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Subject: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Little Hawk Date: 24 May 10 - 11:21 PM I don't think we've really covered this subject yet. We'll just go with English language ones, okay? Here are my nominations: 1. Snodgrass 2. Lilywhite If, for example, Pruella Snodgrass were to marry Desmond Lilywhite, they could have a daughter named Hermione Snodgrass-Lilywhite. Wouldn't that be marvelous? Hyphenated names sound so upper class and prestigious, don't you think? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Shanghaiceltic Date: 24 May 10 - 11:34 PM Riddle With a son called James (JImmy)..... Cocks....at a public school there would be Cocks Major and Cocks Minor In the Navy anyone with a surname of May was always called Daisy Parker..Nosey Adams...Fanny Marsh...Swampy |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Little Hawk Date: 24 May 10 - 11:39 PM Those are humorous indeed. But are they wimpy? Well, I suppose some of them are. Isn't "Cocks" normally spelled "Cox"? I always thought the surname Ramsbottom sounded pretty odd...I'm glad I wasn't born with it. I'd have changed "me" name right quick. ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Ebbie Date: 24 May 10 - 11:42 PM What do you mean by 'wimpy'? So far I don't see anything particularly wimpy about any of the names. Fact I'm not even sure I know what a wimpy name would be. What is your definition of wimpy? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Shanghaiceltic Date: 24 May 10 - 11:52 PM Had a teacher called Bumphries at my school...his name was a source of constant amusement. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Little Hawk Date: 25 May 10 - 12:03 AM My definition? Well...the word "wimp", in present usage, means a weak, cowardly, ineffectual person. A wimpy-sounding name can summon up mental images of that sort of thing in many peope's minds, although it is quite plain that the name itself in no way necessitates that the person BE weak, cowardly or ineffectual. Who would you be inclined to hire as a bodyguard, for example, based on the feeling you got from his name alone: Jim Corrigan? Or Casper Milquetoast? ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Art Thieme Date: 25 May 10 - 12:16 AM Thieme! Art |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Rapparee Date: 25 May 10 - 12:24 AM I'd rather not hire a bodyguard. They can be bribed. I've always liked some of the names that were changed during Victoria's time. Good old names like Jeremy Ballocks or Henry Fartfire. (Please note that my own surname means "Keeper of the Sacred" or, in modern Dutch, "Goalie.") |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Little Hawk Date: 25 May 10 - 12:28 AM Hell, man...with a body like yours, who needs a guard? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Rapparee Date: 25 May 10 - 12:31 AM To keep off the groupies. I'm a married man! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Little Hawk Date: 25 May 10 - 12:34 AM You could hire Shane, I suppose. He would work almost for free if he could run interference on those groupies you mention. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Ebbie Date: 25 May 10 - 12:39 AM Casper Milquetoast? That's not fair- until Webster came up with that name for his character, Milquetoast was a perfectly acceptable item. When I'm feeling poorly I still sometimes heat up some milk, toast some bread and drop a poached egg in the bowl. Hmmmm. It is when I'm feeling like a weak, ineffectual or bland person. So, she says grudgingly, I'll grant you that one. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 25 May 10 - 01:03 AM There was a presenter on childrens TV in the UK (round about 1980s') called Christopher Lillicrap. Honest, it says so here! I often wonder if he lost work because of it, or if he changed it.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Little Hawk Date: 25 May 10 - 01:04 AM If your surname is Bumphries...don't name your son Humphrey. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Little Hawk Date: 25 May 10 - 01:06 AM Christoper LILLICRAP????????? Ah-ha! Ha! Ha! Omigod. That has to be the ultimate. The poor, poor man. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 25 May 10 - 01:12 AM The killer is the attached link for the Noel Gay organisation! Can't get wimpier than that can you? LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Little Hawk Date: 25 May 10 - 02:03 AM Not easily. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: catspaw49 Date: 25 May 10 - 02:11 AM Humbert Gaylord Farquad III Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: JennieG Date: 25 May 10 - 02:15 AM There was a family by the name of Lillicrap when I was growing up. Cheers JennieG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: catspaw49 Date: 25 May 10 - 02:18 AM Irving Smedley Dinkidich Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: GUEST,muppett Date: 25 May 10 - 05:40 AM If you're after a whimpy name, how about Whimpole? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: gnomad Date: 25 May 10 - 05:46 AM Fey (or occasionally LeFay) and Hissing sound fairly weak to me, as do Heyhoe, Loveless and Petty. In fact there's a whole set of surnames starting Pet... that have a bit of that connotation about them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: bubblyrat Date: 25 May 10 - 06:08 AM I don't know about the wimpiest ( aside from J Wellington Wimpy), although I recall an English Ambassador to the USA , called Sir Crispin Tickell, which certainly tickelled me. A senior officer I encountered in my Navy days was one Commander Robotham ---he insisted that it should be pronounced " Row Bottom", and thus became known to officers and ratings (enlisted men) alike as " Paddle Arse". Our very own Sir Ranulph Twistleton - Wickham-Fiennes is,I feel, possessed of a somewhat whimsical ,if not actually wimpish, handle ; the longest conjoined surname known to English heraldry is the magnificent ( IMHO) Temple-Nugent- Brydges- Chandos- Grenville . -----not bad, eh ??? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: GUEST,Elfcall Date: 25 May 10 - 07:04 AM As any fule kno Fotherington-Thomas. A weed and a sissy! Elfcall |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: GUEST,kendall Date: 25 May 10 - 08:46 AM There is a local car dealer who changed his name from Lipshitz to Lee. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: GUEST,Neil D Date: 25 May 10 - 09:04 AM Retired Nascar driver, Dick Trickle. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: SINSULL Date: 25 May 10 - 09:08 AM Hieronomous Merkin. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: SINSULL Date: 25 May 10 - 09:11 AM Hieronymous or Heironymous not Hieronomous. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: SINSULL Date: 25 May 10 - 09:13 AM I knew a guy named Lipschitz. One of the most corrupt people i have ever encountered. No moral compass. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: TheSnail Date: 25 May 10 - 09:27 AM I used to know a chap called Dick Small. What WERE his parents thinking? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Dave MacKenzie Date: 25 May 10 - 10:20 AM There's a retired Welsh clergyman and local historian known as Bill Pritchard. His initials are T W. "Twp" yngh Nghymraeg means stupid. What were his parents thinking? (or not) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Rapparee Date: 25 May 10 - 10:55 AM Joseph L. Meek. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: John MacKenzie Date: 25 May 10 - 01:18 PM We can't criticise people on the grounds of their colour, religion, or sexual preferences, among other things. So let's take the piss out of their surnames instead eh. They can't touch you for that can they? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: The Sandman Date: 25 May 10 - 01:20 PM I know a fellow called Dick Miles http://www.dickmiles.com |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Little Hawk Date: 25 May 10 - 01:32 PM They can if you're within reach, John. ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Georgiansilver Date: 25 May 10 - 01:46 PM We had two brothers at our school... surnames 'Harston' One was in his final year, the other a newbie..... but the question was sometimes asked.. Are you talking about the little Harston or the big Harston! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 25 May 10 - 02:57 PM All those simplified names used by immigrants whose real surnames were difficult to understand. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: VirginiaTam Date: 25 May 10 - 02:59 PM Tarquin Wiggins Alistair Twitchett |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Rapparee Date: 25 May 10 - 03:08 PM How about Robert Leroy Parker? Or Clyde Barrow? Or Charles A. Floyd? Or John H. Holliday? Or Henry Plummer? Or Reggie Kray? Or Tom Horn? Or Peter Kürten? Or Albert Fish? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Ebbie Date: 25 May 10 - 05:26 PM I used to know a Sidebottom. And we had a Sizemore family in town. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: GUEST,kendall Date: 25 May 10 - 07:55 PM When I was on the Maine Warden force we had a warden whose last name was Coffin. He married a woman whose first name was Iona. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Dave MacKenzie Date: 25 May 10 - 07:56 PM How about "Marion Morrison"? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Bob the Postman Date: 25 May 10 - 08:19 PM Stubbs? There was a chimpanzee called Mr. Stubbs in the movie "Pollyanna". What IS Chongo's surname anyway? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Rapparee Date: 25 May 10 - 08:31 PM Stubby, but it refers to a physical attribute, not his family. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Bat Goddess Date: 25 May 10 - 09:20 PM Up around the corner from us is a mailbox with the surname Szucks on it. Unfortunate name. Not necessarily wimpy...just unfortunate. Turnipseed is wimpy. And maybe Popcorn. (Boy, that one's probably an immigration screw-up mis-Anglization.) Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Riginslinger Date: 25 May 10 - 09:53 PM There was a guy in one of my math lectures at Oregon State name Chickenchit. The class went absolutely wild everytime the instructor called the role. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Little Hawk Date: 26 May 10 - 12:45 AM Good lord, Rig! That is tragic. Chongo's surname is Chimp. He adopted that surname for legal reasons upon entering the USA. He had just been called "Chongo" before that when he lived in Africa. Bush chimps don't have surnames, just given names. Most American primates really prefer to go simply by a given name, but the human bureaucracy won't provide them with papers unless they adopt a surname, so Chongo went for the obvious and took the surname "Chimp". |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Peter Kasin Date: 26 May 10 - 01:01 AM My college roommate had a statistics textbook authored by a man with the last name "Boring." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Little Hawk Date: 26 May 10 - 01:10 AM I had a book by a naval historian about the war with Japan. His name was "Paul S. Dull". Despite the unfortunate name, his book was not dull, it was a fine piece of writing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity Date: 26 May 10 - 01:32 AM A great bass player, and guitarist in New Jersey name Richard (Dick) Shafter ...also Oliver Klozov GfS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Georgiansilver Date: 26 May 10 - 02:15 AM Some of Chongos relatives? I had tea with these chimps many years ago and would suggest they might be related to Chongo! Their real surname is Chimp! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) Date: 26 May 10 - 02:49 AM Any of those weird double barreled American 'elite family' names that have "the third" appended to them.. They make all those conspiricy theories about secret organisations performing faux baby sacrifices to Moloch or whatever, suddenly seem very obviously true. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Gweltas Date: 26 May 10 - 03:59 AM Chivers Plant Littlechild Ham Gosling Bottomly Polkinghorn Cross Winterbotham Shattock Kneebone Hiscox Averiss Prigg Fassbender Smele Fawcetta Bassett Dungey Pidcock Lamb Pilkington Peacock Hand Baldwin.... are all surnames of people I have encountered in my career and which made me profoundly grateful to my father for having a normal surname! Had I been born with any of the above listed, I suspect the result would have been a lifetime of teasing and a dash to change it for something more conventional as soon as I was old enough to do so. My thanks to all previous posters in this thread for giving me a few good giggles and my sincere sympathies to those who bear such unfortunate surnames and have to endure our amused reactions. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: bubblyrat Date: 26 May 10 - 06:55 AM As I said before (I think!), I found some distant (very) relations from the Isle of Wight, off southern England, who rejoiced in the name of Fuck, but the name died out (luckily) by the 16th century ( thank Fuck !). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: GUEST,Essex girl Date: 26 May 10 - 07:08 AM Don't no about wimpiest but my daughter has just employed someone called Russel Crussel! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: alanabit Date: 26 May 10 - 08:18 AM There was a British NCO called John Coward in WWII. He was captured by the Germans at Dunkirk. He could hardly have had a less appropriate surname as he proceeded to wreak havoc upon his captors. A not uncommon surname in Germany is Titz, which is a village south of Bonn, I believe. It is pronounced "teats", but would no doubt cause considerable amusement among adolescent Englishmen. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine Date: 26 May 10 - 09:24 AM Among the less fortunate surnames at my school were Hardern (you can guess what he called him) and Shatwell (enough said) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Bat Goddess Date: 26 May 10 - 10:00 AM In New Hampshire we have a politician named Dick Swett, also, I think, an unfortunate name. When I was a kid, the offices of Dr. Boozer was in the same building as the local Rexall pharmacy. Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Rapparee Date: 26 May 10 - 12:22 PM How about Idaho's Senator Mike Crapo? I know a guy whose surname is Twadell -- fine guy. And let me not forget to mention Butch Lykes, another good guy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: bubblyrat Date: 26 May 10 - 12:33 PM As I've mentioned before ---A jet fighter "Ace" in the Korean War was Everret J Raspberry,Junior. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: bubblyrat Date: 26 May 10 - 12:38 PM And let us never forget the West Indian shipping clerk who was called Euclides Von Pussberger DeJesus Maisonette. Really. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Becca72 Date: 26 May 10 - 12:40 PM "Hyphenated names sound so upper class and prestigious, don't you think?" I do think so. That's why I'm waiting to marry until I find a gentleman with the surname "Code" (wink wink) There was a Dick Small who lived down the street from me when I was growing up. I went to school with Iva Head and April Beaver... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Paul Burke Date: 26 May 10 - 04:44 PM I suppose you can't get wimpier than to be called after a lady's naughty bits. Bush? But then, who am I to talk... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Ebbie Date: 26 May 10 - 05:11 PM When I was a kid, we had a neighbor called Fruck- the next generation legally changed their name to Foster. Carlos Boozer of the NBA (Basketball) is from Juneau. A local prison official's surname is Buttcane. It seems particularly unfortunate considering his line of work. |
