More avoidance of work:

[puddingcat]

Excellent! I work in the same office as Tom Jones, and also (now) Richard Burton.

Cooool ;)

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[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

* cackles at the memory of the customer she had through her till whose credit card declared him to be called "Ben Dover" *

You'll be glad to know I managed to resist asking him if his BF was called Phil McCrack

[claire-wain.livejournal.com]

Ben Dover? That's just cruel.

Mind you, a friend of mine used to go to school with Hazel and Patricia Knutt.

Do you think the parents do it on purpose?!

[pink-weasel.livejournal.com]

I went to school with a Tory Brittan. And I once had a work email from Bum-Cho Cho. Not that it's politically correct to laugh at foreign names. Especially not this one

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

There WAS that old Japanese Minister of state (or was it Prime Minister?) with the name which was pronounced "Fuck-you-'arder" - the BBC tried to get away with "F'k'wah-der" until the pronunciation dept told them off. It was a shame when he died/retired/whatever.

* icon drool *

[pink-weasel.livejournal.com]

That's a great name. I hope my name might sound disgusting to some culture. My dad's best friend is called Dick Mountney. And going back to the original topic of this post, I once "encountered" a guy called Paul Newman.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

* more icon drool *

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

LMAO Hazel Knutt!!

My maths teacher at school was called Sue Kunc (pronounced "cunts") and her husband was Dick Kunc... they made something of a hooby out of being as outrageous as possible about the name. When I was still at school they lived on the corner of Shaftesbury Avenue and Longfallas Crescent.

To be fair to Dick his father was East European, so possibly didn't know the connotations...

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Did you ever study Kundt's Tube in physics? *That* was fun, expecially when everyone fancied the teacher :)

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Oh, science has a WELTER of them - there's Koch, of course, and one mustn't forget Felix Wankel, and Fokke, the aerospace guy; then there's the nutritonists Bender & Bender, and the economist Nobbs...

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

And one will never forget the instruction:

"Excite Kundt's tube by rubbing the rod with a roisin rag"

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Yes :) One had to cause Kundt's Tube to vibrate by rubbing it firmly yet smoothly.

I wish I'd been a scientific genius and had a unit of measurement named after me. I'm not sure what I'd want, though.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Oh, the possibilities are endless LOL

It would have to be something plural so that science teachers would have to tell boys to do something to their Allcocks...

* always used to grin when the Economics teacher said "Right, everybody get your Nobbs out" *

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

I think I'd like something in the astrophys field. MegaAllcocks sounds so much better than milliAllcocks.

Best textbook name? "Living Things" by V Slaughter :)

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

MegaAllcocks sound fab!

The textbook I have most fond memories of was called "Physics is FUN!" and had those terrible sixties line drawings in... Some wag of a previous student had written "Is it BOLLOCKS!" on the title page...

[twisted-times.livejournal.com]

LMAO! That's a classic!


Going on a slight tangent here, a certain book one year was bestowed the award for "The dullest title for a work of non-fiction." Said volume was entitled "The History of the Concrete Roofing Tile." :p

[twisted-times.livejournal.com]

Fundamental rule of Physics #1 - you usually only ever get a fundamental unit of measurement or constant named after you in you've got a very silly name. Eg., Plank's constant, the Faraday, the Barn, Boyle's law...

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Well, the original name will most likely be pronounced along the lines of "koontz" so it's not that bad.

I went to school with someone called "Kalbskopf" (calve's head) and "Brühschwein" (scalded/scalding pig) is not uncommon in the area I come from.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

See, that would have made a difference at the time (southern accents) but up here, not so much.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

That's true. Heh.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

"koontz" would be pronounced "cunts" around here... We have very short short vowels in Yorkshire (or Yo'ksher)

[twisted-times.livejournal.com]

I love that icon!

[twisted-times.livejournal.com]

My mother was in the same class as a girl called Jennifer Onions.

[norfolkian.livejournal.com]

When I worked at a call centre I got a Wayne King.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

I suppose that's better than the (sadly fictitious, as far as I'm aware) Wayne Kerr. Or Isaac Hunt.

[ulaidhan.livejournal.com]

In the South, "Kerr" is properly pronounced "Car", while in the Lowlands of Scotland, it's "Care" (the same vowel sound for "err" as in most pronunciations of "error").

Of course, it gets pronounced "Cur" a lot... and there was someone graduating from the University of York in the same year as myself who was called Ewan Kerr... which was announced to the gathered throng in a Yorkshire accent.

Poor bastard.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

*Winces*

I got off lightly, really :)

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

* dies laughing *

[strangefrontier.livejournal.com]

When I worked at Glasgow Uni, we had a PhD application from James Brown. Sadly, he was rejected. However, Alan Cumming is now in the second year of his PhD there. :)

[pink-weasel.livejournal.com]

Icon love!

But Gil is mine.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

*Flails*

May I steal you icon? Please?

[pink-weasel.livejournal.com]

Always!
*Mrs Weasel serenades you with Mr Blobby for being the best cock*

[strangefrontier.livejournal.com]

I've got a Greggo one, too, but Gil is my CSI One True ScientificSnuggleBunny.

[pink-weasel.livejournal.com]

greg is possibly the only straight haired man that I lurve. but Gil! oh! Gil! The episode where he demonstrated pining Sara to a sheet nearly made me die.

[bloomeenee.livejournal.com]

Where I did my a-levels, there was a lecturer called Mr Wancke (can't remember his first name)...

(snapesbabe, love the icon!)

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Thank you :D

[twisted-times.livejournal.com]

I was in some of the same classes as a guy called Stephen Slaughter, which sounds like a character out of a Chris Ryan novel. Even better, his middle name was Alexander, giving him the initials S.A.S. :)

[sue-b.livejournal.com]

I know that malcolmp has an interview with a Richard Hammond in relation to his cars.

But before you get your hopes up, it's isn't the cutey from top gear, rather someone else from a car magazine called retro cars