Unfortunate (genuine) names

[matticus]

When my GF trained in accountancy, the version they were told was "Yolanda Revenua". She seemed to think it was a true story - there have been many stranger scams over the years!

 

[Homers Double]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Chmelar

Probably already been said I’m not reading 27 pages.

 

[Fastpedaller]

I worked in the same company as a guy called richard Willie. He was a really nice guy, however, word had it that if anyone called him Dick he became very annoyed. I never tried it (and indeed wouldn't have wanted to lest it cause upset to him, even before anyone had told me the aforementioned.)

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I worked with a guy called Willie Gell.

I thought someone was doing a Bart Simpson when I got a call asking if I knew where Willie Gell was in the office.

In my head I heard Moe: “Willie Gell! Hey, can somebody find me Willie Gell please?!”

 

[simongt]

In Norwich many years ago, the manager of the refuse collection dept. was one George Smellie and in Ipswich, the manager of the buses was a Ronald Pickup - !
Did they choose their jobs, or did their jobs choose them - ?

 

[Electric_Andy]

I went to school with not 1, but 2 boys named Toby Hoare. You'd think they would have got more stick than they did, but after a while people just forgot about it

 

[Gillstay]

Sadly my kids went to school with Poppy Fields which the stupid parents thought was ever so clever. Subtle child abuse in my eyes.

 

[geocycle]

I went to school with a guy called Tony Mycock. Worth a giggle on its own but the day the rugby teacher stood at the door of the coach and shouted ‘has anyone seen Mycock’ was a moment of legend.

 

[stephec]

I went to school with a guy called Tony Mycock. Worth a giggle on its own but the day the rugby teacher stood at the door of the coach and shouted ‘has anyone seen Mycock’ was a moment of legend.

There was a Haycock in my school who got called straw dick, I heard a while back that he ended up inside on firearms offences.

 

[Webbo2]

A friend of mine swore on his mothers life there was someone at his school called Horsan Cart.

 

[Gunk]

Our old head of HR was Richard Head. He also had a daughter called Holly.

 

[oxoman]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Chmelar

Probably already been said I’m not reading 27 pages.

That was on a well known quiz show and had Bradley Walsh in stitches i beleive.

 

[MadMalx]

There was a Japenese allergy specialist working in London called Dr Ichinose.
And I knew a medic callec Dr Reckless

 

[lenfield]

There was a Haycock in my school who got called straw dick, I heard a while back that he ended up inside on firearms offences.

There was a Woodcock at my school known as 'splinter dick'.

 

[DRM]

There was a Woodcock at my school known as 'splinter dick'.

Same name & nickname for a very inept shift manager at one site I used to visit many years ago