Unbelievable quotes.....

[Geezer]

Nominative determinism - and its reverse - is quite interesting.

I (genuinely) have met a bloke called Richard Head. Poor sod.

I have also met military personnel whose surnames were Coward and Chicken. Always wondered if they were proving something by their job choices?

I also once knew an Army guy called Major Fury. Instant Marvel superhero, beats Captain America?

On BS merchants, there was a kid I was friends with at school for a few years, then his parents broke up. He and his sister stayed with mum. After which he kept telling stories about how his dad was a deep-sea diver (may have been true), SBS, astronuaut, had a car that would do 200mph, whatever, I forget the detail. We all wrote him off as a BS artist. Sadly we weren't adult enough at 14-15 to realise that all that nonsense was a way of dealing with his parents' break-up and his dad shacking up with another woman and his sense of loss and reduced self-worth and possible misplaced sense of responsibility for the divorce.

We all present a public persona that is not a full representation of who we really are, or how we really feel. Not least on anonymous forums, I as much as anyone else here. But also you guys reading this. So we should understand (even if we have not done it) how easily people can move from a "curated" (I hate that word, outside museums) version of themself into outright lying and get locked into it.

My old schoolmate did that. But, looking back, he wasn't a bad guy. Just an OK guy in a bad place. Probably we should have "intervened" and had a conversation to help him deal with his issues. Instead we either ignored him or called him a wanker. As a divorced parent, trying to do the best with my son, I feel a bit guilty about that.

Back on topic. Yes, I have heard cobblers about guns and shooting over the years. In the airgun sphere, mostly about OX springs and galvanised dustbins, or guys who confused feet with yards.

[bozzer]

Certainly is a strange world Craig.

Nice post Geeze.

I worked with a German guy re automatic test equipment who was called Hans Zoff.

I also worked with a Chinese guy who I had to call to discuss quality issues. His name was Dave Wong ... but because of the nature of his job we called him Wots Wong.

[Rickenbacker]

True story: My GP (now retired) was Dr Payne.

[Craig-P]

One of my printers was called Barry Horrocks. He had scruffy writing and used to sign my invoices, ‘B Horrocks’, with big, looping letter ‘R’s’.
Never used to fail to amuse me...

[Geezer]

Certainly is a strange world Craig.

Nice post Geeze.

I worked with a German guy re automatic test equipment who was called Hans Zoff.

I also worked with a Chinese guy who I had to call to discuss quality issues. His name was Dave Wong ... but because of the nature of his job we called him Wots Wong.

Thanks boz.

The Times employ a journalist called Roger Boyes.

He was their correspondent in Italy about ten years ago.

When the Vatican child sex scandal broke, he wrote the story.

Byline was "By Roger Boyes in Rome".

[Phil Russell]

My wife once taught a young boy called Dwain.
Unfortunately his family name was Pipe.

My sister's married name is Berry.
When their son was born we hoped and prayed they would not call him William.
Bilberry? They didn't.

Cheers, Phil

[nimrod177]

ok here we go.
My leading hand of the watch on HMS Birmingham was LMEM Andy Dick.... Name tally reads, rate initial and last name!
I worked at Plessey Naval Systems and one of the draughtsmen was called Mike D'eath.
Another was called Wayne Anker. I worked in the print room and when they wanted prints of drawings done i had to write their name on the drawings and put them in a pigeon hole outside the office. When i first started there i thought it was a wind up and refused to put them out,. That was until he came to the counter and asked where his prints were. We all had to wear id as it was a top secret establishment doing research into radar and sonar. It was only when i looked at his id that i realised it was a genuine name. I can only imagine what his parents were thinking when they named him wayne.
I also went out with a girl named Sarah Ball,, Please no crude comments.
I now work in a gun shop and two of our customers are called Mr and Mrs Cartridge.

[rhyslightnin]

ok here we go.
My leading hand of the watch on HMS Birmingham was LMEM Andy Dick.... Name tally reads, rate initial and last name!
I worked at Plessey Naval Systems and one of the draughtsmen was called Mike D'eath.
Another was called Wayne Anker. I worked in the print room and when they wanted prints of drawings done i had to write their name on the drawings and put them in a pigeon hole outside the office. When i first started there i thought it was a wind up and refused to put them out,. That was until he came to the counter and asked where his prints were. We all had to wear id as it was a top secret establishment doing research into radar and sonar. It was only when i looked at his id that i realised it was a genuine name. I can only imagine what his parents were thinking when they named him wayne.
I also went out with a girl named Sarah Ball,, Please no crude comments.
I now work in a gun shop and two of our customers are called Mr and Mrs Cartridge.

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[JLB]

''Tales of the 80 in the 80's''. ''Will shoot through both sides of an oil drum this will''. ''Rabbits at over 100 yards''. ''Took 3 of us to get the spring in''

John