Unfortunate (genuine) names

[KnittyNorah]

My dad worked with a widow called Mrs Broadbottom. She got remarried during the school summer holidays and when she came back she was called Mrs Downes.
Her first name was Ida.
Did she deliberately select her husbands by their surnames? We often wondered! Her maiden name was Rose. But women rarely kept their maiden names then.

 

[Kempstonian]

There used to be a policeman in Luton called Robin Banks.

At one time I knew of four people called Richard Bird.

I used to work with a Mrs Mary Christmas. (She obviously didn't think to keep HER maiden name!)

 

[matticus]

I recall a similar story about someone working at the Inland Revenue - the story was that people used to write cheques to I R - so he created an account called I R Smith or similar, and did the same sort of thing as your Mr Taylor.

Over the years people began to write their cheques to 'Inland Revenue' so the enterprising individual created a company called Finland Revenue Leisure and carried on - except the company was easier to trace to him. Not sure how true my story is though.

The variant I heard was someones creating an identity/account(s) in the name
"Yolanda Revenua"
which the name on the cheque could easily be altered to.

 

[a.twiddler]

Various teachers my kids and I have known over the years. Mr Smallbone, Mr Skidmore, Miss Strain, Mr Brain. The last would seem to be a good name for a teacher if only his initial had not been "P". What were his parents thinking?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I reckon that @Dave7 is a pretty unfortunate name. Fancy knowing that all your older brothers are also called Dave and that your mother could not be bothered giving you a different name. Instead just adding 7 to indicate you are the 7th Dave in the family.

 

[Specialeyes]

My daughter is at school with a girl with the middle name May and surname Attack. She has a younger brother with the middle name Will.

 

[MontyVeda]

When the regional manager of a large organisation addressed a room full of employees, introducing himself as Mike Hunt... only one person sniggered rather loudly

 

[PK99]

My mate Bob Green, married a lady called Theresa.

 

[rikki]

We knew an Olive Branch and her sister Laurel.
Always wondered if third daughter would have been named Myrtle.

 

[rikki]

Coventry Polytechnic Netball Team (CPNT) was renamed Coventry University Netball Club when it became a university.

Flinders University Canoe and Kayak Society chose not to call itself a Club.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Coventry RegIonal Automobile Production. We know what they produced.

 

[Bazzer]

Years ago I used to deal with a Betty Olive Smellie.

 

[KneesUp]

Flinders University Canoe and Kayak Society chose not to call itself a Club.

I was told that one of the proposed names when Newcastle Polytechnic became a university was City University of Newcastle upon Tyne and they only changed plan when the logos were mocked up. So it's now Northumbria University at Newcastle.

 

[Kempstonian]

I reckon that @Dave7 is a pretty unfortunate name. Fancy knowing that all your older brothers are also called Dave and that your mother could not be bothered giving you a different name. Instead just adding 7 to indicate you are the 7th Dave in the family.

Ming, you are indeed Merciless... haha...

 

[Kempstonian]

Various teachers my kids and I have known over the years. Mr Smallbone, Mr Skidmore, Miss Strain, Mr Brain. The last would seem to be a good name for a teacher if only his initial had not been "P". What were his parents thinking?

We had a Mr Woodcock and a Mr Key (whose nicknames ranged from Don, Wan and Mun). Not particularly funny to us adults but different when you are a schoolkid.