Whats in a name....

Pigman II · 20-06-2006 04:23PM

Does anyone have any clips from the notorious "Mr. Wanker" episode of Mork and Mindy. I only saw a few seconds of it once but it had me in stitches

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0651264/

GoldieBear · 20-06-2006 05:28PM

My old next door neighbour was called Dick Long (or long, Dick in the phone book) His nephew is called Richard and now lives there and for obvious reasons wont shorten his name.

MonkeyTennis · 20-06-2006 05:31PM

Theres a conference on in DkIT soon and the keynote speaker is one Dr Dolittle

AOR · 20-06-2006 05:43PM

my gf had a lecturer called Dr John Climax and the title of his lecture was "I never saw it coming" I kid you not.

familyguy · 25-06-2006 09:55PM

The CEO of BTS is named Joe King. No wonder on their About Us page, he's named as Joseph King.

I also know a whole family of Frickers

The_Minister · 25-06-2006 11:00PM

I know Ivor Ash!

I love this

Also - the pilots union = IMPACT

InFront · 25-06-2006 11:20PM

Femmy wrote:

its a bit of a myth that there's a girl out there called joanna ryder.

But there undoubtedly is, somewhere... Theres a girl in UCD called Joanna Curry!!

And a guy called Ian Gaye in my brothers old school. On his copies and books they inevitably turned the n to an m... Iam Gaye

Pherekydes · 25-06-2006 11:29PM

julep wrote:

had a teacher at school named miss english. she taught Irish and german.

So did I. But she taught English and Irish.

Nalz · 25-06-2006 11:37PM

GoldieBear wrote:

My old next door neighbour was called Dick Long (or long, Dick in the phone book) His nephew is called Richard and now lives there and for obvious reasons wont shorten his name.

I know a willy long...and there is a neighbour of mine called Willy Handcock

Pocari Sweat · 25-06-2006 11:50PM

I had a woodwork teacher called Mr Tickle, who got engaged to a lovely lady called Tessa. She was generally referred to as Tess though, and ended the engagement shortly after.

cujimmy · 26-06-2006 09:40AM

I have a South African friend who's surname is Buters, she called her son Roland, and another friend who works in mental health called Nutman

itchy_feet · 26-06-2006 02:17PM

In school there we had Ms. Carr, Ms. Van and Ms. Ferry, Ms. Van was a shortened version of her dutch/German name that no-one could pronounce.

I know a bloke that was with a gil from Ballygooley, her name was Hilda Hooley!

Dyr · 26-06-2006 02:21PM

I had a music teacher called Miss Sludd's...she was only a n00b teacher too, you think someone in the union would have taken her to one side and advised her to change that name....

youcancallmeal · 26-06-2006 02:44PM

Julia Dick who is a leakage specialist (Working is a water company

)

Ruu_Old · 26-06-2006 02:49PM

There is an Illinois politician called Rick Winkle (change the first name to Dick and change the W to a T)..so close

Tchocky · 26-06-2006 02:56PM

Two people I know

-Joanna Ryder

-Paddy English

oh and there's a graham graham around somewhere

Kermitt · 26-06-2006 04:39PM

worked 6 years in a hardware shop, some of our customers included,

Charlie Choiseul (pronounced 'Chisel')
Mr Gerard Sex
Peiter Schmelter (Smelled her)- German -moved here in '87

And some famous names!!!!
Tom Cruise
Dan Brown
David Gray
Tom Jones

Oh the fun we had in TJL

constitutionus · 26-06-2006 04:47PM

sjones wrote:

Engis Bates, the maths teacher used to call him "Master Bates".

we had one of these in secondary, poor bastard is still there making it at least
22 years of being called "master bates" by sucessive generation of school kids. ive a bet on with the lads he'll go mental and take em out with a shotgun in the end

(and he was "house head " as well!)

natter · 26-06-2006 04:48PM

There was a Joanna Coffey in a tutorial with me once... excited me at the time!!

Ruu_Old · 26-06-2006 04:51PM

Our real estate agent is called Linda Sheets.

Whats in a name....

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