Amusing real-life names

[Dave_L]

OMG, that's brilliant!!!!!!!!!

[acechadwick]

I have a friend Annette (always known as Nett or Nettie) and she is married to a guy called Paul Curtin.
She swears it wasn't deliberate...

[GB_Groundworks]

i went to primary school with a stephen sidebottom and a joanne winterbottom, was funny as a kid

[seanandruby]

there was a lad years ago, always in trouble with plod. he changed his name to "mind your own business, " so that it would annoy the police when they asked his name. what a prat :p

[topgrafter2007]

many moons ago i worked in a gunshop and we had a list on the wall of mail order customers names, can only recall a couple.... Peter Stains (p..stains) lovely lady called Avril Cokk. (A..Cokk)... :laugh:

[GB_Groundworks]

I have a irrational hatred of 'combination names' for businesses - you know, the sort where Stephen and Mark team up to form "Stemark". It's so feckin' cheesy!

haha two lads who i used to play rugby with Dan and Zack turned up on site, just started their own bricky business called Danzack haha had to laugh thinking of what you had said tony so cheesy.

[seanandruby]

there was me ( sean ) my mates harry, ian, tony and eric. never did get much work :laugh:

[flowjoe]

As for "Ace of Spades....!!!!"

Our trade has the bog standard (no pun intended) play on word names such as " The Rod Father" and there are several "Drain Surgeons" out there.

I liked the septic tank emptying company with the logo "yesterdays meals on wheels"



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[Tony McC]

Another ya-hoooge dollop of cheesiness comes when I write a comment piece or short article for a magazine or other publication. 9 times out of 10, the sub-editor thinks it would be really, really, stupendously witty to head the piece "Paving The Way".

Because no-one else would ever have thought of that, would they?

[Tony McC]

So: Two minutes after posting the above, I make a brew and while waiting for the kettle to boil, decide to flick through the copy of Landscape and Amenity that was delivered this morning.

Page 6, the first page devoted to hard-landscaping, and we get.....



...how flamin' original!!

[flowjoe]

Last week we had a company round trying to sell website/advertising and they had made up some ready made artwork for us.

The usual bobbins = a crystal clear water fall, a leaping dolphin and of course you have to have the buzz word "environmental" on the page.

We shift sH&t for christ sakes.

[lutonlagerlout]

are the lambs still screaming tony??
:;):
LLL

[flowjoe]

Thats where we all went wrong, we should have gone into creative media studies, and then said sod it and turned out the usual (often borrowed) bilge

P.S I dont know if its the wine but i just noticed the google ads? ? is it me or are these new to the site



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[Dave_L]

Company names locally which I think are areally good include "Down to Earth" - Electricians and "Zero-Seven" HEVAC engineers

[Tony McC]

Just you bloody wait, LLL!

Funny how the Australian idea of romance involves stringing you up on a koolabah tree. Thank god Mrs Taz doesn't know about this!


And yes, Joe, the Google ads are new and experimental. The only way to find out whether they piss off people and whether they earn their keep is to try them out. I tried some text-only ads on a handful of pages on the main site last month, and they've not attracted any adverse criticism, so I thought I'd try text+image ads in the Brew Cabin and see how they fare.

All comments are welcome