general advice please

[Mossie]

My dad had a mate called Jimmy Duck and yes you can guess what he called his son 

Caused so many problems with the "Old Bill" when down places like Margate on a Bank Holiday Monday that he changed it by deed poll when he was old enough 

My wife works with a lady who became Susan Petit after marriage.  Use the diminutive of Susan, and say it fast.....

And I genuinely knew a guy named Mark Hunt, which is just like the line out of Porkies if you say it in a Hull accent.  Caused a lot of problems.

[Weaver]

Where did you get a 1/72nd BAe-146 from?

Welsh Models have one listed under their 1/72 Executive Prop & Jet Series, but it's still 'TBA' on their web site.

Zizaktly - I've been waiting with baited breath for it......

[NARSES2]

And I genuinely knew a guy named Mark Hunt, which is just like the line out of Porkies if you say it in a Hull accent.  Caused a lot of problems.

We had a Mark Hunt at school, and as you say that sometimes got interesting.

Was dancing with a girl once down the Palais and innocently asked "what's your name then ?". "Theresa" came the answer "oh like trees are green ?" I replied. It was ! That relationship didn't go very far  You do wonder sometimes if parents actually think about their kids names ? 

[Radish]

I knew a kid called John Hunt....still do.
We called him Isaac.

[Old Wombat]

I don't know how this post has gotten so far off topic (Honest, Officer!) but I knew a poor sod whose parents named him Wayne.

His surname was Kerr.

You do wonder sometimes if parents actually think about their kids names ? 

Oh, I'm sure they do, it's just that some parents are complete b@$t@^ds! ..... Probably Johnny Cash fans, too!

[PR19_Kit]

There was, and maybe still is, an instrumentation company called Wayne Kerr. I used their no-contact equipment to measure displacements during vibration tests on railway vehicles and structures.

[zenrat]

My wife works with Michael Hunt.  Honest!  No one ever calls him Mike.  They don't even refer to him as Mike when he's not there just in case they slip up when talking to him face to face.

I've worked with John Steed (a true gentleman) and John Mclean (we used to joke about him riding IN the lift) and a friend dated Joan Collins

[chiglet]

Had Two colleagues called Ken Wood
Chap in the next course to me in the RAF was '007 Bond 
And I did work with Richard Head...honest

[Old Wombat]

Oh, there is/was a doctor in Adelaide named Richard Savage (unfortunately, not a urologist - orthopedic surgeon, I think).

[rickshaw]

Was she 'easy on the eye' too? 

She was pretty good lookin'.  Filled out her uniform quite nicely.  Got herself pregnant and ended up resigning.  In those days, no child care for soldiers!   

[rickshaw]

Oh, there is/was a doctor in Adelaide named Richard Savage (unfortunately, not a urologist - orthopedic surgeon, I think).

"Savage" is about right for an Ortho.  You ever seen an Ortho's surgical kit?  It might be made of stainless steel but it wouldn't look out of place either in a butcher's or a builder's.  Hacksaws, hammers, bolt cutters, all the stuff torturers love...

I worked for a while after leaving the Army with a woman who's name was "Annie Blood".  We both worked for the South Australian Health Commission, she ran the children's hospital. 

[jcf]

Was she 'easy on the eye' too? 

She was pretty good lookin'.  Filled out her uniform quite nicely.  Got herself pregnant and ended up resigning.  In those days, no child care for soldiers!   

'Got herself pregnant'. Wow, you have parthenogenesis in Oz? Amazing. 

[rickshaw]

Was she 'easy on the eye' too? 

She was pretty good lookin'.  Filled out her uniform quite nicely.  Got herself pregnant and ended up resigning.  In those days, no child care for soldiers!   

'Got herself pregnant'. Wow, you have parthenogenesis in Oz? Amazing. 

Mate, we got monotremes, so parthenogenesis isn't too far out of the question! 

[silverwindblade]

There used to be a company in my home town called 'I.M.A PRATT & SON'

[zenrat]

As a child I had my teeth maintained by Doctors Fillery and Pulley.