Most unfortunate names in the UK

From Media24:

Andriy Arshavin has inspired Arsenal to a late fightback at Wigan, but a victory for Arsene Wenger's men was marred by injury.

Seems to be a theme somewhere in there...

Do any of you remember the early days of Captain Pugwash?
the supporting cast were:
Master Bates
Seaman Steins
and
Roger the cabin boy.

There is a lady in Natal called Rose Early

Isn't that just folklore though? They weren't actually called that

In Stephen Pile's book 'Heroic Failures' he reported a couple in Kent named their child 'Depressed Cupboard Cheesecake'.

One has to wonder what kind of upbringing that kid got - and what his/her siblings were called...

Perhaps Upset Cherry Pie and Bitter Victoria Sponge?

Raging Seed Loaf and Quivering Custard Slice?

Bump

Well found, sir.

mynah wrote:. Why does Jenny Taylor think her name is worst of all? .

PMSL



Sorry mynah

There is an employment bureau near here called Beaver Bureau

Knew a guy called Anand Chodankar. Anand means 'joy' and Chodankar literally translates in a local language dialect as a 'f-ucker'....

Have you heard of the great southern king and warrior, Gandugali Kumara Rama?

The NSW Under 23s team in the Futures League match that finished today had Jackson Bird & Nathan Brain playing for them.

A good bird and good brain?

I know of someone called Atul Laddha. I also know someone called Chris Peacock which is only slightly better than Drew Peacock.

I've already done the Chris Peacock and his funny name thing on here (former South Today newsreader, who allegedly got admitted to Southampton General Hospital with an electric toothbrush stuck in an unusual place).

Stop stealing my material.

I'd have thought Flaccid Cock would be even more embarrassing as a name.

I always feel a bit sorry for Pakistani cricketers Ejaz Faqih and Khurrum Manzoor, and struggled not to snigger at the Pakistani name Fiqal Sameer.

There's a convicted murderer in the US named Shitavious Cook. Perhaps not surprising he shot someone (at the age of just 15) having been given a name like that... perhaps only surprise is it wasn't his parents!

Not too far behind is former NFL player and sprinter Craphonso Thorpe. Pronounced "Cray-phonso" apparently. Whatever you say, Crap.

I'm sure you meant, whatever you say, Cray.

Hey, the fonz.

Is anyone going to see Yuja Wang at the Sydney Opera House in July?

An ad for this bobbed up on a website I visited.
Dunno anything about concert pianists but apparently she is very good.

When I read her Wikipedia profile, it mentioned -
Wang has received attention as much for her eye-catching outfits and glamorous stage presence as for her piano playing. In a much-quoted 2011 review of a concert at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles Times classical music critic Mark Swed wrote:

"But it was Yuja Wang’s orange dress for which Tuesday night is likely to remembered...Her dress Tuesday was so short and tight that had there been any less of it, the Bowl might have been forced to restrict admission to any music lover under 18 not accompanied by an adult. Had her heels been any higher, walking, to say nothing of her sensitive pedaling, would have been unfeasible. The infernal helicopters that brazenly buzz the Bowl seemed, on this night, like long-necked paparazzi wanting a good look."

Might have been this one, Wally:




... and the 'really short dress' is featured HERE

what is the reason behind english masochism with cocks.

cockburn for instance.

cockbain sounds like cockpain

cockroft maybe punishing the cock in some savage pictish ritual

cockerham .. well

cockfield .. oh joy

cockman .. one and only ofcourse

cockran .. he who runs with the cock ..

cockshot .. what in God's name

cockshall .. promising


was the cock such an important part of british culture so as to necessitate constant comparison with it and at same time an object of such derision. Kindly explain.