BS: First name only

Subject: BS: First name only
From: PHJim
Date: 08 Jan 19 - 09:31 PM

There are folks who can get away with a nickname or just a first name: Cher, Elvis. . .
Most cannot. Spike Lee once tried to sue "Spike TV", saying that folks would identify it with him. Spike Milligan or Spike Jones or that little dog with the circle around his eye come to mind when I hear Spike.
When I hear JT, I think of James Taylor, but some folks think Justin Timberlake.
I read a post about Amos being ill and wondered is that Amos Garrett? He's no spring chicken and I hope it's not too serious.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jan 19 - 10:12 PM

Cantinflas

Jeanmarie

and one could argue Bing (kind of an unusual name)

The only ones I can think of.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 12:10 AM

To pull off the first-name-only thing, one almost needs to be fortunate enough to have been born with a fairly uncommon name (Elvis, Madonna, Prince). Otherwise, one has to invent a name to play the game (Flea, Sting, Slash).

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 12:23 AM

Donovan...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 12:24 AM

Tarzan...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 12:33 AM

Ringo

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: EBarnacle
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 12:41 AM

A lot more people identify me by my first name than my last, especially after I explain that my father was Mr. Russell. I still find some people insist on formality, though.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Senoufou
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 02:45 AM

Adolf...?

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 02:59 AM

Well, here in California, everybody but us exiled Midwesterners goes by first name only. I think they're all in a Witness Protection Program.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 06:52 AM

lol

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Charmion
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 07:23 AM

Only my friends pronounce my name correctly. Everybody else gets told to call me Mrs Thomas or Madame. Or even Hey, Lady.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Ed T
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 07:32 AM

I have also noticed that some couples are mentioned with female first male second, while others are in the reverse. Possibly, the order is determined by what sounds better. Or, in other cases which is the Alpha partner?
I have friends with two boys. When they refer to them, they always say "Sam and Charlie". It always sounds like Salmon Charlie to me

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Senoufou
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 08:02 AM

My husband gets called all sorts of weird things in attempts to pronounce his first name (It's Ibrahima). His Christmas cards from the staff at the school where he's a cleaner were hilarious. He's had Ibby, Abby, Abrahama, Abe, Ibe, even Obama!!

My nickname was given to me by my Irish mother, and also by my school friends, as it was the name of my favourite pony at the riding school!

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 11:29 AM

My first name, which I use for all my gigs, is 'Owaikaho'akua. Most people call me "Ow!".

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: frogprince
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 11:37 AM

Odetta (sp?)

Beonce

Cher

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 11:44 AM

Beyoncé

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 11:57 AM

Arnie...

Any other famous Arnolds can fight it out between themselves for second place...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 12:24 PM

Twinkle...

Well.. she's one on my favourites...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlUw5nlAXIo

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 12:56 PM

Pelé. Jairzinho. Allison. Chicharito. Ronaldo (the Brazilian one). Ronaldinho. Socrates. Romario. Hulk. Fred. Garrincha. Odd man out, anybody? :-)

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 01:05 PM

Not Adolf. Adolf was the first name of Adolf Busch, a German musician, founder of the legendary Busch Quartet, a man who vehemently opposed the Nazis and who left Germany in protest just before the war, never to reside there again. I revere their recordings of Beethoven's late quartets above all else, so when I hear the name Adolf I think of him first and foremost.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jos
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 03:27 PM

Of Steve Shaw's list, I believe one of them is/was a footballer and another is either a football player or a team manager. Other than those two, the only one I have heard of is Socrates. Most people are known to the people around them by their first name.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 03:30 PM

Nope. They are or were all footballers!

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jos
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 03:42 PM

I think maybe that proves my point (but I could be wrong, so let's not go on and on and on about it ... )

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Joe_F
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 05:33 PM

When I was little I heard in the news that Bankhead thought she owned "Tallulah".

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 06:50 PM

Twiggy! Oh, wait, *Dame* Twiggy!

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 06:54 PM

The residents of Tallulah Falls, Georgia would've probably contested Ms Bankhead's claim of ownership since the town has established well before her birth.

But her friend, Mrs. Fitzgerald, pretty much owned "Zelda".

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Ed T
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 07:41 PM

I suspect individuals with less common first names are easier to identify than names like Dave or Steve?

Some celebrities use(d) different first names to help single them out, like
Babe Ruth (George Herman Ruth Jr.). Would we have easily remembered him only as George?

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: pdq
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 08:04 PM

Charo.

Homer and Jethro?

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: meself
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 09:12 PM

Does Sir Paul qualify?

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 09:22 PM

I recognized only two of the names in Steve's list - they're not all universally recognized by non-sports fans.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 09:49 PM

The residents of Tallula, Illinois would also contest a monopoly on the name. (Of course, the town's only claim to fame is that the road to Cleary's Grove is there.)

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 10:47 PM

Banksy...

[probably our most famous artist from the South West of England
and no one apart from his cronies know who the slippery elusive bugger is...!!!]

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Acorn4
Date: 10 Jan 19 - 03:53 AM

Vin, Flossie, Les.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Jan 19 - 04:01 AM

They're all Brazilian footballers except for Chicharito, who's a Mexixcan footballer. Sheesh.

Gazza. Jezza. Jazza (Archers). Macca. Dubya.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Senoufou
Date: 10 Jan 19 - 04:13 AM

Isn't Jeremy Kyle known as 'Jez'?

I've had more than one pupil pronounce Socrates as 'So-Crates'.

(And one child in a Geography lesson who was very interested to find the Amazin' River on a map)

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jos
Date: 10 Jan 19 - 04:32 AM

I'd never heard of Babe Ruth either - and I haven't bothered googling it, so I'm still none the wiser.

But I expect a lot of people on here have heard of Micca ...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Mr Red
Date: 10 Jan 19 - 04:44 AM

no one apart from his cronies know who the slippery elusive bugger is...!!!]

or who THEY are! They are an cooperative/studio anyway these days. Maybe it is/was two people/item from the start. With all that financial acumen - it has to be more than one person. IMNSHO

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 03:33 AM

At music the other evening the wife of one of the musicians made a rare appearance; they are Paul and June. Another of the musicians confessed that for a long time he thought that Paul's name was 'Paul Anjune'.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 07:39 AM

The reverse, I suppose, of the situation pertaining to the great Hungarian footballer Flórián Albert. From a certain angle it sounds like a cosy, middle-aged couple in Coronation Street.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Mo the caller
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 09:17 AM

So who comes to mind if you say Dylan? (for the 3 that I think of only 1 is a Christian name)

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 09:29 AM

Liberace...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 09:34 AM

Edge (the)

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 09:34 AM

Baldrick

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 09:59 AM

God...


...well.. seeing as we're also listing fictional characters...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Senoufou
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 11:06 AM

Prince, Rihanna, Lulu, Cher, Sting, Bono.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 11:25 AM

From: Senoufou - PM
Date: 10 Jan 19 - 04:13 AM
Isn't Jeremy Kyle known as 'Jez'?
I've had more than one pupil pronounce Socrates as 'So-Crates'.

That pronunciation is used in the film "Bill and Ted's excellent adventure" which might be where they get it from.
It also featured "that short dead dude" (Napoleon) and "Miss Of-Arc" (Joan)

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jos
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 01:11 PM

"who comes to mind if you say Dylan?"

For me, Bob Dylan, Dylan Thomas, Dylan the rabbit in 'The Magic Roundabout' - no others, so two first names.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Senoufou
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 01:29 PM

I think Nigel that Bill and Ted's film was late eighties, whereas my pupils were creating those howlers in the mid-seventies.

I always liked Dylan the rabbit. He was a sort of half-stoned, guitar-playing hippy.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 01:38 PM

"Miss Of-Arc." I love it!

I always thought that Bono's first name was "Twat."

I remember when Jonathan Ross was interviewing The Edge, and asked him "Is it OK if I just call you The?"

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jos
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 04:13 PM

So Mo the Caller must have thought of a Dylan (last name) that still eludes me.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Mo the caller
Date: 12 Jan 19 - 06:26 AM

Jos, I said Christian name not first name. Does it count as Christian if it's a rabbit. Or first for that matter, if there only ever was 1

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jos
Date: 12 Jan 19 - 03:37 PM

Ah, I see your point about the rabbit's 'Christian' name.

But isn't having only one name what this thread is about? Did Tarzan have another name? The original post refers to 'folks who can get away with a nickname or just a first name'.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Jan 19 - 06:51 PM

"Does it count as Christian if it's a rabbit"

It might do. I understand from a local priest that the patron saint of mosquitoes is St Bugs.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 12 Jan 19 - 11:08 PM

Biggles...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Jan 19 - 07:43 PM

Che

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Jan 19 - 07:45 PM

Beyoncé

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Jan 19 - 07:52 PM

https://m.ranker.com/list/most-iconic-celebrity-first-names/carlybobarly

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Jan 19 - 07:59 PM

Luke. Christy. Shane. Woody. No need for second names for those in my house.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 13 Jan 19 - 10:08 PM

Surprising we got so far without "Clint"...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Mr Red
Date: 14 Jan 19 - 04:08 AM

Che

er close but no cigar.

And wasn't his first name Ernesto?




call me a pedant (as a first name)

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 14 Jan 19 - 04:09 AM

Max......Joe.....

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Jan 19 - 03:40 PM

Under the "one name only needed" idea, you can extend it. Einstein. Tesla. Hawking.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Jan 19 - 12:07 AM

Not only one *needed* but only one, like Madonna or Cher. There are tons who can go by their last name alone, like Hitler, but we still *know* the first name.

And not all first names are Xn names.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 15 Jan 19 - 03:31 AM

Boris

And Vlad.

But Donald is primarily a duck.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 04:31 AM

Vlad the Impaler comes to mind before Putin, for me.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Senoufou
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 04:48 AM

I always associate 'Vladimir' with Ashkenazy. His playing of Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto (the 'Emperor') is sublime. I've listened to it so often I know every note!

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Mr Red
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 04:55 AM

Herrod
Goliath
Methusala
Noah
Job
Adam
Eve

come to think of it there are 12 more you could point to...........

Well 11 - that Iscariot fellow !

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 05:43 AM

Speaking of classical pianists, there's Solomon.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Senoufou
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 06:15 AM

I've had children ask me what was Noah's surname. And one enterprising lad offered Sark. Noah Sark, geddit? :)

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: MickyMan
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 02:29 PM

Rudolph
( Do reindeer count? LOL! )

Subject: RE: BS: First namso also loosely associated e only
From: Jos
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 02:59 PM

Reindeer Rudolph is associated with a Christian festival, so does that make it a 'Christian' name?
And regarding the question, earlier about whether Dylan the rabbit's name was a Christian name, aren't rabbits related to Easter bunnies - and so also (loosely) associated with a Christian festival?

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 03:22 PM

I always wondered why Peter had a last name but not Flopsy, Mopsy or Cottontail.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Jan 19 - 10:05 AM

Ahem. I'll try the right thread this time:

Rudolph can't have been Christian. He was a communist, Rudolph the Red. Tsk.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 17 Jan 19 - 10:30 AM

I've been sat on the bog* listening to maritime folk songs...

Nelson...


[* yes.. I did provide my own evocative sound effects of the wind and splashing sea...]

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: fat B****rd
Date: 17 Jan 19 - 01:04 PM

Rembrandt

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Mr Red
Date: 18 Jan 19 - 04:02 AM

In my local churchyard there is a headstone of a guy who was born about the time of Nelson's death. His name was "Horatio Nelson Powell"

Alas poor Nelson - I knew him Horatio.

And it was said his last words were actually:
"Kiss me - HARDER!"



I'll get me sou'wester....

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 18 Jan 19 - 04:38 AM

In the Royal Navy of that era...
we can be certain it wasn't "kiss my hard-on"...????

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Mo the caller
Date: 19 Jan 19 - 07:14 AM

Mr Red - you can add another 2 (of 4) to your 12.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Severn
Date: 19 Jan 19 - 03:32 PM

I still use my last name, though I could probably ditch it if I ever got famous, but Severn Savage it stays. I kinda like it.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Mo the caller
Date: 19 Jan 19 - 04:45 PM

Mr Red's 12 again - how many are actually well known (and do some of them actually have the same first name so need a second name or father or brothers name to distinguish them, or are known by a double first name, or even different first names in different accounts)?
Go on, how many without looking them up? I used to be able to name 12 but only by thinking hard. Now in my atheist day I'm sure of 7 - ah yes 3 of the ones I was doubtful about were right (and the other was a replacement for Mr R's 11). And there were 2 with the same first name.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Ed T
Date: 19 Jan 19 - 08:00 PM

Dweezil

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 19 Jan 19 - 11:14 PM

Popeye...

Sooty...

..and all their one named pals...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 20 Jan 19 - 02:02 AM

Another footballer, Eusebio

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: SamStone
Date: 20 Jan 19 - 02:05 AM

Gord

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Jan 19 - 09:49 AM

My father had a name that 'almost' no one else had, but it was a lot of trouble to make it clear to strangers.

He was AUDLEY... but if he ordered something over the phone, mail and parcels would arrived addresses to Audrey, Aubrey... and even Oddley.

He gave up and mostly used his initials.. A.W.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Jan 19 - 09:55 AM

Adam. Eve.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Ed T
Date: 20 Jan 19 - 07:55 PM

RuPaul

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 21 Jan 19 - 01:44 PM

Here's one for old Daily Mirror readers...

Garth...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: JMB
Date: 21 Jan 19 - 08:40 PM

I think that the actor Emilio Estevez could be known by his first name alone.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Jan 19 - 08:51 PM

Samson. Delilah. Beelzebub. Morrissey. Titian. Canaletto. Tintoretto. Shylock. Satan. Figaro. Bob (the builder). Pat (postman).

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 12:35 AM

Zebedee...
Florence...
Dougal...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 04:49 AM

Three more: God.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 06:09 AM

Pugh,Pugh,Barney McGrew,Cuthbert,Dibble and Grubb...

Though one, or both, of the Pughs and Barney McGrew must be disqualified
as far as the already overstretched remit of this thread goes...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 06:40 AM

Bagpuss...

call this a folk site, call yourselves folkies...
How can you keep this thread running for so many days without a mention for
Britains only pink striped cat that inspired a respected collection of folkiesongs...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 07:45 AM

Topcat. Well you just mentioned Officer Dibble...

Boo-boo. Well, unless Boo was his first name and Boo was his surname. Like Jerome K Jerome. Boo K Boo?

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jos
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 08:50 AM

Speaking of Jerome K. Jerome, I don't remember any other names being given in his books for George, Harris or Montmorency (the dog), though I could be wrong.

And what about Enid Blyton's characters, Julian, Dick, George, Anne, Timmy (the dog); and then there's Noddy (but presumably we can't count Big Ears ...).

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 08:58 AM

Eureka cries Archemedes as he counts the number of gods, people and others (eg. medusa?) that would only be known by one name in his own culture and other cultures.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jos
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 09:06 AM

Don't most of the Classical Gods and Goddesses have two names, one Greek and one Latin?

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 09:15 AM

Cuspidore (a cheat - Chambers App got it, not me, and apparently a spittoon) to you Jos.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 09:21 AM

At grammar school we were only referred to by our surnames..

I've got a fairly common old English surname,
but at the time I was the only one in our year,
and maybe the entire school...

My mrs hasn't got a middle name.. [is that a Welsh culture thing...????]

Can imagine how far parents would get these days just putting one name,
even only the surname,
on a birth certificate...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Senoufou
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 09:22 AM

In the Famous Five, George has the surname of Kirrin. And the others' is Barnard (mentioned in 'Five Get Into A Fix')
I confess to owning the whole blooming series and reading it often. It's quite comforting, reminds me of an age long past!

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jos
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 09:37 AM

In that case, Eliza, I stand corrected.
When I was a child I only had 'Five Fall Into Adventure' - I loved it and read it over and over again. I asked my mother if I could have more Famous Five books for birthdays or Christmas (we didn't live anywhere near a book shop for me to buy one myself). She gave me a very tame, soppy Enid Blyton book about children who went on nature walks. She said she had looked at the Famous Five books but thought they were too boyish! Much as I loved her, she did spend years trying to turn me into the kind of person I never was and was never going to be.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 09:38 AM

When I worked in a school in the East End in the glory days of ILEA and Red Ken, we got a new headmaster who'd clearly been used to his rather formal posh Edinburgh school's ways. He decided to call us all by surnames only. One day he was hailing my mate Terry Hunter from behind in the corridor: "A word with you please, Hunter!" Tel stopped momentarily in his tracks but didn't turn round, then proceeded purposefully on his way. "Er, Mr Hunter...!" did the trick for the head. That cured him of that little habit!

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 09:38 AM

My mum was a devoted collector of William books when she was a kid...

Was his first name Just, and William only his middle name...????????

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 09:48 AM

Pfr: "My mrs hasn't got a middle name.. [is that a Welsh culture thing...????]"

Life gets complicasted pfr.

I’m English and neither me or my 3 brothers have middle names. Neither parent has one either but I do know mum’s mum had the forenames Daisy Nellie Freshwater...


I lived some of my childhood (and a longer later spell) in N Wales and I am not aware of any of the few (all Welsh first language) in the village we'd mplay with having middle names except for one who’s middle name was more likely part of a surname (other part being Jones). But there is something I was able to work out recently, ie, referred to person was a brother of one of “our” group by mention of a middle name and knowing the father’s name and coupling with age...

One of the first jobs I had was as a forecourt attendant/car cleaner in a garage and I can assure you that both of those were “very Welsh” , had middle names, and go as far as to say that one of those was known by his middle name.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jos
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 10:16 AM

As far as I remember, William was William Brown. 'Just' was part of the (first?) book title. I'm not sure if Henry, Ginger and Douglas had surnames, though Violet Elizabeth had two names AND a surname.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jos
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 10:20 AM

Years back, when Princess Diana had produced a William and a Henry (thereafter called Harry, though he could also be Ginger), I used to hope she would have a girl and name her Violet Elizabeth.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 10:33 AM

Then there's the modern Welsh god of singing... Sirtom...


[Jos - yeah.. I know.. "Just" a little in-joke for William fans...]

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 11:42 AM

I always thought his full name was Just K William...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 11:56 AM

Thinking famous 5, did Jo (the "gypsy") ever have a surname?

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 12:05 PM

Swallows and Amazons movie... Titty's name was changed for the recent remake...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 12:14 PM

You'd have thought that "Titty" would be a double-barrelled name...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jos
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 12:41 PM

Wasn't the Swallows' surname Walker? And the Amazons' was Blackett or something similar.

I don't remember Jo having a surname, but her father was Simmy, so possibly Simpson or Symmonds or some such.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Ed T
Date: 23 Jan 19 - 04:34 PM

Speaking of Toots,(aka titty)

"Jean "Toots" Thielemans, originally a guitar player, was the first musician to bring the harmonica to the jazz world."

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 27 Jan 19 - 05:22 PM

A lot of people called Jimmy must come back from Scotland thinking that they're pretty famous up there.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Mr Red
Date: 28 Jan 19 - 04:49 AM

here's looking at Euclid

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 Jan 19 - 09:30 AM

Mr. Red, you will always have Paris. And Achilles.