[wizely]

I hope this is legible - these are some cracking newspaper cuttings from Wedding announcements that should have set alarm bells ringing when they decided to go for the hyphenated double-barrel name approach:


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In case you can't read these too well, they are:

Wang-Holder
Beaver-Wetter (my favourite!!!!)
Hardy-Harr
Best-Lay
MacDonald-Berger
Busch-Graber
Traylor-Hooker
Loonet-Warde
Filler-Quick
Drinkwine-Layer
Kuntz-Dick
Wacker-Dailey

and the one that got away... Cynthia Busch and Matthew Rash!

Enjoy!

[Helen]

HAHAHA! I just snorted milk everywhere! I love wang holder and busch rash!

[Rob]

Helen, on Jul 7 2008, 09:02, said:

HAHAHA! I just snorted milk everywhere! I love wang holder and busch rash!

I'm not sure I'd like busch rash tbh!

Some right good'uns there Wizely! Are these from a personal collection?

[rjdejong]

Inresting collection, Beats stamps any day.

Beeing a poor student i do some extra work at the postal office.

Came across neighbours with some intresting last names. They were dutch names so i'll just try and translate them as best as i can.

The Death - Live Long

Live Long - The Death

Don't know if they ever got married but would be fun if they did

[Cabbage]

These are fantastic, I hate double-barrel names at the best of times but these are comedy gold.

[Helen]

Rob, on Jul 7 2008, 09:51, said:

I'm not sure I'd like busch rash tbh!

I'm sure you can get a cream for that!

[notbanksy]

These are classic - thanks for sharing, Wizely.

Ok, this isn't a double-barrelled name, but I used to live in Frome (Somerset), and my doctor there was called Dr. Cockshoot.

You'd change your name if it was you, surely?

[Helen]

notbanksy, on Jul 7 2008, 12:25, said:

These are classic - thanks for sharing, Wizely.

Ok, this isn't a double-barrelled name, but I used to live in Frome (Somerset), and my doctor there was called Dr. Cockshoot.

Shame he wasn't a Dr specializing in impotence. (Maybe he pronounced it corks-hoot)

[ElanMan]

Wang-Holder is definitely my favourite
Cheers wizely for making me laugh!

@notbanksy
Dr Cockshoot sounds like he should be in an Austin Powers film!

[Helen]

Nothing to do with surnames, butmy hubby and I have a favourite pastime finding rude place names -

There is somewhere in Scotland called T**t,

and one of my personal favourites - A mountain in wales called "Lord Herefods Knob" (It's in south wales in the black mountain range I think)

[BlueDreamer]

OMG, some people are so unforunate. Wonderful, my favourite is the Kuntz one

[ElanMan]

For place names you could have:
Willey - Suffolk
Willey Green - Surrey (perhaps should see a Dr)
Upper Swell -Gloucester (no doubt after visiting Dr Cockshoot)
Triangle - near Halifax
Rubha Ban - Western Isles (one for the catholics)
Pant - Shropshire
Ogle - Northumbria
Lower Down - Shropshire
Longwood - Dumfries and Galloway
Droop - Dorset
Dirt Pot - Northumberland
Cockwood - Devon
Bottoms - Calder
Biggar - South Lanarkshire

And last but certainly not least:
Bell End - Worcestershire

[MG1878]

Busch Rash has to be up there!

Saying that whats with MacDonald-Berger

[MG1878]

ElanMan, on Jul 7 2008, 13:58, said:

For place names you could have:
Willey - Suffolk
Willey Green - Surrey (perhaps should see a Dr)
Upper Swell -Gloucester (no doubt after visiting Dr Cockshoot)
Triangle - near Halifax
Rubha Ban - Western Isles (one for the catholics)
Pant - Shropshire
Ogle - Northumbria
Lower Down - Shropshire
Longwood - Dumfries and Galloway
Droop - Dorset
Dirt Pot - Northumberland
Cockwood - Devon
Bottoms - Calder
Biggar - South Lanarkshire

And last but certainly not least:
Bell End - Worcestershire

Droop, Dirt Pot and Bell End FTW

[wizely]

notbanksy, on Jul 7 2008, 23:25, said:

These are classic - thanks for sharing, Wizely.

Ok, this isn't a double-barrelled name, but I used to live in Frome (Somerset), and my doctor there was called Dr. Cockshoot.

You'd change your name if it was you, surely?

This is no word of a lie - but I registered with an NHS doctor (never seen him as I've not been in the country much or ill!) who was Indian and his name was Dr. Vaj Peeh. Can you imagine if he was a gynaecologist?!!!

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I'm sure you can get a cream for that!

I did read your post Helen and was glad I wasn't drinking milk at the time! Reminds me of a dopey female friend way back who asked my girlfriend for advice on thrush - my gf duly advised Caniston and drinking Cranberry juice and, if bad, too apply bio yoghurt to the 'area of discomfort'. On enquiring a few days later the friend told my gf, "Better, but the yoghurt didn't feel nice - too lumpy" - she'd used Tesco Value blackcherry yoghurt!

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Are these from a personal collection?

Friends know to email me anything like this - my personal newspaper cuttings spell out "Send the money in unmarked bills or I'll send a finger every day in the post"!


I'm glad you're all enjoying these - they made I laugh they did, good n' proper!

Who forgot Wyre Piddle in the placenames? Oh come on!

And I've always wanted to retire to a place in the country that's reached along a long winding drive through horse chestnut trees - I'd call it "Conkers Deep"!!!!

[notbanksy]

One for you, Elan - Crapstone in Dartmoor, Devon.
It's actually rather pleasant...

This one is my favourite

A town in Austria

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[wizely]

notbanksy, on Jul 8 2008, 01:07, said:

One for you, Elan - Crapstone in Dartmoor, Devon.
It's actually rather pleasant...

I've been to Crapstone! A friend and I were taking a late night drive up on the moors (read toke) when a fire engine flew-by all lights blazing so we followed it... to the fire station! We didn't know where we were because we'd be going flat-out so we just headed-off on little roads when we saw a sign to Crapstone so we went for a laugh. The whole time way in the distance were two red lights.
Anyway, we kept driving and it was getting late and we were lost. Suddenly we came across a sign saying "tidal ford" and thought "What? On Dartmoor?".
Anyway we carried-on and popped-out unexpectedly from hedged lane to housing estate and then industrial estate. And we couldn't get out! It was all cul-de-sacs. Eventually we found a road into the town which we still had no idea where it was, "was it Tavistock or Ivybridge?" we were totally disorientated. But those red lights were close now - it was the Tamar bridge!
We'd somehow managed to get to Saltash the long way round across the rivers by tiny lanes and had to come back over the bridge!

Sorry - just was such a great memory - we were doubled-up in hysterics because we hadn't known where we were for over 4 hours and it was ridiculous - there were no signs anywhere!

[notbanksy]

wizely, on Jul 7 2008, 14:22, said:

I've been to Crapstone! A friend and I were taking a late night drive up on the moors (read toke) when a fire engine flew-by all lights blazing so we followed it... to the fire station! We didn't know where we were because we'd be going flat-out so we just headed-off on little roads when we saw a sign to Crapstone so we went for a laugh. The whole time way in the distance were two red lights.
Anyway, we kept driving and it was getting late and we were lost. Suddenly we came across a sign saying "tidal ford" and thought "What? On Dartmoor?".
Anyway we carried-on and popped-out unexpectedly from hedged lane to housing estate and then industrial estate. And we couldn't get out! It was all cul-de-sacs. Eventually we found a road into the town which we still had no idea where it was, "was it Tavistock or Ivybridge?" we were totally disorientated. But those red lights were close now - it was the Tamar bridge!
We'd somehow managed to get to Saltash the long way round across the rivers by tiny lanes and had to come back over the bridge!

Sorry - just was such a great memory - we were doubled-up in hysterics because we hadn't known where we were for over 4 hours and it was ridiculous - there were no signs anywhere!

Don't apologise - Dartmoor is fantastic for getting lost, particularly at night. Sounds like a true adventure. Maybe the reason it took you 4 hours to get from Crapstone to Saltash is because you were driving at 7mph (toking)

[Cabbage]

One of my classmates in school was called Tom Bates, one of our teachers once read the register as Master and Miss for a laugh and needless to say Master Bates came along .

[DarkNotes]

hehe MacDonald-Berger good 1! and hardy harr lolll

Place in spain is called Péniscola! Lol!

[Helen]

Les Arses - France

[ThomasHardy]

Butt hole road is my favourite, I may dig out a hoto we took when we past it lol.

[Helen]

Some more favourites of mine are from the welsh language - cwm - a place name and
Pant cud - meaning hidden dip.

[wizely]

This is a local pamphlet that came through the door today:
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I'm not making this stuff up! I'm also going to be going for the dance lessons too! I figured 9 hours of lessons for £8 wasn't too bad!

[NeRo]

You may appreciate this cartoon ...

Know Your Schitt - The Complete History of Jack Schitt

[DarkNotes]

lol, thats a good 1 NeRo!

[ErisDS]

notbanksy, on Jul 7 2008, 14:07, said:

One for you, Elan - Crapstone in Dartmoor, Devon.
It's actually rather pleasant...

I'd forgotten about that, but there's loads of weird place names down in Devon & Cornwall!
"Holes Hole" - how do they come up with them.

As for names, I know a guy called Dick Heimans - more fun Dutch names

[wizely]

These Kiwi boys are fantastic wordsmiths. My favourite skit of theirs is:

Hip-hopopotamus v the Rhymenocerous

After that it's got to be their "Bowie's in Space" for gems like "Do you have one super-sparkly sequin spacesuit or do you take many cha-changes", "Do they smoke grass in outer-space or do they smoke astro-turf?" and 'Bowies' nipple space antenna' not to mention being 'Pretty far-out man' and 'Pluto's groovitational pull'!

Brilliant word fun!

[notbanksy]

Is this a threat or a promise?

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[wizely]

notbanksy, on Jul 18 2008, 21:08, said:

Is this a threat or a promise?

I always used to stand on the platform near those signs hoping, but it almost never happened!

(Loving your new avatar by the way notbanksy)