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

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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?

My Mum used to know an Ophelia Ball and a friend of mine had a college tutor called Pat Mycock.

Another friend, who's a midwife, had to gently dissuade Mr and Mrs Neal from calling their newborn son Perry.....

Pat Mycock

There's a MNer called Jenny Taylor in rl...

I am alas related to someone whose first husband was called Wayne King .

Turned out he was more of a Wayne Kerr.

I don't get Jenny Taylor

What am I missing? Why is it funny?

Though I do know somebody who deliberately swallowed a tape worm

one born every minute - where did she get this tape worm? Internet order? Grow your own diet kit?

I know several Jenny Taylors

Holly, I've a friend who claims to have got one on Ebay. She became very ill at the end of it all. But she began with an ed.

A maths teacher at my school was called Arthur Willy.

the body Have heard of Mrs Curtain - friend's aunt.

Have worked with a Tom Bowler and a Hugh Dix.

Kitty Genetalia

Does anyone know anyone who swallowed an apple pip and now has an apple tree growing out of their Foo?

oops. Genitalia

DH worked with a Michael Hunt never knowingly shortened to Mike Hunt.

I went to school (in Yorkshire) with a girl called Emma Dale, she was born the year before the soap started. A boy in the year below was called Robin Holmes. Really some parents need to have a long hard think before naming their kids!

And I had a friend called Jen Taylor . Never known as Jenny .

there is producer on radio 4 gardeners question time called jo king. ds and I titter at it often!

Yup. I know a Mike Hunt. Used to die on con calls. Particularly when the female head of department used to say "anyway, back to Mike Hunt". No, I'd really rather not!

My dad has an American cousin called Candy Barr.

My Aunt used to teach twins: Armani and Versace Mclatchie.

Am I racist for posting this?!

Used to work with a Max Myring

Someone said they knew a Gordon Bennett up thread - I saw an eye specialist called Gordon Bennett, could it be the same one?

I know a Jo King (the one mentioned earlier, as it happens).

My dsis has a friend who's surname was Day and when she married she became Mrs Dayley.

She also knew a girl called Henrietta Man. I laughed as a teenager and naughtily I still laugh now!

I don't get Theresa Green, dud manage to get Jenny Taylor though!

Trees are Green.

Theresa Green = Trees are green

Someone on another site at my work has one of these names, I had to leave the team meeting when they announced he would be visiting our workplace as I couldn't stop laughing (features Seaman).

DH has worked with a Kuntal, pronounced kunta, poor bloke didn't know why people sniggered when he introduced himself.