People with silly and / or stupid names

Salvador Illa, Spain’s health minister

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/oct/16/coronavirus-live-news-france-reports-record-new-cases-as-who-warns-europes-case-surge-is-of-great-concern?page=with:block-5f89cb988f0853775695854d#block-5f89cb988f0853775695854d

My brother has apparently just received a business email by some French guy named le Bastard

The stars have aligned on this one -

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-54822289

My wife and I considered double barreling our names for comedic affect, but ultimately thought it was a bit shit and stuck with our original names.
/CSB

(Our surnames homophone as we're right)

Denver Riggleman, a Republican congressman of Virginia, has said the far-right QAnon conspiracy movement “must be condemned by all political figures”. Riggleman, who lost a Republican primary this year, will be leaving office.

Used to work with a guy called Ludo Bastard

He was disappointingly not some kind of master criminal

We also had to do some work with Singaporean mega rich guy Kwek Leng Beng. Who’s name is really nice to say.
A few years later his name popped up in this story.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/culture/2002/dec/13/artsfeatures1

That link is a great story ^

Yeah, thanks for the link @Alf0nse

Ha, that was a good read.

When I marry my fiancée we'll be double-barreling our surname, which will give me the initials T. W. A-T.

Oof

Corona Newton

Corona said no-one takes her seriously when they discover her Christian name, while she cannot book a table or open an account without staff giving her peculiar looks.

"People have said to me 'as if I'm going to listen to somebody named after a virus'," she said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-england-manchester-54868143

That's a bit unfair, the virus didn't exist when she was named after a shit beer.

Lee Cain is the current director of comms at 10 Downing St. This close >< to 'leaking'.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/11/vote-leave-lee-cain-tipped-as-next-downing-street-chief-of-staff

There's someone in the Physics and Astronomy dept at my university whose surname is Starshynov. He should be the protagonist of a 7os scifi where the Soviet Union has gone to space.

So good.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/26/fugging-hell-tired-of-mockery-austrian-village-changes-name

dan rivers did an itv news article about how beavers dam rivers

At work we had a customer called Sonny Rainbow.

I also worked with a woman whose husband had legally changed his name to Virgil Tracy. We only discovered this when he sent her something to the office via fax (yes, it was that long ago) and it had the sender's name at the bottom.

She refused to be Mrs Tracy and kept her maiden name.

Todger Strunk

https://twitter.com/jacknicklaus/status/1338628170694750214?s=20

After the Todger Strunk fiesta...

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My mate had his shoulder sorted by Dr Funk
https://www.shoulderdoc.co.uk/article/240

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