People are sharing the funniest names they’ve ever come across and here are 41 of the very best
We are grateful to the good people of B3ta who had a question for their followers.
What's the funniest named person you've ever met?
— b3ta (@b3ta) August 8, 2018
And the results didn’t disappoint.
1.
When I worked at the dole office in the 1980s, I had a client called Mr Wanker. Asked if he would consider changing his name if it would help him find work, he sat up straight and said he was “a Wanker and proud”. I had to leave the room.
— Alistair Coleman (@alistaircoleman) August 8, 2018
— Dan Jones (@dandaveyjones) August 8, 2018
I’ve dined out on this one for 30 years, so that’s a lot of didn’t happen.
— Alistair Coleman (@alistaircoleman) August 8, 2018
2.
There was also a Mr Plonker and five James Bonds who were all deed polls.
— Alistair Coleman (@alistaircoleman) August 8, 2018
3.
Never met him, but sat in a car outside this German dentist’s surgery for a good half hour utterly helpless with laughter. pic.twitter.com/w0VAmHqX02
— Paul Brown (@foolmentaljoker) August 8, 2018
4.
Before my uncle had a word with mum my sister was very nearly called Helen.
— Philip Bak (@niinegames) August 8, 2018
5.
Patrick Michael Hunt sat next to me at school.
— doktored (@doktored) August 8, 2018
pat my cunt – brilliant
— b3ta (@b3ta) August 8, 2018
6.
Bloke at work called Ron Seal…I like it for the subtlety
— A4A52 (@A4A5284) August 8, 2018
7.
I was at school with a Theresa Green (Yes they are).
— Dave The Cooper (@CoopErMan1989) August 8, 2018
8.
My daughter’s middle name is Teresa.
— Sam Rusling (@cowjam) August 8, 2018
9.
I was working doing a bit of data entry as a teenager and I queried a record “Mr Bollox – is this a joke?”
Nope, not a joke, a big client and you had to be careful saying his name as “Mr Bellow”
— Rob Manuel (@robmanuel) August 8, 2018
10.
You inspired me to search Ancestry and I found this: pic.twitter.com/WKMvDZ63NC
— David Murray (@ManInABlueShirt) August 8, 2018
11.
A man at a car hire desk in California had a name badge that said Rusty Colon. He caught me taking a photo and just sighed.
— christhebarker (@christhebarker) August 8, 2018
Oh my god I’ve just found the photo. pic.twitter.com/n6puSHdkSk
— christhebarker (@christhebarker) August 8, 2018
12.
The woman who recruited me into the NHS was called Jean Pool.
— Sam Rusling (@cowjam) August 8, 2018
13.
There was an appallingly gauche rich kid at my shitty private school (I was a bursary boy) called Tom Bowler who I used to call Raffles, the Gentleman Thief
— Vam Dam Fritters (@commonswings) August 8, 2018
14.
Dr Dick Feast (structural engineer, now deceased, absolutely insisted he could not be referred to as “Richard”)
— James Ball (@jamesrbuk) August 8, 2018
15.
My dad had a colleague called Richard Head. Absolutely insisted he could not be referred to as Dick. That makes more sense.
— Emma Howard (@EmmaEHoward) August 8, 2018
16.
I’ve encountered both Mike Hunt and Mike Hock in my time, and I struggle to decde which is best
— gee (@hongeorge) August 8, 2018
Did they ever have a get together?
— What is money FOR? (@Vamptonius) August 8, 2018