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Wilma Neanderthal Posted Feb 25, 2006
Our daughter's music techer is a Mrs Savage - and she's pretty scary. I wonder if people "become" their names?
I can't think today - but I've been in PR a lot recently and this popped into my head...
Nicholas Picquard is a Proof Reader
(Nick Picquard - d silent? Sounds like nitpicker? No? 
Sorry) 
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PedanticBarSteward Posted Feb 25, 2006
Leys & Fuxa
A real company in Casablanca who make beds - something gets lost in the translation.
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PedanticBarSteward Posted Feb 26, 2006
Mr Car and his brother used to run a garage in Tavistock
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chorlton Posted Feb 26, 2006
We have S.M Ashe accident repairs in near us and Burns the baker
howabout Elle Fuleva olympic sprinter?
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Wilma Neanderthal Posted Feb 26, 2006
Still on the medical theme...
Dr Ira Kilmore not exactly confidence-inspiring
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Pinniped Posted Feb 26, 2006
She's no longer in nursing, but a friend of mine was once Sister Slaughter.
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Jabberwock Posted Feb 27, 2006
I wonder if any of Bob Copper's family (folk singing family from Sussex) ever joined the police?
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Wilma Neanderthal Posted Feb 27, 2006
Slightly oblique this ... I wnder how many surnames have recently changed to reflect occupatin.
My greatgrandfather used to sing in the streets on his way to work. He was a cobbler by the name of Freyfer. This was during the tail end of the Ottoman Empire in Lebanon. When he died, the pasha's wife apparently asked for him - not knowing his name, she said the guy that sings - our surname is now the arabic for singer ...
(ok *very* oblique 
)
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Beatrice Posted Mar 1, 2006
I'm always amused by Atila the TV repairman who plys his trade in Ballymoney.
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PedanticBarSteward Posted Mar 5, 2006
Plan and Rabbit
(genuine Nigerian carpentry workshop)
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Wilma Neanderthal Posted Mar 5, 2006
EU Directorate for Horizontal Affairs
Mr. Horst HUENKE
Title Deputy Head of the Service and Director for horizontal affairs
unfortunate, though not strictly an aptronym 
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Jabberwock Posted Mar 6, 2006
The media spokesman, no less, for the Bedfordshire police, is Des Lawless.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/050712/2/p/v2g6.html 
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Nick_Em (not_him) Posted Mar 6, 2006
Mrs. De Point - Columnist
and
Mr. Point completely - Newspaper columnist
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