I used to go to college with a guy called Robin Sen. He said he never really thought about his name until he was big enough to sign cheques...R.Sen When I was a computer systems engineer, there was a Computer Aided Design company called Wayne Kerr. One of the US people I worked with a couple of years ago is called Dotty Yackle (it's really Dorothy but she prefers Dotty) I was looking up the number for a French colleague with the surname Piot in our company directory. Just above his name there's someone in Thailand called Thongch Pippattannasookmongkol One of the names that used to make me chuckle was a real life person called Maria del Carmen Niblett. I liked this name so much that I stole it when I was making up bedtime stories for my kids, and Maria del Carmen Niblett became an opera singing pig |