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Curmudgeons' Corner -blame it on the PITAs

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I had a friend who worked with Ilene Over, ( to be fair , she married Mr Over ) We had a teacher called Ian Drinkwater ( I Drinkwater ) I knew a gay couple called Mark and Mark, and another called Steve and Steven. My ex wife had an aunt and uncle called Leslie and Lesley and a friend who had an aunt and uncle called Kim and Kim.
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited March 2019
    I knew a Noelle Nowel and knew of a Luke Warmbath
    I'm sure there's a few Kate and Sidneys knocking about too
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I knew a couple called Pat and Pat ... and they weren’t even gay 😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    "Like Warmbath" made me laugh out loud
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Poor bu**er.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    I knew a Russell Slowly and mother’s best friend was a Phranzy Drew, also an Eve Hoare but that was her married surname 
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    edited March 2019
    A couple of policeman:
    Devon and Cornwall police 1970s - Chief Superintendent Proven Sharpe
    Paris 1930s - Commissaire Spécial (i.e. a spy) Charles Adolphe Faux Pas Bidet

    In opposition to Napoleonic taxes, people in rural Holland gave themselves protest surnames so, still in existence, are a few One Cows and Quickshitters.

    In Sussex in the late 18th century a large grouping of Puritans took to giving their children what are called hortatory names such as Fight the Good Fight of Faith White, born in Pevensey, Humiliation Scratcher (Westham) and Fly Fornication Bull (Hailsham).

    Similarly in New England about the same time religious zealots were known to open the Bible and have their finger fall on a random word so, welcome to the World, Notwithstanding Griswold (a girl, obviously!)
    Rutland, England
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Former head of the Catholic church in the Philipines:
    Cardinal Sin
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Sin
    Devon.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    edited March 2019
    Just remembered I was at school with T Hickey. Prescient parents because, unfortunately, he was.

    And in my brother’s class there were two John Francis Patrick O’Brians
    Rutland, England
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Then there was the famous Cossack dancer - Yaputya Leftlegin
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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