'Most unfortunate names' revealed (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

What do you call some of the most unlucky people in Britain?

Justin Case, Barb Dwyer and Stan Still.

It sounds like a bad joke, but a study has revealed that there really are unfortunate people with those names in the UK.

Joining them on the list are Terry Bull, Paige Turner, Mary Christmas and Anna Sasin.

And just imagine having to introduce yourself to a crowd as Doug Hole or Hazel Nutt.
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Retired airman Stan Still, 76, from Cirencester, Gloucestershire, said his name had been "a blooming millstone around my neck my entire life".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7909561.stm

You know who I feel sorry for? That poor guy Mill Stone.

[mcctatas]

1. I have no sympathy...

my first name is so shitageous that I would gladly switch with Anna Sasin~

[Gormy Cuss]

2. Funny combo for girls: Amanda Lynn

A mandolin?

[ikojo]

3. Let us not forget the unfortunate men

named Mike Hunt.

[DemBones DemBones]

4. My mom knew a guy named

Hardin Straight. I'm series!!!

She was a bank teller at the time and he was a regular customer. All the tellers were women and all had a hard time keeping a straight face when he came in. What were his parents thinking?

[no name no slogan]

5. That's nothing. When I worked in a pub in London, we once had to page a guy named

Michael Hunt.

I shit you not. He got a phone call at the bar, and we had to shout his name out over the house noise. Believe it or not, Mr. Hunt answered, and took his phone call.

[MrScorpio]

6. "Has anyone seen Mike Hunt?"

Very Bart Simpsonish

[no name no slogan]

7. Yup. We actually paged him as "Michael", just to be safe

...and a few of our regulars were giving us shit, saying that it was a joke and that we'd been pranked. They shut their gobs once Michael showed up at the bar and picked up the phone.

[undeterred]

14. Kind of like "Anita Blow, come to the front desk please"

Really bad.

[Kutjara]

25. I used to work with a "Mike Hunt."

And he resolutely introduced himself as such. Even his business cards said "Mike Hunt" on them. I still have one of them, twenty years later.

[joneschick]

8. Chris P. Bacos

Dewey C. Snart
Arthur Narf
Woodrow & Willow Badger

--fer real. I used to have more. :hi:

[rurallib]

9. Hollowpeter is a rather noted last name in my neck of the woods.

[LSdemocrat]

10. Well, I know plenty of Muslim kids who have the once reasonable name of "Osama"

Can't have been good for those kids after 9/11.

[Swede]

11. Bob Loblaw.

[Richardo]

21. !

:rofl:

[erinlough]

12. honest, my sister's boss is named.....

Harry Ball....had to be hard for him.

[kwassa]

13. Dick Seaman.

A, uh, prominent citizen in the town I grew up in.

I also knew a Rusty Nail, Sandy Beach, and a Candy Kane, though these were all nicknames of their real first names.

[MrScorpio]

15. I knew a Candy Kane once too

[HopeHoops]

16. A while back, my US Rep from NH was Dick Swett.

[SoxFan]

26. His brother in law was Timber Dick

He was a Denver city councilor, married to Katrina Lantos Swett's sister.

Only in that family could Dick Swett not have the most absurd name.

Dick's kids have some off the wall names, too. Chanteclaire, Atticus, Sunday Phoenix, and Kismet among them. There might be a Gizmo and Qui-Gonn in there someplace.

[underpants]

17. Dick Fuld

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877326,00.html

[TZ]

18. I used to work with

Sandy Butt.

[mwooldri]

19. We had a radio station that broadcast to the UK with wacky names.

Like:

Robin Banks
Sandy Beech
Dickie Bow
Beverley Hills
Rick O'Shea
Cliff Walker
Jo King

... yep, I still miss Atlantic 252, even though they've been off air several years now.

Mark.

[PassingFair]

20. There was a doctor in the hospital my aunt worked in named Deadman.

A. Deadman.

People got a little creeped out
whenever HE was paged.

[jakefrep]

22. There's an Olympic official named Richard Pound

I'm not sure how anyone takes him seriously.

[mikeytherat]

23. Two friends of mine from many years ago: Penny Fortune and Jack Frost.

mikey_the_rat

[Swede]

24. Dick Pound,head of the Canadian Olympic Committe.

What was his mom thinking?

[montanto]

27. Had a student named Shithead.

Thats shuTHEED. I knew a guy named Richard Holder and always called him Dick. I also knew a woman named Olive Trees (she married in to that name).

[Bake]

28. Richard Head. Or "Dick" for short.

:rofl:

Bake

[JitterbugPerfume]

29. I used to know

Bunny Frost,Jerry Harry, and Phyllis Willis

[dembotoz]

30. race car driver from wisconsin --- Dick Trickle

[blogslut]

31. My sister used to work in the main office of a sewing supply chain

They held a name-of-the-month contest, inspired by the crazy names they discovered when addressing their customer newsletter. The only winner I can remember was a woman named Pepper Ann Salt.