[Danielle G.]

General Discussion Thread 17.12.2024​

Hello and welcome to Tuesday, members! Anything fun that happened lately? Me? I visited a new cafe—and like what happens most of the time, they took me for a guy because of my name, calling out ‘order for Sir Danielle’. No big deal though—it happens all the time but it gives me a good laugh. What about you—got any cool stories about your name? I’d love to read them, so feel free to share them below.

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[Sas]

Waiting room of Doctors or Dentist most of the time they would call the name Jo and sure enough a male would walk into the surgeon room.
As my full name has a hyphen JO-ANNE and always I am called Jo, the males are the only ones embarrassed.

 

[John S]

I was shocked when I received my gas bill from 2nd October to 27 November $1226 . Well I made a complaint that I have never had such a high bill before, the reply back from this guy. This is a actual meter read & it's surprising how easy it is to use a lot of gas & said to send him a pic of my meter, I did end him but unfortunately my meter was replaced with a new one. I complained again & told them to go back & check my previous bills also told them to locate my old gas meter and send me a pic of the reading, they located it last Friday and the lady said there had been an error from the distributer and she will send me the new bill on Monday , Well I received it yesterday $142.00

 

[TrishH]

I worked with a colleague about 20 years ago who had a hair lip & couldn’t pronounce his ‘r’s’ properly so used to call me Twish instead of Trish! This very quickly caught on & my husband added a ‘y’ and to this day I am still called Twishy by just about everyon!

 

[Maiyon]

Booking a table at a restaurant I said ""Can I book a table for 6 for Free"". No you have to pay. My maiden name is Free.

 

[Scotty89]

I’m the 3rd child (2 brothers)dad had named the expected boy Stephen James, uh oh mum produced a girl, apparently dad said “how did that happen?”
Hi I’m Stephanie Jane

 

[Morgans Orchard]

Manyyears ago when I went to school it was all “nicknames and my name is Freda so I was called Fred . Still to this day and I am OLD and a couple still call me that . One good thing about this is I can tell when I get a scam call I only answe with Hello and they say am I talking to Fredda they don’t know how to pronounce Freda . I say no you must have the wrong number and they hang up

 

[AllgoodQ]

My name is MAXWELL,at primary school kids used to ask is your brother ill.

 

[deni67]

My maiden name is Hancock, I lost count of the amount of times people added a D in the middle

 

[Leodalion63]

I have had my email name ever since I joined up which quite a few years now.
At the time I chose a shorten bit to my name as I didn't think about this again.
Now that time has come where it it turned around and bit me on my behind.
I started getting emails from a Web site that is promoting men's enhancements.
Doesn't matter how many times I have told them I am not interested as I don't have a penis.

 

[gordon1940]

I went to School with a Boy named Jamieson......his Surname was also Jamieson. Parents!!

 

[deni67]

My brother went to school with a boy called Richard Head.
Think about it

 

[Danielle G.]

My name is MAXWELL,at primary school kids used to ask is your brother ill.

this really cracked my up. Kids say the wittiest things.

 

[Leodalion63]

I worked with a colleague about 20 years ago who had a hair lip & couldn’t pronounce his ‘r’s’ properly so used to call me Twish instead of Trish! This very quickly caught on & my husband added a ‘y’ and to this day I am still called Twishy by just about everyon!

I met my friends brother years ago. He couldn't say the letter 'r' as well.
The cartoon character Elmer Fudd must have made an positive impact on him as he was quite the chatterbox.

 

[Trish M]

My surname is McIntyre...I was often asked if I was related to the Dunlop's as they'd been mackin tyres for years!

 

[Brody]

My Married Name is Giglia . I would like to know how many
times I was Mrs GIGLIA with a hard sounding GIG.. LIA
THE PROPER WAY TO SAY IT
IS GILIA THE MIDDLE G is silent. It is like the sound being jeelia
Go figure !!!!!!
Thank you Father in Law
( It is Italian )
I'm not, My Ancestors came out
by Ship in Chains way back when. They are as Irish as the
Blarney. Crazy People but what a sense of Humour. I'm so proud of them .

 

[Brody]

Oops lost the whole thing , never mind , next time.

 

[Leodalion63]

That has happened to me as well. I keep losing it the first time. Still have the occasional blooper.

 

[Danielle G.]

Great stories there, members! I had such a fun time reading all the tales behind those names. Thank you

 

[Littleboy8]

Booking a table at a restaurant I said ""Can I book a table for 6 for Free"". No you have to pay. My maiden name is Free.

too funny