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

My old boss was called Phil Dix. We all hated him.

I'm sure there are a few Richard Hedds about. Not to mention Roger Hards. My chemistry teacher once told me that she knew someone in school called Ophelia Ball.

I doubt that the Scottish dentists Ben Doone and Phil McCavity exist.

When I was seven, there was a boy in my class called Mike Hunt. Unfortunately I was too young at the time to find this funny and he left the school soon afterwards.
My guess is that he now calls himself Michael.

Don't forget Rip Torn...

I once had a college lecturer called Rex Dark.

Ok, well I went to university with Mr Barry Andrew Ng, I think he gets the best credit card. My girlfriend claims to have been to school with both Katie Hoares and Wayne King.

I also went to school with people named Mark Hunt and Richard Head, and in the course of my career in teaching I've taught boys named James Bond and Tom Jones.

An excellent entry - I shall recommend it to a friend of mine who is expecting.

A good friend of mine is called Richard Koks...

My biology teacher in 9th grade, Mrs. Loomis, named her son Justin Kees Loomis. The Kees is a Dutch (?) name, pronounced "Case."

Also, there was the couple that named their *son* Yoko. Yoko Eggebrecht. He tried to go by Michael for a while, oh God knows he tried, but it was too late, we all knew already. I wonder where that poor man is today.

This is an excellent entry. I plan to send it to a guy I know who is thinking of naming his future daughter something that deeply violates rule 9.

A friend of mine has insisted that "Cat" is not an appropriate shortened form of "Catherine" ever since she married someone with the surname "Stevens".

Also, someone I know, knows someone who is honestly called "Randy Gardener". Shame the Yanks don't know what that means.

I know of a guy whose name seriously violates rule four: Richard Smalls. BTW, some "Yanks" (myself included) do know what the previous means. I found it rather amusing. I know of a similar and, I think, worse name. A magazine that I subscribe to once published a letter from a man calling himself "Randy Wanker" (which may or may not have been his real name). This is probably another one that most other "Yanks" won't understand.

My father's colleague Robyn Banks has always delighted in her name.
Sadly the same cannot be said for my friend, Crystal Pallis.

a boy in my year is called tom jones
^. .^
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Sorry, Kane, no offence intended.

I'm not quite sure whether to believe a friend of mine who says his school was visited by a Catholic priest with the surname "Christmas".

My brother's social studies teacher in high school was named Mr. Bolenball. I've never met him, but I don't suppose I could do it with a straight face anyway.

On the credits of Buffy the Vampire Slayer there is a Thomas W**ker. And on one film I saw the credits included a Flip W**nker.

Don't know if anyone' picking up this thread still...but:

a) Scunthorpe United's Reserve Team winger for the 1997-98 season rejoiced in the name of Du'ane Pipe

b) My Dad's ex-girlfriend, when she began teaching, taught twins called Alfred Hook and Wilfred Hook. Or for short: Alf Hook and Wilf Hook.



B

I was nearly called Fokko. it is a Dutch name.
try say it loud. you know why I am glad I am not called that!

Of course, I rejoice in embarrassing-surname syndrome myself. My h2g2 alias should give you a fairly good clue what my surname actually *is*



B

With that clue, I think I can take a wild guess.

pheloxi*, as I recall there was a song (I forget who by, some metal band I think) with a line going "Nail that Fokker," a reference to a German aeroplane manufacturer, honest Guv.