January 4, 20233 yr 11 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said: Its all fashion - the grandparent names have been on the rise since my middle child was born 13 years ago, it was like walking into a OAP's home going to nursery. Having said that my three have very traditional names but only one makes the top 100 of girl's names (at 100) I always thought it was good to give them names that wouldn't hamper them, embarrass them or be fashionable. Having a shit name, I know the pain, so was pretty careful in the choices.
January 4, 20233 yr 21 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said: Its all fashion - the grandparent names have been on the rise since my middle child was born 13 years ago, it was like walking into a OAP's home going to nursery. Having said that my three have very traditional names but only one makes the top 100 of girl's names (at 100) I always thought it was good to give them names that wouldn't hamper them, embarrass them or be fashionable. Having a shit name, I know the pain, so was pretty careful in the choices. If I'd known you as a kid you'd have been called Howard's Gay I would've sang this name to you to the theme tune of Howard's Way I'm sure we'd have been friends
January 4, 20233 yr 3 minutes ago, Zico said: If I'd known you as a kid you'd have been called Howard's Gay I would've sang this name to you to the theme tune of Howard's Way I'm sure we'd have been friends That's not original - that was a given. we had much more inventive names to take the piss out of each other; - Day Release Dave (He was mental) - Leo BO (He stunk) - Roman (Massive nose that roamed all over his face) - Ironman (Was Anemic) - Tommo (Rumor went around that he hid in his cupboard to watch his sister have sex on a regular basis) - Re (its the symbol for Rhenium, and one lad's mum was called Reenie which caused us no end of joy) - Les (that was me, as I used to look like Les from Vic Reeves Big Night out when I stared at the blackboard) - Wasim 'Across the classroom' (he was small so was an easy enough thing to do) God, I'm sure there's loads more, but my favourite piss take was one lad's dad turned up to parent's evening with a flat cap on, and the french teacher just ripped him for it, called him Hovis, so much so at the leaver's assembly he got the school band to play New World Symphony as he walked out.
January 4, 20233 yr A lad in my class was affectionately known as Worm, or Wormie, for 5 years because he looked like a worm. He was also bullied quite a lot for those 5 years. On the last day of school I made a concerted effort to call him by his real name, so as to make up for the previous 5 years of hell. I'm sure he therefore left school with happy memories.
January 4, 20233 yr A lad I know, and I think one or two off here know as well, was called Etch-a-Sketch because whatever you told him was only retained until he next moved his head.
January 4, 20233 yr my favourite was a lad with the surname Willets at sixth form he developed a wart on the inside of his nose at the bottom, which he had to have frozen off it looked like a little ball hanging off his nose for ages his nicknames at the time were Clinker (and Winnets). and tagnut. he fucking hated them
January 4, 20233 yr 13 hours ago, gonzo said: What do you call a fella with a lawnmower and a piece of bacon on his head? What do you call a man stuck in a bog? What do you call a man floating in the sea? What do you call a man lying in a stream? What do you call a man with long arms who can lift heavy weights? And so on..
January 4, 20233 yr 3 hours ago, Zico said: my favourite was a lad with the surname Willets at sixth form he developed a wart on the inside of his nose at the bottom, which he had to have frozen off it looked like a little ball hanging off his nose for ages his nicknames at the time were Clinker (and Winnets). and tagnut. he fucking hated them We called a lad "Pirate" because he had a sunken chest
January 4, 20233 yr 17 hours ago, jmjhb said: Are they including all the different spellings of Muhammad? Or are Muhammed and Mohammed counted as different names? Similarly would John and Jon be counted as the same name? Muhammad for a Boy Mohammad for a Girl
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