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PottyWatson Tue 17-Mar-20 11:52:35

What about Willie Dick??! And it’s not a joke!

Essex59 Tue 17-Mar-20 11:52:10

Trump is a fantastic name.

minxie Tue 17-Mar-20 11:42:50

Randy Ponce!! I spat my tea out, priceless

Quizzer Tue 17-Mar-20 11:39:53

An acquaintance with the unusual surname 'Moreve' called their baby son Adam. Adam Moreve - really??!!

Elderlyfirsttimegran Tue 17-Mar-20 11:37:39

Sussexborn, did the salted water work?!

Sussexborn Tue 17-Mar-20 11:34:35

Not long after we got married we stayed in a small family run hotel near Athens. The waiter/man Friday was called Smiling Abdul and really lived up to his name. He was in charge of the breakfast toast but if the bread took on even the slightest colour he would throw it in the bin! I remember him sitting on a stool with an overflowing kitchen bin in front of him.

Incidental and off topic. A young fair skinned English boy sat on the edge of the sea most of the day and was very unwell indeed. The hotel owner sat up all night pouring salted water into his ears.

NotSpaghetti Tue 17-Mar-20 11:32:16

There are plenty of odd surnames though that people live with.
Over my years I've known Pratts and Ponces, various bottoms (Sidebottom, Hickinbottom, Ramsbottom, Longbottom etc) and also odd pronunciations of ordinary ones... Mrs Onions (On-irons).

NotSpaghetti Tue 17-Mar-20 11:28:32

There is a Paul Twocock who works for Stonewall. I think he would not have survived boarding school.
Sadly.
It's not a good surname.
But frankly, neither is Trump and that didn't stop him.

Moggycuddler Tue 17-Mar-20 11:15:59

There's a heavy metal singer called urban breed (with lower case letters like that.)

Witzend Tue 17-Mar-20 10:34:32

I once read in an American magazine of a chap called Randy Ponce.
Neither has the same connotations in the US, I know, but it still gave me a ? moment.

The other ‘best’ I’ve ever known of was a waiter in a hotel in Lagos (Nigeria) whose name badge read Mortality. He did always look and act pretty grumpy, too - you asked for a bit more toast at your peril.

MiniMoon Tue 17-Mar-20 10:05:45

My grandsons watch a YouTube channel about what is inside stuff. The young lad on it is called Lincoln and his sister is called London!

jusnoneed Tue 17-Mar-20 09:07:42

My cousin's son is called London, she is British but wed to an American and lives in the US.

GabriellaG54 Mon 16-Mar-20 23:51:21

London Nicole Breed...I wonder if she gets it shortened to Lon or Loni or even Donni ???

BlueBelle Mon 16-Mar-20 22:27:27

I rather like the name London I bet they like it over there they all love anything to do with U.K.
after all beckhams son is called a Brooklyn What’s good for one and all that

lemongrove Mon 16-Mar-20 22:24:13

Now if only the mayor of London was called ......
San Francisco Clan.?

GabriellaG54 Mon 16-Mar-20 22:15:08

How about this for a ridiculous name?
San Francisco mayor's name is London Breed ?