people don't know who he is than at the OPs brother.

Love, Ian Mckellen

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Annunziata · 30/08/2012 20:37

at 'ie your father.' That's brilliant.

Maybe your brother was watching a Kenneth Branagh film and got muddled up?

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QuangleWangleQuee · 30/08/2012 20:38

"now that you are married, your naked couplings will no longer make the baby Jesus cry" is hilarious. I wish someone would produce Wedding cards with that printed inside.