This is just the best thread ever.
Currently coughing up a lung reading some of these!
Legendary! I wonder what happened to it?Sammy Adabanjo
if true then BRILLIANTJean-Luc Picard. He works for one of the Enterprise teams
Our chimney sweep is Called Hilton Basnett. It's not funny, it's just a bloody magnificent name.
I work with a Mrs Hoare.
Precious Stone and would it surprise you to learn that she was from Basildon?
Magnificent names count - this is a celebration of namedom.
ScottChegg - MemberAnother is Randy Bumgardner.
Yeah, we've got a Randy Bumgartner at our American office.
Used to deal with a guy called Perfecto Martinez. No innuendo, just thought the first name was outstanding.....
We've got a guy at our German office called Helmut Schmelling. I kid you not...
Used to have a supplier called Chris Cross & always imagined him going to work with his clothes on back to front.
Mike Hunt
I used to work with a Mike Hunt. He was adamant everyone called him Michael. Nobody did.
Jean-Luc Picard. He works for one of the Enterprise teams
if true then BRILLIANT
100% True apparently the bloke is a good sport about it too. His email signature says "Make it so"!
Back in Exeter I knew a Justin Case. then there was also Matt Smith....though there were randomly 4 Matt Smiths in our group of friends so he changed his name to Robin the rainbow warrior Hood.
oh, and Dragon, no surname.
and for magnificent I went to school with a Charles Edward George Williams-Hawkes
His email signature says "Make it so"!
This has made my WEEK.
Thats just the wurst!Helmut Schmelling
Guy at work called Euan Kerr, though at least his parents went the u and not the w....
I used to deliver mail to Axel A Hellwig. I think I met him once, and sadly he didn't appear to actually be a rock star.
I never met him, but in the 80s one of the doctors around Arisaig was Dr Donald Duck.
Not met but: Sandi Flange, US Nude Sunbathing assoc.
(as posted here before)
On a radio documentary about redundant car worker from after the Longbridge closure looking for new careers:
Maurice Minor
I knew a Heather Gardener which always amused me and a Tom Dick
I bloke on my mates Uni course changed his name fropm something perfectly ordinary ( Andrew Wilson I think?) to ...
The Mad Bush.
It was on his degree certificate, bank cards etc.
Oh yeah. Mrs PP had an operation on her knee. The surgeon was Dr Chisel.
funkmasterp - isn't it comforting just to know that there's genuinely a guy walking around called Marshall Law?
And you're right, Somsak Nimanong has an exquisite ring to it. Reminds me of the Junkians in Transformers the Movie.
I noticed today that Christian Horner of Red Bull F1 and Geri Helliwell of Spice Girl fame have called their new baby Montague George Hector Horner. My wife works in the NHS and like someone says on the first page the Nigerian names that she comes across are Awesome....and that is quite literally one little lads name..Awesome. Taking a nominative determinism route.. my lad came home the other day from school and said his supply teacher for English that day was called Mrs Stammer!!!.
Donald Duck.
This will be what US Secret Service agents will have to shout in the event of an assassination attempt.
Precious McKenzie the weightlifter
I do like the African names that are qualities they want in the child. Patience etc.
A lad at schools dad was called Roger Myring
a friend of mine has a kid in her class called Shrek
apparently the father got his disney movies mixed up when he registered because it was meant to be Mulan.
This letter made me laugh. No idea if it's true or not.
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/10/we-all-feel-like-that-now-and-then.html
We've got a guy at our German office called Helmut Schmelling. I kid you not...
Genuine LOL! Brilliant!
Saviour Casha who ran a car hire firm in Malta
and Etta Bogle from back in Scotland
I'm reading through this thread with gritted teeth 👿 I did work out years ago that being called D**k Staines was way better than R.Staines and on the plus side I moved in opposite to D**k Head recently
Kid at school back in 80's in York called Caswell Coggins!
A guy at work changed his name from Steve Smith to Blake 7.
as an aside, I used to work in Staines, a colleague of mine was genuinely charged with answering the phone 'Good morning Siemens Staines'
I was once introduced to a Dick Feast. Oh how I laughed, it did not go down well.
I've just remembered, there's a gynaecologist at Manchester University Hospital called Judith Gash.
I have regular meetings with an Asian chap whose "western" name is Max Wang 😀
When I was at school there was rumored to be a brother sister combo of Ophelia and Everard Dicks. Everyone professed to have met them but I didnt so called out as an "urban myth".
The Neville brothers Dad is Neville Neville apparently.
I worked in IT and had contractors who names are folklore ten years on:
Akhsa Fhukarat - male
Khuntal Dave - female
I also no a "Crapper".
Max Wang
Don't know why but that has set me off! Crying here! 🙂
Was at school with Everton Rock which I think was a pretty cool name
The Neville brothers Dad is Neville Neville apparently.
My OH's great grandfather was Griffith Griffiths or GriffGriff to his mates.
Another one from the past... Richard Spray, who liked to go by the name of Dick
That "Sexwale" bloke has a great name. And if I was him would pronounce it as it reads.
Max Wang has sent me over the edge here.
Friend from schools dad was also called Richard Head,
Have someone in my company called Dick Long, it always puts the surname first in my email folder, 😆
Used to speak to a guy called Gyan Dikshit at my old company which always made me chuckle.
I recall a Mingita and Flangita Patel (twins) from infant school. Obviously it wasn't funny at 5 years old - they were just Min & Flan.
On the "name of power" front, I used to work with a Rupert Charles Emit Alexander Barth Von Werenalp. Rupert BVW for short.
There's a guy at work who's surname is Lovelady.
Nice chap.
My Niece had a friend called Iona Gunn!
I see your gun and raise you... Iona Dragon.
Sadly she wasnt Welsh
I used to chuckle at work when cars were booked in for auto-painting with "Dick Lovett - Spraymaster"
There is a garage here in Norwoch too called BOB BASTID
Yes Emma roads was real, my all time fave was a colleague who could neve transfer to Glasgow - wee Ming kok
