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Another 'strange' names thread...............

293 replies

HRHQueenOfQuotes · 04/09/2006 19:26

heard two crackers while out in Zimbabwe.

firstly we arrived at our Lodge in Vic Falls and were greated by

"Fatnass" (that's the spelling DH says they probably used - but pronounced Fatness)

and on the list of contact at the Hwange safari Lodge was a

"Whatmore"

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HRHQueenOfQuotes · 26/10/2006 19:05

blimey - just realised that this was on of my threads that had been bumped and continued QoQ faints with shock***

BTW - it wouldn't suprise me if our DS's names and DC3's name (whether boy or girl) end up on a thread like this in the future - but I don't care

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megusta · 26/10/2006 20:02

i once met a taxi driver in thailand whose name was twat.

but better

my husband is american and my SIL is called minj, short for minna.

taffy101 · 26/10/2006 20:26

I know of someone who's daughters are called Yasmin and Jasmine and mum has said if she had another would call her Tasmin

disemboweledbint · 26/10/2006 20:30

i worked with an african guy called efficient. everyone calls him fish for short.

DevilsDaughter · 26/10/2006 21:27

my DD goes to school with a storm a whittney (yuk) and twins albin and alvin and DS went to nursery with a boy called aragorn lord of the rings fan me thinks!!

3andnomore · 26/10/2006 21:32

Well, if d had his way es would not be Sven but Merlin and ms would not be Yannic but Orion....I think he ran out of stupid ideas by the time I was pg with ys, lol!

had to laugh so hard at many of the messages on the thread!

3andnomore · 26/10/2006 21:33

Collison, Rogans parents might have been X-men fans...or am I getting something confused now, lol!

3andnomore · 26/10/2006 21:35

rofl pinotmom....LABIA...oh the poor girl.That is just terrible!

3andnomore · 26/10/2006 21:38

Oh, also, I find it often sooo funny when I visit my family in Germany and they use really english/amareican names for their Kids but pronounce them reallly german and often it just don't sit well with me....like Linus being pronounced Leenous forinstance!

CorpseBrideOfJohnCusack · 26/10/2006 21:38

oh look, Cogidubnus is my favourite. THat's just hilarious. Maybe I'm just relieved DD's name isn't on here - yet....

BlackMagicMiaou · 26/10/2006 21:40

hehehe, californiafright!! I wanted to clap too!

mamamaaargh · 26/10/2006 21:49

I read a paper by someone named Suk Mae Kok

soph28 · 26/10/2006 22:03

my friends are scottish and born again Christians and they've called their baby boy Joanah.

went to school with a Merlin

dreamcatcher · 26/10/2006 22:26

Once took a cheque from a very tall (at least 6') lady who signed her name I.B.Small.
Went to school with Ed Butt.

willowcatkin · 26/10/2006 22:41

I know a Joss Dicks

and also came across Mrs Scratcher - first name Fanny

GrimAdventuresOfJane · 26/10/2006 23:09

How funny is this thread?

I work with a posy knights and a randy salmon
Both mje me giggle every meeting.....I know so juvenile!!

GrimAdventuresOfJane · 26/10/2006 23:12

Oh and I use to work with anfrican called nobody and evapolite!
Was very funny calling one of them on the phone.....Hi is nobody there please?!?!

MamaGhoul · 26/10/2006 23:14

I've got a very unusual surname and when DD was born, the HV said, "oh is she called X?" and tried to smile. I said oh yes then realised adn quickly corrected her, trying my hardest to sound a bit posh for some bizarre reason.

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