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I once new a Mr R Sole. and a Mr Mike Hunt. Both were customers of a bingo hall where i used to work some years back.

I once had a teacher called Mary Christmas.

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.

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.

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.