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Funny Company Names....
alanb:
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--- Quote from: McBryce on September 20, 2017, 08:24:48 am ---A Freudian Slip perhaps? ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip
McBryce.
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our politicians keep making those, so do journalists particularly when it comes to saying "jeremy hunt"
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Best example of this was the James Naughtie interview on Radio4 Today program with Jeremy Hunt
https://youtu.be/YS5mVoqJpUk
Simon:
aw naughtie (naughty) James ;)
JPortici:
--- Quote from: tooki on September 19, 2017, 10:52:32 am ---
--- Quote from: Simon on September 19, 2017, 06:36:22 am ---surnames in the UK can be interesting, met a guy called Prat and a young lady and her father that went by the name of Caunt.
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Oh, it happens everywhere. Back when I worked at a company whose customers were 90% in Germany, I had one customer whose name was Frau Fick (noun, "fuck") and there was also Herr Mitesser (noun, medical, "blackhead")!
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an old family name in my hometown was "Sborra" (a worse term for semen)
as far as i know there are no males with that surname anymore and the last person i knew who had that name was one of my friend's grandmother
Circlotron:
--- Quote from: Simon on September 20, 2017, 11:48:27 am ---
--- Quote from: McBryce on September 20, 2017, 08:24:48 am ---A Freudian Slip perhaps? ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip
McBryce.
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our politicians keep making those, so do journalists particularly when it comes to saying "jeremy hunt"
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Our politicians sometimes say funny things too.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/liberals-squirm-as-abbott-refers-to-the-suppository-of-wisdom-20130812-2rryy.html
Simon:
that made the news here :)
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