The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Rosemary on August 22, 2009, 08:32:21 pm
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Until recently, I used to work for our local education department. Every year, in February, we woudl ge a list of the P1 enrolments for the coming session. Naturally, we woudl have a look at the names - and a good laugh at some of them. I'm a traditionalist when it comes to names and a pet peeve of mine is phonetic spelling of names beacuse folk are too dim or lazy to spell it properly - eg Siobhan spelt Chevonne.
What are some parents thinking of? We (of a certain age) will recall Zowie Bowie, Rolan Bolan etc but we had a Pocahontas (I kid you not); we had a family of (I assume) country and western fans who's children included Jolene, Billy Ray and Bobby Joe (this is Alloa, remember).
In our local rag today, there's a birthday message to a Mum from Kobey and NYMPH. Eh? NYMPH. Poor wee bu**er - is she going to gat a hard time or what?
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Just as long as people don't take the **** out of our little Adolf when he goes to school. ::)
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I don't know if this is true or an urban myth but Edward Lear's daughter was called Chanda
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After a lifetime spelling my own name; when my daughter was born I wanted to keep it simple. I named her after my Grandmother, a wonderful woman ! Funny the following year it became one of the UK's most popular names !! Now my daughter asks why I couldn't have named her something more original ! Guess I was never going to get it right ! ::)
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;D ;D I knew a family called cart and they had a son called orson!!!!! I used to notice all the Waynes, Shanes and Dwaines, they were usual trouble!!!
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We had a team at work with Olene, Aileen and Eileen.
So what's your name Bagerface - and your daughter's?
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I am a teacher and also like laughing at names! You can spot the trends too!!
We have a Chanel - I am desperate to ask if she has 4 older siblings!
Ann Struthers - wonder where she was conceived/born?
Came across a 'Dart' the other day!
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When I was little I hated being called just plain old Anne - I didn't even have a second name to fall back on like my sister. She reverted to Margaret for a couple of years because she took a dislike to Helen. So anyway, one year I told all my pals that my second name was Jacqueline, and that my Mum had said they had to start calling me Jackie. (my favourite older cousin and heartthrob in my large family at the time was John, AKA Jack, :-[ - he still is - my favourite, that is ;D) I think it lasted for about a week then one of my teachers realised what was going on "If you want to be called by your second name that's fine, Anne. Now will you stand up and tell everyone what your second name really is please." I just couldn't admit it was another plain old plain old ( I was born Anne Ross Donald Maclennan - after my Mums Mum and my Dads Dad) so I became Anne again. ::) ::) Both my husbands called me Annie at home :love:, so Annie I am!
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One of my work friends mum had a bit of a mid life crisis when she divorced and she changed her name by deed poll to Mrs Amarmi Versace, my friend refused to put that on her wedding video!!!
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Were Dart's parents Mr and Mrs Moore?
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No, they were Mr & Mrs Incredible ;)
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I heard that Isla St Clair married Barry White shortly before he died, and was Isla White.
When she married Bryan Ferry she kept Barry's surname as a mark of respect, and is now Isla White Ferry. :D
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I can think of some nice second names, Mr Angel and MrRainbow and a boss called Mr Hunnybun arhhhhhhhhhhh you would marry them just for thier names!!!
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if Whoopi Goldberg had married Peter Cushing , she would have been Whoopi Cushing ... ::) ;D
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;D http://www.ethanwiner.com/funnames.html
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I heard that Isla St Clair married Barry White shortly before he died, and was Isla White.
When she married Bryan Ferry she kept Barry's surname as a mark of respect, and is now Isla White Ferry. :D
She should have kept her maiden name too - then she would be 'Isla the White St Clair ferry' - it was on of the P & O North boats - St Magnus(Saggy Maggy with the Baggy belly), St Olaf (the Viking), can't remember the fourth one.
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I met a guy once called Eanus Mc ***** ( surname deleted to protect the embarrased!). His first name is pronunced anus. When I asked him about it, he said 'but there's 15 of us on Achill (Island)'. Such a nice guy, such a terrible name!
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I worked in Leicester with a lad called Anus Bhatti!!! poor lad, probably a nice name where his family came from...bless!!
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Still laughing at Isla Wight Ferry ;D ;D ;D
need more beer
What is badgerface and her daughter called???
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Badgerface and Miss Kit Badgerface :-[
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When I was pregnant with Tara my mum asked me what I would call the
baby if it was a boy.
I said Ben - cause its manly, but also nice for a little boy too.
Mum said You can't call him BEN DELANEY (bendy laney!)
;D
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you mentioned morrissons and I had a morrison pop up, lets try something more random!!! toe nails!!!
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Nope - nothing except Amazon. i think it's your computer that does strange things.
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Mary Christmas was married to Frank Christmas, and they had a red triumph Stag and got pulled up for speeding
the cop said whats your name, F. Christmas said frank, oh yeah and have you been drinking, no said frank, he turned to the passenger and said - whats your name.
Mary Christmas said mary - yeah and merry christmas to you too, said the cop, I'm Rudolph and youre both booked.
True story - real names ,real car, embarassed cop apologised in the paper.
Julie
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"Adult friend finder" don't need that!!!
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I only get those ads under the first person who has put a message on the page, and amazon at the bottom, its clever how it knows what ye are talking about, when I posted about our cabin build there were ads for log cabins under my post -
big brother is watching you - yes you
:D :D :D
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so accident claims and changing your name!!!! I think the key is the subject line, I will create a strange subject line maybe!!!
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When I worked in England in the 80's most of the people in London and Slough and Uxbridge that I worked with had double barrelled names - they thought they were posh.
So I thought about changing my name by deed poll to Julie Teddy-Bear just to make a laugh of it
but chickened out in the end ;D
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ooh, that would be a nice name!!
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When I was expecting Lorna, my married name was Ness. I wanted to call her Philippa or Pippa but she would have been P Ness. My brother in law was Andrew, so A Ness.
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Fancy having this name
Avril Hoare - she is a newsreader on irish television - Joe always says her mother must have been a
bad bitch, every time the poor girl signs a cheque she has to sign it
A.Hoare
;D ;D ;D
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I once worked with a Polly Perkin (made great cups of tea) and a guy called Patric Robert Quake (nicknamed Pat-R-Cake) also had a girlfriend called Ila Letthue (and she did!)
Farmer ;D
:farmer:
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:o Farmer - how do you know ???
;D ;D ;D
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Ohhhh er ::)
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I only get those ads under the first person who has put a message on the page, and amazon at the bottom, its clever how it knows what ye are talking about, when I posted about our cabin build there were ads for log cabins under my post -
big brother is watching you - yes you
:D :D :D
It's supposed to show relevant ads but sometimes it misunderstands the context! We have to pay for all the bandwidth you lot use somehow. ;)
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Whats that mean Dan - do we talk too much lol
;D ;D ;D
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Ha, no not at all, we love that you all talk so much and would happily see more. :) :love:
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:o Farmer - how do you know ???
;D ;D ;D
Her Mother told me...her maiden name was Ila Thellhue) ;D
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I used to work with a lady called Nesta Kettle. Her maiden name was Tables. Her sister-in-law was called Lydia. :D
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OH just told me of a Nut family he knew, calling their daughter Hazel
I nearly weed myself ;D :&>
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Reputedly a local family here called Bush; daughters Rose, Ivy and something else but I can't remember now.
When I was in hospital having Lorna, a wee boy was named Adonis. What do parents do to their kids?
When I was wee, I wanted to be called Joanne or Pamela
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Rosemary is a much nicer name than both of those.
I was one of four Julie's in my class, and wanted to be called Andrea
Mum called me Julie because she hated people shortening names and its hard to shorten
Julie.
She called my sister Angela and everyone calls her Angie - she hates it.
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Customers of our have just called their new born boy NOAH
If this rain keeps up we will need a lot more of them too
;D ;D
Julie
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Ok here goes, I went to school with Neil Downs, had a friend called Tina Pears and hubby went to school with Ophelia Balls :o Honest!! oh yes and remember being introduced to Cliff Macenernie and asked where the other one was :-[ :-[
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Just remembered...when I was at school the register was always called out with the surname followed by the Christian name...we had a John Lord (Lord, John - nickname Snooty) a John Long (Long, John - nickname Silver) a Peter King (King, Peter - nickname Sire) and a Paul Legge (Legge, Paul - nickname Joker)...its all true I swear.
We also had a teacher called Richard Head (no points for guessing his nickname) and a Headmaster called Ernest Lash (and he usually did - six of the best - caned the whole class one time because we were late attending assembly, due to someone locking the classroom door and dropping the key out of the window - no one owned up and no one snitched, so we all got punished....oh happy days!!!)
Made me remember the 'weapons' that some teachers used back then...a well worn gym shoe, a broken billiard cue, the straight edge off a broken 'T' square and a leg off a broken music stand...they would have probably gone to prison these days...but this was back in the fifties when teachers were issued with a new cane at the beginning of every school year on request...I was head prefect and one of my jobs was to collect the requests for canes and submit them to the bursar...Goodness how times have changed, thank god!
farmer :'(
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Oh...and yes...I did get my fair share of canings
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I used to work with a Mr Malone and when his first grandson was born his son thought that Liam would be a good first name. (Liam Malone), and isn't there a news reader on the radio called Tumshay Smiley poor lassie.
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When I was at Uni, a fellow student was called Thomson Eccles. I was telling another friend some tale about him and she said "That's a really funny name". "Eh?" I replied. "Yes," she said, "I've never heard of anyone called Sneccles before". She thought his name was Tom Sneccles.
On a similar note, when Dan and I worked for Central Region Council, the Office Manager was called Stan Kinross. One of the juniors said one day that the office manager had a really funny name - Stankin. She thought his name was Stankin Ross.
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Going back donkeys years, I remember a news bulletin on ATV Today ( I said it was donkeys years ago :horse:) They did an interview with Birminghams retiring registrar of births and deaths. They asked him if he'd come across any of the new fashioned names. He told them about a young baby that had been registered as Astroflash Jones. Young Jones will be a grown man somewhere with a brummie accent by now. ::)
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At secondary school we had a French teacher, although she wasn't really french. She was, however, very womanly in her mini skirts and tight tops......................she was called Mrs. Love. ;D
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One of our secondary schools had a librarian called Mrs Page. And one of the local dieticians is called Ms Fry.
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Hiya all,
I went to school with a Richard Head (his nickname was dick!!)
knew a lady who always wanted to call her 1st girl child rose unforunatlly she married a Mr Bush!
Had a primary teacure call Mrs Skinner (her nickname was Mrs Skeleton) she was horrible !!!!
So many different spelling of Lindsay out their that why i write Linz lol
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I knew a girl called Rose Budd. She married and was then called Rose White. No luck for some people.
I also knew a girl called Sue Brown. One condition of marrying was that her 'husband to be' changed his surname by deedpoll. Cockshead, became Sinclair. Mother in law cockshead never spoke to her new daughter in law again.
Kevin
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One of our secondary schools had a librarian called Mrs Page. And one of the local dieticians is called Ms Fry.
Rosemary I remember Mrs Page, she was at Lornshill when I was there.
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I got offered a job in Foxton Nursery School, with the head being called Mrs Fox and of course me Foxon...would have been confusing!!!
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I taught a girl called Theresa Greene, we also had a William Greene, which aint funny until you call out the register
Green Theresa
Green Willy
and a Eamon Brown and theres a dj called Rick O'Shea
on our radio here.
Joe knows a Mickey Joe McHugh - I thought that was a character in the Trumpton
childrens programme when there calling out all the firemen -
but apparently its a local man!! ;D ;D ;D
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I remember a fellow teacher asking me if a pupil pronounced there name :-["wee liker or wee licker" :-[there name was wheeliker!!! a big family, and ones now married to my nephew.
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I also knew a girl called Sue Brown. One condition of marrying was that her 'husband to be' changed his surname by deedpoll. Cockshead, became Sinclair. Mother in law cockshead never spoke to her new daughter in law again.
So she won on two fronts ;D ;D
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An old school teachers husband was Patrick Patrick, I think parents like that should be shot!
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Let's not forget that Joaquin Phoenix's (the actor) real name is leaf. He's River Phoenix's brother. I ask you!
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The register at my school had a Smart, BJ! There were 2 brothers at school 1 called Teak and 1 called Clay and had the surname Builder.
My son goes to school with a boy called Dragon - seriously cool name if you have the personality to carry it off!
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Mrs Bobby here - I work in a HR nd payroll department dealing with enquiries from civil servants - we have to help them complete on line forms - one of our regular callers ( which means he is useless ) is called Mr Smart - and his Manager is Mr Bright - so we call them Mr Not so.......
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not to forget famous offspring Apple and Peaches (???) :&>