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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8014318.stm - Major Dickie Head
Had to phone a customer called William Twatt (apparently pronounced Twot)
Had to phone a customer called William Twatt (apparently pronounced Twot)
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This evening we had a caller with the last name of Minicucci. When she said it, I got all kinds of possible different spellings in my head, based on phonetics...and none of them was particularly pleasant
However, I guessed at the correct spelling in my Notepad notes and it turned out I was right...so if the call happens to be graded (and my screen action viewed) I can't be accused of anything nasty 
"I was only LOOKING, I didn't mean to enter my card's CVV and actually ORDER! REFUND ME RIGHT NOW!!"Comment
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A couple of days ago we had a woman with the last name of Assman. I couldn't believe it. I'm going by the tone of her voice and her first name to say she was a woman, so she wasn't really an ass MAN...but she was kind of an ass.
"I was only LOOKING, I didn't mean to enter my card's CVV and actually ORDER! REFUND ME RIGHT NOW!!"Comment
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School photos continue to supply great names, though I'll have to continue to treat this thread as "Great Names"
Last week was all celebrities for me. I took Rebecca Black's picture one day (poor girl) and the next day I took Morgan Freeman's!
And then fast forward to today, where my mind was blown away by bizarre first names.
Stone
Fire
Wolf
Neo
All these kid's names threw me off so much that I managed to miss the fact that one of the teachers was Mr. Rogers.It makes sense.Comment
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Well, Wolf/Wulf/Wulfgarr I can see, especially from northern European backgrounds...
But, Neo? Freaking NEO?! If that kid doesn't turn out to be a Heisman trophy winner s/he's gonna get picked on with a name like that, I would think. Poor kid."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")
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Recently I've seen the last name Fulwider on a check (pronounced how it looks, I think...Full wider). There's also a family with the surname Sexe in the area--and yes, that's pronounced sexy. I had an instructor in college with the last name Loving. Speaking of odd first names...I have a cousin (male) named Storm. I also know of a Will Williams and a Jacob Jacobson. Oh, and I saw the following surnames recently in the obituaries: Hair, Spitler, Jacox, Kuntz (probably pronounced koontz and not the other way, but still), Heck, and Rust."And though she be but little, she is FIERCE!"--ShakespeareComment
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A coworker tells me his brother's name is James Browne
"I was only LOOKING, I didn't mean to enter my card's CVV and actually ORDER! REFUND ME RIGHT NOW!!"Comment
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I swear last week I had a customer with the last name Smrt.
And today I got to meet Father Breedlove.Meeeeoooow.....
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That reminds me that we have a regular with the last name Szmyr.
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Some great names from my ancestral family lines...
Dad's dad's line:
Hairsine
Hygham
Pinkney
Lemon
Dad's mum's line:
Rabbit
Pym
Glasscock
Cudd
Boice
Flye
Mum's dad's line:
Tyzack
Laing
Salmon
Mum's mum's line:
Jowsey
Swales
A lot of the unusual names are often parts of One-name Studies, meaning it's likely all relatives or bearers of that name are related. My housemate has found a cousin from university this way...and one in my family was a Bathurst, of which one Lawrence Bathurst was beheaded in the Wars of the Roses.
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I think my favorite is "Dr. Spaceman" from Thirty Rock.Comment
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My mother is currently seeing a Dr. Engineer.
Leaving us wondering if there is somewhere out there an engineer called Doctor.
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Well, he's not exactly an engineer, but he is a Doctor of everything.Quoth Victoria J View PostPWNADE(TM) - Serve up a glass today! | PWNZER - An act of pwnage so awesome, it's like the victim got hit by a tank.
There are only Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse because I choose to walk!Comment
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Got a new customer who's last name is "Phuc". I feel a swell of pity for him...Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.Comment
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He's changing his first name to Mi...Quoth bhskittykatt View Post
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