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Just watching Jeeves and Wooster, and I love Gussie Fink Nottle as a fictional name
If I could I would re name my ex husband, the above reply,(with affection, of course)

There is a teenaged girl wandering around the streets of suburban Dundee, Scotland with the unlikely moniker of Pocohontas McGlinchey. I guess her then teenaged parents should have been allowed to watch slightly more adult films than Disney movies as they were conceiving her.

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Ooh, I hate that "I'll only respond to one version of my name" attitude. It's even worse when it's an adult doing it.

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but surely if they'd watched more adult films the girl's name would be even worse!

In my hippie days, a couple i knew called their son Janus.

Unsurprisingly, he turned out to be somewhat socio-phobic.

zdt

Janus? That sounds like a perfectly reasonable name to me. I think it´s quite common in Germany too.

(take off the first letter)

Yup. Kids ignore the J & only see the rest!

zdt

Hi Terri and Yoda,
Is n't there an actress whos called Sam Janus?
You'd change your name, would n't you?
And if Janus is common in Germany, what is the German for you know...Janus??

According to Reverso translation, Janus minus the J = "after" in German.

Ah well, it probably wasn't just the name that messed the poor kid up; i do remember they used to dump him in his cot & throw a blanket over it to muffle his, sorta like those covers for budgie cages.

zdt

I worked in a supermarket with a guy called Robert Sole. The ladies in the general office seemed oblivious to what they were saying over the tannoy "would Mr R. Sole please telephone extension..."

There was a kid at my school called Mark Brown. A fairly innocuous name at first sight but, in the registers, he became Brown, Mark

Can't blame my parents for the surname, but my maiden name was Towers, so I was forever referred to as Fawlty

>>Is n't there an actress whos called Sam Janus?<<

Yeah, she's married to a bloke called Hugh .

That will be the delightful Samantha Janus, then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Janus


Geggs

Hugh made an appearance at one of the test cricket award ceremonies last year. Some joker added his name to the list of dignatories present, which was read out before the trophy was awarded.

I strongly dislike convoluted spellings of names... One or two letters difference is fine, but why make a four-letter name into an eight letter one? It's not big or clever, just long and annoying!

My mum wanted a boy called Christopher, but our surname starts with Chris___ too and she decided that Chris Chris__ was plain unfair and sounded like you had a stutter. So if I was a boy I was going to be lawrence. She likes Laurie as a boys name. I do too. I also like Jesse as a boy's name but unfortunately dont think I'd ever be able to inflict it on a child... Would be character builing though, I guess...

I agree Robyn

Why use a long word when diminutive nomenclature will suffice?

Is it not pleasant when acquantances concur?

Kelly Smock.

Yes, she exists! Obviously a big mistake by her dum and mad.

Mrs SWL just hired a guy today. Unfortunately, he becomes the eighth member of staff called Martin. Trying to think of a way of differentiating him from the others, she recalled his interview when he said he was studying to be a Doctor and tied it in with his surname.

Hence the wonderful tannoy announcement today -

"Could Dr Love come to the bar please?"