[Closed] 'Perfect' names

It's called nominative determinism, New Scientist has had a long running letter thread about it 🙂

A friend of ours used to go out with a bloke called Dirk Horn. I never got round to asking if he was a porn star.

The Lord Chief Justice is called Lord Judge.

According to the sports news this morning on Radio 2 Hartlepool won on Saturday, nothing out of the ordinary there. Apart from the scorers for them were Hartley and Poole.

According to 5 live the other day Rugby's Billy Twelvetrees dad became a tree surgeon after marrying Mrs TT's and thinking it'd be a good idea : )

Like molgrips said 'nominative determinism'

A few years ago a guy by the name of Wolfgang Wolf was the manager of German side Wolfsburg.

Mate of mine's surname is 'Wood'. His dad lives on a street called Forest Houses and is a lumberjack.

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My surname is Peartree. We have two pear trees in our garden. Spooky, eh? 😯

the wife made me watch an episode of Once Upon a Time the other day...much to my amusement the producer is called Brian ****um... 😆

My surname is Wynne and I once won something!

I once went out with a girl that had the same name as me

My Christian name and her middle name are the same and we both share the same surname

[url= http://www.cracked.com/funny-2592-staff-sgt.-max-fightmaster/ ]Staff Sgt. Max Fightmaster[/url]

According to 5 live the other day Rugby's Billy Twelvetrees dad became a tree surgeon after marrying Mrs TT's and thinking it'd be a good idea : )

His dad was always a tree surgeon.
He married Mr Twelvetrees, and took [b]her[/b] name as it seemed fitting....

DrP

Once had to ring a construction site we were working on and the foreman was named 'A. Workman' He even apologised in advance!

There used to be a "Lady Fuchs" in our village 😆

A girl I know is getting married to chap who's surname is Slaughter, he's in the Army so is currently "Sergeant Slaughter" but could potentially become "Major Slaughter" or even "General Slaughter!"

Robin Money, Head of Sports Marketing, Adidas Group

My surname is Wynne and I once won something!

This post is full of Wynne.

Cougar - ever thought of pigeon fancying as a hobby?

Local optician is "I Straine".

A handyman at my old gym was called Jim Painter.

His dad was always a tree surgeon.
He married Mr Twelvetrees, and took her name as it seemed fitting....

DrP

Shouldn't you be 'DrT' then?

or are you a Urologist?

Currently considering opening a hotel or service station...

A lad I played football with had a Phd in Geology, and was a geologist.

His name?

Gregg Rock, or to give him his proper title. Dr. Rock

Cougar - ever thought of pigeon fancying as a hobby?

Eee, is it 1983 again?

Orthopaedic surgeon in our trust called Mr Limb.
Local dentist Mr Payne.

I know a Chef whose surname is Mustard.

My SiL's maiden name was Window her neighbour across the hall used to be called Payne. the Buzzer on the door read Payne Window 🙄

There's a shoe shop owned by an 'R Sole'..

Firefighters by the name of Sparks and Fry on my old patch.

Journalist with surname Haq, pronoucned "hack".

I often ponder over 'better' Doctor names than my own....

A few on my wishlist: (I've known them all)
Dr Love
Dr Da'Silva (sounds really cool)
Dr Foster (my wife's from Gloucester)

If I could make up one, I'd have the surname Doctor-Fox (double barrelled).
Then I could announce my arrival with the retro Capital FM Pepsi Chart Jingle "Doctor....Doctor....Fox...."

DrP

nominative determinism

is that a poncy phrase to mean 'coincidence' or somesuch?

😀

I know a young lad called William Williams who suffers from the rare Williams Syndrome

I know of a Dr Sweetlove...

Also my cousin's surname is France, his partner Francine hasn't been in a hurry to marry him oddly enough...

I often ponder over 'better' Doctor names than my own....

In a previous job, one of our customers was a Doctor De'Ath. Due to our crappy call logging system it simply read DR DEATH.

Turned out, he was incredibly sensitive about it. He'd call, we'd ask "is that Doctor Death?" and he'd bellow, "IT'S DEEE ATH!!" So of course, his details never got amended, ever.

There's gotta be a Doctor Hook somewhere.

Indeed, [url= http://www.priorygroup.com/Consultants/Dr-John-Hook.aspx ]found one already[/url].

His dad was always a tree surgeon.
He married Mr Twelvetrees, and took her name as it seemed fitting....

DrP

You sure about that?

Saw a Dr Gwynn Reaper being interviewed on the news years ago.
Used to work for Coca-Cola, the national account moanager for McDonalds was Ron MacDonald
There is a Dr Love at the local hopsital. by all aco****s he does have a way with the ladies.

^^ It should read that Mr X, who was a tree surgeon, married [b]Mrs[/b] Twelvetrees and took her name...

I got told that on saturday by a friend who's sister went out with the rugby player! Blame them for lying if it's wrong!

There's loads of Dr Deaths about!

DrP

I once had an appointment with a plastic surgeon, Dr Sharp.

jota180 - Member

I once went out with a girl that had the same name as me

My Christian name and her middle name are the same and we both share the same surname

Ummm......that was your sister 😯