Ed Balls

[Caribeing]

If you had the surname Balls would you change it! Imagine being in the waiting room of hospital etc and they call for Mr Balls

[Cloverjo]

I know. I definitely would.

[Jackdaw33]

I would at least drop the S.

[tonyav]

Gawd I bet he had some stick at school.

[anneasquith]

Could be worse,...........could be penis !!!!!!!!

[Cloverjo]

Zoe Ball, Johnny Ball, great names and great people; but Balls, no.

[tonyav]

Hang on you forgot Bobby, Cloverjo.

[Cloverjo]

Who's Bobby Balls?

[tonyav]

Dunno, but I know who Bobby Ball is.

[gulliver1]

New someone at work , his name was Richard Head, we juat called him Dick.

[Baldric]

Used to deal with a Contractor years ago who was called Wayne King.

[MargoTester]

I knew somebody called Paul Virgin. When he got married he changed his name to hers as he said he didn't want his kids teased like he had been.

[ichkeria]

Ed used to joke that he had a sister called Ophelia
With a sense of humour like that I doubt if it has ever bothered him

[Peter Pedant]

big thing about denial of identity
by changing your name you are saying you arent you (you know like criminals do) - so lots of people glory in it instead as it rehearses "Yes! I'm me! what a load of balls - keep it coming boys ! " I must be less serious

Piddy I cant rehearse the really awful names I have heard, as it may identify them when they dont want it

The Daily Teleg carried a " will we all be murdered in our beds ?" letter from a certain William Anker and I reflected that Twiston Davis ( the ed) must be fast asleep. Then I met one in the flesh... to grasp and feel so to speak. Northern surname apparently

Radio 4 ( on which I starred ) had a really awful name contest and began with: there are no less that six Doris Morrises in the UK.....

I was in the " if you dont know one, make one up". If Tuesday Weld had married Frederick March's son she would be Tuesday March the second, crept into that section. I contributed "if Christine McGourty ( announcer ) had married Bala Chrisnamurty ( another announcer) she would be Mrs Bala chrisnamurty - mcgurty."
If anyone can recollect the jerry Hall one liner - "if Jerry Hall hadnt married Mick Jagger but had ..... then she would be ...." then I would be grateful .

I thought ed was grasping his post political career with enthusiasm

[Georgiesmum]

Iused to work with a man called Mr Pratt. He often had his name called out over the tannoy.

[mushroom25]

reminds me of a gag Dave Allen used to tell about 2 businessmen, Sidebottom and Ball, and how they pronounced their names to the receptionist of an Italian hotel.

[Maydup]

I know a Dicky Balls - he works for the council. Brave man.

Yes I would change it for sure, but some people carry the family mpname come what may.

[Maydup]

^^^^ name

[campbellking]

Our deputy headteacher was a Mr Pratt. I'd never want the surname 'Death', I've come across several.

[Tilly2]

Campbellking, I knew Mr Pratt....... and his wife. She was a teacher too.