BS: No funny jokes about people's names

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: JennieG
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 03:38 AM

A friend's surname is Rainbow - it's her married name - she is a little tired of people saying to her "you must be very bright".

The novelty wore off a long time ago. When she hears it these days she smiles through gritted teeth and says nothing!

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 06:36 AM

"Rainbow" eh...get over it!









Somewhere, over the rainbow.....skies are.....Sorry Rainbow.

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: skipy
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 08:13 AM

Guest:- I might have guessed that!
I've heard that 1000s of times!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: TheSnail
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 10:44 AM

In a supermarket I used to frequent the question used to come over the Tannoy "Will Miss Fortune come to the customer service desk?".

We may never know.

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: John Hardly
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 09:28 PM

Guy on another forum named Dick Sanders.

ouch.

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 08:39 AM

I know a lawyer named Donald Duck. Imagine the kidding he's had over the years!

But there's more. He's Donald Duck the Third! And I'm not sure, but I think I heard that his son is named Donald too. That family never learns, I guess.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 09:38 AM

Mary Mary Quite Contrary...Oh F**k off!

And
"You study Ancient Languages? (pause) It's all Greek to me (guffaw)!" Sigh!

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: GUEST,Neil
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 10:45 AM

I was never terribly upset over the various jokes on my name (Neil down and pray, etc.).I have ,however, learned to avoid hanging out with people named Bob.

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: Becca72
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 11:44 AM

I didn't have it nearly as bad as my elementary school friend, April Beaver...

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: GUEST,Snoozer at work
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 11:56 AM

My surname is Engard, of Scandinavian origin (pronounced en'-guard). I hear "en garde!" a lot. But I don't recall ever hearing that while I was at school, just later in life, from the adults I meet. I try to just ignore it, but maybe roll my eyes a bit.

My first name is Susan. For 4 or 5 years I lived on Suzann Drive. To me, Susan and Suzann are completely different names, but whenever I gave my address to someone they seemed compelled to comment on the similarity.

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: Cluin
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 08:17 PM

My surname Deevey was often turned around on me. "Hey, Deevey's got V.D. Ha ha ha!"

To which my response was "Yeah, your mother gave it to me."

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 11:27 PM

Sins, we kids used to make breakfast for our mom, take it to her in bed, and sing "Lazy Mary will you get up, will you get up, will you get up, Lazy Mary will you get, will you get up in the morning!?" Mom never complained about it, thank goodness!

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 11 Sep 07 - 04:25 AM

With a name like mine, I wish I had a penny (UK _ yes - a penny) for every time I have had 'Grim Spew', or 'Mr Puke', and the speaker thinking that he or she was the first to say it.

Oh, how we laughed . . .

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: GUEST,machree01
Date: 11 Sep 07 - 07:58 AM

I know a woman who lives near me and you call her Teresa Green, every time when i hear her name i always think of louis Armstrongs version of What A Wonderful World, i see "trees of green" red roses to

and what about Mary had a little lamb and the mid-wife near died when she seen it.

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: Mr Red
Date: 11 Sep 07 - 08:04 AM

can't say I have noticed much.

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 11 Sep 07 - 08:31 AM

My surname's Whittle

When I moved to Nottinghamshire 30 years ago, people were always saying .... and do you whittle a lot? which roughly translated means - do you fret anxiously and complain continuously about not very important subjects.

It was puzzling at the time, mainly because it was invariably delivered as an enormous shaft of wit, and I didn't understand what they were talking about. Prior to coming to this area, whittling had meant carving a piece of wood with a knife - in the fashion of John Dillinger's wooden gun.

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 11 Sep 07 - 09:00 AM

Perhaps my memory is wrong, but I thought Dillinger carved a "gun" from a potato, and dyed it with iodine, in order to escape from jail.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 11 Sep 07 - 10:56 AM

that's right they let him go, otherwise they would have had their chips.....

actually his crooked lawyer smuggled it in

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 01:46 AM

From Joe's belated unbirthday thread:

So did someone already make him un'offer he can't refuse? *groan* Couldn't resist!

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: Kent Davis
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 11:08 PM

And, proving once again that juvenile behavior isn't just for juveniles, we have MoveOn.org taking out an ad in the New York Times to share their original little witticism about General Petraeus's name.

Kent

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: Metchosin
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 01:14 AM

Well its sad, but certain names, when young, do tend to make you a target, but there are exceptions. When I was in elementary school, everyone seemed to refer to each other by their last names, always with what seemed, an edge of contempt. Except for one of my fellow students, Dennis. Dennis always got called by his first name. His last name was Mycock.

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 10:25 AM

When I teaching in Brum in the 1970's I had this class of 14 year olds in my first year as a teacher, who were a bit of a challenge.

I remember one day, the history teacher managed to get them quiet and sitting down - not a great deal of rock 'n roll as far as work concerned - but even so it was recognised as something of an achievement amongst his fellow professionals.

However he had no time to bask in his success, the Headmaster put his head round the door, and boomed out, I'd like a word immediately with Master Bates in my office!

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: Wolfgang
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 11:37 AM

We had a (very) conservative politician named Jäger, that is Hunter. When he started to campaign for capital punishment he was nicknamed by the liberal press head-hunter, of course.

I can't see anything wrong in jokes about politicians' names.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 11:58 AM

Just so long as the speaker/writer doesn't imply that it's new and witty. It won't be.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 02:14 PM

i know of someone who lives close by and her first name is April and second name is May, and that's the truth. she is only a child, wait till she starts school.

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 03:56 PM

We have a local politician named Garfield Dunlop. Seriously! That is his real name, I swear it.

I normally call him "Barfly Dungheap". ;-)

But not to his face....

He actually seems to be an okay guy as far as I can tell. Pity he's a Conservative, though. Heh!

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 07:10 PM

There's a Civil Servant in London who rejoices in the name of Locksley Trype. Honest!!

I'm ploughing through some family records again, and some of the names I came across 20 years ago are still funny now.

How about Erasmus Cox?
Amaziah and Jane Payne?
How about Ms Fanny Hunt?

Adonizah Zealley was a jolly sounding chap, but not as enthusiastic as Joel Rocket.

Eli Pester should have chosen a little more sensitively when he married Hester...

Keturah Bartlett How, Sunecai Genteelei, Penninah Charity Scard, Tirzah Fever and Speaze Tizzard should have been given the option of changing names, as should Zibich, Obidiah, Barzilla and Bathsheba Hodder.

Then there are the ones that are just so appropriate:~
Francis Goforth, vicar; Maudlin Dampney; Noah Gallop; Hipolett Mockett; Unity Abbot and Christian Gibbons.

Parthena Staple and Apsalome Whittle Wills are pretty out there, but the biscuity type prize really should go to Arabella Gerina Bachatina Megal Govin - that's all one person!

Honestly, these are all genuine names that I've gleaned out of parish records from Dorset, a rural county where coming from 30 miles away is considered foreign!

LTS - who got off remarkably lightly with her names!

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: Jack Campin
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 07:41 PM

Cue "Too Many Daves" - the Dr Seuss poem adapted by D.C. Fitzgerald and sung by him and/or Anne Feeney on her "If I Can't Dance..." recording to the tune of "The Rakes of Kildare".

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: frogprince
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 08:14 PM

I once sold a pair of shoes to a man with what I still consider to be the ultimate "yuppy" name: Fairchild Dubois the third.

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 06:46 AM

Is this an unfortunate coupling? From the Rampisham, Dorset, parish register...

Charles SHITLER & Mary PLUMBER married 02-Apr 1752

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 06:47 AM

Sorry, next village along, Corscombe, not Rampisham.

LTS