odd but amusing names..............

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so far today on the BBC I have heard 2 reporters

1) Julia Caesar (on BBC R2 1.30 news)

2) Mary Rose (6.30pm BBC Midlands news)

any more out there....

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Chris Ship (either news at 10 or BBC....always sounds like shi*)

Debby Tubby (Look East - eh oh!)

And I've heard Norma Stitts might be on BBC3 later.
 
I used to work with a bloke called Albert Hall.
 
While working in Hong Kong two spring to mind, an admin called Feeling Wong and a student whose name appeared on the register as Chung Ki But!
 
Used to do business with a Korean ins. Co.

My contact was called **** Yu.
 
That would be Foxtrot Oscar Oscar Kilo.

Honest to god truth.
 
I had a agent out in China called Fanny Ram and one guy called Rambo. I met Rambo too, nice guy! :lol:
 
I've forgotten the all tome classic Radio 2 newsreader.

Fenella fudge.... Just sounds to be a porn star
 
Middle Eastern customer called "Ramdin Diks***" and another customer I had to deal with years ago called "Virginia Clench"
 
Way back in my mining days, the Chairman of the Durham Mechanics Union (Easington Colliery) was a Michael Hunt. At a conference in London where he was due to speak, a poor girl shortened it to Mike over a PA system, asking if anyone had seen............!

We called him Mickey.
 
I remember the Lee Kee shoe company in Hong Kong back in the 70s. A lot of the Chinese really didn't understand why the gweilos found this funny...........
 
I taught two lads, one of them was called Arthur King and he used to get ribbed whenever the register was read surname first

The other was called Paul Mycock - that is not a joke. What were his parents thinking?
 
I once had a contact at a CRO my company worked with called Annalotte Tits. And she did.
 
Where I work you see a lot of names.
Two that stand out in my time where I am are -

Fanny reeks
And
Yu wan ka

I kid you not on these names.
 
My nephew used to go to a school with a kid called Harry Monk..... To this day my Mum still doesn't get why that's funny!
 
Through work, one of my contacts in India is named Dars***. Poor devil.
 
Not really a name per se but one of my French Reinsurance contacts, never seemed to have enough time.

He would often call prefacing his conversation " Ello Mark, i am in a hurry so listen carefully I shall say this only once".

Cue myself or my colleague bursting into laughter.
 
My hubby used to work with a bloke called Anil Mistry :eek:
 
Breezy said:
My hubby used to work with a bloke called Anil Mistry :eek:
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That reminds me.... I used to email a guy called "Arul"..... Spellchecker always wanted to replace it with Anal :lol:
 
Some years ago in the end credits to some of the Buffy tv series there's a post production co-ordinator by the name of Brian Wankum
 
There was a, (iirc) Labour, council candidate in Glasgow a while back called Joe Kerr, which I thought was quite appropriate.

When I worked in the DHSS two of my fellow employees were called Burgess and McLean, I always felt they should have been snoopers :D

There was a Glasgow garage owned by a guy who I'd put money on having the nickname "Hip Hip" as his name was Hugh Ray....
 
I went to school with Paul Enis - he always insisted on writing his name in full...
 
Thirty something years ago, a very lovely lady wrote me a cheque and I was so impressed by her unusual name that I photocopied it.

Ms Kamontip Snidvongs still shows up on Google, though she's no longer in London!

I believe Snidvongs is quite a common Thai name, but her whole name was so wonderfully unusual I've never forgotten it.
 
I remember once selling a car to a rather depressed looking fellow who then went on to sign himself "A. Downer"
 
I used to work with the very plain named Debbie Smith . . . until she married and became Debbie Doobay. One of those instances where keeping your maiden name may have been the better option.

I also used to work with a lovely man whose surname was Christmas. We were always campaigning for him to join the priesthood so that he could become Father Christmas. He wouldn't have any of it though :lol:
 
ha ha...

Remember now, my wife send me a screengrab of all the people on site at one particular time including a visitor called Wayne King.... Again, what were the parents thinking?
 
MartynK said:
I remember the Lee Kee shoe company in Hong Kong back in the 70s. A lot of the Chinese really didn't understand why the gweilos found this funny...........
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Still a lot of companies preceded by Fok Hing, believe, although no doubt will be corrected means Lucky.
 
My cousin was christened Wayne Kerr. Luckily when his mum remarried a few years later she made sure it was changed to her new husbands surname though.
 
Mandoo said:
My cousin was christened Wayne Kerr. Luckily when his mum remarried a few years later she made sure it was changed to her new husbands surname though.
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She didn't marry a Mr King by any chance did she?
 
Lynton said:
ha ha...

Remember now, my wife send me a screengrab of all the people on site at one particular time including a visitor called Wayne King.... Again, what were the parents thinking?
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Mandoo said:
My cousin was christened Wayne Kerr. Luckily when his mum remarried a few years later she made sure it was changed to her new husbands surname though.
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On a similar note, that's just reminded me that a company I used to work for had a regular customer by the genuine name of Mr Wanklin - poor sod.
 
SarahLee said:
I used to work with the very plain named Debbie Smith . . . until she married and became Debbie Doobay. One of those instances where keeping your maiden name may have been the better option.

I also used to work with a lovely man whose surname was Christmas. We were always campaigning for him to join the priesthood so that he could become Father Christmas. He wouldn't have any of it though :lol:
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:D:D:D
 
I also used to have to call Wang (the ersatz wordprocessor manufacturer) HQ in Germany. The standard operating process within Wang was to say the name of the company and the location you were calling.

They were based in Cologne.

Hard to resist saying "yes" when they made the announcement :)
 
Where I used to work our email addresses used to be our first name followed by the first letter of our surname. That soon changed when our new publicity manager Diana Lott started.
 
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