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The sorry tale of Ivan O'Toole, which last Friday caused a certain amount of merriment among the less than kind hearted members of our beloved readership, attracted an email suggesting that Mr O'Toole had faked an email address and hoodwinked the Reg Bootnotes secretariat.

The missive in question came from one Hugh Jass, who provided photographic evidence of his own spectacularly unfortunate title:

Nectar card in the name of Hugh Jass

Well, we were initially tempted to run the evidence through our CSI-style photo analyser, to see if it had succumbed to some light Photoshopping, but decided it was too entertaining to doubt, as we're sure you'll agree. ®

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and then there was....

...a Welsh(?) chappie called Hugh Rinal !! And an Irish chappie who was christened Patrick but always nicknamed "Break" because his surname is O'Day !!

And an English teacher called Mr. Steaker who absolutely refused to apply his initial because his name was Peter !!

But the best was a colleague whose real name was Simon Horatio Ignatius Trelawney !! No shit !! He waged a 10 year feud with his parents from the age of 8 until he could legally change his name by deed poll !!

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Silly names

Late 60s there was a guy in the RAF in Gibraltar. His name was something Hardly-Stiff, but he always pronounced it Hardly- Styf...

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Big Company Directories...

..are a great place to find some awesome names. I've worked for a couple of the really huge Global organisations and searching in the Outlook directory can be very enlightening.

There are all sorts of w*nkers and similar in there.

Worth an hour if you're in a global company...

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