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Had contract meetings with a company who's auditors are Sitki Sukurer and Bumin Anal (both Turkish). How the hell do I keep a straight face when confronted with that? I would google it to check its not made up but I might trigger alarms.


 
Posted : 02/07/2012 2:00 pm
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they having you on?

are you being scammed?

facejacker?


 
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I always struggled when talking to Wayne P. Kitkat.


 
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I was account manager for a chap called Mr.W.Ankers once.

I also utterly lost it once when meeting an American colleague who quoted aloud from Oprah Winfrey during a meeting. I had to pretend that I was choking.


 
Posted : 02/07/2012 2:20 pm
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Genuine, written into the company annual reports and everything. I thought I did quite well not to fall off my chair.


 
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deffo a wind up


 
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went to school with Alison walley, and at work had dealings with a reginald Sole and Peter Ennis


 
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at work had dealings with a reginald Sole and Peter Ennis

Similarly, I used to live across the road from Mark Barass.


 
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Russell Sprout was my favorite.


 
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I used to work with a bloke (part french) who was called Hugh Bollcohe, affectionately renamed 'big nads'


 
Posted : 02/07/2012 3:05 pm
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Had to ask for a guy on the phone called Ainars. No idea how to pronounce it properly or without making everyone around me laugh


 
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Michael Hunt - never ever called Mike

Teressa Green - to be fair it was a married name

There was one lad Nicholas something or other


 
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You'll be telling us about Nicholas Girlsshouldntclimbtrees next.


 
Posted : 02/07/2012 3:15 pm
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Carol Cokeglass, Mike Hunt and Mr Fiddler are just a few that I have come across recently... If I hadn't met them I'd have thought it was a piss take!


 
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On reflection she may have bee Theresa wood but it was a result of marriage either way


 
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Uren is quite a common surname in Belgium, pronounced OOREN.
Working in Hotels you got the best names:
Mr & Mrs Sowerbutts
Mr & Mrs De'ath - yeah right.


 
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Tony Cocaine
Dracula Chang


 
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Met Willie Fiddler at uni


 
Posted : 02/07/2012 4:07 pm
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Just googled bumin anal, and he's not lying its a genuine Turkish name 😀


 
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When I worked in a Uni library we had calling at the front desk:

Richard Head
John Thomas

John was a huge big guy from Papua New Guinea so I had no trouble keeping a straight face, fear saw to that.


 
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I used to work with James bond at work
He was a police officer

Guess what his collar number was


 
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Used to know someone called Ian Mycock, his mothers first name was Pat!


 
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Not rude but funny none the less: Dickon Horsey


 
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There used to be a contractor that sat in the office I'd sometimes frequent called Richard Fiddler. The problem was he preferred to be called Dick.

Absolute genius 😀


 
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It turns out Amegashitsie is a real surname, this despite Deed Poll.


 
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As a teenager a great source of amusement for me was the Crimewatch credits, which included one Dick Pull.


 
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My dad worked with Anthony (Tony) De'ath, and I used to have a guy called Des Lillycrap and a client, used to know John (Johnny) Fiddler and an old work colleague was adamant he went to school with Nesta Crows.


 
Posted : 02/07/2012 5:36 pm
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There was a Hammond Pickles in the ex's family somewhere - none of the miserable buggers thought it was remotely amusing though.

Used to deal with a guy called Genius in China. Sadly for comedy he was actually quite clever.


 
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Des Lillycrap

Christopher Lillicrap used to present a kids TV show back in the 80s, some Jackanory rip-off or other.

There was a Hammond Pickles in the ex's family somewhere

Tremendous.


 
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our old (french) french teacher was Miss Patricia Nuss.. yet she always insisted on signing her name "Miss P. Nuss".

i had to deal with a guy called Jürgen Bleibinhaus. his surname: stay-in-haus


 
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Used to call Edinburgh Zoo and ask for Mr C Lion when I was a kid,, ohhh how we laughed.


 
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Mr & Mrs De'ath

I used to know someone called andy de'ath. An utter ****er if ever there was one.


 
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old workmate called campbell baxter, nickname was two soups 🙂


 
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My brother in law is called Chris Peacock, I'm hoping they have a son and call him Drew 😆


 
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Worked with a Tracy E Acup.

Also an Ailsa Craig (small island off the Ayrshire coast).

Once introduced to an Architect called Mr Croch who insisted we call him Dickie !

Another colleague called Mrs Kerr had a son Joseph. But of course, shortened to Joe.

And finally, a customer wearing a celtic FC top. Ask him for his name, and inevitably it's....Walter Smith.


 
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Mrs Kerr had a son Joseph

Not Wayne, then. Or Juan.


 
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Claimant at work had a son called Kuntal Sogi - referred to only as "your son" when I met him..... 😳


 
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Year below me at school had a Mycock and a Hardon.


 
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Year above me had a cracker called Teresa Green


 
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I worked at the beeb in a previous life with John Wayne, Pete Townsend and Michael Jackson.


 
Posted : 02/07/2012 8:01 pm
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Sorry for being thick but why is Teresa Green funny? Or are we just listing any old name now? 🙂


 
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Trees Are Green.

Good god man, my gran used to tell that joke, and she's been dead twenty years.


 
Posted : 02/07/2012 8:05 pm
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That qualifies as a joke? Crikey some people are easily amused. 😐

🙂


 
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