Unfortunate names

[Meade's Ball]

Cynthia Softcock.

 

[RexCathedra]

Tony Orifice.

(It. Orifice < Lat. aurifex, goldsmith, so it's not what you think.)

 

[Buzzer]

bolke who wrote the music for Buffy the Vampire Slayer had the surname Wanker. Oh, how I bet he loved coming to the UK/Australia/South Africa!

 

[FalmerforAll!**]

ive heard of him, hes a right conk

and by the way your signature is DISGRACEFUL

its SHAMBOLIC isn't it!

 

[RexCathedra]

Met the son once of a Nashville urologist, who rejoiced in the name Dr. Shanker.

 

[Trufflehound]

Shirley Crabtree.

Shirley you can't be serious.

 

[Frutos]

Shirley you can't be serious.

I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.



I love that film.

 

[pasty]

I know a bloke called Tracy, poor lad

I met a bloke called Tracy. Now this is unusual. He used to work at IBM in Hampshire many years back - ring any bells?

I knew a bloke called Tracy. Worked for Amex - ring any other bells?

 

[smudge]

Years ago I knew a guy called Quentin Cumber. Q Cumber!
I kid you not.

 

[Frutos]

A friend of mind as a kid had the surname 'Pratt' and his first name was Aaron (A. Pratt, get it?)...

Somehow, it seemed funnier then....

 

[Trufflehound]

I once sat next to a man on a bus in the Philippines who was busy sharpening a knife. He had a name tag on his shirt pocket that told me (seriously) his name was:

A Villan

I changed seats...

 

[Shirty]

Kent Kunz
Young Suk
John John

All people with whom I have had dealings with at work (and all Yanks, needless to say)

 

[rool]

There was a Mr Whippy in HR at Amex back in the 80's.

I also knew two Michael Hunts

 

[Woodchip]

I had a teacher that was called Andy Dick (later became Head of Drama). Poor sod left after a nervous breakdown (can't think why).

Mr A. Dick
Head of Drama

 

[vulture]

Used to go to school with a Richard Head

 

[Barry Izbak]

Three regular customers at the Post Office counter where I worked in the early 80s

Pensioner, whose name on his pension book. Mr RICHARD STIFF

Chinese restaurant TV licence in the name of FUKU MANN

Bloke renewing car tax, who had obviously fiiled the original form in back to front, KING FRED

 

[scooter1]

I have a client called Peter Crapper, and his job is...............



yes, he's a plumber

 

[johnny jigsaw]

A cursory glance through the global address list at work throws up:

Celio Alberquerque
Waddy Pass
Beaver Ryan
Norbert & Karl Kuntz
Lonnie Kush
Frits van der Paasschen
Kum Easley
and (my personal favourite) Sendi Ming.

I'm thinking of getting them all on a conference call.

 

[Scoffers]

I interviewed a guy for my US office who had changed his name to "Megazone". He was technically brilliant, but we didn't hire him. Apparantly, he go so used to people calling him by his Internet Buddy name, that he went the whole hogg.

 

[Bluejuice]

Gaylord Manlove

I kid you not