There is (or at least there was) someone in the Sheffield phone book called I Askew.



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Would love to be their optician -

"I hate to say it, but you're boss-eyed."

"What's that then?"

Could you resist saying it?



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*further thudding of head against penguin*



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

and of course there's Thomas Crapper, inventor of the flush toilet.

Amazingly true !

amazing that it's true, or amazing that one of my posts is? ;-)

I think that having an unusual name (and I am qualified in that department)
is a bit annoying for the first 13 or so years of life when you desperately want to be exaclty like everyone else, and after that it's great beacuase everyone thinks you are automatically a bit cool.

Until, in my case, SKODA decide to steal your name and then everyone thinks it's TERRIBLY funny to ask you about your servicing, milage and airbags.... but I digress.

Unusual names are coool.

Therefore a person with one is often accused of being interesting. Even without a scrap of evidence that this is, in fact, so...



My reality check has just bounced again.......

My name is boringly normal, although my surname is pretty unique. Apparently I can trace my Polish family back to 1380-something, whereas over here I can only get back about two generations...



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Somewhere in the US midwest there is a mortuary owned by Slaughter and Son's.

As for annoying name questions, try being a Hannah without any sisters.

In my hometown we had the Minus Funeral Home. No one seemed to find the name strange at all.

I heard this on John Peel's Radio 4 show, Home Truths. There was this couple who wanted to name their children with really interesting names, but didn't want to put them through the hell of school with them.

So they didn't tell them what their middle names were until they absolutely had to - driving licence/passport etc.

One was called John Smith (or something equally nondescript). His middle name was 'Zambezi'. Alas, I can't remember what the girl's name was...

age 5-17, nightmare. Age 18+, it becomes cool...

I've just run across a person whose name is A. Topic.

I hope you didn't hurt them too much. Should pay more attention to your driving, Hannah

She seems to be ok, just a bit dented.

sounds like most of us on the fforum then

seeing the world slightly askew is more interesting



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As for annoying names, the only thing worse than having a middle name after a tree (June is for juniper), is having a first name given after a glider! Dad used to fly on a thing called Die Weihe, which is said to mean 'chicken hawk' in German (anybody out there can confirm? I always wandered); he derived my name from it. Needles to say, grade school was a nightmare...

My brother Geoff and I both have middle names, but my brother Chris doesn't. Mum was talking to the Vicar about his christening, and got as far as Christopher, when the vicar interrupted and said 'Not Christoper Robin.' This was what Mum *had* planned, but after his comment, she didn't want to say so. As she couldn't think of another name at the time, he is Christopher No-Middle-Name Taylor.

I have a friend called Tony. This is not short for Anthony, his mother wanted just Tony. Her Vicar refused to baptise him as Tony, and said it had to be Anthony. His mother decided that if the church was going to be so narrow-minded, she wasn't going to have him baptised, and didn't.

Fortunately the church had no problem with me being Ben, although various middle names had to be rejected until my parents realised I'd have to have two to avoid unfortunate acronyms...



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'Twila' has kind of grown on me. Or at least I've grown into it. I almost ended up as "Maudie Marie"....EEEEESH! I just wish people would learn to pronounce my name correctly!