BS: Peoples names

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: Scoville
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 02:21 PM

Amen.

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 03:26 AM

Nellie Clatt, it rhymes with twat.

This is true because I know her.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: Emma B
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 05:57 AM

clat   [klat]
a lump a clot, a mess a muddle

from the Scots on line dictionary - ok it's one t short of a pot!

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: Sorcha
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 11:16 AM

Heard of Lear Jet? Personal private jet planes....??

Named their daughter Chanda. I went to school with her.

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: Scoville
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 11:36 AM

My mother knew both a Sandy Rhoades and a Sandy Beech [unsure of spelling].

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: frogprince
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 12:00 PM

50 years ago, in Minnesota, we regularly saw TV ads informing us that, for Culligan soft water service, we should "see Sandy Leak in Minnesota Lake" (Not makin' this up)

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: Helen
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 07:11 PM

Nellie dear,

It's more fun winding people up, straight-faced, than falling into the nasty troll trap and getting mad.

That's my sense of humour.

Wind her up, reel her in, got her!

"You load of boring pompous gits, get a life and have a laugh now and again."

I am laughing - because it's fun turning a potentially sour conversation into a discussion about the things we are interested in. It's a nicer way than spitting back nasty comments, and then not getting anything positive out of it.   This isn't the thread discussion you expected, but it is a good thread, in my opinion, and that's the way Mudcat works. There are so many interesting people here, with interesting ideas and opinions, so it is always worthwhile having a chat.

So, I do apologise for winding you up, but not for trying to turn a negative into something more positive.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: Mr Happy
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 11:11 AM

...............aye, I bet loads've folk curse their parents for giving them ludicrous or embarrassing names.

Jamie Oliver's daughtersfor example:

The couple met in 1993 and have three daughters: Poppy Honey (born 18 March 2002), Daisy Boo (born 10 April 2003), and Petal Blossom Rainbow

& then there was Zowie Bowie!

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 11:49 AM

Unlike the writers of some of the letters (the Independent has) published following the naming of Wayne Rooney's son, I don't know what Kai means. You'll probably have to ask Lex Gigeroff who created the show, but Kai (the Dead Man) was a former assassin for His Divine Shadow, and the Last of the Brunnen G in the sc-fi series "Lexx".

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: ranger1
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 08:02 PM

Kai is a fairly common Scandinavian boy's name.

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: Rowan
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 09:40 PM

Azizi,
You may be interested in this excerpt from the script of Episode 22 of Monty Python's Flying Circus; I've included the text of their "Philosopher's Song" for your delectation:

First Bruce, an Australian in full Australian outback gear. We briefly hear a record of 'Waltzing Mathilda'. He is sitting in a very hot, slightly dusty room with low wicker chairs, a table in the middle, big centre fan, and old fridge.
Second Bruce        Goodday, Bruce!
First Bruce        Oh, Hello Bruce!
Third Bruce        How are yer Bruce?
First Bruce        Bit crook, Bruce.
Second Bruce        Where's Bruce?
First Bruce        He's not here, Bruce.
Third Bruce        Blimey, s'hot in here, Bruce.
First Bruce        S'hot enough to boil a monkey's bum!
Second Bruce        That's a strange expression, Bruce.
First Bruce        Well Bruce, I heard the Prime Minister use it. S'hot enough to boil a monkey's bum in 'ere, your Majesty,' he said and she smiled quietly to herself.
Third Bruce        She's a good Sheila, Bruce and not at all stuck up.
Second Bruce        Ah, here comes the Bossfella now! - how are you, Bruce?
Enter fourth Bruce with English person, Michael
Fourth Bruce        Goodday, Bruce, Hello Bruce, how are you, Bruce? Gentlemen, I'd like to introduce a chap from pommie land... who'll be joining us this year here in the Philosophy Department of the University of Woolamaloo.
All         Goodday.
Fourth Bruce        Michael Baldwin - this is Bruce. Michael Baldwin - this is Bruce. Michael Baldwin - this is Bruce.
First Bruce        Is your name not Bruce, then?
Michael        No, it's Michael.
Second Bruce        That's going to cause a little confusion.
Third Bruce        Mind if we call you 'Bruce' to keep it clear?
Fourth Bruce        Well, Gentlemen, I think we'd better start the meeting. Before we start, though, I'll ask the padre for a prayer.
First Bruce snaps a plastic dog-collar round his neck. They all lower their heads.
First Bruce        Oh Lord, we beseech thee, have mercy on our faculty, Amen!!
All         Amen!
Fourth Bruce        Crack the tubes, right! (Third Bruce starts opening beer cans) Er, Bruce, I now call upon you to welcome Mr. Baldwin to the Philosophy Department.
Second Bruce        I'd like to welcome the pommy bastard to God's own earth, and I'd like to remind him that we don't like stuck-up sticky-beaks here.
All         Hear, hear! Well spoken, Bruce!
Fourth Bruce        Now, Bruce teaches classical philosophy, Bruce teaches Haegelian philosophy, and Bruce here teaches logical positivism, and is also in charge of the sheepdip.
Third Bruce        What's does new Bruce teach?
Fourth Bruce        New Bruce will be teaching political science - Machiavelli, Bentham, Locke, Hobbes, Sutcliffe, Bradman, Lindwall, Miller, Hassett, and Benet.
Second Bruce        Those are cricketers, Bruce!
Fourth Bruce        Oh, spit!
Third Bruce        Howls of derisive laughter, Bruce!
Fourth Bruce        In addition, as he's going to be teaching politics, I've told him he's welcome to teach any of the great socialist thinkers, provided he makes it clear that they were wrong.
They all stand up.
All         Australia, Australia, Australia, Australia, we love you. Amen!
They sit down.
Fourth Bruce        Any questions?
Second Bruce        New Bruce - are you a pooftah?
Fourth Bruce        Are you a pooftah?
Michael        No!
Fourth Bruce        No right, well gentlemen, I'll just remind you of the faculty rules: Rule one - no pooftahs. Rule two, no member of the faculty is to maltreat the Abbos in any way whatsoever - if there's anybody watching. Rule three - no pooftahs. Rule four - I don't want to catch anyone not drinking in their room after lights out. Rule five - no pooftahs. Rule six - there is no rule six! Rule seven - no pooftahs. That concludes the reading of the rules, Bruce.
First Bruce        This here's the wattle - the emblem of our land. You can stick it in a bottle or you can hold it in your hand.
All         Amen!
Fourth Bruce        Gentlemen, at six o'clock I want every man-Bruce of you in the Sydney Harbour Bridge room to take a glass of sherry with the flying philosopher, Bruce, and I call upon you, padre, to close the meeting with a prayer.
First Bruce        Oh Lord, we beseech thee etc. etc. etc., Amen.
All         Amen!
First Bruce        Right, let's get some Sheilas.
An Aborigine servant bursts in with an enormous tray full of enormous steaks.
Fourth Bruce        OK.
Second Bruce        Ah, elevenses.
Third Bruce        This should tide us over 'til lunchtime.
Second Bruce        Reckon so, Bruce.
First Bruce        Sydney Nolan! What's that! (points)
Cut to dramatic close-up of Fourth Bruce's ear. Hold close-up. The superimposed arrow pointing to the ear.

The Philosopher's Song (Monty Python)

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya'
'Bout the raising of the wrist.
SOCRATES, HIMSELF, WAS PERMANENTLY PISSED...

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away;
Half a crate of whiskey every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: "I drink, therefore I am"
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed!

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 04:24 AM

I worked with a bloke whose given name was Aragorn.

The poor sod - his parents couldn't have liked him very much.

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 06:54 AM

But Aragorn had a good part in Lord of the Rings didn't he???

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 07:34 AM

I've worked with a Michael Hunt (he liked his first name to be pronounced in full), and I've heard from someone who has to deal with large sections of the public by name that there are a lot of Teresa Greens out there.