"Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold" - W.B. Yeats.
"We're doomed !" - Private Frazer.
"Like scrolling through a decade's worth of Daily Mail editorials in 20 minutes" - TheLoonyFromCatford
Monday, January 17, 2011
Maybe Not So Good...
"The Dundee United and Scotland footballer David Goodwillie has been charged with raping a woman at a new year house party in West Lothian."
(frivolous comments about what is after all a serious criminal offence may be deleted)
Apparently he's got form for bovver. I'm not surprised — people stifling a laugh every time your surname is mentioned must get to the most equable soul eventually. And I thought my former colleague John Thomas had been dealt a bad hand.
My kids have a teacher called Hancock. I know -- it's a sufficiently common name that we don't usually think it's funny. But secondary school kids are not like the rest of the human race.
"'I used to know a delightful girl from Yorkshire whose surname was Whalebelly.'
As I scrolled the page and these two lines appeared I was fully expecting them to be the opening of a limerick."
I once knew a girl called Whalebelly - We met on a trip to Clovelly. But she was a true white rose of a lass From her Yorkshire head to her Yorkshire toe (couldn't think of a rhyme here)- On that you can bet your nelly.
Apparently he's got form for bovver. I'm not surprised — people stifling a laugh every time your surname is mentioned must get to the most equable soul eventually. And I thought my former colleague John Thomas had been dealt a bad hand.
ReplyDeleteI often wonder why people with such unfortunate surnames don't change them by deed poll. I once knew someone called Ros Bangs, for instance...
ReplyDeleteBecause some of us like having unusual surnames - "Wildgoose" is my real surname.
ReplyDeleteI used to know a delightful girl from Yorkshire whose surname was Whalebelly.
ReplyDelete"Goodwillie" is an unfortunate surname? You'll laugh at anything over there.
ReplyDelete-- Richard Hertz
I had my hair cut in Exeter by Mr Badcock. It's a common surname in Cornwall, apparently.
ReplyDelete"I had my hair cut in Exeter by Mr Badcock."
ReplyDeleteThe worst one I've heard like that is Pincock.
My kids have a teacher called Hancock. I know -- it's a sufficiently common name that we don't usually think it's funny. But secondary school kids are not like the rest of the human race.
ReplyDeleteI used to know a delightful girl from Yorkshire whose surname was Whalebelly.
ReplyDeleteAs I scrolled the page and these two lines appeared I was fully expecting them to be the opening of a limerick.
Alas not.
"Goodwillie" is an unfortunate surname? You'll laugh at anything over there.
ReplyDelete-- Richard Hertz
It helps if you are on our wavelength Richard.
"'I used to know a delightful girl from Yorkshire whose surname was Whalebelly.'
ReplyDeleteAs I scrolled the page and these two lines appeared I was fully expecting them to be the opening of a limerick."
I once knew a girl called Whalebelly -
We met on a trip to Clovelly.
But she was a true white rose of a lass
From her Yorkshire head to her Yorkshire toe (couldn't think of a rhyme here)-
On that you can bet your nelly.
Martin,
ReplyDeleteI'll see your 'Pincock' and raise a 'Treblecock' (pronounced 'Tre-bil-coh')
No one got the joke? "Richard Hertz"? Dick hurts? Get it?
ReplyDeleteNo, I didnt spot it. I was too wrapped up in my own wavelength cleverness.
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