OT well, it's here, part number SPR 06 200506

I have Jonny and a Willy. One of my friends, Mike Huck is forever grateful that his parents didn't call him Alf.

Steve

Or the Lear family (of Lear Jet fame) who named their daughter Shanda. True.

|| Tim Hobbs wrote: || ||||| And parents will find the throughly embarassing ones ;-) |||| yeah, like Mr & Mrs Head and their son Richard... ||| ||| I was barred from calling Charlotte "Dawn".... ||| || I have Jonny and a Willy. || One of my friends, Mike Huck is forever grateful that his parents || didn't call him Alf. || || Steve

Used to have a good laugh at the local Co-op when they got a PA system installed, asking if our friend Mike Hunt could please come to the phone.

|| On Mon, 22 May 2006 13:14:30 +0100, Tim Hobbs wrote: || ||| Starts off like that, but then the coven gets together and tells new ||| mum about expressing milk, so Dad can get up in the small hours to ||| bond with his child.... || || Sow the seed that expressing milk is very difficult, can be || frustrating which reduces lactation and not particulary comfortable || so on the whole not really worth the trouble. B-)

Expressing milk should not be missed, as it involves a breast pump, which is one of the funniest devices I have ever seen working. It's kind of cartoonish in its bizarreness. Hilarity in a box.

On or around Tue, 23 May 2006 16:36:54 +0100, Tim Hobbs enlightened us thusly:

did you get away with a middle name "Anne"?

Mr. & Mrs. King, of my acquaintance, had a baby daughter. It was suggested that she could be called Frances Ursula Christine.

Also true my sister in law used to teach special needs kids, one of which was "Dwayne Pipe". Poor bugger

Dave

Why do parents do that? Are they just terminally thick?

Mind you silly things can catch you. My elder sister is Marion Rosemary, this was fine until she started getting her own post addressed to "MR Liquorice", my Dad would open it...

|| On 25 May 2006 13:00:50 -0700, Dave R wrote: || ||| Also true my sister in law used to teach special needs kids, one of ||| which was "Dwayne Pipe". Poor bugger || || Why do parents do that? Are they just terminally thick? || || Mind you silly things can catch you. My elder sister is Marion || Rosemary, this was fine until she started getting her own post || addressed to "MR Liquorice", my Dad would open it... || || -- || Cheers || snipped-for-privacy@howhill.com Dave. || pam is missing e-mail

There's a book called "Remarkable Names of Real People" which a friend and I spent a hilarious afternoon reading in a bookshop. Hundreds, all certified genuine. How about:

Turkish diplomat - Mustapha Kunt Indian chief - Unable To Fornicate New York phone book - Siddhartha Greenblatt (no hidden joke, just weird).

And that's just from memory 25 years ago. The friend bought a copy and it still graces his smallest room.