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A former girlfriend worked with Perri 6. He changed his surname to 6 as a protest.Made getting a passport , driving licence etc. difficult, but that was the point.


 
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I few years ago I worked with a D.R.Love.


 
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Went to school with Jenny Teale, she was always well groomed from memory


 
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I work with a Randy Snowman, and another forum member here - when employed by GE - discovered a colleague on the intranet called Randy Gaylord.

Both are American, should there be any doubt. And I believe that only the word 'Snowman' raises a smile in their respective country.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 4:28 pm
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Pimp, you've just reminded me, a few weeks ago I created a new account for a guy called Robert Sleigh.

I had to check with HR to ensure that someone wasn't taking the P.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 4:32 pm
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I was once at a whiskey tasting event, and got introduced to a man named Steve Enema.

There was a man on my paper round as a kid, whose name was Larry. He was nice enough, but obviously extremely proud of his name. His two cars both had personalised reg plates:

Larry 1
Larry 2

His son's name was Larry Jr., and his daughter's name was Gerry.

Yep. Bizarre.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 4:40 pm
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A lad at schools dad was called Roger Myring

Roger Myring was the landlord of my local in Stafford. Moved to Derby over 10 years ago.

Ex Aston Villa owner - Randy Lerner. A driving instructor's fantasy.

The best name of anybody I've met is Wilfred Makepeace Lunn.


 
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There's a chap on Gigha called Willie McSporran who regularly made the local paper.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 4:44 pm
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Years ago I spotted a Robin Bastard in some TV programme credits

I knew a cop called Nick Moore.

One of my daughter's schoolmates was called Beth Gash.


 
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An ex-girlfriend had a work colleague called 'Ivor Hoare'


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 4:51 pm
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Used to work for an American company which employed people called Dick Bollock and Sandy Beaver. There were some other good names but I've forgotten them.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 4:56 pm
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Not someone I've met but I'm aware of a bloke called Wayne Bruce - who goes by the nickname Man Bat.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 4:58 pm
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Calling the register as a supply teacher

Ikea.

As a first name. I read it out expecting a fit of giggles and a voice said "Here"

Nothing else!

I never plucked up the gumption to ask why!


 
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A couple more, encountered professionally:

Dr. De'ath
Dr. Cockshot

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With reference to some of the contributions above, a colleague in the office has also come across a Dikshit.

Another colleague reports dealing with a Thai woman named Porn Rat.


 
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I remember working at a call centre and help a Anil Batterer


 
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Not someone I've met but I'm aware of a bloke called Wayne Bruce - who goes by the nickname Man Bat.

Proper tea-spitting lol at the nickname. 🙂


 
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probably Nimrod Ping


 
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I used to work with a guy from Belgium who was called Dick Ayres.

I worked in an office with Alastair Dick so he had the user name adick. Same company but different office had a lovely lady called Furii Butt.

To top it all off we had 2 developers in the same office,one called Matt White and the other Matt Black,i kid you not. Although Mr Black insisted you call him Matthew, he hated anyone calling him Matt.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 5:33 pm
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Almost forgot. I once stopped a car and asked the control room to run the reg number through PNC. I then asked the fabulously polite young driver for his name and address. He had a slightly haunted look about him and handed me his driving licence. I was just reading the name on the licence when the control room operator called me back on the radio. Having read his name I stepped back so he couldn't hear the now impending message that was going to be sent by the far from politically correct old lag in the control room (this was the 1980s before any knickers get in any twists about professionalism). His name was Dildar Butt.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 5:34 pm
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The greatest name in the history of the world will always be Goodluck Jonathan!!

There was a reverend Canaan Banana!


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 5:36 pm
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I've had emails from a guy called Don Dondon - I always read it in the style of a 50's shock movie soundtrack

I used to work with a girl called Anita Banghar too.

Mrs P used to temp at the hospital when she was at Uni and there was an old guy there called Randy Kiss (pronounced kish)

We keep a list of amusing names at work, there's some corkers on there, but I can't remember anything good at the mo.


 
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I work with a guy called Dickon Payne, there's a guy who works for the company we share an office with called Russel Hobbs.

My old Bank Manger was called Julie Fullalove.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 5:54 pm
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Asked a woman twice what her surname was the other day, then asked her to spell it, turns out it actually WAS Rainbow!


 
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Working in schools gives you so many names to chuckle at - Alban, Ace, Precious, Princess, Pebbles, not forgetting Hastings and his sister Scarlet.
I'd never come across the name Cian before, then got two in one group of ten kids.
But, c'mon, Pebbles... WTAF?


 
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But, c'mon, Pebbles... WTAF?

Don't speak ill of the Flintstones


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 6:32 pm
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Mr & Mrs Sogi had a son called Kuntal.

They are a memorable family


 
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We've got a guy at our German office called Helmut Schmelling. I kid you not...


 
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Dr Wolfgang Funk

A Chinese employee called King Wang, I.T. did not do last name first for their emails!


 
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Met a Dragon Danger Rodriguez at a wedding.


 
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Bruno Jelly went to my school, as did his brother Ben Jelly.
Nicola-Jane Sheringham-Smith was a small child I knew.


 
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I saw a video the other day where a supermarket has introduced a special "slow lane" at the checkouts, so people can check out without feeling rushed. The colleague they interviewed about it was "Kerry Speed."

Used to have a supplier called Chris Cross & always imagined him going to work with his clothes on back to front.

Risky, you could have your goods caught between the moon and New York City.

A couple more, encountered professionally:

Dr. De'ath

We used to have a Dr De'ath as a customer (back when I worked in tech support in the 90s, as I was talking about the other day). The computer system had him entered as "DR. DEATH" so whenever he rang we'd ask quite innocently, "is that Doctor Death?" Thing is, he massively overreacted every time, bellowing "IT'S DEEE-ATTHHHH" down the phone. Which, of course, we asked not-so-innocently from then on.

Oh, one of our other customers was Wayne P. Kitkat.

Tom Tom

I've mentioned this before too, but I once interviewed a bloke called Satnam. Cue me and my colleague getting quite giddy making "sat-nav" jokes for a good half an hour before he arrived. When he turned up, my colleague a stride ahead of me greeted him, "hi, I'm Bob," [i]*beat*[/i] "find us all right?"


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 6:49 pm
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Dr Mustafa Megahed. It's apt.


 
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The greatest name in the history of the world will always be Goodluck Jonathan!!
There was a reverend Canaan Banana!

I'll raise you a

[url= http://www.linkedin.com/in/max-fightmaster-6586a576 ]Max Fightmaster[/url]

And my favourite the CEO of Food For The Poor

[url= http://www.foodforthepoor.org/about-us/leadership/president-ceo.html ]Robin Mahfood [/url]


 
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Knew a chap called James Manly-Grafting once. He Moved to Cornwall and apparently changed his surname to 'Leisurely-Strolling.'


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 7:25 pm
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There was also the Archbishop of Manila - Cardinal Sin


 
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Recently met a Christopher Peacock who unsurprisingly didn't want to be known as Chris.


 
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Hamish Dolphin is one of my best friends.

FB wouldn't accept it as a real name so he went for an alternative unlikely first name paired with an animal and it did like it...


 
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Did a First Aid course back in the summer and the guy was called Alan Bent.

He told us he used to be a sales rep and it really broke the ice with clients when he handed his business card over as it read " A Bent - Salesman "


 
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Two ladies from our Hong Kong office at a previous employer.

Angel Xu and Crystal Kau.


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 7:50 pm
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I've a mate called Dr Rod Large


 
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But, c'mon, Pebbles... WTAF?

I thaught a Kid last year called Pebbles. None of my my colleagues had the courage to say anything till the one guy who just can't keep quiet clocked the name in the register. He said out loud " pebbles ? Do her parents know she's gonna be an adult one day....." 😯


 
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pebbles ? Do her parents know she's gonna be an adult one day....."

Exactly my thoughts!


 
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in Uphill cemetery there is the gravestone of one Fanny ****es


 
Posted : 24/01/2017 8:02 pm
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I met a Pebbles Wilkins many years ago - she'll be in her 50's by now


 
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Just now reading the local news:

Wiltshire Council cabinet member for finance, Dick Tonge


 
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