Originally Posted by adelaide
Not a prayer ... surely ... ?
Not a prayer ... surely ... ?
You could say it's an apellation (sic)
You could say it's an apellation (sic)
Have you got a copy of "Bertha Venation" by Larry Ashmead, containing hundreds of other amusing names of real people (pub; 2007/Profile Books). I don't see you included - maybe the next issue!
Nominative determinism is quite a thing. That is why K G Forecast became a statistician. Really. On the other hand Peter Bowler was a batsman.
It did occur to me watching the other day that a surprisingly high proportion of wicketkeepers in recent years have had the surname Davies. Steven, Alex, Ryan, Jack. I think Glamorgan had one years ago but that's hardly surprising down there.
I normally prefer being mononymous - along with, eg, Aristotle, Madonna, Prince, Adele, Plato, Socrates et al... but if applied here, I would be breaking my own cardinal rule .. !
I'd like to think the ex-Aussie goalkeeper, Norman Conquest was in there
Most irritatingly there is no index ... and I don't have the inclination, at present, to read 152 pages.
As it happens, my friend Patrick Kidd, often includes in The Times Diary, names that somehow fit jobs etc.
Reminds me of the meeting when a minister (quite deliberately) replied to a contribution by his French counterpart by saying that we were all indebted to Norman Wisdom. I hope that one is true. What definitely is true - I was at one meeting where the lead UK rep threw in cricketing metaphors to confuse the translators. Later on when a question was answered, the guy translating into English threw in "he's tickled that one down to fine leg". Thankfully it was before the days of cliches like "executing his skills" and DLS maximums.
My late mother had a childhood friend Ida Down. Had she been a boy, her family had decided upon Hans Down.
Not Bunker?
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