Question for Man of Harveys

[Brovion]

MoH - my favorite German player (and I think a contender for this tournament's Comedy Name award) is Herr Schweinsteiger. But what does it mean in English? Pigsticker?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Brovian, if I may interject I read something in the Observer and they believed it meant 'Pig Climber/Mounter'.

 

[Brovion]

Brovian, if I may interject I read something in the Observer and they believed it meant 'Pig Climber/Mounter'.

Thankyou, that's even better!

On a similar subject my French friends wet themselves watching Middlesborough in the UEFA Cup Final. One of the Middlesborough players is Franck Queudrue, and 'queudrue' (in pronounciation if not in spelling) is apparently a French colloquial term for an erection, sort of on par with the English word 'stiffy'.

 

[pasty]

Babelfish.com = Pig Riser
translation2.com = Pork Pit Foreman

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Thankyou, that's even better!

On a similar subject my French friends wet themselves watching Middlesborough in the UEFA Cup Final. One of the Middlesborough players is Franck Queudrue, and 'queudrue' (in pronounciation if not in spelling) is apparently a French colloquial term for an erection, sort of on par with the English word 'stiffy'.

Some great names!

Without sounding like an anorak, I am quite interested in names and there was an article in the Times a while back.

Real names from the 18th century...

Boadicea Basher
Elizabeth Disco
Faithful Cock
Charles Swine married Jane Ham in 1711
Susan Booze
Erastus Hornblower
Edward Evil
Mr & Mrs Gurney called their first child - Offspring (imaginative!)
Fozzitt Bonds
Obedience Ginger
Abraham Thunderwolff
Freke Dorothy Fluck Lane
Charity Dingle - Born in 1702
In 1802 - Richard Dinner married Mark Cook.

 

[Brovion]

Talking of names (and we're right off the subject of football now) I reckon Enid Blyton of Noddy fame had some serious sexual hang-ups and/or frustrations. In the Far Away Tree the two children (a boy and a girl) are called Dick and Fanny, and in another set of stories (can't remember what they were called) there was a character who would appear in a childrens' playground and he was called Mr Pinkwhistle.

 

[Icy Gull]

:
In 1802 - Richard Dinner married Mark Cook.

So gay weddings are nothing new then

 

[Tom Bombadil]

I would have liked to have been called Abraham Thunderwolf

Glad I'm not Mr F Cock though (cue smug remarks)