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Re: Amusing names

Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2023 9:52 am
by Sundayjumper
A very comprehensive list of dirty place names in Aotearoa New Zealand:

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-09- ... n-aotearoa

Re: Amusing names

Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2023 4:09 am
by nuttinnew
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Re: Amusing names

Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2023 8:25 am
by nuttinnew
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Re: Amusing names

Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2023 12:39 pm
by Jobbo
She looks like she loves a bit of liver for dinner. With a nice chianti.

Re: Amusing names

Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2023 3:06 pm
by nuttinnew
Didn't keep taking the meds :(

Re: Amusing names

Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2023 3:06 pm
by nuttinnew

Re: Amusing names

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2024 3:50 pm
by Sundayjumper
Spotted on an invoice from an IT subcontractor:

Man, Mr. Wing

Re: Amusing names

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 12:58 pm
by nuttinnew

Re: Amusing names

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:13 pm
by dinny_g
:lol:

Re: Amusing names

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:31 pm
by Beany
Never there when you need him, and if you can find him, he'll just disappearing without warning.

Re: Amusing names

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2024 4:23 pm
by Sundayjumper
I’ve had an email today from:
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Re: Amusing names

Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2024 7:36 pm
by Rich B
https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/7 ... el-crocock

Michael Crocock

He plays for the Guildford flames, apparently they always refer to him as Mike on the PA system...!

Re: Amusing names

Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:17 pm
by nuttinnew
That could only have been worse if he'd been female and named Michaela.

Re: Amusing names

Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:27 pm
by nuttinnew
Sundayjumper wrote: Mon Feb 19, 2024 4:23 pm I’ve had an email today from:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Sherpa ?
I guess it's like the names Miller, Cooper, Smith, etc over here. I wonder if anyone with that forename was born out of wedlock.

Re: Amusing names

Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:04 pm
by nuttinnew
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Re: Amusing names

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:50 pm
by Gavster
There’s a bird called a ‘fluffy backed tit babbler’ :lol:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluffy- ... it-babbler

Re: Amusing names

Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:59 am
by jamcg
I’m disappointed that it’s actually a bed and not a woman as I thought it was going to be as I clicked the link :lol:

Re: Amusing names

Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:13 am
by Sundayjumper
BEWARE THE IDES OF MARKS !

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Re: Amusing names

Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:57 pm
by Gavster
Brilliant thread, particularly loved this one that my brain narrated in a Scottish accent


Re: Amusing names

Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:45 pm
by nuttinnew
Nomnomnomnominative determinism.

Hmm...I wonder what examples there are of nominative Darwinism (awards)?