talkmagic.co.uk

How about these from the ranks of sportspeople and others - The late Alan Ball (footballer), Anna Smashnova (tennis player), Chuck Long (NFL quarterback), Marc Rich (billionaire financier pardoned by Clinton), Margaret Court (Tennis player), Tiger Woods (golfer) William Wordsworth (poet)

I knew a copper called Constable Constable, who was later promoted to Sargent Constable.

At Middle school, I had a French teacher called Mr Holliday, a home economics teacher called Mrs Cook, and a science teacher called Mr Watts.

Oh how I laughed.

Pete

Some people collect these things. I remember hearing of a surgeon named O O Oops, which can't give you much confidence.

Colin and I enjoy reading the credits at the end of movies and TV shows, which can dredge up some amazing names.

pcwells wrote:At Middle school, I had a French teacher called Mr Holliday, a home economics teacher called Mrs Cook, and a science teacher called Mr Watts.

Oh how I laughed.

Pete

Mr Holiday wasn't a tall, thin Geordie, was he?

Tomo wrote:

pcwells wrote:At Middle school, I had a French teacher called Mr Holliday, a home economics teacher called Mrs Cook, and a science teacher called Mr Watts.

Oh how I laughed.

Pete

Mr Holiday wasn't a tall, thin Geordie, was he?

As it happens, yes. I grew up in Blyth, in Northumberland.

Oh, and my local dentist is called Dr Pulley.

I was a school with a lad called Paul Mycock. Not particularly apt as far as jobs are concerned I know, unless of course he became a porn star . I mean what else could he do?

I had two primary school teachers called Miss Read and Mr Page... well, we found it funny at the time.

On a school exchange trip to Germany, one of the kids we paired up with went by the name of Frank Hunstein.

He didn't understand why we all thought it was so funny.

Poor kid.

Pete

pcwells wrote:

Tomo wrote:Mr Holiday wasn't a tall, thin Geordie, was he?

As it happens, yes. I grew up in Blyth, in Northumberland.

Dark hair? Used to laugh at your attempts at stringing words together? Endless vocab tests? Statistically, I have a feeling he was the same bloke who taught me down in Macclesfield for a couple of years (what are the chances that there are two of them?). He was head of languages for a couple of years from about 1980.

Tomo wrote:

pcwells wrote:

Tomo wrote:Mr Holiday wasn't a tall, thin Geordie, was he?

As it happens, yes. I grew up in Blyth, in Northumberland.

Dark hair? Used to laugh at your attempts at stringing words together? Endless vocab tests? Statistically, I have a feeling he was the same bloke who taught me down in Macclesfield for a couple of years (what are the chances that there are two of them?). He was head of languages for a couple of years from about 1980.

Unless he travelled. He was deputy head of the school I went to. I was there around 1981 - 1984. Yes, he had dark hair.

Pete

There used to be a dentist in my town called Mrs Pain! I always felt sorry for the landlord of the pub I used to go in, he was called Roger Myring, he was one tough guy though but you'd have to be wouldn't you.

A friend of mine had sent me those a few months ago:

Chorister, Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey: Justin Tune
Dentist, Roslyn Heights, New York: Dr. E. Z. Filler
Plumber Worcester UK: Mr Turner-Heaton
Interior decorator, Reading, UK: Derek Paynter
Funeral Director, Sydney, Australia: C. D' Eath and Sons
Trades Union leader in USA: Raymond Strike
American paediatrician: Dr Joseph Babey
American jazz drummer: Billy Drummond
Plant pathologist and "Gardeners' Question Time" panellist in the UK: Pippa Greenwood
American defence attorney: Scott Free

pcwells wrote:On a school exchange trip to Germany, one of the kids we paired up with went by the name of Frank Hunstein.

Pete

That made me laugh so much. You totally should have dressed him up for Halloween or something.

I had a Food Tech teacher called Mrs. Tart and my friend has a cousin who owns a dog kennel/dog grooming service. Her husbands name is Wolfgang, or "Wolfie" for short

I forget which regional weather it is but Sara Blizzard is the weather woman on one of them. It's either Look North or Midlands if I recollect correctly.