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Reasons to be grateful to your parents:

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Rambling

Rambling Report 26 Feb 2010 20:19

that they didn't name you any of the following :) some of them made me smile :)

Barb Dwyer

Pearl Button

Hazel Nutt

Ray Gunn

Helen Back

Stan Still

Jo King

Lee King

Terry Bull

Mary Christmas

Max Power

Paige Turner

Sonny Day

Tim Burr

Teresa Green

Will Power

Anna Sasin

Chris Cross

Doug Hole

Justin Case

Barry Cade

Anna Prentice

Annette Curtain

Bill Board

Carrie Oakey

Les Plack ( a dentist)

Priti Manek

TeresaW

TeresaW Report 26 Feb 2010 20:22

My parents may not have named me Teresa Green, but that's what I got called anyway at school LOL.

Mind you, I did have a boyfriend with the name Green....

StrayKitten

StrayKitten Report 26 Feb 2010 20:23

hahaha, when i walked in mams today dad was awriting a list out

i looked n said whats all that for


lmaooooooo, its all the names u have listed below, he was reading them otu to me laughing his head of lololol

Rambling

Rambling Report 26 Feb 2010 20:24

brother wanted to call me Anita...so I would have been 'A neater Murrell' lol maybe i would have turned out to be a tidy person?

Muffyxx

Muffyxx Report 26 Feb 2010 20:33

Of course to lower the tone...there was always Wayne King :0)

Contrary Mary

Contrary Mary Report 26 Feb 2010 20:44


Why am I on that list??!!! LOL

Mary Christmas

Whirley

Whirley Report 26 Feb 2010 20:49

and my friend Lena Wellback

and a lady I worked with named Cherry Tree.

Whirley

Whirley Report 26 Feb 2010 20:50

Oh and another guy, Ivor Biggen

Muffyxx

Muffyxx Report 26 Feb 2010 20:51

I once knew someone called Heidi who called off her relationship before it got too serious....because his surname was Hoey !

Ladylol Pusser Cat

Ladylol Pusser Cat Report 26 Feb 2010 21:08

Doing my tree i was searching around 1875 to 1901

and laughed at this neame ...fanny pyle.....

Supersleuth

Supersleuth Report 26 Feb 2010 21:46

Autumn Sorrow !!

Supersleuth

Supersleuth Report 26 Feb 2010 21:51

You made me smile ...... are these really real names! I wonder how many were done in error. I feel very sorry for Carrie Oakie and Terry Bull!

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 26 Feb 2010 22:09

Muffey Lol Lol!!! Heidi Hoey that would have been really awful!!!!

TheLadyInRed

TheLadyInRed Report 26 Feb 2010 22:09

I did once work with someone called Lee Leigh (or might have been Leigh Lee)

Supersleuth

Supersleuth Report 26 Feb 2010 22:17

Sommer Set
Son Ryse
Annette Cheese
Greenwood married a Rooke

These are all people that my family have known!

Helen1959

Helen1959 Report 26 Feb 2010 23:23

LOL. So funny choking on my cake here.

ChAoTicintheNewYear

ChAoTicintheNewYear Report 26 Feb 2010 23:27

There was a newspaper article a while back where the parents had called their newborn son...

Drew Peacock


;-)

Lightning

Lightning Report 26 Feb 2010 23:27

With a name like mine ....What can i say.....

Margaret Elizabeth

Margaret Elizabeth Report 26 Feb 2010 23:57

i am responsible for a lee king and a nic king......terrible

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 27 Feb 2010 01:07

Hopefully not a Wayne King! LOL

edit: whoops just realised Muffy had done ths one!