BS: Amazing Names

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: Will Fly
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 07:31 AM

Well, would you credit it? After mentioning the name Jabez Eke up this thread, it turns out that bubblyrat and I are third cousins once removed!

bubblyrat and my mother are 3rd cousins - and the "once removed" means that he and I are 3rd cousins, separated from each other by a generation. We share the same g-g-g-grandfather.

The power of Mudcat, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 10:49 AM

Seven degrees of separation indeed!


More names from the lists:

There was a family by the name of Hodder (not sure if related, too many gaps) who took their inspiration from the Bible - as many did. This family started with Julia and Tabitha, but then progressed to Kezia and Bathsheba. The first son was Emanuel (sic), then came Barzilla, another girl. Obedia and Zibich completed the family.

I detect a Jewish influence with Sunecai Genteelei, although she was baptised in a very rural Church of England... Ann Collypriest is quite rhythmic, as is Minnie Burch and Mercy Budle. Zilpah Dunford appears somewhere in Toller Porcorum and Adoniza Zealley is from the same area. Jane Payne, Tirzah Fever and Parthena Staple have a certain quality to them, but Speaze Tizzard takes the biscuit (and incidentally the highest word score in Scrabble).

If you put these names into a book or screenplay, you'd be laughed out of the office!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: bubblyrat
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 11:44 AM

I met some WRNS with interesting names whilst in the navy--There was a Glaswegian lass ( " See you, Jimmy"---ye didnae argue wi' HER !)called Bozena Radomski...actually,she was a pretty blonde. Then there was my friend,colleague,and fellow Air Radio Mechanic,Daphne Chedzoy.....apparently,it's a Somerset dialect word for "swamp",and since she came from Weston Zoyland,who could gainsay that ??
    A doctor in my home town was called T Staines-Reade, so you can guess what we called him ! And yes, I did used to work for Siemens,and they DID have a facility near Staines,and yes,none of the women who worked there would answer the 'phone.

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 04:10 PM

I used to go to school with a Chedzoy, it's unusual but quite well known in Somerset and Dorset. I believe there is an author of that name - possibly David? who was the father or uncle of the Chedzoy at school.

Weymouth used to have a dentist called Ian Savage... my first doctor was a Dr Paine... there was a Dr Lazarus up the road from here and I used to work with a gentleman by the name of Nick Battcock.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: Gurney
Date: 11 Jun 09 - 01:17 AM

There are about 9500 people in the UK who share the surname De Ath.

They get tired of "Keep De Ath off the road," a take on an old road-safety campaign.

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: bubblyrat
Date: 11 Jun 09 - 03:49 AM

De Ath in Venice
                  De Ath On The Nile
                                       De Ath of a Salesman

A shipmate,Dave Martin,tried to fix me up for a date with a Margaret De Ath, back in the Sixties,but I declined !

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 11 Jun 09 - 06:02 AM

On another forum, a critic posted as TalkaboutWorse.

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 05:59 AM

Oh, and when I worked in the library, one of my colleagues was called Novelette, honest!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 08:16 AM

I think Novella is quite a nice novel name for a female, come to think of it, Liz.

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: Wyrd Sister
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 01:37 PM

Been watching tennis. Murray has just beaten an American rejoicing in the name of Mardy Fish.


Meaning of 'mardy' (esp. 3)

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 13 Jun 09 - 10:58 AM

Liz, my Agenoria was in that part of Dorset, but I can't remember exactly where, or what her surname was.

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Jun 09 - 02:01 PM

"Been watching tennis. Murray has just beaten an American rejoicing in the name of Mardy Fish." (Wyrd Sister)...Did you see that fine top-spin lob he caught Fish out with, WS?!
PS: the Murray River in Australia used to be quite popular for fishing...

Poem 5 of 230: STATE TO STATE

(TUNE:

C F G F
C F G F
C F G F
C F G F
F G F C
F G F C
F G F C
C F F F)

From Sydney Town,
    In uni. break,
I drove out west
    To earnings make
Onion picking,
    On the fields
Of Echuca,
    That year's yields.

                                  After day's work,
                                     From Y.H.A.,
                                  A group of us
                                     Would not delay
                                  To walk on down
                                     To the dirt rim
                                  Of the Murray,
                                     For a cool swim.

On one such day,
    I do declare,
Some three of us
    Had a big dare
To swim across,
    From state to state,
The wide Murray -
    I took the bait.

                                  Yes, foolishly,
                                     I took the bait -
                                  A choice that I
                                     Would come to hate,
                                  For I almost
                                     Did drown that date,
                                  Making the swim
                                     From state to state.

From http://walkaboutsverse.sitegoz.com (e-scroll)
Or http://blogs.myspace.com/walkaboutsverse (e-book)

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: MARINER
Date: 14 Jun 09 - 09:25 AM

One of my favourites is the Irish DJ Rick O'Shea .

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 Jun 09 - 06:22 PM

The first president of Zimbabwe was named "Canaan Banana".

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 15 Jun 09 - 03:24 PM

There are a set of twins who live in Ayrshire called
Armani and Versacci McClatchie. How mad is that. Apparantly they are famous and can be found on google.
There was also a hotel manager in South Africa called Willie Slabber. My partner has his business card.
Hehe.

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: Gurney
Date: 16 Jun 09 - 02:28 AM

Comes to that, Boab, Willy Nelson sounds like a wrestling hold.

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: frogprince
Date: 16 Jun 09 - 10:17 AM

"Comes to that, Boab, Willy Nelson sounds like a wrestling hold."


Or an alternative to other euphenisms like "John Thomas".

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 16 Jun 09 - 11:43 AM

For a long time I really thought the singer Lou Rawls was in fact called Loo Rolls.

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: bubblyrat
Date: 16 Jun 09 - 12:41 PM

I remember seeing a game show on TV some years back,where two contestants,a married couple,both doctors,were asked if they had any children.It transpired that they had two, a boy & a girl.....they had called them Sam and Ella !

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: frogprince
Date: 16 Jun 09 - 12:47 PM

Sam and Ella Poisonne?