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Brian60

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What an unfortunate name.
« on: January 15, 2015, 08:01:32 PM »
I bet the crew the crew just love working on her :}
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Re: What an unfortunate name.
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2015, 08:12:20 PM »
OK finally got the photo to appear
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Re: What an unfortunate name.
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2015, 08:50:58 PM »
Nah...Titan-Uranus  is still the best O0 {-) {-) {-) {-) %%
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Re: What an unfortunate name.
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2015, 09:01:18 PM »
Hoof Hearted is on of my favourites
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Re: What an unfortunate name.
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2015, 09:13:35 PM »
Then there was the "Shy Tot"  :embarrassed:
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Re: What an unfortunate name.
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2015, 10:05:18 PM »
My Spearfish was named 'Oh Oh Sex'...but lettered 006.


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Re: What an unfortunate name.
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2015, 10:31:57 PM »
What's wrong with being an 'iron-king'  O0
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Re: What an unfortunate name.
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2015, 08:24:05 AM »
 just as well they had the gay class patrol boats in the 50`s with what the word references to-day couldn't see jack with some of these names on his cap tally.
Gay fencer  Gay Viking  Gay Bombardier
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Re: What an unfortunate name.
« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2015, 09:20:27 AM »
HMS Dainty is another  {-)

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Re: What an unfortunate name.
« Reply #9 on: January 16, 2015, 09:21:34 AM »
Quote from: hmsantrim on January 16, 2015, 08:24:05 AM
just as well they had the gay class patrol boats in the 50`s with what the word references to-day could`nt see jack with some of these names on his cap tally.
Gay fencer  Gay Viking  Gay Bombardier
frank


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Re: What an unfortunate name.
« Reply #10 on: January 16, 2015, 09:43:35 AM »
Best one i saw was on a small boat in a Clyde Marina called FECKIN HULL...

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Re: What an unfortunate name.
« Reply #11 on: January 16, 2015, 11:17:51 AM »
Quote from: norry on January 16, 2015, 09:43:35 AM
Best one i saw was on a small boat in a Clyde Marina called FECKIN HULL...

...Norry...
Must be Mrs Browns Boat.. {-) {-)
 
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Re: What an unfortunate name.
« Reply #12 on: January 16, 2015, 11:37:47 AM »
Name can cause safety problems too. I remember hearing a difficult conversation on VHF between the coastguard and a yacht which was in trouble off the Isle of Wight. The yacht's name was 'Don't Panic!' I expect the owner thought he was being clever when he named it.
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Re: What an unfortunate name.
« Reply #13 on: January 16, 2015, 11:54:32 AM »
Quote from: Colin Bishop on January 16, 2015, 11:37:47 AM
Name can cause safety problems too. I remember hearing a difficult conversation on VHF between the coastguard and a yacht which was in trouble off the Isle of Wight. The yacht's name was 'Don't Panic!' I expect the owner thought he was being clever when he named it.
bet they thought they had corporal jones on board.......

mayday, mayday, mayday, this is don't panic, don't panic, don't panic
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Re: What an unfortunate name.
« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2015, 01:18:05 PM »
   I find it amazing some of the names that people come up with especially for their children the mind boggles! I worked with a guy who had a German wife they named their son "Dieter" shame his surname was "Gent", I can imagine the stick the boy got at school. Ah well progress.
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Re: What an unfortunate name.
« Reply #15 on: January 16, 2015, 01:38:55 PM »
Quote from: Fastfaz on January 16, 2015, 01:18:05 PM
   I find it amazing some of the names that people come up with especially for their children the mind boggles! I worked with a guy who had a German wife they named their son "Dieter" shame his surname was "Gent", I can imagine the stick the boy got at school. Ah well progress.
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I had to think about that one, it went 'clean' over my head !
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Re: What an unfortunate name.
« Reply #16 on: January 16, 2015, 09:07:22 PM »
 {-) ..we had a local Detective of  :police: & his surname was Pipe........well after Mrs Pipe gave birth to a young boy..... he was named Dwayne...[obviously a very intelligent officer]

 {-) ..next door neighbour [Mrs Green] many years ago named her daughter Theresa

All true..... :-)) .. Derek
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Re: What an unfortunate name.
« Reply #17 on: January 17, 2015, 03:07:10 PM »
A few years ago I passed a car towing a boat called 'Betty Swollocks'
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Re: What an unfortunate name.
« Reply #18 on: January 17, 2015, 03:13:37 PM »
Quote from: Buccaneer on January 17, 2015, 03:07:10 PM
A few years ago I passed a car towing a boat called 'Betty Swollocks'

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Re: What an unfortunate name.
« Reply #19 on: January 17, 2015, 06:09:55 PM »
I remember a cruise ship called Q 4 calling Barcelona Port Control. PC asked him to spell the name. He said Quebec four. PC asked him to spell Quebec. It went on for quite a while.
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Re: What an unfortunate name.
« Reply #20 on: January 17, 2015, 06:17:40 PM »
Calling Port Radio on the East and South Coast,
Warship Echo as was the callsign on 16 often
left me with a silence until the operator had
realised who we were.


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Re: What an unfortunate name.
« Reply #21 on: January 18, 2015, 08:09:16 AM »
If we've moved on to surnames, I knew a nurse who was called Mary Christmas. I often used to pull her leg about the surname of her husband.
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Re: What an unfortunate name.
« Reply #22 on: January 18, 2015, 03:25:27 PM »
My Wife once worked in records for the gov, and once traste a DR, called oh-mar-caka shitter
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Re: What an unfortunate name.
« Reply #23 on: January 18, 2015, 08:33:41 PM »
Quote from: Brian56 on January 18, 2015, 08:09:16 AM
If we've moved on to surnames, I knew a nurse who was called Mary Christmas. I often used to pull her leg about the surname of her husband.

She should meet my work colleague: Carole Musik.  ;D

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« Reply #24 on: January 18, 2015, 11:30:08 PM »
There's a Chinese chap in the office where I work called Long Dong  {-)




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