In today's edition ...
 

In today's edition of Nominative Determinism:

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I give you:

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Posted : 13/05/2025 5:57 pm
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I had an email from someone with a surname ‘Shitole’ yesterday. So there’s that.


 
Posted : 13/05/2025 6:02 pm
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There's also the classic,

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Posted : 13/05/2025 6:11 pm
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My Police Driving Instructor wqs PC Nick Moore


 
Posted : 13/05/2025 6:33 pm
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I used to have a GP called Dr Payne.


 
Posted : 13/05/2025 8:41 pm
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A mate's missus ran off with a guy called Roger Dailey.


 
Posted : 13/05/2025 8:48 pm
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Our local Bobby was PC Crooks.


 
Posted : 13/05/2025 9:03 pm
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The urologist looks exactly like someone who’s really sick and tired at all the s****ing about his name.


 
Posted : 13/05/2025 10:00 pm
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Judith Gash used to work in the Gastroenterology dept of a Manchester hospital.


 
Posted : 13/05/2025 10:55 pm
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Mrs Epic once went to see a Mr Fish the gynaecologist


 
Posted : 13/05/2025 11:01 pm
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I spoke to a surgeon named Mr Sharp once.


 
Posted : 14/05/2025 12:08 am
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Our school community police bloke was PC Sharp... except he was the opposite of sharp. Even as kids we could tell they'd put him in the role to keep him off the streets.

Our nickname for him was Trim 'n Edge because we saw him cutting his entire lawn with one.


 
Posted : 14/05/2025 2:03 am
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A woman I knew fell off a cliff*

Her name was Eileen Dover**

 

*I did not know such a woman.

**It wasn't. 


 
Posted : 14/05/2025 6:52 am
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My music teacher was Mr E Sharp

Looking back noow i don't know why we didn't call him Mr F


 
Posted : 14/05/2025 7:20 am
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BBC Local Weather Presenter (West Midlands) is called Sara Blizzard 😛 


 
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^Ros Canter


 
Posted : 14/05/2025 9:12 am
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Another Mr Payne, the dentist who lives in the next village to my parents. 

And Mr Frost who had the ice cream van.

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A couple of famous ones I like are Scott Speed and Will Power, both racing drivers.


 
Posted : 14/05/2025 9:32 am
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Posted by: JAG

BBC Local Weather Presenter (West Midlands) is called Sara Blizzard 😛 

Seem to recall she recently retired. Probably due to climate change

 


 
Posted : 14/05/2025 11:24 am
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I once went to a hospital followup with a lady called Dr Van Helsing

she introduced herself and kept talking without any kind of gap to prevent the other person getting a crappy joke in ! 


 
Posted : 14/05/2025 1:50 pm
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Well, that was her first misstake.


 
Posted : 14/05/2025 2:12 pm
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Late 90’s as a backpacker in Australia I had a temp job in Sydney for a pharmaceutical company who wanted me to phone a huge list of Dr’s to tell them (with my soothing Edinburgh accent) about a new way they could use an existing drug 

and so it came to pass that shortly after starting the “D” pages of the list I spent an entire day speaking to various Dr Death’s across the great continent. 


 
Posted : 14/05/2025 2:54 pm
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On a slight tangent, I used to work with someone with the surname 'Broadhead'. He was particularly self-conscious of his fast-receding hairline and one day he got a letter addressed to Mr Baldhead. We laughed. Him - not so much.


 
Posted : 14/05/2025 3:17 pm
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she introduced herself and kept talking without any kind of gap to prevent the other person getting a crappy joke in ! 

I have a hilarious surname. I actually pause to see if i will get a reaction.


 
Posted : 14/05/2025 3:19 pm
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I'm constantly amazed that so many people with the name Justice become judges. Oh wait...


 
Posted : 15/05/2025 10:34 am
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I had a primary French teacher called Mrs Franc.

Not so fitting these days. 


 
Posted : 15/05/2025 10:42 am
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Posted by: petrieboy

so it came to pass that shortly after starting the “D” pages of the list I spent an entire day speaking to various Dr Death’s across the great continent

Back when I worked Support, we had had a customer whose surname was De'Ath.  Whoever set up the account neglected to include the apostrophe, the system was all uppercase so it read DEATH.  Turned out, he was really touchy about this. 

We'd answer the phone, go "is this Mister Death?" (Might even have been Doctor, I don't recall now.) He'd bellow "it's day-athh!" We'd say we're terribly sorry, we'll get that changed on the system for you, but no-one ever did because a) I don't think we actually could change it and b) we all found his increasing apoplexy hilarious. 


 
Posted : 15/05/2025 2:38 pm
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Our local butcher was called Fatt and Lean. As a kid, I always thought it was weird they misspelt Fat - until I found out it was run by John Fatt and Brian Lean......


 
Posted : 15/05/2025 3:14 pm
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When I was a kid my doctor was Dr. DeAth. Never occurred to me at the time.


 
Posted : 15/05/2025 3:21 pm
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Posted by: edhornby

I once went to a hospital followup with a lady called Dr Van Helsing

she introduced herself and kept talking without any kind of gap to prevent the other person getting a crappy joke in ! 

I used to work with a guy whose surname was Nobbs. He spelt it as soon as he'd said it try and stop any response.

 


 
Posted : 15/05/2025 3:59 pm
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I used to work with a guy whose surname was Nobbs.

Cecil Wormsborough St John Nobbs?


 
Posted : 15/05/2025 4:41 pm
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Slight tangent, but I once worked on an email migration project. One of the accounts to be migrated was for a woman named Michelle Cox. She obviously wasn't the first Michelle Cox at that organisation and the wags in IT had given her an email address Michelle2Cox@... 


 
Posted : 15/05/2025 4:49 pm
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^Ros Canter

 

Without actually googling.... is Ros male or female? 

 


 
Posted : 15/05/2025 6:12 pm
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Music teacher - Mr Tune

English teacher- Mr Shakespeare

I kid you not.


 
Posted : 15/05/2025 7:23 pm
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Without actually googling.... is Ros male or female? 

 

Does it matter?


 
Posted : 15/05/2025 9:56 pm
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All in the same school I went to . 

Woodwork - Mr Glue

Art -  Mr Broad and Mr Long

Chemistry - Dr Spillit 


 
Posted : 15/05/2025 10:01 pm