Doctor De'ath and Nurse Killer at your service ma'am

Post by **Ebikatsu** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:39 pm

I was looking at the news and saw the name of a cricketer called Sidebottom.

I mean really!!

wouldn't you change your name if it were silly?

I used to know two Doctor Whites and one was a Gynaecologist!!!!

and a Doctor De'ath, and a nurse in my theatre called Carol Killer!!!

and the ubiquitous Mr Bone my colleague who worked in Orthopaedics!!!

Post by **Horus** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:01 pm

I knew of an old retired doctor named 'Pyne' (not sure how he spelled it) 'Coffin'

and lots of Sidebottom's but most tried to posh it up a bit and pronounce it 'Siddy-bothoom' or similar

Apparently it is derived from the Cheshire dialect and 'Sid' means 'wide' and 'Botm' which means a valley floor

so it is a farming reference

Post by **crazycat** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:46 pm

I worked with a nurse called De'ath too.

Hey Ebikatsu I work in theatres too. Awfulpaedics is my speciality but just about done the works over the years

Post by **Ebikatsu** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:13 am

Horus wrote:I knew of an old retired doctor named 'Pyne' (not sure how he spelled it) 'Coffin' and lots of Sidebottom's but most tried to posh it up a bit and pronounce it 'Siddy-bothoom' or similar
Apparently it is derived from the Cheshire dialect and 'Sid' means 'wide' and 'Botm' which means a valley floor so it is a farming reference

are you serious!!!!!!

Pyne Coffin

Ooooooooooooooooooooh MY GAWD!!!

Post by **Ebikatsu** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:24 am

crazycat wrote:I worked with a nurse called De'ath too.

Hey Ebikatsu I work in theatres too. Awfulpaedics is my speciality but just about done the works over the years

ditto

done everything except cardiac, then ran trauma and ortho for years till I came here

So glad to have left all those screws and jigs behind

Post by **Horus** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:35 am

Yep

that was his name

One of my favourites is when astronomers start talking about the planet URANUS

When I was a kid it was always called Uranus (pronounced = Your Anus)

So when they talked about "Rings around Uranus" I found it particularly amusing

Nowadays they try to posh it up a bit and pronounce it as something like 'Ooo-ra-nuss' which has spoiled it a bit for me

But I am still waiting for them to discover another planet near to it

as they will probably name it 'Boom-holay' obviously to be written as 'Bumhole'

Post by **Ebikatsu** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:10 am

Have a look at some of these

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... 809679.ece

SOME parents can be cruel - or down right stupid - when naming their kids. Other people are just born with a surname that makes you titter. Now the funniest have been collected from British records of births, marriages and deaths dating back centuries. Here TIM SPANTON picks out some of the best.

SUE AGE

Born Glasgow, 1849.

PETER PIDDLE

Baptised Fowey, Cornwall, 1649.

ENEMA BOTTOMLEY WOOD

Died Huddersfield, 1904.

SEYMOUR BUST

Born Halstead, Essex, 1841.

PLEASANT TITTY

Baptised Margate, Kent, 1768.

(She was named after her mum - so the family had a pair of Pleasant Tittys.)

SEXEY BUTT

Born Dundry, Somerset, 1803.

EFFING ****

Born Glasgow, 1848.

WILLY MUSCLE

Born Holme, Huntingdonshire, 1685.

GOLDEN BALLS

Baptised Aylsham, Norfolk, 1813.

KENNETH McSHAGGER

Born Scotland, 1841.

WILLIE STRETCH

Born Winsford, Cheshire, 1894.

NANCY BOYS

Born Brighton, 1842.

MAD LOONEY

Died Warwicks, 1894.

CONSTANT PAIN

Born Hackney, London, 1901.

MINNIE BAR

Baptised Galston, Ayr, 1761.

AL DENTE

Born Whitechapel, London, 1900.

POSTHUMOUS MINCE

Died Greenwich, Kent, 1839.

AGNES ETTA PEPPER

Born Ipswich, 1881.

EASTER BUNNY

Born Yorkshire, 1851.

KITTY LITTER

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Born Marston, Cheshire, 1839.

HOLLY BERRY

Born Barnsley, 1880.

PEARLY GATES

Married Westminster, 1996.

RICK O'SHEA

Married Kennington, London, 1864.

SENSITIVE REDHEAD

Born Bridlington, E Yorks, 1873.

JIMMY RIDDLE

Born Melrose, Midlothian, 1648

PETE SAKE

Born Cheshire, 1840.

PECULIAR BUTTERY

Married Wolverhampton, 1871.

ALICE MAY FALL

Born Shoreditch, London, 1894.

NICHOLAS STREAKER

Born Durham, 1747.

LETTICE SPRAY

Baptised Greasley, Notts, 1633.

IRIS TEW

Died Chester, 1985.

**** BRAIN

Born Stoke-on-Trent, 1871.

TURD COLLAR

Born Ireland, 1821.

TERESA FARTWANGLER

Born Usk, Monmouth, 1828.

PHILIP PLONKER

Baptised Shalford, Surrey, 1632.

WILLY LEAK

Born Poplar, London, 1886.

ANICE BOTTOM

Baptised Dewsbury, W Yorks, 1837.

IVA LONGBOTTOM

Born Balby, S Yorks, 1899.

TRANNIE PICKUP

Born Portsmouth, 1853.

SILLY TROLLOPE

Born Doncaster, 1894.

**** HANDLER

Baptised Earls Colne, Essex, 1585.

JOYCE MOODY NUTTER

Died Braintree, Essex, 2001.

HUGH SWELLING

Born Ireland, 1811.

PHIL GRAVES

Died Rotherham 1879.

DEMOSTHENES CUPPA

Married London, 1886.

BASIL LEAF

Born York, 1895.

LARGE BEE

Born Notts, 1829.

LOW FEE

Married Chorlton, Cheshire, 1908.

COLLY FLOWER

Father of girl married in Soho, London, 1797.

MAUD STALE BUN

Born Sunderland, 1851.

LOW FAT

Married Cardiff, 1905.

FAY KING

Died Bromley, Kent, 1998.

SANDY BEACH

Born East London, 1899.

DAILY BONER

Born Hernhill, Kent, 1898.

Post by **Ebikatsu** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:11 am

POSTHUMOUS MINCE

Died Greenwich, Kent, 1839.

Post by **Horus** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:22 am

Some good ones there

I always laugh at the Irish politician named **** Spring

Somehow it conjures up some vivid mental images

Post by **Kiya** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:58 pm

We had a local radio DJ years ago named Rick O'Shea

Post by **Horus** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:03 pm

@ Kiya

Post by **Goddess** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:28 pm

I don't know which of those was worse!!

Who on earth names a child Turd though is what I want to know??

Post by **Horus** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 5:28 pm

I suppose when you look at the dates associated with most of them, the modern meanings would not have been around at the time. A modern day example would be the surname 'Minger'

seventy years ago it would have a different meaning to the modern day one which according to my kids, a minger is something that smells really bad

Post by **crazycat** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:14 pm

I also used to work with an Olive Green and her sister in law was really called Theresa Green

Post by **Karenh** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:38 pm

When I was doing my nursing a colleague was named Nurse Bowel (Susan Bowel) imagine shouting that in a ward!

Post by **Ebikatsu** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 1:30 pm