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People with bizarre names


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I knew someone called Petronella, she was from the Congo.

 

You can't beat the cabinet minister 'Ed Balls'

 

All the foreign students from malaysia and that sort of place at our university chose english names for some reason. They always managed to choose ones that didn't fit them at all. One lad was called Arthur. Odd choice.

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I know a Faroaese bloke called Sun-life and another named John Wayne.

Ive bought indian whisky from a bloke called Deepshit.

Isn't there an indian lass on channel 4 news called

Nana Neenar (sounds like a fire engine comming)

 

It scans well but it doesn't rhyme.

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Some of these surnames are actually quite interesting.

From my limited knowledge of history I believe surnames were introduced for tax collection purposes.

If you name was bill and you made barrells you became Bill Cooper.

Makes you wonder what Tony Woodcocks ancestors got up to. What about Peter Winterbottoms long forgotten history.

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Some of these surnames are actually quite interesting.

From my limited knowledge of history I believe surnames were introduced for tax collection purposes.

If you name was bill and you made barrells you became Bill Cooper.

Makes you wonder what Tony Woodcocks ancestors got up to. What about Peter Winterbottoms long forgotten history.

 

Not sure whether this is the case in the UK? In scando country it came off "son of Jakob" Jakobson (Swedish) Jakobsen (Danish, Norwegian). The faroe islands still has this for both men and women, i.e. rigardsdottir "Daughter of Rigard" and Jakobson as above.

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Some of these surnames are actually quite interesting.

From my limited knowledge of history I believe surnames were introduced for tax collection purposes.

If you name was bill and you made barrells you became Bill Cooper.

Makes you wonder what Tony Woodcocks ancestors got up to. What about Peter Winterbottoms long forgotten history.

 

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I worked in MVC once and upon asking the surname of a customer in a packed shop so i could look up his 'loyalty card' details he replied

"C . .OC . . KH . . E . . AD" I read half of it allowed then went silent and went to complete the sale trying to hide the smile.

In Horsham there is a family of Cockheads.

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