Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Funny names

Warning: this post contains childish humour and at least one bad pun from me.

I was in a meeting this morning, discussing the purchase of electronic equipment. One of our suppliers is Wayne Kerr electronics. I wonder if they had to beat off bids from Hugh Jass, Mike Hunt and Heywood Jablome.

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Here's the wikipedia take on gag names.

Check out whether there really is a Nicola Tipples (UK electoral register only).

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Great.... now I spent more than one hour to dig through wikipedias Lists of gag-names, bond villains and henchmen.... :-)

phil said...

Go on, sneak a reference "Statistical Significance in Physical Data Analysis by Marge Innovera, Oxford University Press, 1998" into your thesis references. And sincerely thank your japanese colleagues F. Yu and F. Mi. The hour will have been worth it!