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I've been given so much sh*t about my surname since i was ten, anyone know someone with a dumb sounding surname, so if anyone ever takes the p*ss again, I can say 'yeah,but my mate knew this guy called Christopher Shat' or whatever.

― Claire Hoare, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Being second generation Italian, I know a guy called Michele Cunti.

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha ha Hoare.

Ha ha World Cup. Ha Ha Kaka. Ha Ha Yobbo.

― N., Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah thanks for that , that's pretty much what I get everytime I introduce myself to anyone.

― Claire, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't worry Claire, I had two teachers in my school who had your surname and they never got the piss ripped out of them.

Unlike a girl I know called Crimson Boner.

― Pete, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i knew a japanese boy called -get this - ERIC SHUN hahhahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahah ERIC SHUN hahhahahaha erection hahhahaha

― james, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I had a teacher called Mr Horney, but for some reason he didn't get the piss taken either. Strange, now I come to think about it.

― Mark C, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

already said before, but at arsenal tube station one of the staff is called beverly hills (not that hills is a strange surname or anything but you know what i mean...)

― gareth, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

and then there was a football game when the commentator said "bierhoff, kuntz, hmmm, sounds like a good night out!"

― gareth, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Readers may be interested in this thread

― N., Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

already said before, but in england they have a subway stop called "arsenal tube station"

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

On David Letterman's show, he would invite a guy named Dick Assman on occasion. I knew someone in college named Anil Reddy - if you mispronounce his first name, it sounds like "anal ready." The surname "Lipshitz" is dreadful. At my high school, there was a boy named Buzz Cox. That is the coolest. What do I get, whoaaa ohh...

― Ernest, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Eric Shun?? Really? I'm trying to figure out if this is cool or not.

― Sean, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Unlike a girl I know called Crimson Boner.

Yes Ptee, but what's her name?

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You can always telll them you're related to world-famous computer scientist C.A.R. Hoare. That oughta shut em up.

― Josh, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Assuming the geniuses can even figure out who that is, Josh;>

― Nichole Graham, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

On a related note, a friend of mine worked at a company called Otis, and it took him six months to realise he was answering the phones all day with the phrase, "Hello, Otis, Reading".

― Lynskey, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In one of my old jobs I dealt with a customer who had the surname "Bastard". Poor bast... err

― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I knew a guy with the last name "Stick" which looks all right but, when following his first name, came out sounding like "[Name]'s Dick." He married another friend of mine, so her married name sounds like "Mrs. Dick."

― felicity, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My father's last name (my name changed when my parents got divorced) was 'Savage' and about ten times I've been asked 'are you really, though' or something hilarious like that. The only person who put it in a mildly funny way was a guy who said 'by name or by nature.' Strangely a couple of old people have said, 'Oh, that's a lovely last name.' Does it mean that my ancestors were like primitive conquered natives or something?

― maryann, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

my surname is smith. i, the ungooglable!

― queenoftheharpies, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry that was a bit off the topic but I felt ashamed of my last name sometimes though I didn't think about it much as nobody seemed to take advantage of the opportunities it offered to tease me, and in fact my friends insisted on calling me by both my first and last name with great affection though to be perfectly honest I wished that they wouldn't. Claire there is a street that my friends live on called 'Cockburn St' and it was somebody's last name. You're supposed to pronounce it 'Cohburn Street' apparently. My friend was called 'Maryann Deady' and she pronounced her last name 'Deedee'. Maybe you could try something like that. But don't be so sure that having a strange last name is really horrible. People with plain last names fade into the woodwork. My friends still like to call me by my somewhat unpleasant last name because it obviously gives them a kind of a thrill. OK, I hate it, but I'm much more interested in you as 'Claire Hoare' than 'Claire Jones'.

― maryann, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

On the other hand, Crimson Boner ... what were they THINKING? Mark S, don't you know that person too, because I remember you mentioning the name. Are you and Pete actually friends with her (I presume it's 'her').

― maryann, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Korin knows a guy called "Crispin Cockhead". This name sends her Mum into fits of hysteria, I've seen it happen.

― rainy, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Somehow I just sense Dan being pleased as punch knowing this name exists.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

candidate #1: girl at my school named coco stiff. funny enough in itself, but nb also that when backwards, this spells 'ffits ococ' => 'fits a cock'

candidate #2: candidate for governor in west virginia with signs on every other front lawn when i visited: mike hunt

― Dave M., Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i once knew a family of Ramsbottoms.

― hamish, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Crispin Cockhead!

sorry I just wanted to say it again. (snigger).

― rainy, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My mother's aunt was called Constance Norah.

― MarkH, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

guys! I posted this question and put my work mail address up there, please could anyone who responds use the address shown here instead , my system is about to wet itself...

― Claire, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"crimson boner" is a name that must be brought up on all such threads even if the person who actually claims to have known her (other distinct possibility: made it up) is on holiday in japan, which he was

― mark s, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

clair the replies to yr original address are automatic unfortunately

― mark s, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I first became aware of Crimson when I worked in the registry here and had to make up her file - though I always assumed that the surname would be pronounce Bonner. Upon moving into the Students' Union I got to know her (lovely girl) and found out its said how it is spelt. Though most people call her Crimbo.

Not seen her for a couple of years though, really nice person though.

― Pete, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

key phrase: "had to make up her file"

― mark s, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

insert joke about crimbo coming early here

― Ronan Perry, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark, her file with her UCAS form in and her registration form. You really don't trust me any more do you....

I shall endeavour to provide documentary proof. (I fear if you google her name you will probably get ILE by now).

― Pete, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Crimson Bonner=Ireland Vs Holland 1994 World Cup.

― Ronan, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Neville Neville's parents (ie, Gary, Phil and Tracy's paternal grandparents) must have been pissed when naming him. It has all the hallmarks of a bad joke taken too far. Neville also sounds exactly like Peter Kay too, which adds to the fun.

― Nathan Barley, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it has all the halmarks of his Dad filling the form in wrong and being too embarressed to ask for a new one. I never understand forms that ask you to fill in the surname before the first name. That's why its called a first name dummies (and indeed why its called a sur-name too).

― Pete, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The last time I was in hospital the person in charge of the ward was called Staff Nurse Kill. (She was very nice.)

― Rex, Saturday, 15 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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