Dealt with an incident today where I had to speak to a young couple with a young baby (6 months). They said the boy's name was 'Gooey'. Taken aback somewhat, I asked them to spell it for me, which they duly obliged, 'G U Y'.

Were they Welsh?

No, a young couple, a fine product of the local estate.

I believe he's my great-grand-nephew.

o/h's new nephew is called Trax.


Sounds like some sort of disinfectant

Please tell me that its D's Sisters kid

I know someone who named their child Drayvon - sounds like a type of ferry.

I've had students with odd names, such as:

Velvet (f.)
Cherry (f.)
Starr (f.)
Candi (f.)
Krystell (f.)
Souxy (f.)
Shandi (f.)


Nix and Nox (m. twins)
Kemel-Jitt (m.)
Adolphus (m.)
Lucifopoulos (fam. nm.)

That reads like the cast of a porno.

Shandi sounds a bit useless. Do you think she occasionally needs a hand?

Whilst doing his teaching rounds at an outer eastern suburbs primary school a few years ago, a friend of mine was writing a number of the kids’ names on the blackboard, and when he got to Maddalyn, he wrote her name on the board as “Madeline”. She called out “Mr Randolph, you’ve spelt my name wrong”. Without missing a beat, he responded “no I didn’t, your parents did”.

No, just topped up with lemonade from time to time

My wife used to teach a pair of Ghanaian twins:

Girl = Fortunate
Boy = Favourite

Tell it like it is, why don't you?!

....she'd make a good fluffer?

That reminds me... I was at school with a bloke from an Italian family, and his middle name was Secondo - he had been born around the same time as his Uncle Secondo had died so that's where the name came from.

Yes, Uncle Secondo was a twin - they were called Primo and Secondo.