Ooh, thought of another old mate of mine; Richard Espin. Not too bad eh? Apart from the fact that you can shorten Richard to 'Dick', and Espin is an anagram of Penis...
I had a flatmate called Willie Van de Broek. He was dutch. Trouble is in that UK banks etc cant handle the van de bit of dutch names. Used to get mail delived to Willie Broek. Used to make me smile. Willie never quite got the joke!
I saw a TV programme where some single mum had called her children Diesel and Tagan! Also, there's the slobs in Harry Enfield "but Ashtray's a boy's name!" "well, how about Frogmella then. It's exotique!" ch424 (= Alex; nice and normal)
Your right, however, I think most people in this forum are talking about the lower working classes, while some of us pompous gits consider ourselves middle to upper working class. And by lower working class, I mean poverty level, living solely off benefits in some 1 bedroom council house.
For a sheer concentration of badnames you can't beat DeForest, Nichelle, Brent, LeVar, Marina, Majel, Whoopi, Dwight and Wil. Not to mention Avery, Rene and Cirroc. Colm, Armin and Nana. Very enterprising.
Crysta siemen. or mayb eit is seamen. Either way... I like my name= david vincent aldrich yep yep soo umm ya lemme think iono
My dad wanted to call me Gregor not to bad till you consider my surname is McGregor... Luckly mum over ruled him!
There's nowt wrong wi' havin emzay as a first name I tells ya! As said in irc you can pretend it's posh and french and spell it Emzé hehehe. We had a lot of random 'lets make our kid different and interesting' named people at school.. the worst though was the girl called stevie... my assumption was her parents were quite taken with a certain fleetwood mac :| either way she was dubbed 'steve' from the first day of yr7 and it stuck.
I once knew a girl named pebbles, after pebbles flinstone What a classic show, keep catching repeats on UKTV
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Yea but it's still Emma though, right? Emma, Em, Emz, Emzay, Emze. Ive been through all the itterations with my sister. I used to have a girlfriend called Philippa so people called her Pippa, but being the lazy **** I was and seeing that it was one syllable too long, I called her Phil. We broke up shortly after. What about some COOL names then. Cool names that resist the test of time: that's a tough one.
I've got two friends in uni (who hang out together a lot) called richard carey and laura cox. Dick and Coxy, what a pair!
I know somone who 's real name is dick(how do you abreviate richard into dick?). what about (pjotero=pjotr{translate})peter(=petrus= very old name)? (peter isn't to bad)
