to ask if you know of any 'urban myths' that are actually true?

[manicinsomniac]

a colleague told me the other day that her husband had been to school with a brother and sister called Everard and Ophelia Dick. I was very dismissive, told her I'd heard that story several times before, that it was an urban myth and possibly on snopes.com.

Luckily I stopped short of saying that the story probably had racist undertones.

But I've just googled them and they're well documented in the same town that her husband is from. So the chances are he's right. I'm very and will have to tell her so in the morning.

I get so used to these name tales being false and offensive that I didn't think there was any way it was going to be true.

Does anybody know if any of the others are true?

Richard Head used to lead manager for mortgage lending at RBS many moons ago - he certainly gets about!

Candida is a real name, its Spanish.

Freddie one of my very good friends is a Dick.

My friends mum is called Theresa. Her surname is Green.

Ben Dover is a famous porn star.

Read a newspaper story about some patents who called their son Drew Peacock and only realised afterwards!

Boring. I thought this was going to be about someone who actually knows of an incident where a young couple stop for a snog in the woods one night and he hears a noise and gets out of the car to investigate and the next thing she knows his head bounces off the bonnet.

There was a Bob Sherunkle on our work directory (big company) that people purported to know. But he was really a test entry by the IT team.

My sisters headmaster was mr shaw-twilly.

My old form tutor was called Mrs Dick and she was the head of technology everyone took great joy in calling by her full title!

my dad worked with a Rose Chicken and an Ophelia Bott; never failed to raise a snigger when i was a kid!

schoolgovernor

Racist? RACIST?!

You are being v. OTT here and to jump in and correct your friend before you knew it was true or not is actually rather rude.

Thats what I thought Schoolgovener!

Local headmistress is called Mrs Sonia Case.

I thought it was an urban myth that if you use an eyelash curler while you are wearing mascara it chops your eyelashes. It is not as it has happened to me and i have a row of eyelash stubs to prove it! The eyelash curler is new and i notice that when i press it down the metal bit touches the metal bit of the bottom, instead of just the plastic cushion bit, so it might be a bit misaligned. I did press it down quite hard

My DH has just informed me while he was working in the MOD there was a Major Richard Head, commonly known as Dick ... We're amazed at the number of Richard Head's out there !

Heard that one too school.

Racist???? Don't get it myself.

I work for a head hunter, I swear I have seen real CVs for a "Ben Down" and "Randy Sessions" (the second is American) In fact there's been a few hideous names where I've thought "really, what were the parents thinking?" then I look on the baby names section on here and realise there's a lot of parents who don't think these things through

There was a girl in the year below me at school named Theresa Green.

Minnie Driver, the London born actress is the daughter of Laurie and Scroo. She has a brother called Tren.

Dick Palmer (a different one) was also the head of the British Olympic Association, for many years.

I used to go to school with a Willie Dick.

At the same school, but 2 yrs above me, there was also a Michael
Hunt.

My mum used to work with Jenny Taylor but insisted on calling her Jennifer during presentations....

Teenage ds, politico in the making always said Ed Balls should have called his daughter Ophelia.