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PostPosted: 17-06-2005 22:40    Post subject: Weird names too Reply with quote

The continuation of the original Weird Names thread:

www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4886
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PostPosted: 18-06-2005 01:44    Post subject: Reply with quote

Am reminded of the old (and wise) adage: many a dirty deed done at the font...
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PostPosted: 18-06-2005 18:38    Post subject: Reply with quote

My favorite of the moment is Martin Martin, the traveller of 17th C scotland.
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PostPosted: 19-06-2005 00:36    Post subject: Reply with quote

I see that Sue Barker is married to Lance Tankard. Thats one hell of a name. I feel that he may be American
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PostPosted: 19-06-2005 02:03    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stumbled across the following acronym in a news story a bit back:
WVARSE -- which stands for the West Virginia Association of Retired School Employees. (or something incredibly similar). While "arse" isn't perhaps as widely used here, you still do hear it often enough for them to have known better. Laughing
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PostPosted: 19-06-2005 05:52    Post subject: Reply with quote

on the northern trainline into Sydney, there is a factory sign by the side of the tracks that always gets me...

it says AUSSCRAP

sounds awful doesn't it?
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PostPosted: 19-06-2005 08:00    Post subject: Reply with quote

Whenever I'm heading into Bristol by train I'm always easily amused by the factory sign for Munters.
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PostPosted: 24-06-2005 22:31    Post subject: Reply with quote

A head of the local police force was interviewed on the tv last night.

He was called Des Lawless !!!!
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PostPosted: 24-06-2005 22:48    Post subject: Reply with quote

One of our local factories is called 'Kuntz'. Must be a nasty place to work. Very Happy
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PostPosted: 25-06-2005 00:09    Post subject: Reply with quote

I went to school with a guy named Lance Knight.
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Anonymous
PostPosted: 25-06-2005 22:32    Post subject: Reply with quote

Honest - I went to school with a Wayne King - refering to a different thread (feral people), this guy's family were low-life scum...I'm pretty sure his dad thought it a great joke.
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PostPosted: 25-06-2005 22:47    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yesterday I encountered a Mr Willie Goodwillie. And also a Mr Mycock.
I probably shouldn't find this as funny as I, in fact, do.
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Anonymous
PostPosted: 25-06-2005 22:52    Post subject: Reply with quote

I still larf at a certain Mr Glasscock who lives nearby....
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PostPosted: 26-06-2005 01:01    Post subject: Reply with quote

Heh heh-heh heh, Glasscock, heh-heh.
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PostPosted: 26-06-2005 01:07    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hurrah! I'm not alone in my mocking and laughter
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