People with silly and / or stupid names

The more I think about this the more I convince myself I have a minor but real mental problem around names as signifiers/references/something.

That's what comes of having a globally unique name, plus your own mother telling you at the weekend you were named after a computer, then using an forum pseudonym which refers both to a real bar/restaurant and its fictionalised version in a TV show, which itself inhabits both the same actual geographic location as the real one, and a transient instance in real space in a studio. Then finding out your work IT problems are because there are multiple records representing you in the HR system.

I fear I'm undergoing a self-referential crisis

On the topic of names, this is quite entertaining http://named.publicprofiler.org/ maps a name geographically.

Pretty accurate in my case.

On the "where did you meet" thing it's scarily accurate, but my last name is a town so the red zone is just around that town.

There is a Mégane Renaud in France. The parents were famously taken to family court but the process was so long it was decided it was in the best interest of the child that she keeps her name.

Two Renault families with daughters called Zoé also took the car manufacturer to court -unsuccessfully - out of concern for their kids.

My great grandmother was Fanny Wigley

Good to see that the country's spell of good taste continues:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/sep/21/oliver-olivia-most-popular-baby-names-second-year-running

Oooops, wrong thread. :)

A friend of mine has two kids coming to for tea with her kids tomorrow, apparently they are twins called Amber and Ella.
Meanwhile there is this doing the rounds

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2018/sep/28/poor-mr-anus-the-council-candidate-given-a-bum-deal-by-facebook

Poor Mr Anus. Great article which links to this gem.

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Let's not forget the appropriately-named Senator Flake.

I think there is something a little ironic about James Brokenshire being Secretary of State for Housing.

My boss when I worked in Brussels was called Jean-Marc Micropenis.

^^So did the other Oliver when he made that observation recently.

There's a guy who plays for Catalans Dragons called Sam Moa. Guess where he's from.

Saw a sign on the door for an ENT consultant called Mrs N Eze when I was in hospital last year.

Looked like Mr Sneze. Scraping the bottom of the barrel much?

My son used to work with a girl whose gay partner was Belgian. Her name was Fanny Warmer.

“Do you think Anus and Kox could forge a populist alliance in the Low Countries?”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/03/jackal-and-testicle-turkey-makes-it-easier-for-people-to-change-names

I had Hugo Knobbout cced into an email recently, and he appears to be a real person

I saw a Dr Wu Tang, which is rather awesome.

Luton?

Not a person, but yesterday I passed a beautician called Fanny Hair in Slovakia. Was having a hard day in the saddle, but that made me feel all warm and fuzzy.

One of our meeting rooms was reserved by Paris Christ last week. I had to check that name out, he's real.

Insane.

The 's' in tasak should have a tail making it the Turkish 'sh'.
So what, you may ask.
Some will remember that a footballer with an illustrious career at Liverpool, then Swansea then went into management. Sure enough he ended up managing Besiktas in Turkey.
His name, the mirth-inducing John Toshack, which is pronounced pretty similarly in Turkish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Toshack#Besiktas_and_return_to_Real_Madrid