Weird names at work ...

[longmanshort]

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!)

[Banners]

Desne Swallow.

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[Woolly]

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

[Bad Andy]

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.

[Mudcrab]

"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.

[Funt Solo]

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

"Big Dick Cox" to his friends.

[Mudcrab]

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.

[longmanshort]

My mate from Ashton is an 'Ankers'

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

[longmanshort]

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 ...

[critter]

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

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[Mr C]

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

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[skull.ring]

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...

[jock]

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

[Max Kon]

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[Oddboy]

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!