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| 2004-10-03 |
| A Bedford couple named their baby son Drew Peacock before realising it sounded rude. The baby's father Russell [Peacock] said he only twigged it when he put it in an internet search engine looking for famous namesakes, and was asked: Do you mean Droopy C**k? "It was as if I'd been smacked with a right hook. I started repeating 'Drew Peacock' over and over again. Then I thought - what have we done? I went numb and couldn't speak for two minutes. Then I couldn't stop laughing." Mother Shetal Patel had also failed to spot their error despite being a registrar's assistant, says The Sun. She said: "I thought Russell had seen a ghost when he came away from the computer. We decided on the name a month before he was born - we both loved it straight away." The couple are now concerned Drew's name will cause him problems in later life. Russell said: "People at work are already saying, 'Hey, look there's Droopy's dad'. But we don't want to change his name. It's on his birth certificate and other documents." |
| Posted by:Bulldog |
| #15 Yeah. What's up with that? |
| Posted by: Hugh G. Rection 2004-10-03 10:11:56 PM |
| #14 What mean, all these funny names? |
| Posted by: Ho Lee Fook 2004-10-03 10:02:09 PM |
| #13 "I'm sick of your puns!" she cried with a voice full of emulsion. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-10-03 9:49:46 PM |
| #12 No, Mike Hunt went to Fu King chinese restaurant. |
| Posted by: Dick Hardon 2004-10-03 9:45:40 PM |
| #11 Is there a Micheal Hunt here? Is Mike Hunt in the house?? hehe |
| Posted by: Any Bartender 2004-10-03 9:16:31 PM |
| #10 Me too! |
| Posted by: Gerald Fitzpatrick 2004-10-03 9:09:00 PM |
| #9 I've been haunted by my name, my whole life! |
| Posted by: Patrick Fitzgerald 2004-10-03 9:08:26 PM |
| #8 That's my brother's military callsign, Heywood. Even his wife calls him that. And when they had to explain it to mom & dad… |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2004-10-03 8:15:04 PM |
| #7 heh heh , is Homer there? Homer...sexual? |
| Posted by: Bart Simpson 2004-10-03 8:10:11 PM |
| #6 What's so funny? |
| Posted by: Mike Hunt 2004-10-03 7:56:41 PM |
| #5 "Drew Peacock"? How unfortunate... |
| Posted by: Studly Wellhung III 2004-10-03 7:27:37 PM |
| #4 My name is just fine, I'm a proctologist. |
| Posted by: Ben Dover 2004-10-03 7:25:08 PM |
| #3 You think that's bad, how'd you like to be me? |
| Posted by: Anita Dick 2004-10-03 7:24:10 PM |
| #2 I had a professor in college in the late 1960's whose initials were S.O.B. (I won't mention his name - I think he's still alive). He was anything but (though he did use all 3 initials - on purpose). His parents didn't have a clue. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-10-03 7:20:26 PM |
| #1 Imagine how I felt. |
| Posted by: Heywood Jablome 2004-10-03 7:14:34 PM |