Real but amusing names

marty · Post by **marty** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:25 pm

I entered into a very funny discussion with a colleague yesterday on the subject of people with funny names. Here's a list of people with comedy names. I assure you they are all genuine. Anyone got any more (genuine only) to add?

Beverley Hills
Victoria Cross
Albert Hall
Annette Curtain
Mary Christmas
Hazel Nutt

of course there's also:

Minnie Driver
Roger Moore

BTaylor · Post by **BTaylor** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:32 pm

One of the IT support guys at work is called Michael Hunt. We call him Mike.

Mrs C. · Post by **Mrs C.** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:32 pm

Theresa Green - a girl I used to teach - always made me smile when I picked up her exercise book!!

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:26 pm

BTaylor wrote:One of the IT support guys at work is called Michael Hunt. We call him Mike.

Have you ever been in a pub with him when someone tried to reach him via the pub phone? I've heard that this is an old trick, aimed at getting a barmaid to shout "Has anyone seen Mike Hunt ?"....

And no, I've never done this myself.

His parents must have been very naive or very wicked!

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:47 pm

When I was in plod and stationed at Leatherhead, we had a:-

P.C. Percival Vere.

Obviously, he was known as Percy !

midget · Post by **midget** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:45 pm

A boy at the school where my father worked was called Norman Conquest.We thought his parents should have been shot.

graham · Post by **graham** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:20 pm

A friend of mine had a boyfriend called Ben Down.

sejintenej · Post by **sejintenej** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:14 pm

One of the directors where I once worked was a Brian Quick; we were forbidden to use his initial!

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:21 pm

My brother-in-law taught a girl called Annette Curtain.

Husband and Bro-in-law went to school with Richard Head.

A friend of ours called his son Thomas Richard Henry.....

My sister-in-law (wife of above bro-in-law) when in teacher training (English), picked up the morning register and saw W Shakespeare, unfortunately his name was Wayne.

My son in Army cadets had a Sergeant Major.

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:17 pm

Don't know if I should type the one I am thinking of! It's a genuine one that has come up at work several times which I will leave you to work out for yourselves

F Hole

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:41 am

Vonny wrote:Don't know if I should type the one I am thinking of! It's a genuine one that has come up at work several times which I will leave you to work out for yourselves

F Hole

Didn't take much working out, Von !!!

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:42 am

graham wrote:A friend of mine had a boyfriend called Ben Down.

A new quite a gay guy called Ben Down.

He had an Irish gay boyfriend, Phil McCavity !

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:23 pm

I think the title of this thread is REAL but amusing names.

sejintenej · Post by **sejintenej** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:20 pm

englishangel wrote:My son in Army cadets had a Sergeant Major.

My cousin's wife rang and asked for Lieutenant Commander Major (her RN husband). The switchboard at the US naval station where he was posted answered that there is no such rank as Major and slammed the phone down.

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:50 am

I have had problems while teaching overseas. In Ghana I taught a Farti Nabbah, and in both Brunei and Sarawak I taught pupils called Wee Wee (Chinese so you used both parts of the given name).