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     Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
Here's a crap idea: let's all tell each other why our parents gave us the names they did. I'll start. I wish I could say my parents were literary sophisticates, but alas my dad thinks Jane Eyre was a Queen of England. So...I was named after one of the characters in the TV show The Champions. My brother's called Craig, the other character in that execrable show. The shame. | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.165.240.116 |
My dad was a big fan of "Brass Eye." | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
You make it sound like you were extras on Shameless or The Royle Family, GF! | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
I know a John Holmes. Surely they couldn't have known? | ||
| Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 142.32.208.231 |
'Barbara' because my parents liked it, and 'Heather' after my mom's first name. Funnily enough, all through my life I've met people who don't know my mother or her first name, and don't know my middle name is Heather, who, next time they meet me, call me 'Heather'. Fine with me, as I like both names; they're sufficiently uncommon that they stand out (I never had another girl with the same name in any of my classes), and quietly old-fashioned without being stuffy. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.48.60 |
I thought the three characters in The Champions were Craig, Sharron and Richard. I don't recall there being a Gary in it... Your dad's winding you up, Gary! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
Really? The bastard!!! | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.227.98 |
'Hubert', after my parental grandfather. Over here the name is considered somewhat old-fashioned. Second name is Gaston, after my other grandfather, third Gabriel, which I like (don't know where they got that, though) and fourth Marie, believe it or not. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
My mam was going to call me Marc Anthony and my twin brother Christoher Robin. we got lucky and out dad and Grandad registered us instead, so I got Marc Francis (after my Dad's Dad) and Chris got Christopher Harry (after my mam's dad) | ||
| John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.11 |
'John' after the chap who wrote the Gospel. (My brother's name is Mark.) My mum wanted my middle name to be Thomas. My father saved me from a lifetime of hopeless innuendo by giving me his grandfather's name instead. Thank Christ. And no - there's no Gary in The Champions. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
I feel all wobbly with existential peril now. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.227.98 |
'Hubert', after my PATERNAL grandfather. Damnation, it must be the heat . . . | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.176.161 |
For me it was a toss-up between Huw and Llewellyn (my grandfather's first and middle names). They went with the former, though I often wonder if the latter wouldn't have been more interesting... | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.121.34 |
Llewellyn is a wonderful name. Unfortunately my father had a fixation on June Allyson the film star. I do like the name though and there have been many Allyson's, this decade, linked to horror. It's like I've been conjured up. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
My uncle, Rob. I have a neice called Robyn. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.176.232 |
You mean your real name isn't Albie?! After all this time imagining you as an Albie I can't get my head around 'Rob'! No, Albie it shall remain. ;-) | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.16.84.40 |
My parents had the whimsical bent to name me "Craig," knowing my last name would be "Schwartz." Craig, Schwartz. Ohhh, kay. The only other Craig Schwartz you will encounter, is the grimy seedy miserable little puppeteering anti-hero of BEING JOHN MALKOVICH. And yes, there is a connection....  | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Aye Caramaba! | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
Mark because my mum liked it; Patrick after my paternal grandfather's middle name: my mum vetoed his first name "Leo". | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
I genuinely did know a kid called Wayne Kerr when I was at school. His parents must have hated him when he was a baby. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.192.181 |
I met a guy called Empty today. His initials are M.T. so he chose Empty as his English name. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Why do Chinese people choose English names, while other nationalitites don't? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.48.60 |
I genuinely did know a kid called Wayne Kerr when I was at school. When I worked with BT they used a range of electronic test kit made by a company called Wayne Kerr. My how we laughed! Ooh, and here they are:- http://www.waynekerrtest.com/ | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
When I worked in a computer warehouse we used to deal with Siemens on a fairly regular basis. Every now and then I had to phone one or other of their offices. Their company protocol is to answer the phone with "Good morning, Siemens... insert town name here." This isn't well thought out... They have an office in the town of Staines. When you phone the Staines branch, they have to answer "Hello, Siemens, Staines." | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.20.239 |
I had to go in an old folks home today (er, for a visit, that is); they had a poor old dear called Audrey Freak live there. It would have been funny if not for the fact these places are so very, very sad, | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.3.246 |
Tony - They are quite the saddest places I've ever been in. Once - when I went to visit - there was a lady there 104 years old and I kept thinking of all the events that she had lived through. She was born in 1899. I wanted to talk to her but alas she couldn't communicate. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
In the late 90s I used to take my great uncle to his favourite pub for a drink. One of his pals was in the First World War. He gave me a simple, human and graphic account of his experience. I was shocked because they were almost all gone by then and to meet someone talking about a period you've come accustomed to thinking of as officialy 'history' was a shock. So was his story. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.48.60 |
I felt the same when, back in the 'eighties, I saw Hal Roach interviewed at the NFT - he had taken part in the gold rush! | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
We had a teacher at school called Mr Whalley. Imagine your parents naming you Mr Whalley. Idiots. |