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    #32
    mojesius
    Registered Users Posts: 4,322 ✭✭✭mojesius


    Cat Melodeon wrote: »
    You beat me on the edit...

    It was a close call though...phew :)


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    #33
    dreamer_ire
    Registered Users Posts: 1,894 ✭✭✭dreamer_ire


    Was in college with Annette Curtain


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    #34
    zuroph
    Registered Users Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    scored a french girl years ago called Fanny Dupis.

    guy near where I live called tony foot. (toe knee foot)


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    #35
    thebigleap
    Registered Users Posts: 83 ✭✭thebigleap


    There were a couple of Hoares at my secondary school which was a convent run by nuns. We used to snigger when Sr. Veronica had to call out their names during assembly.

    There was also a Catherine Hiney and a Hilary Schmoochen, or Smoochie as we used to call her.


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    #36
    up for anything
    Registered Users Posts: 5,776 ✭✭✭up for anything


    There was the famous cricket commentary gaff, "the bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey...". The wrong names in the wrong place at the wrong time.


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    #37
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    up for anything wrote: »
    There was the famous cricket commentary gaff, "the bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey...". The wrong names in the wrong place at the wrong time.

    Similarly, Moore, Goode, Dick.


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    #38
    questionmark?
    Registered Users Posts: 3,071 ✭✭✭questionmark?


    I remember watching the news one night and seeing a certain Sgt Pat McGee talking about something :D


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    #39
    CarrickMcJoe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭CarrickMcJoe


    Knew a man called Jack Dawe used to drink in a pub called The Nest (no joke):D


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    #40
    Spangles
    Registered Users Posts: 81 ✭✭Spangles


    I went to school with a girl called Blanche Magee


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    #41
    mojesius
    Registered Users Posts: 4,322 ✭✭✭mojesius


    Spangles wrote: »
    I went to school with a girl called Blanche Magee

    Sounds painful :eek:


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    #42
    Ricardo G
    Registered Users Posts: 1,308 ✭✭✭Ricardo G


    Had a school teacher called Mr Bates........ which of course turned into Master bates


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    #43
    Spangles
    Registered Users Posts: 81 ✭✭Spangles


    Also used to live in UK next door to a Policeman PC Hole !


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    #44
    babyfratelli_x
    Registered Users Posts: 209 ✭✭babyfratelli_x


    My Dr. is called Dr. Bonner.

    That would be fine, except here in Donegal we pronounce it Boner.... never thought it was strange until I moved out of the county and realised other people pronounce it BON-NER

    Now I think it sounds a bit porn-starish :o


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    #45
    Conor OH!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 84 ✭✭Conor OH!


    good work everyone! hahaha

    some good ones there...

    i remember aswell, a chinese fella used to ring us in the call centre, and someone told me that his name was "Happy Sun"

    there was also someone called "Mary Clabby" and once when i was in the airport the announcement was calling for

    "Anne COUCH" to check in desk... hahahaha


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    #46
    charmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭charmer


    Doing data entry in work I came across a Willie Ramsbottom yesterday. I lol'd.


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    #47
    Larianne
    Registered Users Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Hedda Dick.
    dreamer_ire wrote: »
    Was in college with Annette Curtain

    Was in college with an Annette Ball.


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    #48
    Tom Cruises Left Nut
    Registered Users Posts: 9,010 ✭✭✭Tom Cruises Left Nut


    Chinese girl rang into work "Suk Pil OH"


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    #49
    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/0b227ff5-7f38-4282-8625-cbec19148fc5.jpg

    Best ever..


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    #50
    Conor OH!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 84 ✭✭Conor OH!


    Larianne wrote: »
    Hedda Dick.

    QUOTE]


    haha, gas... i know her!


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    #51
    GrizzlyMan
    Registered Users Posts: 957 ✭✭✭GrizzlyMan


    Wayne Scales and Ulick Daly prob the funniest ones ive come across!


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    #52
    Jenneke87
    Registered Users Posts: 807 ✭✭✭Jenneke87


    A friend of mine was in college with an African girl called Wankawee.....:eek:


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    #53
    Majestic 12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭Majestic 12


    There's some radio news or weather girl called "Jessie McGee".

    Now I thought that "Jessie McGee" was a perfectly normal name until one of my friends was rolling around the place laughing. Took a few minutes for the penny to drop........


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    #54
    bubbaloo
    Registered Users Posts: 758 ✭✭✭bubbaloo


    I worked in a call centre for an airline and Mr Hamburger rang in to order a vegetarian meal - (I swear to God.) :D

    There is a dentist in Rathgar in Dublin call Dr Fang and an acupuncturist in Rathmines called Su Pin!


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    #55
    Dionysus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    mojesius wrote: »
    The worst I saw in my call centre days was 'Cockburn'. I can't remember his 1st name, think it was something normal like 'Dave'.

    Don Cockburn used to read the news on RTÉ for years. He was a mad keen cyclist if I recall. This fella, and this Boards.ie thread.


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    Dj Stiggie
    Registered Users Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Dj Stiggie


    There's a DJ who does the night shift on FM104 named Mel Byrne. Who would choose that as their radio name?

    In San Francisco there's a Korean chiropractor named Fuk Yu


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    #57
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    Major Phill Packer...as seen on sky news one night he actually was a major in the army :D


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    #58
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    Dj Stiggie wrote: »
    There's a DJ who does the night shift on FM104 named Mel Byrne. Who would choose that as their radio name?

    In San Francisco there's a Korean chiropractor named Fuk Yu

    just down the road from Sum Yung Gi's place


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    entropi
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 21,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭entropi


    People I've met:

    Phillip McGee

    Michael Hunt

    William Burns (called him Dick for short)

    :pac:


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    #60
    ElaElaElano
    Registered Users Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭ElaElaElano


    Majestic 12 wrote: »
    There's some radio news or weather girl called "Jessie McGee".

    Now I thought that "Jessie McGee" was a perfectly normal name until one of my friends was rolling around the place laughing. Took a few minutes for the penny to drop........

    Yeah she's on todayfm. And when she's not reading the news...Juliette Gash is. Kudos to the employers, priorities are in proper order.


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    #61
    annie87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭annie87


    My Dad's uncle was called Maurice (pronounced morris, not morreece) Morrissey.

    In France on holidays, saw a name plaque that said 'Dr. Bastard'.

    Was in Irish college with a girl called Pia Talent.

    Juliet Gash.


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