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Offline Boongie Pam

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Re: Rude family names!
« Reply #36 on: Sunday 24 October 04 16:12 BST (UK) »
Someone mentioned restaurants.  Anyone live in Chester?  Or remember the chinese restaurant near the station called Poo Hing

I swear I remember it as a kid - 1970s?

It isn't exactly rude but my name is FALLON - there you go identity theft people have field day, pay off my overdraft  ;D

It turns out that my name is actually FALLEN but around 1880 ish all the women of my family started to use FALLON but all the men kept FALLEN?

I guess they didn't want to be FALLEN women anymore?

O an I saw a rude name in an OPR recently, I'm sure one of the boss mods will delete this... Fanny Knocker.

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Re: Rude family names!
« Reply #37 on: Sunday 24 October 04 19:17 BST (UK) »
No.  I daren't post what I was thinking about that one Pam!  ;D
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« Reply #38 on: Sunday 24 October 04 20:05 BST (UK) »
Don't know if I dare send this one
My hubby swears he went to school with an Ophelia Balls, onnist!
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Re: Rude family names!
« Reply #39 on: Monday 25 October 04 20:21 BST (UK) »
One of my Scottish ancestors was known as  "Farting Pate"!!!!! (Pete)  His poor son was known as John, son of Farting Pate!  (Just as well he was a farmer!)

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« Reply #40 on: Tuesday 26 October 04 19:34 BST (UK) »
Kidderminster Estate Agents - Doolittle and Dally
Malvern Dentist - Mr Pullen
Dorset Dairy - Tetts Dairy ( Say it uth a broad accent tets get it?)
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Re: Rude family names!
« Reply #41 on: Wednesday 27 October 04 04:27 BST (UK) »
A nick-name (I hope) for a fellow from my great grandmother's diary- Pea Beans.  She called him a pest.
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Re: Rude family names!
« Reply #42 on: Wednesday 27 October 04 10:35 BST (UK) »
Hate to admit this but my surname is W O O D C O C K, not so uncommon, but it gets better as my cousins are C O B B L E D I C K.
Having been to a private school you can imagine that I grew up with some very "original" nicknames. It certainly taught me to have a thick skin.
Good job they didn't know my grandmothers surname was COX, and they had even managed to shorten it from Cox-Maunder!!! Is this a record as being the only name shortened to a rude word????
I always thought I got off lightly as there was a P. Nurse at our school whose sister was Alison, A. Nurse. Their father was a doctor, you'd have thought he would have known better!!!
Other cousins from my mother's side are the Blacks and the Whites.
Oh, almost forgot on my Mother's side are Thomas and YUP ther's a John!
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Re: Rude family names!
« Reply #43 on: Wednesday 27 October 04 10:47 BST (UK) »
Arthur R Sole refused to sign with his initials.
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« Reply #44 on: Wednesday 27 October 04 16:48 BST (UK) »
John Thomas

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