Silliest names in the Olympics

[elbows]

oh dear
worse than mine!
only 3 posts up^

Oops

The strange thing is Im sure I ready the whole thread before I posted, and there are so many posts since in a short space of time that I suspect there may be a distortion in the time-space continuum on this thread. Honest.

Anyway Ive only watched a few hours of olympic coverage so I was quite happy that I got to hear the commentators going on about the OP's Katerina Johnson-Thompson the other day.

I only wish Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling was alive to witness this.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Laughing at 'Dong' has a long pedigree. The character's name is Long Duk Dong.

Can't watch that now. Can you tell me what it is please?

 

[Treacle Toes]

Its a lets laugh at funny names thread, the first one listed was an english language one.

Find something else to get offended about.

I wasn't offended by you laughing at names...more annoyed by your use of the tory cliche...'pc gone mad brigade' ...find some more cliches maybe?

By the way, if we are getting picky...none of those names are particularly ''English'' in Origin btw:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katerina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson
http://www.houseofnames.com/thompson-family-crest

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I feel like OU suddenly: I don't see any humor in Katerina Johnson Thompson.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Can't watch that now. Can you tell me what it is please?

The clip is 90 seconds long. It's from 'Sixteen Candles'.

 

[Treacle Toes]

I feel like OU suddenly: I don't see any humor in Katerina Johnson Thompson.

I think it's the 'rhyme' that creates the chuckle?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I feel like OU suddenly: I don't see any humor in Katerina Johnson Thompson.

Well there's no humour but it's a bit of a mouthful and one that I've already scrambled because I couldn't remember whether Johnson or Thompson came first. Also, apart from double-barrelled surnames, people in this country don't tend to use middle names unlike Americans (unless that's just tv characters)

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I think it's the 'rhyme' that creates the chuckle?

Yep, and that

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The clip is 90 seconds long. It's from 'Sixteen Candles'.

Well I can't watch it as no volume

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I think it's the 'rhyme' that creates the chuckle?

I was thinking that, but it doesn't rhyme. They both end with son, but before that, one has an n, one an m.

It's like rhyming devil with special.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I wasn't offended by you laughing at names...more annoyed by your use of the tory cliche...'pc gone mad brigade' ...find some more cliches maybe?

By the way, if we are getting picky...none of those names are particularly ''English'' in Origin btw:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katerina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson
http://www.houseofnames.com/thompson-family-crest

Yes, but it's an athlete and not a foreign one, disproving Johnny's assumption that this thread is all about giggling at foreigners

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I was thinking that, but it doesn't rhyme. They both end with son, but before that, one has an n, one an m.

It's like rhyming devil with special.

Oh FFS Johnny

 

[Espresso]

Isn't the giggle about her name more to do with John Thomas being slang for cock?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Oh FFS Johnny

Was it on tv or something, I mean about Johnson Thompson.

Crimson and person rhyme too.......................kind of.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Isn't the giggle about her name more to do with John Thomas being slang for cock?

Is it?

I never knew that

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

If her name was Crimson-Simpson, then you might be on to something.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Was it on tv or something, I mean about Johnson Thompson.

Crimson and person rhyme too.......................kind of.

Was what on TV? Was an athlete called Johnson Thompson on TV?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Is it?

I never knew that

Johnson is also another word for penis.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

If her name was Crimson-Simpson, then you might be on to something.

That's a great name

or does it mean something rude?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

That's a great name

or does it mean something rude?

Not in my neck of the woods...

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Johnson is also another word for penis.

Well I never knew that

I've never heard anyone call it that

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Well I never knew that

I've never heard anyone call it that

I think it's a nerdy way to refer to a penis, so that might be why you haven't heard it.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I think it's a nerdy way to refer to a penis, so that might be why you haven't heard it.

are you saying I'm too thick to hang around with nerds?

Anyway, here's Katerina Thompson Johnson (or the other way around)

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

and here's Perri Shakes-Drayton (another great name)

 

[elbows]

Isn't the giggle about her name more to do with John Thomas being slang for cock?

I enjoyed it simply because of the length, rhythm and partial repetition of the commentator mentioning the name numerous several times in quick succession.

Which is kind of why I mentioned Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling. After mentioning him earlier I discovered he was in the olympics once:

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

are you saying I'm too thick to hang around with nerds?

That makes no sense.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

and here's Perri Shakes-Drayton (another great name)

They're both brown.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

They're both brown.

So what? They're both British.

What's their names got to do with their colour?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

You'll be plesaed to know that I've just been giggling at King Roger and the Book of Roger, another foreigner

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

So what? They're both British.

What's their names got to do with their colour?

I'd think nothing.