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Topic History of: "Most unfortunate names" revealed
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veritas |
david wrote:
I once had a teacher called Mary Christmas.
I arranged for a friend to be interviewed by The Guardian once..a singer called Mandy Miami and the journalist mocked her name..the journo's name was Linda Christmas !
We had a kid in our class called Richard Head..no prizes for guessing what the poor lad was called ! (it took me a year to work it out)
We had another kid called Cecil who got his parents to change his name to Ricky...years later I ran into him and he had changed it back to Cecil as he thought it sounded more intelligent.
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The Cat |
There used to be a BBC cameraman called Bob Sleigh. His name appeared on many credits in the late 70s / early 80s.
I also remember a jockey called Bastard, sometimes referred to by pundits as the jockey with the unfortunate name. It had a French pronunciation I think. |
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Prunella Minge |
There used to be a GP when I was growing up called Sidebottom, but he insisted on pronouncing his name 'Siddy-bot-ahm'. Magnificent. There was an American sports star a while ago called Dick Trickle. That takes, er, some beating. |
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david |
I once had a teacher called Mary Christmas. |
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Locked Out |
Many {but not quite enough} years ago I lived in Hull. Wherin dwelled two people whose names should forever be enshrined. One, the owner of a Chines takeway, rejoiced in the moniker Wan K. Hing {honest, I jest not}, while another, a resident of the upmarket {for Hull, at least} village of Kirkella, was none other than a Dr. Goebbels. History has always taught that he went west in 1945. I never knew that they meant literally. |
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