The name game
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Has anybody worked with interestingly named people? Over the years, I have had the pleasure of working with a guy called Thomas and his wife Geraldine (Tom & Jerry) and some one called Warren Pierce (Sounds like 'War & Peace'). What about you guys? Paresh Solanki "To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world"
I have a close friend named Peter Dragon. Lucky for him he is about 6'4" and big. Other names that come to mind Huey P. Long ( a real person ) I.P Freely Dewey Cheatum Semour Butts ( a real person ) Richard Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions. Mark Twain - The Mysterious Stranger
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Has anybody worked with interestingly named people? Over the years, I have had the pleasure of working with a guy called Thomas and his wife Geraldine (Tom & Jerry) and some one called Warren Pierce (Sounds like 'War & Peace'). What about you guys? Paresh Solanki "To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world"
My Dad used to know someone called Richard Head (Richard.. Dick..) -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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Has anybody worked with interestingly named people? Over the years, I have had the pleasure of working with a guy called Thomas and his wife Geraldine (Tom & Jerry) and some one called Warren Pierce (Sounds like 'War & Peace'). What about you guys? Paresh Solanki "To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world"
My grandfather called his dog Askim , if that counts ? Every time someone would ask the dogs name he would say 'Askim'. Ain't nobody ever told you : There ain't no sanity clause .Groucho Marks
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Has anybody worked with interestingly named people? Over the years, I have had the pleasure of working with a guy called Thomas and his wife Geraldine (Tom & Jerry) and some one called Warren Pierce (Sounds like 'War & Peace'). What about you guys? Paresh Solanki "To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world"
I've known a guy named Morgan, a guy named Meghan, two sisters named Asia and Africa respectively and three Jeff Smith's to balance it all out. Jason Gerard
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Has anybody worked with interestingly named people? Over the years, I have had the pleasure of working with a guy called Thomas and his wife Geraldine (Tom & Jerry) and some one called Warren Pierce (Sounds like 'War & Peace'). What about you guys? Paresh Solanki "To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world"
I had a teacher (Mr. Case) in HS who named his son Justin Case. I knew a girl who married and had a daughter she named April May Summers.
Mike Mullikin :beer: The daisies in my arse are better than the depressive so called reality you are sniffing and accepting. Paul Watson
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Has anybody worked with interestingly named people? Over the years, I have had the pleasure of working with a guy called Thomas and his wife Geraldine (Tom & Jerry) and some one called Warren Pierce (Sounds like 'War & Peace'). What about you guys? Paresh Solanki "To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world"
Michael Hunt. 'nuff said ;)
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I had a teacher (Mr. Case) in HS who named his son Justin Case. I knew a girl who married and had a daughter she named April May Summers.
Mike Mullikin :beer: The daisies in my arse are better than the depressive so called reality you are sniffing and accepting. Paul Watson
Mike Mullikin wrote: I had a teacher (Mr. Case) in HS who named his son Justin Case. :jig: Repost! :jig: Repost! :jig: Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
What is "scratch" and why can everything be made from it?
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Has anybody worked with interestingly named people? Over the years, I have had the pleasure of working with a guy called Thomas and his wife Geraldine (Tom & Jerry) and some one called Warren Pierce (Sounds like 'War & Peace'). What about you guys? Paresh Solanki "To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world"
When I was a child, I had a friend called Valdisnei (pronouced in portuguese like Val-dees-nay). His dad didn't know how to write Walt Disney. Sad but true... Concussus surgo. When struck I rise.
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Has anybody worked with interestingly named people? Over the years, I have had the pleasure of working with a guy called Thomas and his wife Geraldine (Tom & Jerry) and some one called Warren Pierce (Sounds like 'War & Peace'). What about you guys? Paresh Solanki "To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world"
I worked with a Chris Tucker, and I knew a Dennis Miller Ryan Johnston
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Has anybody worked with interestingly named people? Over the years, I have had the pleasure of working with a guy called Thomas and his wife Geraldine (Tom & Jerry) and some one called Warren Pierce (Sounds like 'War & Peace'). What about you guys? Paresh Solanki "To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world"
Harry Dick (real!)
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Has anybody worked with interestingly named people? Over the years, I have had the pleasure of working with a guy called Thomas and his wife Geraldine (Tom & Jerry) and some one called Warren Pierce (Sounds like 'War & Peace'). What about you guys? Paresh Solanki "To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world"
I am friends with a guy named Peter Mayhew* who appareantly has the same name as some guy from Star Wars? I dunno personally - I haven't seen any of the films and have no plans to... * You may remember him from my BBC News spoof last night! :-D My dad went to school with a kids named Simon Smelly ("are you smelly?" ... "yes I am") and Wayne Kerr.
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Has anybody worked with interestingly named people? Over the years, I have had the pleasure of working with a guy called Thomas and his wife Geraldine (Tom & Jerry) and some one called Warren Pierce (Sounds like 'War & Peace'). What about you guys? Paresh Solanki "To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world"
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Has anybody worked with interestingly named people? Over the years, I have had the pleasure of working with a guy called Thomas and his wife Geraldine (Tom & Jerry) and some one called Warren Pierce (Sounds like 'War & Peace'). What about you guys? Paresh Solanki "To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world"
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Has anybody worked with interestingly named people? Over the years, I have had the pleasure of working with a guy called Thomas and his wife Geraldine (Tom & Jerry) and some one called Warren Pierce (Sounds like 'War & Peace'). What about you guys? Paresh Solanki "To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world"
Gautam Sethi Pronounced Gotham City
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Has anybody worked with interestingly named people? Over the years, I have had the pleasure of working with a guy called Thomas and his wife Geraldine (Tom & Jerry) and some one called Warren Pierce (Sounds like 'War & Peace'). What about you guys? Paresh Solanki "To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world"
I heard of a Chinese lady who had the hardest time getting her co-workers to pronounce her name properly, so eventual she just asked every one to refer to her by her initials, and her last name: Q. D. Ho Ryan Johnston
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Was her first name "Miss"? Ryan Johnston
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I have a close friend named Peter Dragon. Lucky for him he is about 6'4" and big. Other names that come to mind Huey P. Long ( a real person ) I.P Freely Dewey Cheatum Semour Butts ( a real person ) Richard Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions. Mark Twain - The Mysterious Stranger
what about Dixie Normous???:laugh: --------------- http://www.edovia.com
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Has anybody worked with interestingly named people? Over the years, I have had the pleasure of working with a guy called Thomas and his wife Geraldine (Tom & Jerry) and some one called Warren Pierce (Sounds like 'War & Peace'). What about you guys? Paresh Solanki "To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world"
My mother knew a person at her work by the name of "Ben Dover". Sad but true.
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Has anybody worked with interestingly named people? Over the years, I have had the pleasure of working with a guy called Thomas and his wife Geraldine (Tom & Jerry) and some one called Warren Pierce (Sounds like 'War & Peace'). What about you guys? Paresh Solanki "To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world"
I haven't worked with anyone with an interesting name, but a friend of mine used to use a travel agent named Justin Case (of the Case Travel Agency, Hudson, MA). Here are some gems from from "Remarkable Names of Real People" by John Train (ISBN 0-517-543036), one of my favorites on my bookshelf:
- A. Moron, Commisioner of Education, Virgin Islands
- Messrs. Bull and Schitt, Glaciologists, International Union of Geodesy & Geophysics, Switzerland
- Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila, Philippines
- Lawless & Lynch, Attorneys, Jamaica, New York
- Major Minor, US Army
- Newton Hooton (Newton, Mass.)
- Mustafa Kunt (Turkish Military Attache, Moscow, Russia)
- O. Hell (Contractor, Aldo Adige, Italy)
- Ms. Pensive Cock (Secretary, US Army Corps)
- Plummer & Leek, Plumbers, Sheringham, Norfolk
- T. Hee (restaurant employee, NYC)
- Warren Peace (Williams College, Mass.)
- Wyre & Tapping Detective Agency, NYC
- Dr. Zoltan Ovary, Gynecologist, New York Hospital, NYC
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