Really stupid (made up) names

[maytreefrannie]

What about
Basil Fields

Rosemary Meadows

Amanda Robb

Grace Fuller

Annette Curtin (she's real, I used to hang around with her)

[JanieB]

At the time of the first Gulf War (When Saddam invaded Kuwait) 1990 i think

January 17th 1991. My 25th wedding anniversary and the day I decided to divorce the barsteward.

There was an employee on our internal mailing list called April Shauers.

[Mustard]

I work for a care-line and we have a "Mary Christmas" and, my favourite, a "Randall Cockshoot"

[zebedee]

One of my all time favourite made up names is Mr and Mrs Nal and their son, Uriah

[HeyWayne]

This is not made up but a boy I knew from school was called Joseph King, Joe King for short.

I think I'm related to him.

[zebedee]

Anybody read Catch 22? A character in that book had the surname Major, so his parents christened him Major. He joined the Air Force and rose to the rank of Ta da - Major.

[HeyWayne]

You should read Jasper Fforde books.

Main character is a woman called Thursday Next, married to Landen Park-Laine, mother to Tuesday.

Friends/collegues include Braxton Hicks, Bowden Cable, Acheron Hades.

[OllieMartin]

I tend to use:

Baron Gunther Van Der Haffenschalff III

If I feel the need to write a made-up name on something.

I went out with a girl once who had an Uncle called Cable Pipe and another called Shipley Jack, always liked those.

Other real names I've encountered include Dick Whitehead and Paul Orridge.

[LostGoddess]

Anybody read Catch 22? A character in that book had the surname Major, so his parents christened him Major. He joined the Air Force and rose to the rank of Ta da - Major.

OMG I lost count of how many times I read that book when I was younger! laughed out loud every time as well Now what was the name he used to censor all the adverbs and adjectives out of the officer's letters from the hospital? Was it Irving Washington? or Washington Irving? OMG it was both!

Thanks for jogging my memory Zebedee, I will be using Irving Washington, or possibly Milo Minderbinder if ever the opportunity arises

[lainey lou]

This thread is hilarious!!!
My old ward sister was called SR Lousteau - naturally we all called her SR Loose-stool.
Also my fave fake patient name is Hugh Janus - what can I say!!! LOL!

[zebedee]

I understand Terry wogan had an email from a certain Farouq Youssef

[ohbeary]

I know who that was and its not his real name!!, its R.Suppards, ,
a name I was told is true?, is Manning Goldsworthy Chutnay, can you imagine what he was called at school?.....,
with a couple of freinds I occasionaly appear in a quiz team, we are called "Norfolk and Chance" its only rude with a northeastern accent ,
as for the person or persons unknown who signed a visitors book in a stately home with the seemingly familiar almost, name misspelled!!, of a former secretary of the UN and a Burmese diplomat to boot, (getting there anyone?), he was known by the honorific "U" meaning mister in Burmese and by the name of his village "Pantanaw" he had but a single name "Thant", (anyone assembled it yet?), ok here goes and dont say you werent warned, ......................................Pants U Thunt!!!, actually I always thought his name was "Uthunt" it was only when I looked him up that I got the right spelling

[valmarg]

Wogan's togs come up with some wonderful 'made up names'.

Also Private Eye's pseudo names.

Having worked as a medical secretary, Some of the patients names were:- Theresa Green - I imagined the consultant singing 'I see Theresa Green, red roses too - etc.

There were quite a lot of other names I can't remember, but one that 'springs' to mind is May Ball.

valmarg

[nomad]

i used to know a family of shufflebottoms.
also a nicholas antony balls
both families from derbyshire

[NOG]

Mr and Mrs Skinbac

and their son Paul.