BS: First name only

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

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 04:49 AM

Three more: God.

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: 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: 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: punkfolkrocker
Date: 21 Jan 19 - 01:44 PM

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

Garth...

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

RuPaul

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: 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: SamStone
Date: 20 Jan 19 - 02:05 AM

Gord

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: punkfolkrocker
Date: 19 Jan 19 - 11:14 PM

Popeye...

Sooty...

..and all their one named pals...

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

Dweezil

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: 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 - 07:14 AM

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

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: 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: fat B****rd
Date: 17 Jan 19 - 01:04 PM

Rembrandt

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: 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: 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 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: MickyMan
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 02:29 PM

Rudolph
( Do reindeer count? LOL! )

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: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 05:43 AM

Speaking of classical pianists, there's Solomon.