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Old 25 February 2009, 06:54 AM
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United Kingdom Britons: Justin Case, Barry Cade, Ray Gunn
A Welsh Web site said a survey of Britons discovered residents with smile-inducing names, including Justin Case, Barb Dwyer and Anna Sasin.

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Old 25 February 2009, 06:58 AM
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A Welsh web site said a survey of Britons discovered more respondents than expected took the piss when filling out the online form.
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Old 25 February 2009, 07:06 AM
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Barb Dwyer
It took me far too long to get that one.
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Heh, my "toilet" book at the moment is "Potty, Fartwell & Knob" compiled by Russell Ash, and MrsHobbit keeps wondering why I'm giggling every time I go to the lav.

Even if those names are made up, they're still not a patch on the real British names from the 1800's.
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I had a teacher friend who claims he taught a boy called Wayne Kerr. No, I didn't believe him either.
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There were people in my class at junior school called Helen Back and Peter Abbott.
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Old 25 February 2009, 09:20 AM
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Even if those names are made up, they're still not a patch on the real British names from the 1800's.
A distant relation of mine was supposedly called Donald Duck.
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I had a teacher friend who claims he taught a boy called Wayne Kerr. No, I didn't believe him either.
A schoolfriend's first serious b/f had the surname "Bates". Unfortunately the lad also had some very traditional elderly maiden aunts who addressed birthday and Christmas cards to "Master Bates" (without even using his initial) and who didn't understand why such cards caused embarrassment (he kept some of the envelopes to amuse friends later on though).

Another pal noted a new joiner to the dept was Ken Wood and asked if the guy was a mixer :o (he meant as opposed to a loner).

I really did have a boss (or a boss's boss's boss) called Michael Hunt and we were instructed that under no circumstances was his name to be shortened to "Mike".
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I went to high school with Anita Butt (who later married a guy whose last name was Dick). Her cousin's name was Rose Thorne.
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On a radio phone programme a listener rang in and said that his Roman Catholic parish priest was called Christopher Moss. 'That's not unusual,' said the presenter (Danny Baker, by the way).

'It is,' replied the listener, 'he shortened his first name and so he was Father Chris Moss!'

A later contributor claimed that he knew a Mr. and Mrs. Littler who called their son Adolf, but Danny didn't believe that one.
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The BBC has a longer article with more examples of unusual names, including some from the USA. The comments section has this contribution:

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Jenny Taylor, Kendal
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I went to high school with Anita Butt (who later married a guy whose last name was Dick). Her cousin's name was Rose Thorne.
I worked with an A Butt. He lived up to his name in that he was a total a-hole.
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Is it too late to mention Dick Assman?
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I went to school with a Rich Staines.

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I've thought about. Got nothing.
Any help here?
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I've thought about. Got nothing.
Any help here?
It took me a bit of time to get. Think of ... er ... sex organs.
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I went to school with a Rich Staines.
As long as he wasn't a Seaman ... :o
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The ex's mother's maiden name was Jenny Taylor. Hee; I never thought it ythat way!
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It took me a bit of time to get. Think of ... er ... sex organs.
I think the problem is that in an American accent, the name Jenny Taylor is totally innocuous.

Does the "Kendal" part mean anything or is that just her location?
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I served in Kuwait back in 2001 with a guy named Mike Hawke. He thought it was hilarious.
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