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Posted by U2275484 (U2275484) on Tuesday, 15th May 2007
did Shula and Kenton get their names?
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Tue, 15 May 2007 21:54 GMT, in reply to Paul D'Otherone in message 1
Do you know, Paul, until you asked it never struck me how strange these names are. Wouldn't it be funny if they were chosen completely at random by say throwing some some wooden lettered bricks.
Leggsy!
Bikesheds!
Wouldn't it be funny if they were chosen completely at random by say throwing some some wooden lettered bricks. Â
Now that would be just plain daft!
I've never thought that either of these names was odd. But who on earth would give their daughter a second name of Mary and their son a second name of Edward. This surely is where the lettered bricks would have come in.
But why on earth has nobody asked this question before?
The mystery, for me, is where Ben and Josh got their names from.
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Posted by jenny comelately (U2264457) on Wednesday, 16th May 2007
It must be quite difficult to get an appropriate name to go with 'Archer'.
Marble or Admiralty, for instance, would not do.
may i suggest from their parents, mr.legs? radical idea i know, but thats phil and jill for you!
Wed, 16 May 2007 18:41 GMT, in reply to Paul D'Otherone in message 1
Actually Mr D'O it is instructive to re-examine our culturally received ideas form time to time. A spot of industrial archeology might reveal that P&J were using letter bricks manufactured abroad, thus spelling out not English names but /Taiwanese/ mis-translations of English names.
Good question, Paul D'O. No idea is my answer - although I have just looked up the list of first names at the back of me dictionary to discover that 'Shula' is Greek in origin and means 'peace'. Kenton is a surname, I presume. Here in Bonnie Scoatland we have a fine tradition of surnames used as first names - there's a former Scottish footballer rejoicing in the name of Crawford Baptie!
I remember a colleague telling us how his parents couldn't agree on a name for him, so they put their choices on pieces of paper on the floor and let the dog choose!
I myself am named for a climbing rose which bears clusters of double deep pink flowers...
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Posted by Reggie Trentham (U2746099) on Thursday, 17th May 2007
there's a former Scottish footballer rejoicing in the name of Crawford Baptie!Â
Blimey I always thought that was a kind of bun.
Thu, 17 May 2007 09:25 GMT, in reply to Reggie Trentham in message 11
It's actually a coded sign of the deeply ingrained homophobia of the 1950s.
"SHULA AND KENTON" is an anagram of "ANAL DUNKS HE NOT".
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Posted by Go away historians of the future (U1484964) on Thursday, 17th May 2007
They were conceived in Kenton, and at the time of conception their mother shouted "Shoooooolllla".
Yrs,
Darlington Whaddaya Mean It's Split.
Friend of mine many moons ago was not too good at paying his phone bills.
Eventually he got cocky and signed up for a new one in the name of Paul A. Legge!!
They didn't bat an eyelid
Al...
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Posted by Lady Macbeϯh - not without mustard (U550479) on Thursday, 17th May 2007
Thu, 17 May 2007 22:02 GMT, in reply to al-in-a-field in message 14
I had a friend with an Irish bank account in the name of B B Woolf.
Don't ask!
there's a former Scottish footballer rejoicing in the name of Crawford Baptie!
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Blimey I always thought that was a kind of bun. Â
Jings, Reggie - that's a whole new thread - the nomenclature of bakery goods throughout the UK....
If I remember rightly - that's exactly what did happen - bricks with letters on them. Jill and Phil kept on rearranging them until they got some names that could be pronounced I think. It was ground-breaking at the time!!!
They were given them after being adopted by Adam and Ian.
How did David and Elizabeth get their names?
Really want to know
From "French Provincial Cooking", maybe?
snork! rosiedearest. eek whats french for casserole? i'm surprised jill hasnt used that over the years. cocotte? marmite?
Mon, 21 May 2007 16:30 GMT, in reply to RosieT in message 20
Nice one Rosie!
[Any suggestions for a Nigella?]
A casserole popped into google (Gas Mark 4 for 3 minutes) is cocotte en terre.
I'm sorry I hadn't seen the same query as I posted....many apologies. I do remember my Mum said those names caused a stir at the time. Someone must know.....
Fri, 25 May 2007 08:50 GMT, in reply to LuciaLucas in message 24
Nursery blocks with consonants on them, thrown in the air and then vowels inserted to make them pronounceable. The controversy at the time was /why/ Phil'n'Jill /had/ nursery blocks lying on the floor months before the twins were actually born.
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