What's In a Name?

[Beezer]

My mother’s Minister’s name was Pixie Butt.

No word of a lie! And she’d sign all of her letters…(drum roll)…

Pix Butt

(You can’t make this stuff up folks!)

 

[Tazx's_better_half]

In my younger days I worked for a communication company - this was during the days of alphanumeric pagers.

On my first day I was warned by my manager that there is a real estate agent named "Anita Dyck" ...and was not a prank.

 

[-Oy-]

What

My mother’s Minister’s name was Pixie Butt.

No word of a lie! And she’d sign all of her letters…(drum roll)…

Pix Butt

(You can’t make this stuff up folks!)

What is a Minister’s name?

 

[-Oy-]

I once worked with a bloke - not the sharopest knife in the drawer - who's name was Richard Head.

No prizes for guessing what he was known as

 

[Feelslikefar]

While doing an Ancestry search of my family, came across some interesting names on my fathers
side.

Some relatives with 'Napoleon' or 'Bonaparte' and 'Aretus' in their names.
Interesting to me why the choice in keeping those names going in the line.

I wanted to name our youngest son, 'Rancho Cucamonga' (A city in California) because it rolls off the tongue,
but luckily the wife Vetoed that...

 

[-Oy-]

While doing an Ancestry search of my family, came across some interesting names on my fathers
side.

Some relatives with 'Napoleon' or 'Bonaparte' and 'Aretus' in their names.
Interesting to me why the choice in keeping those names going in the line.

I wanted to name our youngest son, 'Rancho Cucamonga' (A city in California) because it rolls off the tongue,
but luckily the wife Vetoed that...

My fave tongue roller is a nice dark German beer called 'Erdinger Dunkel'