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Embarrassing Surnames

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  • #32
    seenitall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,733 ✭✭✭seenitall


    Read somewhere that the great director Alfred Hitchcock used to say to people (to put them at ease, like): "Call me Hitch, without the cock."

    Talking of which, the actress Olivia Wilde's real name is Olivia Cockburn. (I sort of see what she did there - she didn't want an embarrassing surname but didn't want to stray too far from the original meaning either...)


  • #33
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,021 ✭✭✭uch


    Heard Once that when Charlie Chaplin made his first talkie and I have to stop

    21/25



  • #34
    Killer Wench
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭Killer Wench


    I'm sure both his first and last name are embarrassing:

    http://nowaygirl.com/photos/is-that-his-real-name/


  • #35
    ArnoldJRimmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,506 ✭✭✭ArnoldJRimmer


    Once met a girl whose surname was Sackmaster. I'd say she had a fun time growing up


  • #36
    JBTM
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 100 ✭✭JBTM


    ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »
    Once met a girl whose surname was Sackmaster. I'd say she had a fun time growing up

    I knew an Arnold Rimmer once upon a time.

    Arse Rimmer we called him :)

    He loved to rim arse.


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  • #37
    Elmer Blooker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,239 ✭✭✭Elmer Blooker


    Ita McGee.


  • #38
    I am pie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    Genuinely had a friend with the surname "coons"


  • #39
    ferretone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 638 ✭✭✭ferretone


    Howard Juneau wrote: »
    I suppose the German footballing brothers Sven & Lars Bender.

    Speaking of German footballers, Schweinsteiger actually means "pig-mounter" :D


  • #40
    JBTM
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 100 ✭✭JBTM


    ferretone wrote: »
    Speaking of German footballers, Schweinsteiger actually means "pig-mounter" :D

    I remember the night Munich were playing in the CL Final this year and a lad I know who puts up the most ridiculous statuses you could imagine on FB put up;

    'Schweinsteiger sounds like a cheap can of cider you'd give to your cat'.

    Don't ask why but I thought it was hilarious :D


  • #41
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Fagmeister. A wealthy family in the North Rhine Westphalia region of Germany.


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  • #42
    TheBoffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 434 ✭✭TheBoffin


    Dick Staines

    Also worked with a guy with the surname Takenosh1t (Taka No Shee) Japaneese


  • #43
    Sunglasses Ron
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    Elmer Blooker wrote: »
    apparently theres a dutch coach now working for the FAI called Ruud Doktor,
    for some reason that makes me think of naughty nurses in black stockings?

    I was thinking more of a doctor who says things like "I'll just examine you now, show us yer fanny". Very Rudd :pac:


  • #44
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    A bus conductor thirty years ago called Tony Schito.


  • #45
    amber69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 988 ✭✭✭amber69


    Pub in Thomastown with owners name over the door.. M.T.Pockets or the girl on today fm Juliett Gash.


  • #46
    myshirt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    Mycock

    Chap in Wales, Irish descent, Pat Mycock.


  • #47
    Clonmel1000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭Clonmel1000


    Bohner


  • #48
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    A friend of mine's mother was called Susan, and known as Suey all her life. She married a guy who's surname was Seidel (SI-DEL).

    Suey Seidel.

    Say it out loud. There ya go.


  • #49
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,244 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    JBTM wrote: »
    Camme shaut, a German name pronounced Cum Shot.

    No, it's not. Shaut in German would be pronounced Shout.
    FueledbyCoffee wrote: »
    Remember reading obituaries in the paper and saw a Mrs Sex also my granny had a friend and her surname was Woolhead :)

    I worked with a guy called Woolhead!

    Reamsbottom is another one.


  • #50
    JBTM
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 100 ✭✭JBTM


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    No, it's not. Shaut in German would be pronounced Shout.

    Sorry to piss in your morning coffee but I know him, it's pronounced 'shot'.


  • #51
    Optimalprimerib
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭Optimalprimerib


    markomuscle wrote: »
    There used to be an Austrian fellow on my university course called Kuntner.

    Gday mate


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  • #52
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    Went to college with a guy who's surname was Sex, Swinton Sex.
    Even the lecturers had a hard time believing it.

    Worked with a guy called Ronald McDonald, feckin big head of red hair and all, what are parents thinking 😱


  • #53
    doughef
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 749 ✭✭✭doughef


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avril_Hoare


  • #54
    JBTM
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 100 ✭✭JBTM


    doughef wrote: »
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avril_Hoare

    She's an Awful Whore that one.




    Edit: She's an Avril Hoare that one.


  • #55
    Surveyor11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭Surveyor11


    Worked with an English fella who's surname was mycock, the day he told me is still etched in my brain. 'Can you spell that please?' And he starts 'my....',


  • #56
    stimpson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,864 ✭✭✭stimpson


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmwGFX5pgXw


  • #57
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Probably spelled Kok.

    The common spelling for it is Koch. They emphasise the h in a very dutch way, thus spitting all over you.


  • #58
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Wanker is a common surname in the states. On the mork and mindy show, her landlord was mr wanker.


  • #59
    holystungun9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    Spelt Cockburn but he pronounced it Coburn.

    Lots of Hoares in Ireland too. Earlier in thread a couple of you were saying Cock is a surname. Would be funny if someone went for a double barreled name
    Mrs. Cock Hoare.


  • #60
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Lady Kinmee


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  • #61
    donegal__road
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    Clonmel1000 wrote: »
    Bohner

    Bonner and Bonnar are very common surnames where Im from.


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