h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

About a week ago I was in a grocery store and heard a page for Richard Pritchard. Also went to school with a lad with the wonderful name Zolton Vass - no kidding. To make matters worse this was in Central Ontario, Canada, a solid 'white bread' area. And his family was 'white bread' also, his brothers name is Peter.

Grounds for a lawsuit I would think.

I am sure I have heard of others but I can't think of them right now.

Have a good one.

Captain John Dude, nice to hear from you, Your Richard Pritchard reminds me of my days in the institution with Doctor Proctor and Nurse Worse, they were only jealous because the voices had chosen me to talk to and not them, still let’s not dig them up again. I’m painfully aware how ‘Brit’ the list is so I was truly gobsmacked that a Canuck (Is that derogatory? If it is please accept my apology and let me know before I say it to some 6’ 4” voyageur with a sharper axe than mine.) was the first to respond! Bearing in mind that we are separated by a common language, it would help me enormously if you could let me know if you could not see why any names had been included in the list?

I'm not offended to be called a Canuck, some are though. Then again some people seem to get offended by a sunny day. Who's to say.

As for you query my answer to any question I haven't got a better answer to is '42'.

Would you be offended if I were to refer to you as a Bullheaded Englishman. (I got English roots on my fathers side and the other side has off times referred to him as such) If so let me know and I will discontinue referring to you as such to all my friends. (Both of him.)

Cap’n John Dude, You refer to me to all your friend as a ‘Bull-headed Englishman’, moi? No I wouldn’t be offended in the least, Although the Minotaur of Chipping Sodbury might.
Having re-read my question I can see that it is incomprehensible, and therefore your answer of 42 is probably the correct one. At the risk of confirming your darkest suspicions that I am indeed a Bull-headed Englishman (albeit of French descent) I will try again. What I was hoping you could tell me was: Would an equivalent Canadian list (of names you would rather drown in the font than be christened by) include all the same names that we have?

I would suggest that mostly it would be the same. I believe that even within the confines of the little island that could there would be names that in one area were that was reasonable and yet as fun a a kick in the shins in another area.

That said me I shall thinks upon it more and see what comes to the fore.

Have a good one. Eh.

Don't know if you'll believe me or not. This is honest to God truth, and her parents needed beaten severely!!!!

I knew a lady in my home county of Cullman(Alabama, US) who named their girl Imma.....that would not have been so bad if their last name hadn't been Pigg. NO...THIS IS NOT THAT OLD JOKE!!!!! It's TRUE! I met the lady!

Her parents owned a rather large chicken farm in a community called Sardis, just outside the city of Cullman, in western Cullman County, Alabama!

As a matter of fact, I damaged their water line setting a utility pole for their chicken houses!.....That's how I met her!(it WAS hard to keep a straight face!!!)

NM

I worked with a Jennifer Taylor when I left college - disliked being shortened to Jenny, oddly enough

I have had dinner with a John Thomas and a Richard(Dickie) Bird

The sales rep for one of the products I'm trialling at the moment is Citin Wanir - unfortunately for hime, the C is pronounced sh and I have spent some minutes wondering whats in his other ear

I believe ya dude although Imma is not a name we have here, if we did I'm sure there would be people naming their kids Imma Hooker, Pratt or even Bastard. She must have been happy as the proverbial Pigg in guano with Mummy Pigg and Daddy Pigg, beatings too good for 'em. You would marry the first guy who came along just to change your name, unless of course his name was Sow (Real Name)

Actually, we have a nasty habit of condensing names in this part of the world. Imma was short, at one time, for Imogene. Well....the shortened version eventually became an actual name on it's own, but in our traditional fashion...we changed the pronunciation to make it match the spelling.

What should be pronounced "Emma" has been polluted to be pronounced as spelled.....much to the dismay of the children recieving the moniker!

NM

Hi DJ, truly the man has been cursed with such a great name. "Tee Hee." But it occurs to me that if he pronounces C's as "Sh" then he probably gets more of a laugh out of us than we do from him. Imagine him trying to keep a straight face while our Citizens proudly show him the ancient Citadels and City banks of our City centres, all linked by our Intercity railways, not to mention signs reading "To the City Dump." I think your right mate, maybe one shouldn't mock."


MM

DJ Dude, just visited your excellent page http://www.h2g2.com/A268814 Virtual Earthquake. Highly recommend anyone reading this go poke it now while you still can.

Anyone here familiar with the Johnny Cash song "A Boy named Sue"?

Well, I know a lady who named her kids after several native american tribes. One child named Cherokee, another named Shawnee (He's shortened that to Shawn, which works well). Of course, she named one boy Sioux.

As you say in your entry, just because its not spelled the same, doesn't make it alright.

I met a girl called Jane Eyre, and worked out a pension for William H Shakespeare.
I suspect that Ivan Ball is about somewhere, and Ray Gunn.
I'm putting up my mate Doctor Whittington for London mayor next time. (Not his parents' fault this time, his choice of profession.)
I noticed the name Randy Shropshire among the end credits of a soft porn movie. I must check the guide to find out more about this county.

Priceless