Ian Fleming Would Have Loved......
Joshua
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I sometimes hear or see people in the media and think to myself that their names would have fitted straight into an Ian Fleming Bond novel.
Two names I can think of straight away are Elon Musk (IMO a great Fleming villain name) and Thangam Debbonaire (she is a British MP).
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when your name is Debbonaire, thats gonna create some preconceptions you gotta to live up to. I'd legally change mine to something more like Slobbenski just to avoid all that trouble.
Great idea for a thread! Can't come up with any names right now, but will try.
Ub Iwerks, who worked on many early Disney cartoons, including Mickey Mouse, the name always made me think of a Bond villain for some unknown reason.
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My father had a secretary named Bonnie Butt. You can take it from there. . .
One American was named Randy Pratt and couldn't figure out why it got laughed at in England, probably apocrophyl but still.
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A friend of mine was called Pratt, but took his wife's name when he got married. Good move.
There is an author named Simon Stranger. There is also the family name d'Estrange.
Very Bondian I think.
I think there are a few BBC newsreader/reporters with good names;
Lyse Doucet
Kate Silverton
Tanya Beckett
Sara Blizzard (actually a weather presenter!)
I once met someone named Sunday Justice. Always thought that would be a great Bond name.
A customer of mine had the name Wayne Kerr. 100% true.
That is unfortunate. Very short sighted of his parents.
😁😁😁 Perhaps Bart Simpson should call Moe's bar looking for him.
I remember a girl who was starting at a school in Norway after living in a UN refugee camp in her native Cambodia. She was about nine years old and her name was very long and almost impossible to pronounce for Norwegians, som the school asked her parents to find a shortened version of her name. The non English-speaking parents suggested "Porn" 😱😱😱
Not surprising. Miss Universe 1988 was from Thailand. Her name was Porntip Nakhirunkanok.
The school managed to talk the parents out of using that name, thankfully.
I grew up in a U.S. military town in the '70s and '80s--as such, a lot of my classmates were Vietnamese (or half-Vietnamese) and some had names that really didn't sound right in English. A rather pretty girl was stuck with the name "Dung," and one poor guy had a name that rhymed with Draper but which means a man who commits the ultimate sexual crime. Not sure what Fleming would have thought of these. . .
Yes, names that are perfectly innocent sounding in their native language can sound like something else in another tongue. We had a Bangladeshi colleague who once worked with us called Ashit. I'm sure it's a perfectly normal name in Asia.
Lie and Moan are common Norwegian last names. Common first names are Roar for men and Gunn for women. 😁
There are women named Gunn Moan, but ironically a Bond girl probably couldn't have that name today.
Bent is a common first name for men here. I'm sure there are people named Bent Lie out there. A fine, but obvious name for a villan!
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And how can we forget Tokyo Sexwhale? This was actually the nickname and misspelled last name of South African politician Mosima Gabriel Sexwale.