What's in a name?? Does your name match something about you?

UA3 in Bath has an expert who gives talks etc on birds called Starling

Him indoors has just told me of when he was younger and on a crew cleaning up an old graveyard, some military people came in and asked for the grave of 'Mr. Die'!
They found him and laid flowers.

Our Latin teacher was called Miss Homer. I was at school with a boy called Donald Duckworth. I thought his parents were mean!

I know of a divorce solicitor called Mr. Salvage!

There is a weather girl on the TV called Sarah Blizzard.

Over the years I have worked with a number of plastic surgeons two of whom were Mr Hackett and Mr Carver. I’ve also worked with a Nurse Nurse.

I once knew a nurse named Nightingale, and there was a Dr Barnado on the same ward

I know a Dr Paine.

Our butcher is Mr Ribb and my nephew's Geography teacher is Mr Mapp.

I once had a dentist called Mr Puller and he was a bit of a butcher.
I was also on an interview panel and the final successful candidate was Shirley Knott!

Two of my dentists from years ago were Mr Pullar and Mr Bridgeman. OH’s Consultant is Dr Who - but I don’t think it’s spelt like that!.

One of my consultants was called Dr Hair and he definitely lived uo to his name!

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I used to have a lovely friend, she was Phyllis Stein!

That’s even worse than the name of someone a dd used to know - Polly Esther Cotton!
What possesses these parents??

I used to have a lovely friend, she was Phyllis Stein!

Linda or Christine, varian?
Lots of both of those at my senior school in the 60s.
Ditto Judith and Jean, now I come to think of it.

The only thing my first name matches about me is my age.

It was a fashionable name at the time I was born. I am not Doris (who was probably born in the 1910s, Shirley (probably 1930s) nor am I Karen (1950s) or Tracey (likely to have been born in the 1970s). I am younger than Doris and Shirley and older than Karen and Tracey. I will leave you to guess.

My doctors'surgery is on a street called the Butchery! I absolutely love my Butchery Surgery...
Just after the War, when housing was at a tremendous premium, my mother assures me tat she saw and estate agent in London called "Waite, Waite and Hope"!

When we lived in South Africa, our next-door neighbour was Judy Moody. Along the same road was Carol Farrell and one of the mothers at our son's school was Hester Bester. Absolutely true!

My friend Olive married a Mr Green.

The family surname and the trading name of the Undertakers near me is Box.

The Tax office contrived to ‘lose’ all the paperwork submitted after my Dad died. I had to get a local firm of accountants to sort it all out They were called Swindle & Gentry

My solicitors are called Wright Hassall. When I worked in a building society a long time ago, one of our members was named Fanny Peasgood.

Many years ago when I was a receptionist my bosses name was Mr Couch, I used to take calls from Mr Ouch and when I put him through would say 'Mr Ouch for Mr Couch'.
Also in our year at school we had boys with surnames Love and Darling - bet the teachers hated registration ??

We came across some brilliant names on a work database many years ago amongst which were Shitlaxtif Patel and Fat Cow Chow.

When I was filing once in the civil service {customers based in the London area} I was amused to see there was a Mr Albert Hall, and Mr Collie lived in Shepherds Bush.
There was a surgeon who once checked my fractured skull called Mr Block.