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Best names in the media
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 8:23 pm
by Eruresto
I'll start with Damian Grammaticus - any other gold ones?
Re: Best names in the media
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:59 pm
by Vièr Bliu
Of course there's always Old Blue Jamie Coomarasamy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters ... asamy.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Coomarasamy
I always thought of him as "Jamie" even when he was going through the phase of being a professional "James". (Like I never think of Charlie Hazlewood as "Charles")
Re: Best names in the media
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:12 pm
by marty
Boutros Boutros Ghali
Matthew Amroliwala
Re: Best names in the media
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 11:42 am
by J.R.
Edward Woodward.
(Once described as sounding just like a 'f@rt-in-the-bath' !)
Re: Best names in the media
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:21 pm
by AKAP
Eruresto wrote:I'll start with Damian Grammaticus - any other gold ones?
When I first heard his name I thought he must have made it up.
Re: Best names in the media
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:23 pm
by AKAP
Just waiting for Marty's nomination (FB maybe).
Re: Best names in the media
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:48 pm
by marty
AKAP wrote:Just waiting for Marty's nomination (FB maybe).
AKAP, it's best name, not best bottom.
Re: Best names in the media
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:55 pm
by CHAZ
Kofe Annan came out more often as Coffee
At school there was a guy in Ma A called Nick Sex and another called Love. It was said that Shippen once asked for Sex and Love to come to his study!!!???
Re: Best names in the media
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:03 pm
by sejintenej
Found in the Financial Times:
Ubiquitous Perpetuity God. San Rafael, California
(In the article a psychiatrist did state that "God is too sick to be out in the streets!)
Massimo Introvigne (somewhere in Italy) reckons Mary Poppins is close to Satanic.
Re: Best names in the media
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:39 pm
by marty
I think we'll have to go a long way before anything trumps these guys:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... state.html
Re: Best names in the media
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:23 pm
by blondie95
fenella fudge Radio 2 news reader
Re: Best names in the media
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:46 pm
by mvgrogan
CHAZ wrote:Kofe Annan came out more often as Coffee
At school there was a guy in Ma A called Nick Sex and another called Love. It was said that Shippen once asked for Sex and Love to come to his study!!!???
There was also a Nicholas (Nick) King and his sister Joanna (Jo) King in the 80s!
Mx
Re: Best names in the media
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:41 am
by NEILL THE NOTORIOUS
How about Bamber Gascoigne --- Great presenter of University Challenge --- until succeded by that Patronising *********
Who has, of course, all the answers in front of him !
"You mean you don't know it was Saint Improbable of the 3rd Century -- common knowledge !"
Re: Best names in the media
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:51 am
by J.R.
NEILL THE NOTORIOUS wrote:How about Bamber Gascoigne --- Great presenter of University Challenge --- until succeded by that Patronising *********
Who has, of course, all the answers in front of him !
"You mean you don't know it was Saint Improbable of the 3rd Century -- common knowledge !"
Always referred to by me as.........
'Blowna Gasket' !
Re: Best names in the media
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 3:28 pm
by AKAP
J.R. wrote:NEILL THE NOTORIOUS wrote:How about Bamber Gascoigne --- Great presenter of University Challenge --- until succeded by that Patronising *********
Who has, of course, all the answers in front of him !
"You mean you don't know it was Saint Improbable of the 3rd Century -- common knowledge !"
Always referred to by me as.........
'Blowna Gasket' !
Or "Amber Grassgroin" in our house.