If you ever feel that you drew the short straw with your name

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  1. North Yorks Red

    North Yorks Red Well-Known Member

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    My girlfriends son is called Aston Bear Lord (or ass Lord for short). Which amuses me no end.
     
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    Ruby Wax's is called Max.
     
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    Work with a guy called Billy Ankers.
    Short for William.
     
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    Eddie Scrace.
     
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    Loved my old gaffer’s name Status Telemark
     
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    My former boss was Mr Ivor Shitforbrains.
     
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    I hated my name at junior school. I'm an Armstrong and a certain group of tossers called me "General nit and his barmy army" or "barmy" for short. At Wath Grammar, I was briefly "Legs weak" which was shortened to just "legs". This stuck with me throughout my time at WGS and even my mate's mum called me legs...
     
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    That's overtaken Bernt Haas as my favourite name.

    Judy Graham Swallows.
    Tiny Kox.
    Mike Oxsmall.
     
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    A friend of ours who's called Annette actually turned down a guys marriage proposal after a good 9 months of dating
    his surname, I kid you not.. was Curtain
    I will leave it with you lol
     
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    Shop assistant I knew wore a name badge on her lapel she was called Pat Daley
     
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    How about this for a contender. In a school I taught in long ago was a kid called Aaron Mycock.
     
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