Financial surnames

[Former MemberParticipant @formermember12892]

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[peter smith 5Participant @petersmith5]

I once taught a family whose surname was Bush. 5 girls and, at last for mum, a son who dad named Oliver.

He had a good sense of humour and named the girls Rose, May, Holly, Ivy and Hazel.

Some 10 years later I was accosted in the local supermarket by a very attractive young lady who said …… look at me …I,m all grown up now. … I married a man called Tree.

[peter smith 5Participant @petersmith5]

I remember a local lass called Sharon Ballsworthy. Another, who became a teacher, called Betty Crapps., a pupil called Richard Head

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Parents may or may not recognise the effects of names they choose for their children. The composer Vincent Knight named his daughter Stella and not shying away from it she deliberately lives in Knightsbridge. However a colleague at work named Peter whose surname began with E perpetuated the schooldays pain by calling his son Paul.

[Anthony KnightsParticipant @anthonyknights16741]

I once knew a lady called Teresa Green.

[Dave WoottonParticipant @davewootton]

Hi Anthony

I went to primary school with a Teresa Green, Orpington , Kent, about 1963-68, obviously her maiden name!

There was a Dental practice there and two of the dentists nameson the brass plate outside were Dr Puller and Dr Blood.

Dave

[Jon LawesParticipant @jonlawes51698]

Our local Skoda dealer was called Clist and Rattle.

[JourneymanParticipant @journeyman]

Local Charted Accountants near me:-

Keen Dicey Grover

always amuses me as I pass their office.

John

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

When I was a kid my dad used to always point out the sign on the local shopping centre:

C. WRIGHT — OPTICIAN

Our local dentist was Dr Crapp, who eventually changed his family's name to Craig. His son who went to our school was forever known as Crappy though.

[DalboyParticipant @dalboy]

I use to have a Doctor who has now retired His name was Pratt, however he was the old type doctor who was very good nothing was too small unless he knew they where just after a sick note to get time off

[Swarf, Mostly!Participant @swarfmostly]

Hi there, all,

Back in the 1960s one of our diving club members was a young woman who had moved down from the Midlands to a London suburb. She happened to have the same surname as the local diary and both she and the dairy had accounts at the same bank (NOT the Midland). This was in the days when banking depended upon manual ledger entries.

The first time the bank debited her account with the dairy's payroll was a bit of a shock, not really compensated for by a later credit to her account of the dairy's entire week's takings. These were not one-off errors!

Eventually they both learned to live with it!!

Best regards,

Swarf, Mostly!

[john halfpennyParticipant @johnhalfpenny52803]

This thread has drifted somewhat, so I'll add Wright Hassall, the old established (175 years) firm of solicitors in Leamington Spa.

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi, my mum always used to say she needed to spend a penny whenever she needed the loo, this of course stems from the days when woman had to always spend a penny in a public convenience. This reminds me of a short poem I once read written inside a school desk; "As I sit here broken hearted, paid a penny! and only fa###d"

Regards Nick.

[JuddyParticipant @juddy]

I knew a Cliff Edge, Mr C. Edge

[pgk pgkParticipant @pgkpgk17461]

Off topic with the toilet humour reminds me of the doggerel in 'Verse and Worse'

Ode to a lady with two ha'pence for a penny

Look lady, follow Olive Snell,
To whom your accident befell.
When Olive went to spend a penny
she searched her bag and just had one.
But that was bent, so what she done?
She went and found a spinny shady
and saved herself the penny, Lady.

Although there is a better and longer version here
https://monologues.co.uk/Cyril_Fletcher/Sonia-Snell.htm

pgk

[Anonymous]

Posted by Nicholas Farr on 09/03/2022 11:49:37:

This reminds me of a short poem I once read written inside a school desk; "As I sit here broken hearted, paid a penny! and only fa###d"

Which further reminds me of graffiti I saw many years ago on a condom machine when they were first installed (in mens' bogs):

"Buy me and stop one"

Not a great fan of graffiti usually but that gave me a chuckle. Is Wall's still going?

[Rod RenshawParticipant @rodrenshaw28584]

My wife worked for a time in the records office of the local hospital and came home one day with the news that a family called Curtain had named their infant daughter Annette.

And seen on a wall: –

"This is a graffito

These are graffiti"

Rod

[Anthony KnightsParticipant @anthonyknights16741]

One would hope that Mr and Mrs Cart did not name their son Orsen.

[Mick B1Participant @mickb1]

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 04/03/2022 22:03:03:

Posted by br on 04/03/2022 20:14:22:

Posted by Brian Wood on 04/03/2022 20:06:36:

Many years ago our Bank manager [remember them?!!] was called Lenderyou

Was his christian name BOB

Bank managers – they seem to be collectors items these days

My father visited his quite often I recall in the old days – he approved of his sherry.

Bob is very good – I've been struggling to make a joke out of Mark.

How the other half live! I've never been given sherry by a Bank Manager. Had a letter from one once, 'please do not anticipate your credit…'

Dave

Well, there ya go – another opportunity for humour ground into the dirt by the heel of the Euro…

[GeorgineerParticipant @georgineer]

A harmless hobby of mine over the years has been a search for the perfect surname. I'm quite happy with my own, but it has nine legitimate spellings (so far discovered) and countless illegitimate ones. So:

• It has to be capable of announcing over the telephone without spelling it out (so Bailey, Bayly, Baillie, Bailie etc are out).
• It has to be pronounceable correctly without guidance (so Hindley and Hindley etc. are out. I had one of each in the same tutor group when I was a teacher);
• It must have no negative connotations (so Slack, Idle, Thick, Loveless etc. are out);
• It must have no sexual connotations (think of your own examples. I was at school with girls called Hoare and Toplice);
• It should have no tribal connotations (so Douglas, Preece, MacHine are out);
• It should contain no diacritic or punctuation marks (so O'Really, M'Spreader and Brontë are out);
• It should be capable of no risible connotations (I have actually come across Walter Fall, Will Barrow, Nora Way and I.C. Double, and about twenty years ago a friend showed me an entry in the register of veterinarians for a man named Everard Cock) ;
• It should raise no questioning eyebrows when first announced (so Andrewartha is out);

and so on. The stongest candidate so far is Hill, but the search continues.

George

 

Edited By Georgineer on 10/03/2022 14:17:39

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