Unfortunate names

**Sick Boy** · 28-01-2009, 06:16 PM

Originally Posted by craner

My unusual name hasn't affected me at all; in fact, it has helped me make friends and improve my confidence, especially since leaving school.
Russell Sprout, London, UK

Key point.

**Sick Boy** · 28-01-2009, 06:53 PM

Originally Posted by craner

Yeah Detroit.

In an inspired blend of this brilliant name and Calvin Whynot, I am legally going to change my name to Yeah Whynot.

**petergunn** · 28-01-2009, 07:18 PM

Harry Wang

**Sick Boy** · 29-01-2009, 03:28 AM

This made me recall the other week when a lady registered at my work with the surname Hugh-Cock.

With a name like that, you need to hope you only meet people with the most impeccable hearing.

**Pestario** · 29-01-2009, 09:18 AM

Originally Posted by craner

Yeah Detroit

I love this simply as a pair of words, but as a name it is genius.

**bassnation** · 29-01-2009, 10:02 AM

Originally Posted by Sick Boy

In an inspired blend of this brilliant name and Calvin Whynot, I am legally going to change my name to Yeah Whynot.

i worked for a dutch bank where one of the directors was called burnt kok. there was also a worker in the thai office called suk yu lim.

**vimothy** · 29-01-2009, 10:10 AM

Randy Cheeks -- studying law and living in the same halls in first year, Randy is the child of Jamaican gangsters and is currently (AFAIK) languishing in prison after getting caught smuggling cocaine into the country.

**Rambler** · 29-01-2009, 10:13 AM

A couple of favs from the music dictionary I edit:

Charles Quarles (18th-century organist)
Gobelinus Person (14th-century historian and theologian)

**BareBones** · 29-01-2009, 10:40 AM

I think Kennedy Clinch is my fav so far. Nigel Vile is great as well, he sounds like a garbage pail kid

**IdleRich** · 29-01-2009, 11:01 AM

I like Charles Quarles.
Which country was it that had a religious leader called Cardinal Sin?

**STN** · 29-01-2009, 11:49 AM

ooh, I've just remembered a girl at school called Mumpta Bumpta.

**CHAOTROPIC** · 29-01-2009, 12:02 PM

Reverend Canaan Banana

The book 'Remarkabilia' was a favourite of mine when I was a nipper. Crammed with great names.

Philadelphia Bunnyface
Humperdink Fangboner
Verbal Funderburk
Lucious Pea
Comfort Bottom
Satisfy Bottom
Through-Trial-And-Tribulation-We-Come-At-Last-To-Heaven Slappe

etc.

Personally, I had a teacher called Dick Paine.