WHAT'S IN A NAME?

Evening Star, Issue 23094, 21 October 1938, Page 11

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

“ Are you Silley?”—“Yes.”— “ Then what are you going to do about it?” This is the sort of thing that happens nearly every day to a Mr Silley in his London office. It’s no longer funny to Mr Silley. Mr Silley is not the only one who suffers in this way. X looked through the phone book, found some other unusual names, and this is what the owners of them bad to say <says a • Sunday Chronicle 1 correspondent) Mr Pepper (of Maida Vale): I don’t find my name very embarrassing. I don’t think there’s anything unusual about it. Mr Funk (of Harrow): Of course, it’s a name that just asks for legpulling—and I get plenty of it, but I don’t mind. ~ _ , „ Mr Dry (of Whitechapel): I don t drink, and that seems to be the cause of most of the jokes made about my na Mr' Treasure (of Streatham): The gag used to be: “Is that Treasure? Well, how are you, sweetness? I got a bit tired of it. It’s only when I meet new people who perhaps haven t heard of the name before that some rather painful puns are made. Then there are Mr Tidy, Mr Nutts and Mr Daft. In fact, the telephone book is full of people with unusual names.