What’s your name?
After an enjoyable night at the theatre **correction** the theatre was rubbish so Jayne and I walked out at the interval and went to the pub (the theatre bit was a work thing). So after an enjoyable night in the pub with Jayne I remembered the names Kate and I used to give people we didn’t know, but used to see all the time. It turns out that Jayne is also a great user of this technique and she was telling me about ‘no face’ (a girl who apparently has no features) and my favourite - ‘pleasin on the eye’. Yes you can imagine how attrative he is.
I know we wrote a list of ours but I can only remember a few:
TV dinner man
Strawberry Chewit man
Chess boy
Ring man
Brick head (I think she was also known as no eyebrow girl or something like that - sounds attractive doesn’t she?)
Kate - over to you….
June 23rd, 2004 at 10:10 am
‘nice legs shame about the face’, ‘gym boy’ (and girl), I may have to correct you on strawberry chewit as he was infact a boy not a man. more may come to me later……
June 23rd, 2004 at 10:14 am
‘nice legs shame about the face’? I can’t remember who that was. Was that actually gym boy before he started going out with gym girl (and hence became gym boy)
June 23rd, 2004 at 10:49 am
no neither can i? but i seem to recall his being connected to the library in some way? gym boy and gym girl were the ones who were always snogging at the foot of the stairs.
June 23rd, 2004 at 6:22 pm
chess boy is my favourite. i also subscribe to the ‘name that person ‘ theory. my list includes:
wordy
wax man
porridge face girl
d&d
June 23rd, 2004 at 7:53 pm
I can picture wax man and I’m trying not to picture porridge face girl but d&d and wordy? Wordy i’m definitely having problems with.
June 23rd, 2004 at 8:14 pm
wordy was a boy at art college. he had womens hands, just like the character ‘wordy’ did. d&d is a man i see every morning somewhere along dean lane - i think he works at mail marketing (how sexist). he looks like he plays dungeons and dragons.
June 23rd, 2004 at 8:16 pm
i just remembered another one - perspective man. he was really tall and well built, so to see him across a crowded room would play havoc with your sense of perspective. his girlfriend confused thing further, as she was tiny.
June 24th, 2004 at 6:54 am
wow d&d is quite an elaborate linking. I love perpestive man, that’s very clever. It’s nice to see you have moved away from merely visual clues for your naming. I have just remembered another one at work. Porridge Pasty.
June 24th, 2004 at 9:50 am
I feel quite inadequate about our naming poilcies now, they maybe accurate but quite inane. Having said that tv dinner man (my personal favourite) just came to me, he just looked like a tv dinner in human form.
June 24th, 2004 at 10:05 am
yeah…I never quite understood your justification of the TV dinner man name.
June 25th, 2004 at 4:46 pm
I just had a revelation, ‘nice legs shame about the face’ is strawberry chewit boy. He had REALLY lovely legs.
June 25th, 2004 at 6:25 pm
why is he ’strawberry chewit man’? is it the smell. in my list, waxman (my name for him) is the same person as wordy (the name someone who wasn’t yet my friend gave him).
June 25th, 2004 at 7:19 pm
If I remember rightly Strawberry chewit boy was the colour of a strawberry chewit.
For those who don’t get rss feeds a man called Tony Garner just told us a story.
June 28th, 2004 at 12:55 pm
Ooo Sarah I’ve just remembered a couple of others - Freak Show, he lives in my road, he’s always drunk and he letches at me and Vick. Tubbs, she lives opposite me and looks like Tubbs the shop keeper in the ‘The League of Gentleman’.
June 28th, 2004 at 1:04 pm
Oh no you’ve got me on a roll now, just thought of Back-Up-Lip - because strangly enough he appeared to have an addition lip, and lastly Pea-Green because he drove a pea green coloured car. I’m so glad you and Kate had as much fun with names as me and Vick!