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Be careful when naming your baby...

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LunarSea · 04/10/2004 12:25

When you don't think carefully about it first - this might happen. (Thanks to DH for sending that to me.)

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maretta · 04/10/2004 12:29

Oh my! . You would change it, wouldn't you. Poor child.

There used to be a reporter on South Today called Chris Peacock - Drew is far worse.

acnebride · 04/10/2004 12:29

OMG!!
Knew a man called Michael Hunt a few years back. Sorry to any others out there.

maretta · 04/10/2004 12:30

I'm also very amused that it was google that told the Dad that the name was hilarious.

Thomcat · 04/10/2004 12:36

This is the God's honest truth, I personnaly knew them(as in it's not a story of a friend of a firend)

a boy at school called:
Wayne king (yes really)

and a girl called:
Mhairi Dick (it's pronounced Vari, but say it like you see it and what do you get?!)

oh and there was another boy called:
Thomas Thomas, (as in same forename & surname!)

maretta · 04/10/2004 12:38

I did hear a similar story in a friend of a friend kind of a way.

A couple had named their daughter Ophelia Myfanwy.

It wasn't till someone said "What! Feel Me Fanny" that they realised the mistake.

Hulababy · 04/10/2004 17:50

I would definitely change it - don't you have 12 months after registering a baby's name to change your mind anyway? I just think the chld may be better off in the long run - can you imagine the teasing at school

DH's clients have include Albert Hall, Tom Jones and a John Thomas

and

Fungus the Bogeyman - but that man had changed his own normal name to this as an adult!!!

musica · 04/10/2004 17:53

On the same page - look at this!

BadHair · 04/10/2004 17:56

I used to know someone called Iona Pyle. And my mum went to school with Honour Kermode. But my favourite was a patient in a hospital where I worked - called Airey Muff.

Rowlers · 04/10/2004 17:57

No way!
This is the funniest thing I've read in ages.
No names to add unfortunately.

NomDePlume · 04/10/2004 18:03

ExP's grandma had a home help called Eileen Dover. Wish I was joking !

SoupDragon · 04/10/2004 18:05

I worked with a P Nurse.

Miaou · 04/10/2004 18:08

My gran loves to tell the tale of a girl she knew whose family surname was Rose. The girl was named Wilde - very nice, Wilde Rose.

Only she married an Albert Bull!!!!!

emmatmg · 04/10/2004 18:23

My BIL is Chris Peacock- although not the Tv blokey.

In my old job I once booked a holiday for a Mr Sex and his vehicle reg was A* MUF. How I managed to not laugh in his face I will never know.

NomDePlume · 04/10/2004 18:46

OMG, have only just got the Chris Peacock one . Crispy Cock, I assume ?! LOL !

bottersnike · 04/10/2004 18:59

At work once I had to call a guy called Chris P. Duck.
Yes, really!!

froot · 04/10/2004 19:06

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emmatmg · 04/10/2004 19:08

you got it NdP

eidsvold · 05/10/2004 09:34

there was a thread on this ages ago..

went to school with a

Richard Head

taught two sisters called

Sidney and Pearl Harbour

A family Peta Smith who married a Peter Peters and changed her son's name to Peter Peters.

Mum2girls · 05/10/2004 09:53

I worked with a guy who swore he went to school with a Carey Hunt.......

JuniperDewdrop · 05/10/2004 09:59

@ these

Can't get the mhairi Dick or Carey Hunt ones though??

jampot · 05/10/2004 10:04

m - hairy Dick

and

A spoonerism of Carey Hunt is......H C

sassy · 05/10/2004 14:44

I killed a thread some time ago with this one, so apologies in advance...
My Dad used to have elderly clients (long since dead, I'm sure) who ived together, unmarried. Their names were Percy Large and Fanny Slack!
Obviously made for each other!

strawberry · 05/10/2004 15:28

Thomcat - my dh went to school with Wayne King - wonder if it's the same one....He was at school in Watford area not sure which school

bundle · 05/10/2004 15:29

knew a Mike Hunt

PotPourri · 05/10/2004 15:52

I knew a Dicken Head (and his dad was called Richard Head, shortened to Dick ). Yes really!

Also, went to uni with a guy called Donald McDonald.

There was a guy who worked in my company called Bob Sherunkle

Great thread!