Tomorrow we have to collect the keys to our holiday home from Mr J. Bastard.
Surely over the centuries your family would have adapted the name or just completely changed it? Would a lady willingly take it as a married name?
Maybe he's a badass biker and changed his name to it, all very odd.
As one with a thoroughly fnar fnar name, I found it just easier to own it, hence happy to be known as Dick *******, although both my son & nephew have taken on their respective wives surnames.
Sounds like a lucky guy.
I’m assuming his first name is Jamie.
Surely over the centuries your family would have adapted the name or just completely changed it?
I used to have a landlord called Mr Fear.
i payed my rent on time.
Friend of my mum has surname ****t daughter in law refused to take it as her married name.
Ah swear filter: tango whisky alpha tango.
Nah just claim Nominative determinism
Holiday home. Are you in France OP?
Think there's quite a few over there. No I'm not being anti French, it's a fairly common name there, or at least not uncommon.
I’d change my first name to Robin
I found it just easier to own it
^^Yup,although some parents do have a lot to answer for.
I seem to recall a local pensioner on the claimant books at the benefit office when I first started work called Fanny Stains.
Theres a guy where I work, last name Hitler. Apparently its quite common in his cultural homeland
I've served with a Corporal Sergeant, and a Sergeant Sergeant, oh and a Captain Major and a Major Major.
Much japes.
Sergeant Sergeant
Major Major
some parents do have a lot to answer for.
I was once interviewed by a guy called Martin Martin
There was a guy in my line of work whose last name was F***. I can't imagine how wearing it must have been day after day to deal with the "jokes".
(In case you think I'm making this up ... https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YCXNCKoAAAAJ&hl=en )
I followed that link and a prominent collaborator and coauthor appears to be I Tsvankin which if I affect a daft slavic accent for sounds like "I is v**nking" which must put cold callers off when they answer the phone. "Should I wait for you to finish, or do you want me to call back?"
Not rude but I knew a lady called Ceri who married a man called Oakey and insisted on double barreling their name to avoid being required to sing each time she was introduced to someone.
Hitler. Apparently its quite common in his cultural homeland
Where was his homeland?!
At school we had Mr A Nuss and his wife Mrs P Nuss.
They were both french teachers from France.
I used to work with Michael Nobbs. Actually a great guy.
I once worked a case with a family with the surname Soggi. Child named Kuntal. Culturally not an issue, not so great in the UK.
Many people don't believe me, till one day I told was telling the tale and and someone confirmed it - they had been a TA at his primary school and they had suggested to his parents his name should be changed before he went to secondary school.
Must be common taught Angus and Peter Ness. Appeared on the register as initial and surname.
@somafunk might remember Mr Ivor Waddle from school.
A mate's dad had a work colleague with the surname 'Glascock.' I remember we once did a Bart style phone call, ringing him up and asking him if he had crystal balls. Oh how we laughed.
I have a top tier hilarious surname. Similar but not quite the same to the surname above.
Watching someone writing down details then dropping the surname on them is hilarious.
Also hearing them try to pronounce their way out of it is even funnier.
For those who might have an inkling... I had a girlfriend with the surname Pheely which would have made literally the best double barrelled name going.
A school friend by the name of M. Seamens was accosted by the constabulary whilst smoking something illegal in a park when we were about 15. When he told th he lived at 1 Tinkle Street they didn't believe him...but it was true.
I've come across an Emma Royds.
And it was her married name, she chose it🙈
I used to work for a company that maintained shareholder details (so, legal documents, not something you can take the piss on.)
Chris P Bacon
a Mr Shaw-Twilley
Seema Butt
Mrs (!) Fanny Gash
Worked somewhere once with residents called Ivor Cox and Fanny Mullet
At school we had Mr A Nuss and his wife Mrs P Nuss.
They were both french teachers from France.
School across the road from us had a French teacher who had married the headmaster, a Mr Pipe, she therefore became became Madame Pipe (French slang for a BJ). My how we chuckled 🙂
Friend of my mum has surname ****t daughter in law refused to take it as her married name.
Ah swear filter: tango whisky alpha tango.
I worked with both halves of a couple where she flat refused to take his name for similar reasons, so they both took hers. His family apparently took it really badly and his parents wouldn’t come to the wedding.
Mrs RBIT barely uses her married name so I am unclear what the fuss was about.
We had a doctor dayath in a french hospital. That's how he pronounced it.
It was spelt dr death.
O how we laughed, my ill mate not so.
My wife worked in a law firm.
There was a married couple who worked there, Mr and Mrs Down...
Their sons names? Ben and Neil.
They were not the most laugh-a-minute types.
I worked with a teacher called Joe King. He never seemed very happy about it!
I also taught a girl named Ikea. I thought it was a joke, but when I read it out on the register she just said "here", no one laughed or reacted. I never plucked up the courage to ask why
I've served with a Corporal Sergeant, and a Sergeant Sergeant, oh and a Captain Major and a Major Major.
Much japes.
Weren't you in Catch 22? 😉
I know someone born post war called Adolf. A Fanny but that's not unusal in these parts. A doctor with Lanusse as a surname. A Grandvillain (which translates to big nasty and he's a nice guy). Someone with Monsieur as a surname so Monsieur Monsieur. A dentist called Machet. A lumberjack called Dubois.
We had a doctor dayath in a french hospital. That's how he pronounced it.
It was spelt dr death.
Usually spelt D’ath, I think.
My very first thought on starting to read through this thread was Alan B’Stard in New Statesman!
I have a friend with the surname Crapp.
Never met him, but on my former company's phone list there was a Raoul Acosta.
Usually spelt D’ath, I think.
We had a a Mr De'Ath as a customer once. It'd been entered on the system without the apostrophe, so we'd go "is that mister death?" and he was properly oversensitive about it. So he'd explode, we'd apologise profusely and promise to have it updated.
He had more chance of growing a second willy than us actually getting his details changed, it was too funny.
He sounds like a dick Cougar.
You have to lean into it, in his cas ei would go for
SPEAKING IN CAPITALS.
I had a kid in my tutor group I taught at one time with the surname 'Bumstead'. The parents decided that that alone was not distinctive enough so called him 'Fletcher'. Imagine being 'Fletcher Bumstead' aged 13 in the early noughties- it's almost Dickensian. To be fair he was a cheeky little sod and wore the name well.
For the purposes of this post I just googled him and he seems to be doing really well for himself; chuffed for him. AND.....he looks like he's a proper handy mountain biker. He might even be a contributor here, though to be honest he looks a bit too cool for that!
