Roundworld names that should be discworld names

[Fortune Clutterbuck]

I once knew a woman called "Odecia Pilgrim" which would make a lovely name for a discworld character.

Also the president of NIgeria "Goodluck Johnson" sounds like he ought to be a relative of a certain discworld architect

 

[Tonyblack]

What about the first woman chief of the Cherokee nation, Wilma Mankiller.

 

[Teppic]

Mark De Man could have been in UA; such a good name for a footballer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_De_Man

 

[Docandie]

I know someone local whose name is Cecil Quarryman and you could not imagine anyone who looks less like a "Cecil" and enjoys the nickname of "Tiny."
He is at least 6'8" and I would estimate tips the scale at over 300 pounds. He works in a wrecking yard and lives down the road from me with his mum. Also sings in the church choir.

 

[Fortune Clutterbuck]

Life imitating art! I hope he isn't one of the Breccia

 

[Willem]

Benedict Cumberbatch from Sherlock has a great name for anything

 

[Dotsie]

I was thinking that too

I heard a great name yesterday, but it was in the doctor's waiting room so I don't want to say

 

[Bouncy Castle]

Oh go on. You know you want to!

 

[Fortune Clutterbuck]

Evidently not

"Ozias" was a good one that I saw on a tombstone

 

[Dotsie]

In the paper I was reading today was an education piece written by a person called "Widget Finn". Magnificent!

 

[Bouncy Castle]

Oh what sadistic gits named their child Widget?

He (presumably) must have endured hell in the playground, and especially if he was around when the beer can with the widget in the bottom came out.

 

[Dotsie]

Maybe his parents are celebrities.

 

[Fortune Clutterbuck]

As PG Wodehouse said "There's some dirty work done at the font"

 

[Tonyblack]

How about Praise-God Barebone? :

 

[Fortune Clutterbuck]

Originally christened "Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebone"!!!!

 

[Dotsie]

You can see where Terry got his ideas, can't you?

 

[Fortune Clutterbuck]

He has a genius for finding such unbelievable truths that they easily masquerade as fantasy - I've lost track of the times when I have found some real world foundation for something in Discworld and been amazed by both the fact that what I had thought to be whimsical invention is actually true, and the breadth of Terry's knowledge of recondite material

 

[Ziriath]

One of my high school teachers was Kateřina Mrtvá, in translation: Mrs. Catherine Dead.

 

[BatrickPatrick]

One of my classmates was telling us she was seeing a guy named Merlin. Needless to say this meant everyone instantly stopped caring about her relationship problems and just kept asking if he was a wizard.

 

[Fortune Clutterbuck]

My friend's daughter goes to school with a Merlin and a Tarquin