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varian Thu 24-Sept-20 18:23:27

I was listening to Radio 4 tonight when they were discussing the Chancellor's announcements and they introduced a former Managing Director of Waitrose whose name was Mark Price.

Has anyone ever had such an appropriate name?

libra10 Fri 25-Sept-20 10:34:13

How about the well known gardener, called Bob Flowerdew?

Deed5y Fri 25-Sept-20 10:35:31

A PE teacher at grandson’s school is a Mr Supple.

Sarnia Fri 25-Sept-20 10:38:31

My eldest son worked with a roofing contractor called Dwayne Pipe. He ought to have been a plumber.

RosesAreRed21 Fri 25-Sept-20 10:45:45

Our local hospital had a neurologist who was called Mr Brain

I knew a girl that was called Annette Curtain

And I worked with a woman (honestly) and she was called Mrs Christmas and her first name was Mary - Mary Christmas

Sheilasue Fri 25-Sept-20 10:54:21

Amazing just can’t think of any, my dh thinks there was a weatherman called Frost.

Sheilasue Fri 25-Sept-20 10:56:15

Just remember3d Adam Frost gardener on Monty Dons programme. ?

Georgesgran Fri 25-Sept-20 10:58:34

My DF often spoke of a local chap - I Berryman, Joiner and Undertaker.

Rainwashed Fri 25-Sept-20 11:07:39

I used to go to a dentist called Mr Chew!
Also once knew someone who was the treasurer of a voluntary organisation whose surname was Meaney!

arthursfam Fri 25-Sept-20 11:08:34

I worked at a school where Mr and Mrs Button named their daughter Pearl

Annaram1 Fri 25-Sept-20 11:12:24

I worked in a hospital where there was a Dr Kilman. Also another called Mr Chackravarty. He later changed it to Chackrabarty as his kids were getting teased at school.
My daughter told me that she was at the airport when a notice was called out asking for Mr Abdo Fahrty to come to the desk.
I had a dentist called My Fang too. I wonder if it is the same one as others have mentioned. He was Vietnamese and considered quite mad.

optimist Fri 25-Sept-20 11:12:38

I once taught a girl called Tess Tickles. Really!

Georgesgran Fri 25-Sept-20 11:25:18

Reminds me - one of my DD’s teachers was Mr Tickle.

gran5up Fri 25-Sept-20 11:30:13

Our Domestic Science teacher was Miss Cook-not too amusing as it's not an unusual name, but our gym teacher was the wonderfully named Miss Standeven!

Quizzer Fri 25-Sept-20 11:33:13

My uncle by marriage was named Smellie, unfortunately he was a chiropodist. He just used his middle name professionally.

schnackie Fri 25-Sept-20 11:37:58

bigbird1 my gynecologist in the States was also Dr. Dick!

Tabbycat Fri 25-Sept-20 11:47:09

Our vicar was the Revd Ball and then he became a Canon at the Cathedral!

Aepgirl Fri 25-Sept-20 11:47:55

There was a dentist near where I live called Mr Screech.

Herbie9 Fri 25-Sept-20 12:00:50

We had a pharmasist called Mr Payne

twinnytwin Fri 25-Sept-20 12:03:52

Our local solicitors are Wright Hassall & Co,

twinnytwin Fri 25-Sept-20 12:05:12

And this is true. One of our customers at the building society I worked at 55 years ago was Fanny Peasgood.

bluelord Fri 25-Sept-20 12:14:14

I used to have a geometry teacher called Fred Angle

BrandyGran Fri 25-Sept-20 12:20:10

I heard of a teacher called MISS BOSSIE!

grandtanteJE65 Fri 25-Sept-20 12:20:52

We had a vet who was Mr. Lion and at school I had a teacher called Mrs. Beard, which was sadly apposite.

BrandyGran Fri 25-Sept-20 12:23:34

I overheard a man at the airport telling a colleague that a man he was to meet was called ALBERT HALL- he repeated it and said that honestly that was the man s name!

Happysexagenarian Fri 25-Sept-20 12:26:28

We once employed a plumber called John Leak.