Unfortunate names

craner

Beast of Burden
My parents maintain a silly names list to this day, it stretches into the thousands at last count. I'm visiting them at Christmas so will try to transcribe as much of it as I can.

Fantastic! Please do! I absolutely loved those lists. I think your parents sound marvellous.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Yeah, do it Ulala - I was really excited to see this thread activated again only to have my hopes crushed when I realised that Craner was just asking for more stuff although that is an activity I fully support of course.
As for deliveries to silly names, I've had ebay deliveries from abroad addressed to Sir Richard Whatevermynameis - not been able to work out if they were taking the piss or if they thought that was the correct way to speak to an English gentleman of my stature.
Similarly my friend told me about how his dad (by all accounts a bit of a player in his day) used to impress ladies by telling them that he was a lord and that occasionally he would get letters for his father made out to Lord S******. That said, Mr Tea isn't your brother legally entitled to call himself a lord?
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
You can't spell your own brother's title? He should have you horse-whipped.
Anyway, to widen the spec somewhat, I always liked the name of this place which for some reason I had to send letters to in one of the many crap jobs I've done.

The Character Building
41B Beavor Lane
London
W6 9BL
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Character Building, love it!

I'm reminded of the building on the south bank near Tate Britain that has a big brass plaque anouncing it as IMPERIAL CHEMICAL HOUSE. Always makes me think of a really fucked-up kind of dance music - nasty acid squelches juxtaposed with samples from 'Jerusalem' or 'Rule Britannia'.
 

slowtrain

Well-known member
That's not an article, that's a thesis!

I like how the first comment is something "Fucked if I'm reading all that". And how someone makes the same joke you did further down the same page...

Haha, the comments are great. Most circle around the length of the article.

Christ I'm not reading all that.

You might not need a man, but you do need an editor.

"A longer version of this article first appeared in the Atlantic Magazine" that's a joke.....right?

what a short and snappy article

What a peculiarly creepy expression the woman in the photo is wearing. What is it supposed to represent?

Quite wordy. I will admit -shamefacedly- that I skipped right over the percentage paragraphs, as life is entirely too short to read useless statistics.

I did battle through the entire article, and the gist was, times, they are a-changing.

Or something like that.

Poor Allan...meticulously folding his shirts all by his lonesome.

It's funny, the further you go through the comments the longer and longer they get.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
I missed Allan desperately – his calm, sure voice; the sweetly fastidious way he folded his shirts.

Reading between the lines here, I'm guessing he wasn't exactly dynamite in bed and that she's just trying to be nice by not (explicitly) mentioning it.
 

slowtrain

Well-known member
I never fold my shirts, I use coathangers.

Does that make me good or bad in bed?

I just throw my t-shirts on top of the dresser.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
I've recently found out that I have colleagues called Rita Petit and Jimi Hendriks.

I love how Jimi has even chosen to spell his first name the same way as a certain famous rock guitarist. I'm tempted to find out where he sits and walk past while going "dow-dow-DOW, de-dow-dow DOW!" and doing this:

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Ulala

Awkward Woodward
I am going to visit my parents for Christmas as of tomorrow. They own the definitive list of funny names. I will transcribe it for your edification, delectation and stuff and that and all. Keep watching the skies, impact in circa 48 hours.

Alternatively: I am going to post a massive list of funny names soon. Steel yourselves.
 
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