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Unfortunate names







RexCathedra

Aurea Mediocritas
Jan 14, 2005
3,509
Vacationland
Tony Orifice.

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


Buzzer

Languidly Clinical
Oct 1, 2006
26,121
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!
 




RexCathedra

Aurea Mediocritas
Jan 14, 2005
3,509
Vacationland
Met the son once of a Nashville urologist, who rejoiced in the name Dr. Shanker.
 








pasty

A different kind of pasty
Jul 5, 2003
31,760
West, West, West Sussex
scooter1 said:
I know a bloke called Tracy, poor lad
Simster said:
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?
 






Frutos

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Helpful Moderator
NSC Patron
May 3, 2006
36,773
Northumberland
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

Re-enfranchised
Aug 5, 2003
14,131
The democratic and free EU
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...
 






rool

Well-known member
Jul 10, 2003
6,031
There was a Mr Whippy in HR at Amex back in the 80's.

I also knew two Michael Hunts
 








Barry Izbak

U.T.A.
Dec 7, 2005
7,526
Lancing By Sea
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
 
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johnny jigsaw

"My life's in pieces"
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

Well-known member
Jan 13, 2004
6,883
Burgess Hill
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.
 




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