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vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2017 6:33 pm

attofishpi wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2017 6:31 pm A chap at my secondary school was named Wayne Kerr! What were his parents thinking! He changed his first name to Andrew, which was ok because he really was a good bloke and not one of those.

Surely they must have realised? Or is that Aussie low-brow humour? My father had a girl in his class at school called Chlorine. Her parents probably just thought it sounded nice

This was my school in England. He was a dark-skinned chap, so I think in his parents defence they were possibly from oversees, and English a second language.

A mature and intelligent man of my acquaintance named his son Brian Orville, never considering initials.
You can't anticipate everything people will think of - especially schoolboys.
Beats Lassie, anyway.