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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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yeahinaminute · 06/09/2006 14:35

Should she be a MN er or any of her family are on here I apologise now ... But really Adora what were your mum and dad thinking of putting that with Dick as a surname ??!!
She was a lovely girl though

My cousins friend called her twins Time and Space ( both boys and she dead hippy!)

Also recall my Grans neighbours relative called her son Manwell - after Manuel in Fawlty Towers but wasn't sure how to spell it!!

And a friends brother was Andrew Peacock - known as Drew

And finally a lovely lady who worked for a friend had little baby Dwayne a few years ago - surname? - PIPE!!

SSSandy · 06/09/2006 14:36

snort! I love these threads

lemonaid · 06/09/2006 15:11

My grandmother was a school nurse and encountered a small boy called Horatio Haddock. I kid you not.

hitchcock · 06/09/2006 15:35

right my name is Tiffany, yes not that diff i know But i have never meet another tiff of my age there was not one at all in infants juniours and high school ( not so good as all teachers knew who i was even when ididnt know them....)
plus every year without fail there was a bright spark who "came up " with the name Tit fanny! oh how i loved my name.

MrsBadger · 06/09/2006 15:38

yes but I bet you had Tiffany combined with a reasonable surname. The only one I knew was a Tiffany Clutterbuck, which takes some beating.

hitchcock · 06/09/2006 15:41

yeah her surname beats mine but was her official nickname jelly and custard???????? i will leave it for to figure out why... clue running

nappyaddict · 06/09/2006 15:42

no never heard of cain and abel!are they biblical cos i'm not religious in the slightest.

MrsBadger · 06/09/2006 15:51

Tiffany Trifle?!

Yes Cain and Abel are in the Bible and you don't have to be religious to have heard of them - in fact I'd say it almost counted as general knowledge...

hitchcock · 06/09/2006 15:53

oh how sweet i must be.... with name like that mrs b

yeahinaminute · 06/09/2006 16:10

At the risk of people recognising me from a different life - when I was married to husband #1 my name was Siobhan Duke - Where I worked at that time I had a dealer in Singapore who had the most awful problems with my name and used to call and ask for ....... SHITON PUKE!!!

LunarSea · 06/09/2006 16:22

dh went to school with an Icarus! And I work with an Agamemnon.

sophiewd · 06/09/2006 16:26

My nephew is called Paris

fatfox · 07/09/2006 06:48

I know a little boy called Cosmo Pratt. I think it was a bad choice of forename by his parents, given his already unfortunate surname. Something more sensible like Jonathan would have sounded a lot better IMHO

fatfox · 07/09/2006 06:49

I know a Paris too - I quite like that name for a girl or boy

castlesintheair · 07/09/2006 08:12

I worked with a girl in Oz whose 1st name was Tammy Wynette.

And another in NY whose 1st name was Misty Galore - I kid you not!!

Hallgerda · 07/09/2006 08:18

I taught a Crawford J Rainwater III.

Now I can possibly understand the first two ...

ruty · 07/09/2006 08:22

i used to know a Cosmo Lush. Great name i thought.

sockmonkey · 07/09/2006 08:35

DH went to school with a boy called Gaylord.

dmo · 07/09/2006 08:45

the poor boy

tortoiseshell · 07/09/2006 08:46

My SIL went to school with an Ignatius Bong. What makes it worse is he chose the Ignatius bit himself (was Chinese, so chose an English name himself). I also know someone who called their baby Tinkerbell. And I came across someone called Hieronymus, which isn't bad in itself, but he had a double barrelled surname, and as a little child it just seemed too big a name for him!

tortoiseshell · 07/09/2006 08:46

Gaylord - isn't that the name of the bloke in 'Meet the Parents' - Gaylord Focker

PeachyClairHasBadHair · 07/09/2006 09:32

I love Ignatius, there's loads of them buried in the graveyard here, and Ichabod too. So wonderfully old, and Sam is always complaining that he has too common a anme (rather, that he hates sharing that much he can't bear to share a name, . Good job he has such an odd surname LOL)

Of course Stirling hates that he can't get mugs etc with his rare name on.

Ye cannae win, best call them all Ichabod and get on with it

tortoiseshell · 07/09/2006 09:34

PCHBH - I think it's the combination of Ignatius and Bong that gets me!

GreenDolphin · 07/09/2006 09:47

Nephew went to school with a Cherokee Thirkettle (female I think!)

YeahBut · 07/09/2006 09:59

A work colleague was mortified when her friends (Mr and Mrs Organ) called their little boy Felix. Do people not actually say these names out loud before inflicting them on their children?