Yep. Agree.
As an aside, one of my closest friend's Christian name is Kent. I do have a chuckle from time to time with your posts. ;) :))
I used to know somebody called Paul Kinnell. Try repeating that quickly. :)
I dead set had a lecturer at Uni call Mike Hunt.
There was a bloke by that name who was big in the fitness/gym industry in the 1960s. I remember a girlfriend trying to get me to say his name in front of her parents (her dad was a hulking great cop) and I managed to spit out Mike ... ale Hunt ????
Did you know that Rod Butterss has a brother called Roland?? 8)
Sure he's not related to Butters from Sa... Sa.. Sow...Sow...South Park?
True story, I worked with a bloke once who's brother named his son Richard Edward. I said to him "youre kidding right?". He said "No Why?". I said "He named his kid Dick Ed?". He looked at my with a horrified look.
I had a work colleague who claimed that he had a crazy uncle on his mother's side, you know the one every family has, called Richard Harden. Now he claimed that uncle Richard was in the military and soon wanted to retire from senior ranks. Apparently, above a certain rank one retains the rank moniker into civilian life. Thus he intended to retire as Major Richard Harden. I have not been able to verify this but if true, a life time went into setting this one up.
Sheesh, pretty stiff ending up with a handle like that... :-[ ;)
He's a figment of my imagination Prof. Rod doesn't have a brother called Roland as far as I know, but he should have done. :)
A guy I once worked with was called Tom Bowler - this time a true story.
Mrs Baggers has a close friend Theresa Greene, yes, true. When I first met her I had lots of fun... she, not so much.
All those years ago I played footy with a bloke called Warren Bunney.
Real good bloke too.
I know of a Polish plasterer whose surname was Kutyorkukov. :)
My sister had a friend called Rosie Ramsbottom :)
Reasonably common Russian name:
Ivan Kutnutzov.
Sonia Drobbernickers!
Went to Primary School with Wayne Kerr (true story)
Good umpire that...schimply maaarvellous stufth.
Ok I'll play.
I have a friend named Jo King.
Funniest part is that I didn't get it for quite some time. When I did, man did I have trouble when we were face to face for a while ????
I've worked with a quite a few indians in my time. Nice people, but funny names.
To list a few, and i swear not a single one is made up....
Pooja
Lovedeep
Lovelean
Gagandeep
Manmeet
...and i'm probably forgetting some in there too.
...and yes, they are pronounced how you think they would be for maximum laughter.
I had a client called Ray King once. By the way, I am making a list of all these. I have no farken idea what all this has to do with Hamish McIntosh but anyway...
My first wife's anaethetist for the first born was Dr Dizzy. Yes, true. Operated out of Ballarat Base Hospital.
One of the first men my ex (same as above) dated after we parted was a dentist. Conversation went something like this: Her: I'm going out with a dentist (kinda show offy). Me: Oh that's good, what's his name?" Pause. Her: Dr... Dr... Dr Slowcock, don't you say a fkn word... Me: Laughter. Her: storms off. (He practiced in the Mentone area, circa early 80s).
There was a doctor in the small town I grew up in called Dr De'Ath. Quite posh he was.
No way, seriously.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078892/From-Doctor-Death-Cardinal-Sin-pick-jobs-suit-names.html
I remember Cardinal Sin, the Archbishop of Manila. I think Cookies Dr De'Ath takes the prize though.
:)) :)) :)) classic.
Sorry, Hamish Mc, but this is more fun!
;D
We used to socialise with a lesbian couple back in the 1970s. Their names; Les and Gaye :)
True story! Looked it up so it is a fair dinkum name.
..... it would have been rendered D'Ath, or De Ath, meaning from Ath. It was also occasionally an occupational name for a gatherer or seller of kindling. In this case, the name is derived from the Old English word dethe, which in turn is derived from the Old English word dyth, which means fuel or tinder.
The bloke who is going to cut my hay is named Kuc but it’s pronounced Kutz ????
I know an actual Phil McCracken.
Don't know if he has a mate Ben Dover ;D
As long as he Kutz your hay and not your lunch. Sorry. Is that the door over there? I'll show myself out... :-[
Someone where I worked had the name Phillipa Hoare.
Also, my kids had a good laugh over Steele Sidebottom.
On a similar note, my cousin went to school with a kid named Leslie Behan ;D
Another real one I just remembered from my past - Christine Rootes. True!
The hay has been cut ... and no shenanigans :)
:)) :)) :)) :))
You'll like this one, Hamish... well, it is your thread.
Back when I joined the Navy, there were a number of dramatic changes to make like when you were issued your 'kit' (all your clothes). Then you had to spend an afternoon with an ink stamp labelling all your 'clobba', as we called it, with your surname followed by initials. Standard issue, and everyone had to wear them, was white cotton boxer shorts - about 2 sizes too big, a la Betts style. The ink stamp labelling on these was vertical and down the fly. Blokes with the surnames, O'Toole, Cox and Dick were hesitant to be seen in their undies.