Names

[Leothebear]

I imagine Richard Head would concur with that.

...and what about poor Michael Hunt?

[bungeejumper]

...and what about poor Michael Hunt?

Jeremy? I can't imagine anybody calling him Jezza, that's for sure.

BJ

[DiamondEcho]

there was a (US based) Verizon(?) engineer called Randy Bender

I worked with a chap called Richard Bend, aka Bender, aka Dickie Bender (LIFFE trading floor, mid-80s). And also off expeditioning to nether parts with Tiger Timbs, and Sandy Rhodes. ...Curious how such people's projected character seems to grow into/up to the eccentricity of their names.

[tjh290633]

I knew a girl in Oxford whose parents had christened her Sophonisba Thusnelda Eadgyth. We knew her as Bunty. She later changed her name by deed poll to Stella Thusnelda Edith. A nice girl. Pity about the name.

TJH

[BrummieDave]

I remember a shop in Harrogate years ago called "Godfrey and Twatt".

They've dropped the 'T' now I think and it's an art gallery.

[swill453]

I remember a shop in Harrogate years ago called "Godfrey and Twatt".

They've dropped the 'T' now I think and it's an art gallery.

Godfrey and Twat? Surely that's even worse?

Scott.

[swill453]

I knew an Iver McIver at school.

Scott.

[scotia]

When sent off to register his newly born daughter, with instructions from his wife to name her Cordelia, a certain husband deviated via a local hostelry to celebrate the occasion in a suitable fashion, and arrived at the registrar's office in a slightly befuddled state. He struggled hard to remember his instructions, and the newly born was duly named Cortina - a reminiscence from my wife's late Aunt who taught the young girl.
I should possibly add, that those of you who are widely travelled may have thought this was a reasonable choice, but I'm afraid in the young lady's home town it was definitely a Ford.

[didds]

I knew an Iver McIver at school.

Scott.

the inspiration for Boaty McBoatface?


didds

[bungeejumper]

ISTR that Oprah Winfrey was correctly christened Orpah (an old testament name), but that none of her family could pronounce it, so it became Oprah.

This from the nation that brought you nucular weapons.

BJ

[AleisterCrowley]

and 'aloominum'

[neversay]

I went to school with a Thomas Thomas.

My favourite was a legend at my old workplace - Andy Ness - otherwise known as... A Ness.

To make matters worse, his parents gave him the middle name of Peter, so he's also... A P Ness

(While at an Airport in the US, I heard the announcer put a call out for a 'Mr Red Green'. To this day I wondered if he had a daughter called Amber).

[kiloran]

I knew an Iver McIver at school.

Scott.

Good job his parents weren't Mr and Mrs Biggun

--kiloran

[swill453]

My favourite was a legend at my old workplace - Andy Ness - otherwise known as... A Ness.

I worked with one of them, wonder if it was the same one?

Scott.

[AleisterCrowley]

Popular actor/crooner David Soul's middle name is Richard, but he NEVER uses his middle initial

[bungeejumper]

My attention was caught recently by the American psychologist Fredric Schiffer, who developed a theory that some people had a different personality for each hemisphere of the brain. If you covered up one eye, he said, you might find yourself talking to Mr Normal, but if you obscured the other one instead you'd get the Incredible Hulk. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/ ... f-its-own/

Sadly, though, that was way back in 2002. I gather that the Schiffer Brains theory didn't really catch on. I can't imagine why.

BJ

[staffordian]

There was a Theresa Green where I used to work.

And a chap with the surname Curtin. Always hoped he'd marry someone named Annette but he didn't...

[gryffron]

I went to school with a Thomas Thomas.

Known as Satnav?

[UncleEbenezer]

There was a Theresa Green where I used to work.

With a male name, it's almost certainly the parents' responsibility.

With a female name, entirely likely she could have married into it. If my ex had taken my name, her initials and my surname would've been very rude when reluctantly signing something.

[staffordian]

There was a Theresa Green where I used to work.

With a female name, entirely likely she could have married into it.

Very true, like my Gill Gill example above