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Just discovered there's a Mrs Frontal-Gay who works here, plus a Richard Stiff ...

And I used to work with a guy called Wayne Ankers. No, really - he's a journalist, works in Manchester now. Perversely proud of his name as well. When his name first appeared in the Rochdale Observer, some woman rang up to complain that our "joke" was "in poor taste" ...

Any bizarrely named people where you work (real examples only!)

Desne Swallow.

M@

Weve got a Chinese customer called Dong Mings, and another called Mr Mycock.

My mate from Ashton is an 'Ankers'. He hates his surname.

A girl I know worked in personnel for a company in Sydney where there was a Robyn Batman working there.

"Mrs Frontal-Gay" lol, that's excellent.

Not at my current work but when I did a placement year at a "big american oil comany", they used to make email addresses out of your first initial and the first three letters of your surname. Being global, various admins in other countries didn't really spot the significance, so they had WANK-at-Company.com, PISH-at-Company.com, SHIT-at-Company.com. There were quite a few, was hilarious, felt like I was 10 years old looking up bad words in the dictionary or something :o)

I'm sure there's many people who'd like to as well. Well, maybe not the first one perhaps.

They've changed them all now so proper names I think, but honestly, they were real.

Richard Cox, a rugby player at my step-mum's College.

"Big Dick Cox" to his friends.

As for current work *looks up phone list*...

Randy 'someone', that's always good for a chuckle.

Also a G Skalley. Nah, I'm struggling now.

My mate from Ashton is an 'Ankers'

They're probably related, as Wayne was from around that part of the world ...

We've also got a Titcombe and a Titterington (which sound very Frankie Howard...)

Harking back to my school days, there were two Vietnamese siblings at school - one was pronounced Doo Vay and the one in my sister's year was Foo King Foo.

And the technician at Huddersfield University's theatre department was called Phil McKraken. He took a perverse delight in the fact people were interested in (i.e. they laughed at) his name. And really, it was the most interesting thing about him ...

When I went through basic training there was a guy with the last name Masingill. Oddly enough he wanted to be a parachute packer.

critter

So there's an awful lot of Ankers in Ashton, then?

BOOM BOOM!

Going way back there used to be a self-employed courier at DHL called Peter Enis. We always had a chuckle during the monthly cheque run as we waited for the cheque made out to P.Enis to be printed...

my editor on THE LOSERS first name is Pornsak. you gotta love that.

i think they should all take advantage of this:
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Curiously, I remember my schoolfriend David Davidson was ashamed of his middlename.

He was a squaxx too, thinking about it... so Hi Dave if you're reading!

So there's an awful lot of Ankers in Ashton, then?

BOOM BOOM!

Watch youreslf Mr C. Being from a key scally area in Manchester I'm not averse to dishing out a bruisin'. And it is Christmas after all.

Having said that I don't live there any more and everytime I go back I realise what a good decision that is.

I guess it's like my dad says about the Scottish (he is from Glasgow) - "The scots will do anything for their country but live there."

Remember a computer games called 'Lo Wang'.

It's a old ninja styled similar to Dukem Nukem.

Their catch phrase is 'You want some Wang'.

The name always gave me a bit of a chuckle.
 

"Curiously, I remember my schoolfriend David Davidson was ashamed of his middlename."

Why? Was it Dave?

Quail

There is an Asian woman who works in a bank near me called..........Arica Shaw.

I always wanted to ask her if she rode to work on a rickshaw!

I was always amused by the producer of Cheers, MAry Fukuto.

I resigned in a strop from the comitee for my towns literary festival but I'll always have fond memories of Micheal Hunt particularly when the lady chairperson cut through the confused babble with a shrill cry of "We'd none of us be in this state if you'd pay more attention to Mike Hunt".

In my old workplace one of our managers would regularly phone up his mate Michael Hunt. The phone calls would always begin thus: "Hi, can I speak to Mike Hunt?"

Whereupon every single one of us would invariably think "only if you're a contortionist."

Mike C

Bert Droppers - Dutch

Someone i know claims his old headmaster was called Bruce Swain.

Not so much a name, but the Danish for speed is "fart", and there are electric street signs showing you the speed of you "Fart", and asking to keep you "fart ned" (speed down).

Whenever QE2 is visiting, they actually cover up these signs, as a mark of respect.

We had a french teacher at school called Mr. Hunt- so you can guess his nickname.
And a History teacher whose initials were C.R.A.P.

well in poland 'fart' is the word for luck, so dobre fart to you all in all your ventures

http://www.3drealms.com/sw/

There's the URL for it.

http://www.3drealms.com/sounds/answer2.wav

There is a computer company called WANG, years ago they were about to embark on a UK wide advertising campaign called 'WANG CARES" untill some bright spark noticed that the phonetics of the tag line wasn't really appropriate for a UK audience.

had a hong kong manager called SUNSHINE wong once.

made me smile.

Years ago did some work for a company called

Wayne Kerrs Electronics down near Bognor....

ha! used to work in a hotel in chichester and wayne kerrs always had conferences there. always made me laugh

there's a Floyd Kermode here, but I think he's fictional

there was a Vicky Pollard, which is not innately funny, but a coincidence

i used to have a boss called debbie harry.

and i used to have a school friend who's second name was dyke, that became a deed poll job as soon soon as she could.

When i worked at Habitat one of the regular customers was Mr Willy.

Always brought on fits of childish giggling.

If anyone has a problem with the surname Dyke then they are silly.

M@

I'm sure I've already mentioned it, but there was a customer we had called Mr Oola.

OOOOOOOH-LAAAAAAAA!

Altogether now:  "the chances of anything coming from Mars, are a million to one, he said (ahh, ahh)..."

"When i worked at Habitat one of the regular customers was Mr Willy. "

Thats my mates surname. She saw a cracking flat but couldnt bring herself to make an offer cos it was on Dick street. Honest.

In my life I have met 3 Eddie Murphys. Not one of them the real deal and they were all fat.

I work in an insurance office and we once had a Mandan Singh at the counter. We had to tell him to stop as we didn't have a music licence.

Also met a poor child of the 60's called Roc Starrs, but my favourite was the man whose dog pissed on his video, Watson Horseley. Not a pun but a great name.

My favourite work weirdness was a pair of engineers called Buggy and Beetlestone, who I couldn't help imagining as working for Indigo Prime.

In school, I had a music teacher called Mister Kuntz, and a lovely classmate with the crushing moniker of Lucy Klitz.  

Music teacher at my school was called Mr Hiscock.

And I was in a supermarket once when there was an announcement summoning "Mrs Hoar to the pick-up point".

A guy at work is called Armen - he's from Armenia

which is almost funny

A friend had told me years ago about Mr. Ramjam Funkyboogaloo-Smythe and I'd always thought he was talking crap. Reading this thread, I thought I'd Google him, and it seems he's real!!

I believe he has a brother.

Mr. Koolandthegang Funkyboogaloo-Smythe.

Link: Ram It!

No, he doesn't. That's silly.

Mr. Ramjam Funkyboogaloo-Smythe, yesterday.