Saturday, February 4, 2012


INTERESTING NAMES AND PROFESSIONS
  • Bankers, Wallowa County, Oregon: Cheatham & Steele
  • Chorister, Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey: Justin Tune
  • Gynaecologist, New York Hospital, New York City: Dr Zoltan Ovary
  • Chairman, Tetley Tea Company, London: Tetley Ironsides Tetley Jones
  • Dentist, Roslyn Heights, New York: Dr. E. Z. Filler
  • Phlebotomist, St Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth, UK: Lavinia Blood
  • The national Director of Surgery at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C.  Dr Blades
  • Plumber Worcester UK: Mr Turner-Heaton
  • Lloyds/TSB Bank Manager, Waterlooville, UK: Mr F. Knox
  • Mr. Vice, Malefactor, New Orleans, Louisiana. Arrested 890 times and convicted 421, probably a record (International Herald Tribune)
  • Interior decorator, Reading, UK: Derek Paynter
  • Municipal Tax Collector, Brazil (Financial Times): Cardiac Arrest da Silva
  • Funeral Director, Sydney, Australia: C. D' Eath and Sons
    [Will once knew a Mrs Pine-Coffin from
    Devon, UK but she was an owner of holiday cottages not an undertaker]
  • Landscape Gardeners from Salisbury, UK called: Budd and Bush
  • Silent Movie Organist, Rochester, New York: C. Sharp Minor
  • Central City, Kentucky automobile salesman: Henry Ford Carr
  • Never Fail is a builder in Tulsa, Oklahoma
  • Mr Robbins is a renowned ornithologist (bird scientist and bird-bander) at a Federal wildlife research center in Maryland, USA. He is co-author of the guidebook "Birds of North America".
  • This one does fit in at all with the others but we couldn't resist it: Charles Adolphe Faux-Pas Bidet, Commissaire de Police, Paris, France in the 1930's
  • David Bird is an ornithologist.
  • Scott Constable is, of course, a policemen.
  • Helen Painter is an artist.
  • Raymond Strike has to be a Trades Union leader.
  • Shona Shears cuts people's hair.
  • Steve Adore is a dock worker.
  • Dr Joseph Babey is a paediatrician.
  • Dr Djerk works as a psychiatrist.
  • Bertha de Bleus is a jazz singer [sounds suspicious to me says Will].
  • And yes, Dr D'Eath is a surgeon.
  • Alan Ball, English footballer who played in England's 1966 World Cup winning team.
  • Anna Smashnova, tennis player.
  • Billy Drummond, American jazz drummer.
  • Bob Flowerdew, gardener and Gardeners' Question Time panellist.
  • Bob Rock, rock music producer, including Metallica and Bon Jovi.
  • Brenda Song, singer.
  • Cecil Fielder and his son Prince Fielder, baseball players.
  • Jaime Gold winner of 2006 World Series of Poker
  • Chuck Long, former NFL quarterback for the Detroit Lions and the Los Angeles Rams.
  • Henry Head, an English neurologist.
  • Igor Judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales .
  • Learned Hand, judge.
  • Lord Brain, neurologist.
  • Marc Rich, billionaire financier.
  • Margaret Court, tennis player.
  • Margaret Spellings, Education Secretary under George W. Bush.
  • Peter Bowler, cricketer who was, in fact, primarily a batsman.
  • Pippa Greenwood, plant pathologist and "Gardeners' Question Time" panellist in the UK.
  • Scott Free a defence attorney.
  • Thomas Crapper, manufacturer of Victorian toilets. Please note that the word "crap" predates Mr Crapper.] .
  • Tiger Woods, golfer [A wood is a type of golf club].
  • Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter, Olympic Gold medalist, 100m and 200m world record holder.
  • William Wordsworth, poet.
  • Larry Speakes - Ronald Regan's Whitehouse spokesman.
  • Lord Judge - Chief justice in England.
  • Chris Moneymaker - Poker player.
  • Stephen Rowbotham - British Olympic oarsman.
  • And last but not least Usain Bolt.

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