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When my dad was at school, he used to sit next to a girl called Olive Hoyle. I've known a girl called Jo King and a man called Sydney Harbour.
My favourite one, though, is a man that my mother used to work with, whose surname was Sitch. His first name was Ralph, which doesn't sound so bad - unless you just use the initial in front of the surname.....
Engaged to the sweet Mytical He is my Black Dragon (and yes, a good one) strong, protective, the guardian. I am his Silver Dragon, always by his side, shining for him, cherishing him.
A friend of my sister's used to work in a hospital and swore that a patient wanted to name her newborn daughter "Chlamydia" because she'd heard the word and thought it was pretty. They had to finally tell her it was illegal to name your kid after a disease because they couldn't talk her out of it any other way.
A rather well-endowed friend of mine decided to keep her maiden name when she married. Her husband-to-be's surname was Grabem...
That's not uncommon these days. A married couple friends of my partner and I are married, with the wife not taking the husbands surname. I actually didn't realise they were married until someone explained it to me!
A friend of my sister's used to work in a hospital and swore that a patient wanted to name her newborn daughter "Chlamydia" because she'd heard the word and thought it was pretty. They had to finally tell her it was illegal to name your kid after a disease because they couldn't talk her out of it any other way.
No idea if that was a true story.
There was an episode of ER where two of the med students were doing a NICU rotation and one of the new mums wanted to name her baby boy "chare kirk" pronounced "chair." I think they wound up rethinking it.
At my first job, their was a client who's name was Andrew Richard Dick. So he was A Dick Dick. His school years must have been hell. His wife's initials were S S Dick.
When working in London and Dublin, I came across a number of not so great names but can only remember a woman named I. Fulaluv (pronounced like Full-a-Love).
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. - Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
I went to High School with "Brandy Alexander"
Local Urologist: Dr Richard Tapper. (insists on being called 'Dick')
My gym teacher in Elementary school was 'Mr. Ball'
I went to High School with "Brandy Alexander"
Local Urologist: Dr Richard Tapper. (insists on being called 'Dick')
My gym teacher in Elementary school was 'Mr. Ball'
Either you don't live far from me or there is more that one Richard Tapper the urologist.
My daughter took classes in the "Dick Science Building" (Vestmuenster College, SLC, UT)
I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
Procrastination: Forward planning to insure there is something to do tomorrow.
Derails threads faster than a pocket nuke.
My niece is named Certyn Leah Legg...when it is said fast it sounds like "certainly a Legg" and I used to have a customer whose actual first name was "Pepsi"!!
"For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad") "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005) Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
"Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me
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