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Offline keng38

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Re: The "Hollywood" names given to children will they stand the test of time?
« Reply #20 on: September 01, 2013, 10:36:23 AM »
Andrew Burke (A Burke) was a man I used to work with.



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« Reply #21 on: September 01, 2013, 13:18:07 PM »
Voice heard coming from a tenement in the Gorbals area of Glasgow...........'Elvis McGlumphar will ye come in the noo.Yer teas gettin cauld!!!!!!'

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« Reply #22 on: September 01, 2013, 13:52:24 PM »
Know a Hazel Birch and a Beverley who, unfortunately, is a bloke.

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Re: The "Hollywood" names given to children will they stand the test of time?
« Reply #23 on: September 01, 2013, 13:58:46 PM »
I know of a Tracey who is a bloke.

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Re: The "Hollywood" names given to children will they stand the test of time?
« Reply #24 on: September 02, 2013, 01:41:19 AM »
I know of a Tracey who is a bloke.

Just at the weekend or all the time?

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Re: The "Hollywood" names given to children will they stand the test of time?
« Reply #25 on: September 02, 2013, 08:21:42 AM »
Sam and Janet Evening - in my Mum's choir and very sociable with strangers.

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Re: The "Hollywood" names given to children will they stand the test of time?
« Reply #26 on: September 02, 2013, 08:32:27 AM »
The coolest real name of a person I have known was my ex-colleague, a wonderful guy called Richard Duck, yes Dick Duck etc... (he confidently told us, early on his first day he'd heard all the jokes, by 5pm he wearily admitted he hadn't). He was truly blessed, as one of the usual comments he had to endure was "Have you got webbed feet?".

Hilarious.

I swear to you, he used to say nothing in reply, take a shoe and sock off and incredibly, Mr. Richard Duck does have webbed toes :D

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Re: The "Hollywood" names given to children will they stand the test of time?
« Reply #27 on: September 02, 2013, 08:46:08 AM »
One of my former neighbours had the surname Thick, they named their son Ian Michael, hence any letters addressed to him arrived for Mr IM Thick.  :-\

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Re: The "Hollywood" names given to children will they stand the test of time?
« Reply #28 on: September 02, 2013, 10:14:02 AM »
My Mum had a waitress working for her who left to have a baby... She came round to see us with her new son called "Roman"  I said "oh that's an unusual name" turns out that she had named him after "Roman Keating"   we didn't have the heart to tell her...
HA HA! There was a tendency in the Philippines to name their childrew using "western" names but they often got it wrong hence my lead engineer when I worked for BT in the Middle East --- "Harmold" Carlos  :)

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Re: The "Hollywood" names given to children will they stand the test of time?
« Reply #29 on: September 02, 2013, 10:15:02 AM »
The coolest real name of a person I have known was my ex-colleague, a wonderful guy called Richard Duck, yes Dick Duck etc... (he confidently told us, early on his first day he'd heard all the jokes, by 5pm he wearily admitted he hadn't). He was truly blessed, as one of the usual comments he had to endure was "Have you got webbed feet?".

Hilarious.

I swear to you, he used to say nothing in reply, take a shoe and sock off and incredibly, Mr. Richard Duck does have webbed toes :D
hmmmmm swear to us eh? How long is your nose  :) ????




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