Lol

I worked in the mines once with a guy called Roy Death. He always insisted it was 'Deeth'.

A John Onions who I knew got really upset if you didn't pronounce it Oh.. Nyons.

Arthur Crow changed his name to Corbett or something similar which is french for 'crow' I don't know if that's true. You had to pronounce it 'Corbay'

Another crowd I worked with were merciless at assigning nicknames to new employees. A poor girl whose surmame was Ayres was forever referred to as 'Pubic'

 

My boss' name is Dick, need I say more
Another guy I know is named Stuart, but goes by Skip. This is a man in his 50s.

 

Right! What about her brother, Heza "Pinto" Bean. and of course her younger sister, Sheza Garbonzo Bean (Nickname- Chickpea or Sweetpea).

This one belongs in the Incredable Facts thread

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by gregstevens
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If I was named Richard, the last choice of nicknames I would choose would be "Dick."

 

There you go James showing a mind for detail! No-one else picked up on that!

 

Tonky,

A large percentage of my job is arguing about the meaning of contract clauses where a "," or "." in the wrong place can change the whole meaning. It is kind of difficult to get out of the habit of reading things with one half of my mind looking for the mistakes

There is a quiz thread in this forum that I was itching to pull apart since the wording of the questions was SO ambiguous, but I decided it was better to just let that one go

 

Funny isn't it ?,..... I find I can read other people's stuff and (probably infuriatingly) instantly pick out the typos and mistakes. When I type my own stuff it doesn't work quite the same... because your brain says you've typed it .......you have! I seem to spend a lot of time editing my posts!

 

Exactly, if you have typed it, you know what it is supposed to say, so that is what your brain sees!!!

That is why a report here will ALWAYS be read by at least two other people before it goes out. Two additional chance of picking up on any mistakes!!!

 

I turned a Charles into a Chuck once. He got much cooler after the name change, even started wearing a hat with a bigass feather in it (we called it macaroni)...until he was sent away to a military academy

 

I was wondering if someone was going to pick up on the 80's thing...