People with silly and / or stupid names

Representing the firm of Steel, Storm, Army, Shock and Awe.

My surname is Furze - and I'm married to a German. For some reason a lot of our correspondence comes with curious spelling errors...

Dr. Twartz.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/11795451/Could-this-be-the-worlds-oldest-drug-trafficker-91-year-old-arrested-for-importing-cocaine-to-Australia.html

Not really a silly or stupid name, but unfortunate pop-culture connotations for one of my PhD thesis committee advisers. http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/science/research/who-and-what-we-fund/browse-by-location/london/the-francis-crick-institute/peter-parker-604

As far as I could tell, he did not do any secret research with radioactive spiders.

harsh.

http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2012/12/24/ray-pugh-inspiration-to-children-and-adults-dies-at-83

'Eyewitness Reggie Bugmuncher said…'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34193767

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Sidi

Don't trust him with your disco slippers.

Teteris is apparently quite a common surname.

Just spotted the winner here:

i think i have won. there is a partner in america, called Anil Shitole.

Ha very common last name from where I am from (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharashtra)

Its pronounced Shee-tow-lay .. go on impress him by being first westerner to pronounce his name right.

Chief Superintendent Peppa Mills:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2015/nov/05/million-mask-march-gathers-in-london-live-updates#block-563b92dbe4b04f2498368e6f

I just picked up a prescription from my surgery signed by Dr Boctor.

^ nice.

My local gp is one Doctor Twaddle.

nice bloke.

http://www.moussaspartners.gr/fani-gropa/

http://www.giovannidecunto.com

Too right.

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http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/nov/19/dad-names-baby-son-bermondsey-millwall-den

The short version of his name will presumably be 'Berm'.

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/10/we-all-feel-like-that-now-and-then.html
Hopefully not a repost.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/nov/25/man-says-he-made-up-vietnamese-name-hoax-to-fool-news-media-and-facebook

Just got an email from a Zena Master at work.

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Who'd name their child Onan in the modern age? They should be tried for assault.

Nominative determinism for @Oliver Schick:

Dr Andreas Krieg, the assistant professor in the department of defence studies at King’s College in London, was equally sceptical: “Fighting the insurgency needs a proper strategy that the west, including the UK, does not have.”