Mr Popodopolous Posted July 30, 2020 Report Share Posted July 30, 2020 Someone in my year group was named James James. Had forgotten about him until this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted July 30, 2020 Report Share Posted July 30, 2020 We used to live next door to a Mr & Hyde who called their daughter Jaqueline............................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miah Dennehy Posted July 30, 2020 Report Share Posted July 30, 2020 When I first started work in 1981 we had a rep call on us who was called Donald Duck. He was an old boy, so to be fair to his parents he would have been born before the Disney character was created. He loved his name though as he thought it did him well in business as everyone remembered him. Oddly enough, I have a bit of a strange name meself and I also think it helps people remember me (which is handy in my job) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted July 30, 2020 Report Share Posted July 30, 2020 Boy in my school called Keith O’Keef which when Bristolian-ised sounded too similar to be right. One of the families I worked with surname was Lynes, they had a whole load of kids including Blu, Lucky and Chance which used to make me smile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted July 31, 2020 Report Share Posted July 31, 2020 5 hours ago, Miah Dennehy said: . Oddly enough, I have a bit of a strange name meself and I also think it helps people remember me (which is handy in my job) Is it Gaz B'stard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gakoe Posted July 31, 2020 Report Share Posted July 31, 2020 My older brother had a mate called Chris Peacock. He used to live by Robin cousins I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oh Louie louie Posted July 31, 2020 Report Share Posted July 31, 2020 I met a guy who had 4 sons on a site. I asked him their, names, andrew, patrick, david, i cut in sensing the pattern 4ths called george i said right! Nope pancake he said! Going back in the early 90s there was some unflattering graffiti, allover bristol about a guy called myles clutterbuck, It was everywhere! i wonder what myles did? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchay Red Posted July 31, 2020 Report Share Posted July 31, 2020 Many, many years ago I was on polling duty in Hengrove and on that day a Walter Main and a Lily White came in to vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Hitler Posted July 31, 2020 Report Share Posted July 31, 2020 I knew a Douglas Douglas when I was in the Air Cadets. He was sadly killed at 16 by being struck by lightning up at the outdoor rifle range on the moor doing something we'd all had to do - ushering sheep away if they drifted behind the targets. That's not a joke btw. I didn't know him that well as we were in different squadrons but unlike most people who were just content with doing the Tuesday night parade we were two of several that signed up for every opportunity going (gliding, acrobatic flights, abseiling, camps, and range firing) so had bumped into each other a few times hence I was shocked rather than upset by his death; mainly because of the standard thought "That could have been me". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted August 1, 2020 Report Share Posted August 1, 2020 Boutros Boutros-Ghali I once had a customer called Mr Tite , which I found funny on several levels . ( chortle ) There is a City supporter called Phil Cox , which is not funny at all. For some reason Major Isewater makes people laugh as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erithacus Posted August 1, 2020 Report Share Posted August 1, 2020 Don't be confused! The original Gregor MacGregor was a Scottish soldier, explorer and unashamed fraudster in the late eigtheenth/early nineteenth centuries. Apart from serving in the British Army, he joined the Venezuelan Army and also sold ficticious land to prospectors in Britain and France. He did this for many years and somehow managed to avoid a lengthy jail term. Not our own GMcG, you understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul G Posted August 1, 2020 Report Share Posted August 1, 2020 I met a bloke called Rob da Bank. I won't say where but the clue is in the name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
City oz Posted August 1, 2020 Report Share Posted August 1, 2020 I have a mate and his name is Callum Calamari. We just call him squid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
City Rocker Posted August 1, 2020 Report Share Posted August 1, 2020 And who can forget the former head coach of Wolfsburg, Wolfgang Wolf?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted August 2, 2020 Report Share Posted August 2, 2020 Canaan Banana always made me smile (Former Zimbabwean president). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Med/MadHatter Posted August 2, 2020 Report Share Posted August 2, 2020 Used to work in Northern Canada with alot of natives with descriptive names like Sparklingeyes etc but my favourite names of the people I've wirked with was a Burmese guy called Apollo Pumatang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted August 2, 2020 Report Share Posted August 2, 2020 As a boy one of our neighbours had the surname of Church, Bill and Brenda. They had a daughter and named her Iona............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted August 2, 2020 Report Share Posted August 2, 2020 On 01/08/2020 at 08:00, Major Isewater said: Boutros Boutros-Ghali His name means Peter Saint-Peter, fact fans. Big Pete to his friends. Dolman, Block B. Can't make many games these days due to being dead.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grifty Posted August 3, 2020 Report Share Posted August 3, 2020 To be fair, all of the recent Fifa president candidates had funny names; Tokyo Sexwale, Prince Ali, Jerome Champagne, Sheikh Salman, Michel Platini, Gianni Infantino, David Nakhid, Musa Bility Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS2 Red Posted August 3, 2020 Report Share Posted August 3, 2020 Cressida Dick's name always makes me laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dollymarie Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 Pretty certain Bradley Orr named his twins Ronnie and Reggie. And let’s not forget Lee Peacock calling his daughter Skye Cinderella Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gasbuster Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 Former Nigerian President “Goodluck Jonathan“. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwicolin Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 On 30/07/2020 at 08:08, Warwickshire Red said: I could believe it. A boy in my year at School years ago was called Ronald McDonald! That was my Dads name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwicolin Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 I knew someone who was called Penny Penny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gakoe Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 On 02/08/2020 at 23:28, Med/MadHatter said: Used to work in Northern Canada with alot of natives with descriptive names like Sparklingeyes etc but my favourite names of the people I've wirked with was a Burmese guy called Apollo Pumatang Reminds me of that Ted Nugent tune, Wang Dang Sweet Pumatang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Hitler Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 Not that I ever dealt with her but my credit controller used to deal with a certain Summa Luvin (or similar spelling, it was twenty five years ago) at an insurance broker. My CC had met her and said she was black and really grumpy; maybe a defence mechanism to stop the jokes. Also a Mickey Rooney though that's probably quite common. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppyDAZE Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 Dweezil Zappa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bissellredhead Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 In my year at school we had Michael toze and Tom foot They were best of friends! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taz Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 6 hours ago, bissellredhead said: In my year at school we had Michael toze and Tom foot They were best of friends! Never a foot apart from each other Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dollymarie Posted August 5, 2020 Report Share Posted August 5, 2020 Bobby Decordova-Reid’s middle name is Armani. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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