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Unfortunate names or anagrams in public life

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NiceCupOfTea | 02:34 Sat 28th Mar 2009 | News
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OK, Ed Balls has been highlighted a couple of questions ago as a bad name to have as a public figure for obvious pun-opportunities.

D i c k Spring was another obvious one (I'm not sure that is allowed on AB - it is his legitimate name!)

Nigel Lawson had the most amazing anagram for the time he was in - 'we all sign on' (thanks to some program I heard on Radio 4 years ago)

Any more wittily unfortunate names, or anagrams of names?


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A couple of weeks ago a young man put a flyer through my letterbox advertising his services as a handyman.
His name is Jon T. Leaf.
Politician Virginia Bottomley = Im an evil Tory bigot

Remember US politician Spiro Agnew? = growapenis
Heard of a carpet salesman in USA called Walter Wall
Middle East Envoy Tony Blair = Ten bloody evil years, damn it

The Conservative Party Leader David Cameron = Mr Charlatanry. Ever-evasive Eton dope addict

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher = I'm the Grantham Premier! cries tart.

All from www.anagramgenius.com

Priceless.

Also, an anagram of Madonna Louise Ciccone is both One cool dance musician and Occasional nude income

I leave it to you to decide which is the more accurate statement.



Glos. car dealer - Dick Lovett. I once saw a female under an umbrella with this name around it.
I always thought Charles Dickens made up some wonderful names - like Dick Swiveller :-)
The MP for Ipswich used to be Ernle Money. His name was unfortunate because his election posters invariably suffered graffiti, so that the electorate were apparently invited to support a policy of 'Ernless Money'.

I've often felt that the American singer Lou Rawls has a rather unfortunate name. (Many British DJs seem to deliberately pronounce it as 'loo rolls').

A classmate was Peter Green. When Green won a race at the school sports day, the Headmaster declared that the winner was " Green P". When this got a laugh, the Head cleared his throat solemnly and announced that the winner was " P Green" !
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7909561.stm

the 'Stan Still' one is quite funny!
Brilliant name for an Estate Agent

http://www.doolittle-dalley.co.uk/

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