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I went on holiday to France when i was a kid; my parents being typically English soon managed to find about 6 or so other English families to get drunk with leaving all the kids to their own devices. Out of all the kids, there were 5 of us called 'Richard' so to prevent confusion we drew lots to see who would get which shortened version of the name - Rik, Rich, Richy, Ricky, dick. I drew Rik and have been using that on everything from bank application forms to Christmas cards ever since.

Had fun at school with my surname 'Blackburn'; thanks to teachers with poor hand-writing Blackburn becomes Blackbum. Oh, how i laughed.

Best name I've ever heard was an Irish guy living in Manchester called Lorkhan Moriarty

I went to school with a Richard Head and a Mike Hunt. True story.

Did you ever come across a Hugh Janus?

/apologizes

Sadly not, that would have completed the trio.

Whenever someone has to write my last name down they change an e to an a for some reason that is beyond me...

SilverMK2 wrote:Unfortunately names don't count for Scrabble.

There's a version of Scrabble coming out where proper nouns are allowed. Any one care to one up me or shall I remain Scrabble-nerd-king?

notprop wrote:

Fateweaver wrote:My girlfriends used to call me God. "Oh God, Oh God."

I wasn't going to correct them.

Is that as in - oh god, oh god, get this thing off me?

When I first came to my current school it was mid-term and I actually was introduced when we went on camp. The teacher introduced my as Harrison to a bunch of not-really-caring-hot-and-bothered kids. One of the students got my name confused and thought I was called Henderson, and he kept calling me that. The name caught on and was shortened to Hendo. It irked me at first, but I got used to it. There was a bit of hysteria when it was found out that I lived (at the time) on Henderson Street.

2 years down the track, the teachers call me Harrison, the students, even my pals, either call me Harry or Hendo.