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Old 04-06-2012, 11:10 PM   #1
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People with strange names...

Just been watching the news and the president of Nigeria is called Goodluck Jonathan, to which I found strange and childishly amusing.

Anyone know of other REAL people with strange names like this?

Wonder who is first to say Ben Dover?!
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Old 04-06-2012, 11:12 PM   #2
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Moon Unit Zappa (although she simply goes by Moon Zappa), the daughter of Frank Zappa, he also named his other daughter Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen Zappa (again she goes by Diva Zappa)
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Old 04-06-2012, 11:14 PM   #3
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I think you could include all of Zappa's kids


(Edit: You did, thanks for the sly edit making me look like an idiot there )



Also, include this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Assman

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Moon Unit Zappa (although she simply goes by Moon Zappa), the daughter of Frank Zappa, he also named his other daughter Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen Zappa (again she goes by Diva Zappa)
Good thinking, yes that Zappa family are strange ones, bloody good musician tho!
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I used to work with a girl named Hero True. Lovely girl, very pretty!!!
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Old 04-06-2012, 11:20 PM   #7
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Another one: Joker Arroyo, he is currently a Senator in the Philippines (the name stems from his father's fondness for playing cards)
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Old 04-06-2012, 11:25 PM   #8
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My old man had a customer at work once called Wayne Kerr, poor bloke.
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Old 04-06-2012, 11:28 PM   #9
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Yup, I've worked with a Ewan Kerr, and currently with a Joe King...
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Old 04-06-2012, 11:33 PM   #10
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Used to have a customer called Roger Mashitter - no joke.
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Old 04-06-2012, 11:39 PM   #11
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I worked at a company that once had an employee in the states called Randy Place.
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My friends mum is a midwife or something like that and was with a mother who called her daughter 'Female' pronounced fem ah lee
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Old 04-06-2012, 11:58 PM   #14
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The president of Nigeria has been well known for years.
The really strange people are the ones who use only one name like Prince and Madonna, and the people who give their children idiotic names, as Zappa and Beckham did.
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The president of Nigeria has been well known for years.
Obviously not to everyone
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Just google Randy Baumgardner.........seriously
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My old man had a customer at work once called Wayne Kerr, poor bloke.
Wayne Kerr Electronics - home page
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And there was that South African born commonwealth weightlifter, Precious McKenzie.
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Just google Randy Baumgardner.........seriously
and people elected this bloke:

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Wouldn't you?
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Wouldn't you?
lol, versus Dianne Abbott, maybe I would!
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Old 05-06-2012, 12:23 AM   #22
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I imagine he has one of the manliest campaign videos ever, in fact he's probably so manly he refuses to use the word "campaign".
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I read an article in the paper recently about parents calling their kids strange names. Such as Bob Geldof's kids.

Who was the famous couple who named their kid Apple?
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I read an article in the paper recently about parents calling their kids strange names. Such as Bob Geldof's kids.

Who was the famous couple who named their kid Apple?
Coldplay dude & his wife
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Who was the famous couple who named their kid Apple?
Gwyneth Paltrow
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Old 05-06-2012, 12:34 AM   #26
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Jason Lee of My Name is Earl fame gave his son the first name of Pilot Inspektor
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Old 05-06-2012, 12:39 AM   #27
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Thanks, I've just looked it up.

"On May 14, 2004, the couple had their first child, a girl named Apple Blythe Alison Martin."

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Old 05-06-2012, 12:45 AM   #28
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I can remember starting a thread about funny names on here a few years ago.

Famous and funny NAMED people you've met

Here is one of them:









There is a Miss Sandy Pits on our estate.
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The landlord of a pub near where I used to work in Derby a few years ago was called Roger Myring see here
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Lots more here...

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