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FannyPriceless · 04/04/2011 11:28

Real people I have known include:
Wayne Carr
Candy Lane

I am still pmsl at the mention of the Fanny Fidler gravestone on the other names thread. I can only assume that one was through marriage.

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BarefootShirl · 08/04/2011 12:16

When I was at school - I can JUST remember that long ago Sad - there was a girl in the year above called Sarah Melly - think about it Grin

ellangirl · 08/04/2011 12:47

my mum went to school with a 'violet balls'.

FoofffyShmoofffer · 08/04/2011 12:56

My mum went to school with Terence Farrington who was forever to be know as: Tarts Farts.

I went to school with a Karen McBarron and a Ryan O'Brian.

WiiUnfit · 08/04/2011 21:42

I know of an Annette Curtain, Dwayne Wayne [surname], Richard Head, James Bond, a Mr E. Yore & a Dwayne Pipe Grin

My Nana is a B.J.[surname]

When I was going on a school trip in my last year of Primary school, my teachers were called Miss Haddock & Miss Lake (at the time my Mum thought it was hilarious to ask if they could swim...) Hmm

I also went to school with two Jenny Taylor's (yes, really!)

WiiUnfit · 08/04/2011 21:46

Oh & DP had a Chemistry teacher called Dexter... think Dexter's Lab!

notquitenormal · 08/04/2011 22:11

I have an Aussie colleauge called S Hole [childish snigger]

D3adMeerKat · 16/07/2011 20:27

WOW , i never knew my name was funny!!! Dreams shattered thought it was on a winner with a unique name there!! :(

Do you really know me Jolly?

LuciaLyca · 18/07/2011 13:21

I knew a girl called Clementine Flowerdew once. True story.

pinkgirlythoughts · 18/07/2011 14:25

I went to college with a Karen Arundale... also knew a Kate Kite (married name).

DP's sister was born on Remembrance Day, so their parents wanted to call her Poppy... last name is Fields. Luckily they realised and picked a different first name!

BellaBearisWideAwake · 18/07/2011 14:28

My mother knew a Fanny Pinus.

Sara Cox has a baby Isaac. But uses his father's surname. Lucky for the kid.

redheadbedhead · 23/07/2011 07:36

i had an interview with Robin Hood once. why would you do that to your kid??

foxylady123 · 23/07/2011 08:43

Pmsl these are very funny don't really know any my DH went to school with a Tom Jones.

BulletWithAName · 23/07/2011 08:45

I knew a Sharooz Butt at school. Unfortunately he was exclusively know by his nickname Sunny...

birdofthenorth · 23/07/2011 10:07

I know a

Dan King (rhymes with...)
Isla White
Noah Butcher
Leighton Dayton

hazelnutlatte · 24/07/2011 20:31

I knew a Sadie Lapper at uni - post addressed to S. Lapper used to get opened by people thinking it was a joke.
I also know a Jenny Taylor - and hadn't thought her name was funny until now!

WiiUnfit · 24/07/2011 23:40

There's a car salesman near us called Nick King, his business name? Nick King Cars Grin

I knew of a Steven Mellish (nn'd Smellish by most) & the other day I saw a poster with a woman's name on - Joan Jones, why oh why?

HarrietSchulenberg · 25/07/2011 00:30

I used to know Iona Pyle, and my mum went to school with Honor Kermode. Best one was an elderly person who I only know by name through a job I used to do - Airey Muff.
Speaking as someone with a ridiculous middle name/surname combo I can only sympathise with those afflicted!

startail · 25/07/2011 00:45

Mr Careless on a brass solicitors plate has always worried me.
At university we used to get post for a Mr Fuck wala lam (I'm not sure of the spelling of the last bits, but the first bit kind of sticks in the memory). It stopped being funny after a while because he got lots of post and had left no address so we got rather fed up of him.

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