Alison Keenan

[Brissles]

Ben Dover: and a Hazel Nutte was in my class at school - whatever were her parents thinking !

 

[Weathergirl]

Sorry, I don't get that one? What can't I see

I must be the only one with a mind like a sewer.. genitalia (Jenny Taylor.. ).

Sorry.

 

[Vienna]

I had a friend who`se parents were Polish and her name was Pauline Reschitnyk, pronounced Re - **** - nick. Her nickname from the boys was Sh^tty knickers, awful, but there again that`s often schoolboys for you !

 

[Julius]

The last few times I watched I thought the foundation was too pale for the no eye/no lip look

She's gone from the tandoori-tanned look to arctic snowflake white - like a mime artist!

 

[DunmowDizzy]

Annette Curtin

 

[Boris Bear]

Sorry, I don't get that one? What can't I see

I had to think about that too.

 

[DunmowDizzy]

What about the one on 'The Chase'

Fanny Chmelar

I'd post the You Tube clip but I'm rubbish on my ipad.

 

[Craftalot]

We had a Chinese student called Ding Dong. Apparently, it's not an uncommon name.

 

[historymystery]

The fact that we 'got it' obviously says a lot about the state of our minds, doesn't it? :mysmilie_17:

I had to think about that too.

 

[loujareth]

Cherry Berry.

 

[donna255]

When I worked in the passport office we had a renewal for a Wally Chicken, who was a woman so Mrs Wally Chicken.

A baby called Daisy Hooker, a porn star name if ever.

The most famous or infamous was early 90s and big thing for giving babies Russian sounding names. In London office a woman came in go get a passport for baby girl called Treblinka(sp), she thought it sounded lovely. It had to be explained Treblinka was a Nazi death camp.

 

[lynnonthelake]

I feel sorry for anyone named Richard Head.

 

[Breeze]

Ben Dover: and a Hazel Nutte was in my class at school - whatever were her parents thinking !

Ben Dover was the conservative MP for Chorley for years.

Our school use to do exchange visits with a school in Germany. The headmaster was a chap called Kurler...so Herr Kurler.

 

[Akimbo]

Years ago where I worked we had a client called Dr De'ath. :bandit:

 

[Breeze]

There used to be one in Bude called Dr Blood.

 

[miss molly]

Nephew had a friend called Russel Sprout.

 

[maymorganlondon]

Some really funny names there, but honestly, I cannot understand why parents would exercise their sense of humour on their children. It's not only self-indulgent, but also selfish.

One of my colleagues rose very high in my estimation when he said his criterion for naming his son was that he (the son) wouldn't be embarrassed introducing himself to someone in the pub. I only wish more parents would do that.

I had one friend who planned to name her daughter Arsinoe (pronounced Arse in a way)... bit unfortunate, and let's face it, nobody can predict a body-shape, can they? Nor would most people know that it's an Egyptian name (Cleopatra's sister was called Arsinoe, apparently).

 

[Akimbo]

I also worked with a lady whose daughter was called Yvonne...ok nothing unusual there but she pronounced it Yer-von! It's as though they read it in a book but had never heard it spoken! Ofcourse no one corrected her or asked her why.

We have an Irish surname but didn't deliberately short-list Irish first names for our son but when we settled on one the outlaws were perturbed. Remembering the prejudice against the Irish (as recently as the 70s) in the UK they tried to talk us into choosing something else. A sad reality that they'd experienced that in their lifetime.

I went to school with an Aaron (said as airon) so it's difficult to hear this pronounced as a-run. My kids knew an Arun and an Aaron both pronounced as a-run. I wonder how this happened, was there someone famous that I've missed?

 

[Pick-a-Lily]

Interesting point about the tradition of surnames as first names in the NE MML. My grandfather was conceived "out of wedlock" and was given his mum's maiden name as his surname/middle name after a certain amount of jiggery-pokery with his birth certificate once she married the father. My sister uncovered a very sorry tale when scrutinizing a couple of census forms around that time and it seemed she conceived aged barely 13 but by the following census her age had been altered allowing her to marry the father - a bloke in his 20s who lived next door. By the time she was 18 (her real age) she had three kids. Lord knows how tough her life was; I feel sad for her even though she died long before I was born.

Fascinating what family history research reveals isn't it? My great, great grandmother was married on her 16th birthday and the birth of her first child was registered on the following day.

 

[donna255]

Some really funny names there, but honestly, I cannot understand why parents would exercise their sense of humour on their children. It's not only self-indulgent, but also selfish.

One of my colleagues rose very high in my estimation when he said his criterion for naming his son was that he (the son) wouldn't be embarrassed introducing himself to someone in the pub. I only wish more parents would do that.

I had one friend who planned to name her daughter Arsinoe (pronounced Arse in a way)... bit unfortunate, and let's face it, nobody can predict a body-shape, can they? Nor would most people know that it's an Egyptian name (Cleopatra's sister was called Arsinoe, apparently).

Cleopatra's had her sister murdered it seems. I watched a documentary last year and they pronounced the name as R seen Oway, the a was silent.