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mix56 · 26/01/2015 14:12

Tribunal in France has refused permission for the names for 2 babies Nutella & Fraise (strawberry) & have renamed Fraisine (19C name) & Ella...
What goes on in the minds of some parents?

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violetbunny · 27/01/2015 10:27

I once got introduced to a man named Randy Farmer (this was I in the U.S. where Randall is a more common name I think).

LegoSuperstar · 27/01/2015 10:28

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diddl · 27/01/2015 10:29

Hollyoaks is a tv soap.

StoneFoxMama · 27/01/2015 10:38

I went to drama classes with a girl called Alice Cooper, I think her parents thought her generation wouldn't have heard of him (born 82). But we had.

My science tutor was called Mr Gash and he looked like John major.

ithoughtofitfirst · 27/01/2015 10:38

R Sole haaaa that's amazing!!

This is why no good can come of not sharing name ideas beforehand.

ithoughtofitfirst · 27/01/2015 10:47

Aaaand I only just got Drew Peacock. Such a twat.

MoominKoalaAndMiniMoom · 27/01/2015 10:50

I encountered an Evan Evans yesterday... not cruel so much as... well - why?

redbuttons · 27/01/2015 10:50

Used to have a tv presenter in my area called Chris Peacock, I win

Whereisegg · 27/01/2015 10:50

Henrietta Dick is amazing Grin

HappyAgainOneDay · 27/01/2015 10:52

Norah Bone
Mahatma Cote

HappyAgainOneDay · 27/01/2015 10:52

Mustapha Fag (or something else)

ithoughtofitfirst · 27/01/2015 10:55

Mahatma Cote .... Crryyyyyyying

sugarman · 27/01/2015 11:01

It's the spelling mistakes I feel sorry for, we've had a Chirs, (chris) and a Joesph...

FatherDickByrne · 27/01/2015 11:02

Anyone read 'Tiger in the Bed' by Claude Balls? Grin

Kneedeepinshittynappies · 27/01/2015 11:15

Cadle crap! I too know peter and Andrew ness, wonder if it's the same ones! Surely can't be 2 sets of parents who would do that.

I also know Barry white, kris kross, Joanne Kerr and laurel hardy!

ithoughtofitfirst · 27/01/2015 12:17

I don't believe the Andrew and Peter one!

shakeyjake · 27/01/2015 12:35

I can go one further than micheal hunt with a Phillip micheal hunt (true story)

TitchyThings · 27/01/2015 12:49

My mum went to school with Yvonne Lacombe.

Enb76 · 27/01/2015 12:55

I know a 'Phil' McCracken but I don't think his name is really Phil, I think it's something like Dave but he's known as Phil to everyone.

TitchyThings · 27/01/2015 13:01

There's something about Dwayne Pipe that keeps making me giggle.

BabsUnited · 27/01/2015 13:26

Phillip Micheal hunt Grin

SoupDragon · 27/01/2015 13:37

I knew an Isaac Hunt but Isaac was just his nickname.

steppeinginto2015 · 27/01/2015 13:52

The thing is, that when I was small (ahem years ago) many of these words were not common currency, and for many people they just weren't on their radar, as they never said them.

Even Dick as a pseudonym for penis was pretty slang ish and therefore not common vocab for many, and dickhead is fairly new too.

And added to that, many of these names it would never in a million years occur to me that they were odd, until I read it on a thread like this. That includes the Mike Hunt etc, Maybe because I pronounce the k and the H, so to me it is a push to make it sound like my cunt.

Aebj · 27/01/2015 13:55

I know a Wayne king !!!

ithoughtofitfirst · 27/01/2015 14:13

I don't get Yvonne Lacombe Sad

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