What`s in a name?

daitheplant Top Member Posts: 6,385	What`s in a name? Sept 2, 2014 18:57:17 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by daitheplant on Sept 2, 2014 18:57:17 GMT If Max Walls` parents had had a sense of humour they would have named their son Walter.

daitheplant Top Member Posts: 6,385	What`s in a name? Sept 2, 2014 19:05:42 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by daitheplant on Sept 2, 2014 19:05:42 GMT If Albert Einsteins` parents had had a sense of humour they would have named their son Frank.

daitheplant Top Member Posts: 6,385	What`s in a name? Sept 2, 2014 19:07:03 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by daitheplant on Sept 2, 2014 19:07:03 GMT If Kate Bush`s parents had had a sense of humour they would have named their daughter Rose.

daitheplant Top Member Posts: 6,385	What`s in a name? Sept 2, 2014 19:11:01 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by daitheplant on Sept 2, 2014 19:11:01 GMT If George W Bush`s parents had had a sense of humour they would have named their son Rose. Or, Eric.A.Bush.
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daitheplant Top Member Posts: 6,385	What`s in a name? Sept 2, 2014 19:12:59 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by daitheplant on Sept 2, 2014 19:12:59 GMT If Tony Blair`s parents had had a sense of humour they would have named their son Claire. Or Teddy.
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sweetpea Top Member Posts: 5,982	What`s in a name? Sept 2, 2014 21:32:46 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by sweetpea on Sept 2, 2014 21:32:46 GMT
	I'll get around to it eventually

daitheplant Top Member Posts: 6,385	What`s in a name? Sept 3, 2014 19:59:14 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by daitheplant on Sept 3, 2014 19:59:14 GMT If Alex Salmond`s parents had had a sense of humour they would have named their son Almond, as he is nuts.

Moonlight Top Member Posts: 4,922	What`s in a name? Sept 5, 2014 18:58:52 GMT via mobile daitheplant likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Moonlight on Sept 5, 2014 18:58:52 GMT My Nan's maiden name was Rose and her sister married A. Thorne

daitheplant Top Member Posts: 6,385	What`s in a name? Sept 5, 2014 19:07:34 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by daitheplant on Sept 5, 2014 19:07:34 GMT Years ago I actually knew a guy name Richard Head.

daitheplant Top Member Posts: 6,385	What`s in a name? Sept 14, 2014 20:21:39 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by daitheplant on Sept 14, 2014 20:21:39 GMT Thankfully, my surname can`t be abused.
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What`s in a name? Sept 14, 2014 21:26:07 GMT

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Post by sweetpea on Sept 14, 2014 21:26:07 GMT

Sept 14, 2014 20:21:39 GMT daitheplant said:

Thankfully, my surname can`t be abused.

We will just have to abuse you instead

Funny thing, on a Royal Marines forum I use there is a thread about how different nicknames originated. some such as taff, Jock, Paddy, yorky are easily explained and also Dusty (Miller) Chalky (White) etc.
I have seen explanations now for Bungy (Williams), Smudge (Smith) and a few others but why Chunky (Chambers)
Practically everyone had a nickname that stuck with them even after they left the corps.

I'll get around to it eventually

Rosie Global Moderator Rambling Rosie. Posts: 9,407	What`s in a name? Sept 15, 2014 18:39:46 GMT daitheplant likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Rosie on Sept 15, 2014 18:39:46 GMT I used to know a girl called Annette Curtin...
	Geordie in Exile..

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What`s in a name? Sept 15, 2014 20:07:22 GMT

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Sept 15, 2014 18:39:46 GMT Rosie said:

I used to know a girl called Annette Curtin...

I hope she pulled herself together Rosie. :DI went to school with a girl named Lucile Laskey, poor devil had the nickname, Lucy Lastic, 8-)my nickname in junior school was Twasacallanius.

Work that one out.

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Pansypotter New Member Posts: 33	What`s in a name? Sept 22, 2014 18:35:52 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Pansypotter on Sept 22, 2014 18:35:52 GMT i knew a girl, Teresa Green

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What`s in a name? Sept 26, 2014 19:59:05 GMT

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Sept 14, 2014 21:26:07 GMT sweetpea said:

Sept 14, 2014 20:21:39 GMT daitheplant said:

Thankfully, my surname can`t be abused.

We will just have to abuse you instead

Funny thing, on a Royal Marines forum I use there is a thread about how different nicknames originated. some such as taff, Jock, Paddy, yorky are easily explained and also Dusty (Miller) Chalky (White) etc.
I have seen explanations now for Bungy (Williams), Smudge (Smith) and a few others but why Chunky (Chambers)
Practically everyone had a nickname that stuck with them even after they left the corps.

Taff, Taffy is actually an insult to the Welsh, Jim. it comes from a poem, written by an Englishman, "Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief". As for Smith, my stepfather and his father, being Smiths, were known as "spider". I went to school with a boy known as Chunky Williams, he was known as the boy with the pineapple whatsits, ( I`ve edited to keep it clean ).

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