Unusual names

[jaybee82]

This is completely true...I went to school with a kid called Kok Haw, with a sister called Fanny in the year above.

Quirky names are all the rage these days...just ask Bob Geldof.

[SeanMacGabhann]

I had to correspond a Ms Cunypaniker at work a few years back. That was hard

[silverfox]

More unfortunate than unusual, but the Times newspaper received a flood of complaints some years ago when one of its respected journalists covered a story concerning paedophilia. The story appeared with his byline - Roger Boyes.

[Brendan]

I was pitching something (well pimping myself out) to some bigwigs at a new infrastructure project a couple of years back. Part of my pitch was a website that had CVs on it. I had asked the guy back at the office to enter the CV of our first applicant on the site as a demonstration. I hadn?t checked it, just linked to it directly from my presentation.

So there I am in the glass walled meeting room, all wood-effect tables and those vertical blinds, you know the sort. I?m strutting my stuff, interfacing, flashing a smile, showing a bit of leg and powerpointing like a good?un. I clicked through to the CV website and after a few more minutes proactive corporate synergy I looked over my shoulder to see that the words MR P MYCOCK were emblazoned across the screen behind me.

I probably could have got away with it too if I hadn?t started to giggle like a schoolgirl.

[red devil]

Excellent Brendan :))

[ruffers]

silverfox Wrote:

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> More unfortunate than unusual, but the Times

> newspaper received a flood of complaints some

> years ago when one of its respected journalists

> covered a story concerning paedophilia. The story

> appeared with his byline - Roger Boyes.

He recently covered another sensitive story - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7065824.ece

[AllyCat]

I used to deal with a picture agency in Manchester where my contact was Wayne Ankers....

And there is also a chap in Liverpool who owns a studio called Wing Wong.....

Makes me smile every time I have to ring him!

[Loz]

I worked in Germany for a while on a project. A colleague received a call one day from a Herr Titz. Her giggled a lot during the call.

[BECKENHAM CENTRAL]

I rememeber a plumber when I was younger called C.R.Dicks. It always made me laugh.

[jaybee82]

A friend at work said he worked on a building site years ago with a foreman called Sid Wanger.

[Brendan]

I used to work with a Dr Pepper.

[woofmarkthedog]

My..

..sister had a hairdresser in Crawley called "Roland Butter"

I kid you not..

W**F

[citizenED]

A friend of mine cannot wait for his colleague to complete her PhD. He can then call her Dr. Love

[bonniebird]

When I was a sales rep in Asda, one of the managers was called Mr Glasscock, his staff nicknamed him crystal crutch:))

[BECKENHAM CENTRAL]

Shame no-one asked him what was happening in case he replied "do you think I have a crystal ball?"

[legalbeagle]

I once had to negotiate a settlement opposite a lawyer called Phyllis Stein.

[brum]

Nice one LB. I once worked with someone called R.Stitt

[Jah Lush]

Back in the day I worked with a Dave Cox and a Brian Freak and used to know a guy called Paul Skinback... Sorry, I made the last one up.

[ratty]

Went to school with soneone called Brian Tumor. Also dealt with an insurance claim once for a Mrs Cockhead.

[Mick Mac]

I used to know a couple of people - one was called Jah Lush and another was called Quids. Very strange.

[felt-tip]

There is a small law firm down south called Isaac Cox.

[cactus]

My auntie, Frances Fiddler, except she was known as Fanny.

[ruffers]

This week's b3ta contribution to the subject -

GAY POWER! - Holly Would writes, "I know the

funny name corner of the newsletter is not your

most prized but I saw this and it made me

smile, especially as she described herself as a

Conservative voter."

http://www.b3tards.com/u/9387e280261e8f505271/gaypower.jpg

[firstchoicegary]

i went to school with a boy called phat cong and he was biggest kid in school!

[Wilhelm]

A colleague of my good lady's from the Paris office.. Fanny Grevy. Pronounced the comedy way