Unfortunate Names

[Capetonian]

Angie Doll
Southern Passenger Services Director

[Capetonian]

Just had an email from Southern Rail, the company who have made commuting unbearable for millions in the last few months, signed by :

Angie Doll
Southern Passenger Services Director

Sounds like a hooker!

[Capetonian]

New Zealand has announced it will rename three places – a stream, a hill and a series of hills – which have the word “Nigger” in the title because the term is unnecessarily offensive.

Louise Upston, the land information minister, said Nigger Stream, Niggerhead and Nigger Hill would all be renamed after local vegetation to, respectively, Pukio Stream, Tawhai Hill and Kanuka Hills.

“The [original] names reflect a time when attitudes towards this word were markedly different to what they are now,” she said.

“It is a word that is clearly offensive to most people today.”

Ms Upston said she was not trying to rewrite history but believed place names with “Nigger” in the title were unsuited to the nation’s multicultural character.

“This isn’t about rewriting history – it is and will remain a matter of public record that these three places used to carry different names,” she said.

[Slasher]

"Hey Nigger!...Nigger!...Nigger!...Nigger! Where are you boy! Come on Nigger!... Nigger!"

Winco Guy Gibson calling his dog.

[Mrs Ex-Ascot]

The above reminds me of a friend of ours who had a small terrier named Beaver. He looked after a mutual friend's bitch who was named Fanshaw.

So, out walkies it was "come here. .....COME HERE. ....BEAVER. ...FANNY. ....."

[ian16th]

I always remember the former England Rugby player, Austin Healey.

As it happened he was quite an athlete and a bit quick, but his parents didn't know that when the gave him the name!

If he had turned out to be an overweight couch potato, being named after a sports car would have been embarrassing.

[flynverted]

Had a teacher in ementary school named harry balls.

[Slasher]

So, out walkies it was "come here. .....COME HERE. ....BEAVER. ...FANNY. ....."

You can call the same out in any Thai bar - and you don't need to have any puppy dogs in tow!

[Hydromet]

But there, you'd expect pussies to come wouldn't you Slash?

[Slasher]

Wet maybe Hydro, but having them come would be a bonus!

[GrumpyOldFart]

"Hey Nigger!...Nigger!...Nigger!...Nigger! Where are you boy! Come on Nigger!... Nigger!"

Winco Guy Gibson calling his dog.

I sniggered at that one.

[OFSO]

Well you won't snigger at in any more since when that film is shown on TV (at least in the UK) the name has been changed.....

[Capetonian]

There's a camping site in the New Forest called Sandy Balls.

I was on an SAS flight when they flew from JNB-CPH and was a little surprised to hear the stewardess making her way down the aisle saying : "Kaffir .... Kaffir ...." and then realising it's the Danish for coffee.

I worked in a company once where we had someone who signed his name : 'R. Sola', and another character had a Greek name which became modified to 'Crapandpisstoo'.

Then there was the woman who went to court to change her name by deed poll. They asked her her name, and she said : "Wendy Koksukka".
The magistrate said : "I understand. What would you like to change your name to?"
"Angie Koksukka, please sir."

One of the characters in Arthur Ransome's 'Swallows (even that has a dubious connotation!) and Amazons' was called 'Titty'. That would have to be changed for current audiences.

[A Lutra Continua]

Unfortunate contraction of Chastity?

[Mrs Ex-Ascot]

Our late French friend Christina was known as Titti. On one occasion she needed a ship ticket from Amorgos to Athens but had no spare cash. I went to the shipping office to buy her ticket and assumed that the agent knew her proper name. The ticket was in the name of Titti Titti.

[limeygal]

In Adelaide, our family GP was Dr. Clapp. Years later, in Sydney, his cousin of the same name assisted in my gall bladder removal.

Gall bladder-yeah right

Friend's sister was a nurse-family name was Slaughter

Hostie with Dan Dare, Susan Everard, got married, became Sue Slack

[Tall Bird]

One of the characters in Arthur Ransome's 'Swallows (even that has a dubious connotation!) and Amazons' was called 'Titty'. That would have to be changed for current audiences.

Has already been done. Way back, in one version Titty became Kitty and more recently, there was a row when she became Tatty. IIRC the real life Titty's family also complained.

Once worked with a woman whose first name was Bubbles. Really? 'Yes. It's not a nickname as I've changed it by deed poll because I was fed up with jokes about my birth name.' Her parents called her Tracey.

[OFSO]

I had a French colleague named "Toitot" and pronounced "Twat-o".

He died some years ago so I won't say more.

[Capetonian]

I'm watching the Dam Busters on ITV now, happy to say that NIGGER is NIGGER and it's not bleeped out. Sadly, he's just been run over.

[Slasher]

The silly ratbag socialist PC-riddled brigade Cape just can't accept Winco's dog was called NIGGER and is a permanent historical record.