My wifes maiden name was Knott.
When she worked for Woolworths years ago some of the staff there had a lot of fun calling her name over the load speaker because they would overly pronounce the “SS”
Miss Knott phone call.
I also worked at a Butchers Shop Saturday Mornings and the owners name was Randle, but everybody called him Randy for short. I thought nothing of it until someone came in and ask if he was Randy !
Yep, the english language can be cruel, and sometimes people too, but it is also very funny at times.
Don’t know if I may claim “the title” but here are one or two I came across during my working life. For the first 10 years from school, I worked in one bank and one of my sisters in another.
For a couple of years I worked in Warragul, Vic., where a young lady came in to do the banking for a shop she worked for. She was a very pretty girl and had the name of … Margaret Roots. (Truth – I swear.)Where my sister worked, in head office in Melb, was a young lady who’s first name was Ophelia. At the time, she was soon to marry a chap by the surname of … COX!!!
After the bank, I became a paramedic (for 23 years) and because of my surname, Van, I instantly got the name ‘Bongo’. (It was a little Mazda) Of course, during my life, I got all the vehicles: Cara.., Panel…, etc. etc. It was good fun.[biggrin]
I once knew a man who was mad keen on horses and was involved in racing syndicates his name was Barry Knaggs.
Amanda
“It is better to be inconspicuously wealthy, than to be ostentatiously poor…”My parents owned a restuarant a long time ago. One of the waiters was called
Joseph Damien Fook Ming Wong!
He could never work out why it made people laugh [biggrin]
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HE, had a shaved head, tatoos and very rough looking.
Think he wanted to compensate for the name his parents chose for him.
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phone 0412 437 582Many moons ago I used to work for a Miss Pugh (Phew), at that age it caused us much merriment.
The best one of all though was my X used to work for Doug Thorley Viscount (big caravan company) Our mutual friend was a printer and did all the printing. On the top of a huge pile of printing Doug had ordered the first page was headed up without the “O” in Viscount. Of course Doug had a stroke thinking all the printing carried the same error.Fern
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I worked in Saudi Arabia for a year a while back and was priviledged to learn a bit of the language. I thought it must have been stressful for the patients when Dr Alam introduced himslef…His name translated to Dr Pain!
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The above msg was from me logged in under my husband’s name!
Have fun with this funny thread!
Mapleleaf
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My dad tells the story of a teacher name Adrian Twit and at the start of each year he would write his name on the board for the class.
I am A Twit. You will call me Mr Twit.
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Lisa
The school dentist when I was in prmiary school was named (for real) Dr. Ripper. I never found out if this was her maiden or married name.
A guy I worked with many years ago was Richard Bender. He preferred to be called Dick.
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there is a Urologist in Brisbane named Dr Winkle…I am led to believe his motto is “if you have a problem with your twinkle come and see Dr Winkle”
I used to work for Police Communications – they answer the triple zero police related calls put through from Telstra and handle the despatching of cars etc…one of the guys in the radio room was a part time DJ and goes by the nickname of “Nil”. A female sergeant didn’t him using name [grrr] and gave him a hard time so to get her back he changed his name by deed poll to “Nil Omega Zero” – he now signs everything as “000” [thumbsupanim]
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Turtlehehehe, this is a fun thread!
My Mum’s dentist is Chinese and his name is Dr Chu (Chew)!!
I actually know a Mike Hunt (but he uses his middle name!!!hehehe)
But the classic has to be an employee of my husband’s….this is a true story for those into mystery or porn….
He was introduced to me as Sherlock Holmes. I asked if that was his real name and he said yes and said he got stirred a lot. I then asked him if he had a middle name and why doesn’t he use that instead of Sherlock if he hates it so much? He said that his middle name is JOHN!! I see why he sticks to Sherlock!!!!!
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There is a mortician in either Banyo or a nearby suburb of Brisbane who’s surname is Skinner![lmao]
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Lisa
Just last week I met a client with the name Mimi Cooper! And today one named Sunshine Williams. Interesting….
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