Mrs Frugal Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 I did my nursing training with a Nurse Gotobed . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostin Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 My ED (who is 11) told me about a friend of hers who knows a girl called Patricia Ness. She was at the docs and was called into the room with him calling "Miss P Ness!" Apparently she will be changing her name as soon as she can. I don't think her parents even registered this name possibility We had a regular patient come in for blood tests called Peter Enis. On blood forms only the initial of his first name were used with his last name , it always cheered our day up in the lab . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 they all made me chuckle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 You would have thought his parents would have spotted that one. If I was Mrs. Enis, I'd never have given my child a name beginning with P! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiggy Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 our music teachers were Mr Sidebottom and Miss Shufflebottom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 I had a biology teacher called Mrs Riggall (pronounced 'wriggle'). And I know a physics teacher called Mr Ion. I used to know a Mr and Mrs Christmas too. Lovely name for lovely people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiggy Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 thankfully we dont have an intercome to call patients through any more their names come up on a display, it stops me choking when I have to call them out - there have been some really funny ones that I cannot divulge here (or they would have to shoot me) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 We used to put fictious names on the Doctors morning surgery - our favourite on 1st April was Ivor Bigun. He was totally mad and never saw the joke till he went to the waiting room and called the name and heard us convulsing in the reception. We had a greek patient called Koitis and the receptionist called mr Coitus which caused much mirth in the office I trained with a nurse Mummery (we called her mammary ) and a Nurse Overy I still have problems pronouncing some names and the reception staff look expection when they see me rehearsing a very long name to see me make a total idiot of myself with one of my gaffs. Sri Lankan - very long, Polish and East European have funny combinations of letters, Irish look easy till what looks like Brine (spelt Byrne) is pronounced burn. I have a long greek surname which is a constant trial for anyone. It adds enrichment to our lives Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raina Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 lol and i thought my name was strange When i was in high school, we had a PE teacher called Christopher Moss and we'd all call him Chris Moss lol My mum also knew a Shirley Shufflebottom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lydia Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 When my mother worked as a dental receptionist she had to call out the name "Uren Holder". And I have worked for a Richard Head in my time, who preferred to be known as Dick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAB Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 There is an obesity specialist in Glasgow called Professor Lean - lots of patients have thought that someone was playing sick joke on them when appointment for consultation has come through. In one place I worked I got one Christmas Card from "Mary and Joseph" and one from "The Angels"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickweed Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 I had a school friend who new someone called Ophelia Dickie. Is this too rude to put in the forum? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 Rioja. Delicious but not good for laptops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAB Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 A couple of my friends were living in Hong Kong for a while and they swear that Fanny Pong was not an uncommon name there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 Oh dear. Fanny doesn't seem to mean the same in the rest of the world, does it? My very genteel American friend's Mom happily refers to her 'fanny pack' but is mortified by the word 'toilet'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
