children's names

[Tusky]

I'm fascinated by what people choose to name their children (proper names rather than nicknames I mean) -has anyone chosen a name that they now regret or have 'gone off', or named their child from a tv program or celebrity etc... ?

a colleague swears he went to school with two brothers called Andrew & Peter Ness (take their forename initial & surname)

Oohh, and a rep came into the office called Justin Case

A client who used to ring my friend's office was called Richard Scratcher.... I also knew a woman with the unfortunate surname "Onions", and she married a guy with the surname "Leek". No joke..

My caretaker at school was called Mr Tidy. Always wondered whether the name influenced his career choice. I used to work with an American called John A Wanker, and my husband has a client called Richard Cummin-Bruce - poor Bruce

In duller moments at work, we used to trawl the internal directory for silly names. There was a Ronald McDonald.

Do you want fries with that?

Came across a Chinese restarateur once called Chew Choo which gave us all a bit of a laugh

I worked for a US firm for a while and there was a senior exec there called Chuck Fruit and my husband worked with a South African bloke called Eggy (Egmont) Kock!!!!

I remember a dinner lady at primary school called Mrs Smiley, who was very grumpy and made us finish up our cabbage. And there was a teacher at the same school called Miss Moody, who was very nice.

I thought my secretary was winding me up a few weeks ago when she told me I had visitors to see me: McCartney and Lennon! Pity they didn't look as good as their namesakes...

sprout, presumably you mean "lookED as good" particularly in the case of the latter (I know I'm sick)