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beakboo Great Old One Joined: 14 Aug 2006 Total posts: 1088 Location: The Home for Bewildered Gentlebeaks, St Peter's Close. Age: 50 Gender: Female |
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| A good day for names at work. We had a Prince Billy and Bincy Baby, followed by a Tatiana Vagina. I googled her, she's on Facebook, that appears to be her actual name. I expected a drag act. |
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| tillybean1 Grey Joined: 13 Jan 2010 Total posts: 24 Location: In the man drawer behind the tape measure Gender: Female |
| Posted: 26-08-2013 17:29 Post subject: |
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Weirdest name encountered at work was "Countess Elizabeth". She's a six month old baby and quite possibly her parents failed to do a quick google search before naming her 
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| sherbetbizarre Great Old One Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Total posts: 1418 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 14-09-2013 00:49 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Mrs Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele furious over ID name snub
A Hawaiian woman has been left outraged after state officials asked her to cut down her 36-letter surname – because it wouldn’t fit on the ID card.
Furious Janice Lokelani Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele claims the state has been ‘disrespectful’ towards her Hawaiian heritage after being reissued an ID card with only 35 letters in her surname.
Her name is so long that the driving licence in question does not even include her first name and middle names at all.
Mrs Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele, who has had to carry two ID cards for the past 20 years, said that the action of missing off one letter was ‘disrespectful of the Hawaiian people’.
‘The county has never accommodated my name on my driver’s license,’ she told Honolulu television station KHON2.
She said the new ID has created a number of problems for her, including not being able to travel and being questioned by police during traffic.
’He looked at it and he goes, “Well, where is your first name?” And I said, “Don’t blame me. This is your department, this is the county”.’
Mrs Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele said that she has been told by the country to take her maiden name or shorten her last name. But she wants to keep the name as a tribute to her late husband.
After the TV station that originally reported the story pressured the local Department of Transport on the issue, officials said they will extend ID cards to a 40-character limit. |
http://metro.co.uk/2013/09/13/mrs-keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele-furious-over-id-name-snub-3983626 |
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| Ronnor Yeti Joined: 23 Oct 2009 Total posts: 81 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 14-09-2013 07:35 Post subject: |
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I'm told that before I started with my current employer, one of the employees legally changed his name to "Daffy The Great Montrose" complete with quote marks. Perhaps unsurprisingly he turned out to be a bit of a nutter and doesn't work there anymore...
There was another a couple of years before "Daffy" too, who had legally changed his name to Farrah Von Stringfellow at some point before getting a job with us. He was also eventually shown the door for being a nutter. |
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| OneWingedBird Great Old One Joined: 19 Nov 2012 Total posts: 542 Location: Attice of blinkey lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 14-09-2013 08:22 Post subject: |
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We have a Mrs Crapper that we sometimes deal with at work... I dread the day that I have to speak to her.  |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17931 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 14-09-2013 14:24 Post subject: |
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| Ronnor wrote: | I'm told that before I started with my current employer, one of the employees legally changed his name to "Daffy The Great Montrose" complete with quote marks. Perhaps unsurprisingly he turned out to be a bit of a nutter and doesn't work there anymore...
There was another a couple of years before "Daffy" too, who had legally changed his name to Farrah Von Stringfellow at some point before getting a job with us. He was also eventually shown the door for being a nutter. |
Sounds like my Civil Service days. |
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