Originally Posted by Magic Torch:
“I have a colleague in Germany called Uwe Loser. AIso once worked with a bloke called Ewan Kerr, but astonishingly, never even twigged that he had an unfortunate name until after he had left the company & someone pointed it out to me during a conversation about unfortunate names.”
The German name is only humorous if pronounced the English way, in Germany Uwe is pronounced as U-vay, or oovay.
I once saw a joke in a U.S. magazine, a private detective was pursuing a guy named David Sexauer, and had heard that he now worked for a certain company.
He called the company, and when the switchboard operator answered, he said, "Do you have a Sexauer there?"
She said, "We should be so lucky, we only get ten minutes for a coffee break."
Last edited by razorback Tony : 02-12-2016 at 21:38