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You know, people with names coincident with their work (Mr Lamb was for a time the head of the Meat Marketing Board, the local dentist called Mr Payne, that sort of thing).
Well, there's a cliff threatening to come tumbling down on tourist operators in Central Otago. (A short distance from where my aunt lives, by the way.)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4620524a10.html
Rafting operations have been shut down for a week waiting for this darn cliff to fall. I was intrigued to note the name of the Totally Tourism representative quoted in the story: Mark Quickfall.
If only, Mark.
Anyone else know some interesting Unlikely Names?
At primary school we had a librarian named Mrs Page.
And my ex used to work with a guy named Robert Banks. He said it made opening an account interesting.
Posted By trudi / Posted At 7/16/08 11:34 AM
guy living in the Canberra suburb of Cook, who was a chef in the army, and his last name was Cook, so yes, he was Cook, the cook, from Cook.
And a local pilot, with the surname of Death.
But my favourite is this one from Leeds: http://www.godloves.co.uk/ - and well, I suppose someone has to
Posted By Sharyn / Posted At 7/16/08 7:39 PM
Me again with a totally unrelated topic.....another deranged fan would like her book signed! If you can do it over the weekend???? Also another book here for you.
Posted By Linda Lee / Posted At 7/18/08 6:34 AM
There is a undertaker at Port Augusta called Mortlock....
I once met a man from the UK whose first name and surname were both 'Felix'.
He used to sign his name as Felix followed by the power of 2.
There is also the bestselling author of the novel 'Broken Window' whose name is Eva Brick.
Posted By Peter / Posted At 7/18/08 9:04 AM
Crime writer Karin Slaughter
Local doctor, Dr Death
Posted By Linda / Posted At 7/18/08 12:25 PM
My favourite was always Archbishop Sin, from the Phillipines :)
Posted By Nicole Murphy / Posted At 7/20/08 7:53 AM
Heh, I remember Cardinal Sin - he had a chance of becoming the Pope, you know. I prayed he would.
My brother-in-law's name is Richard Brain, but we all call him Dick. Sounds made up, doesn't it. What parents would do that to a child?
Posted By russellk / Posted At 7/20/08 12:58 PM
Hey Russell, this is completely off-topic, but I was wondering whether there has been any coverage over there of one of our local comedians being denied admittance to New Zealand? There's this show over here on the ABC that talks about advertising, and one of the things they do each week is ask two advertising agencies to come up with ads to "sell the unsellable". A couple of weeks ago, the brief was to sell to the Australian public the idea of invading New Zealand. The two ads were (in my opinion) brilliant satire (http://www.abc.net.au/tv/gruentransfer/poll/vote/past.htm will take you to a page with links to the ads), but they have apparently offended the "entire" population of New Zealand. Wil Anderson, comedian and host of the programme, suggested on his radio programme that he would go to NZ to make amends by giving out ANZAC biscuits to as many people as possible, but he has apparently been refused entry. Just wondered if (a) there has been any coverage of this over there, and (b) if anyone over there really cares???
Sorry it's so long...
Posted By Jo Kasper / Posted At 7/20/08 5:55 PM
Yes, we all enjoyed the ads over here - they were shown as a news clip. The reaction here was one of hilarity and admiration.
I'm sure Wil's being 'refused entry' is part of the gag.
Posted By russellk / Posted At 7/20/08 7:37 PM
Whew!!! Knew you guys wouldn't be taking it the wrong way, 'cos you know we wouldn't really do it...don't you??? Honest, we wouldn't!!! *whistles, twiddles thumbs, looks around with guileless face*.
Posted By Jo Kasper / Posted At 7/20/08 11:49 PM
Hi Russell
Our company also operates helicopters and fixed wing aircraft and packages bungy jumping with other adventure activities. I once worked with a girl at The Helicopter Line named Pickup, it was quite handy after a Quickfall.
www.totallytourism.co.nz
Best regards
Mark Quickfall
