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Fetchnames - explain yours! :-)

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11:33am, 25 Nov 2020
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mushroom
I had my name on the old RW forum before migrating to Fetch. IIRC I think it's because I had recently joined a veggie athletic club and I thought I'd use something that resonated with that. Mushrooms are simply one of my favourite vegetables :-)
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12:18pm, 25 Nov 2020
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JK *chameleon*
@:)G - Birth certificate gives me as James - however I was Jamie immediately and don't recognise James as my name (Deed poll will be done before I buy a house!)

I'll mention the Celtic connotations to my housemate - he might like to be a hawk! His birth mother is Scottish, so that might explain the Celtic name in the middle of Manchester!
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1:31pm, 25 Nov 2020
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Wombling Plodder (Welsh Womble)
During one company takeover my colleague and I were introduced to our new team mates. When we arrived for work on the Monday morning they had arranged for us to sit next to each other and had one of those car sun screen banners made up for the window “Sharon n Tracey”. All we needed was a Dorien !!
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2:02pm, 25 Nov 2020
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57.5 Degrees of Pain
After several years in Edinburgh, my Canadian friend Nigel thought that his name held negative connotations of middle class Englishness for the Scots. Mr Farrage will not have helped in more recent years.

My name, Timothy, has a very similar curve to Nigel, peaking the year I was born and dropping precipitously since the 60s. Gary is another with a similar trajectory
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4:33pm, 25 Nov 2020
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Pothunter
Colin peaked at about 15 in the 40s and seems to have dropped out of the top 100 in the mid-80s. Also wonder what we did...
Nov 2020
3:32pm, 26 Nov 2020
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gwowen
My first inital, middle initial and surname. I'm an imaginative bugger.
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3:59pm, 26 Nov 2020
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WA
I read it as g-wow-en!
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JogWalker
Fan of Star Wars. When I started I could only run (jog) for about 400 metres and then I walked for a while.
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8:23pm, 26 Nov 2020
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swittle
...and soon, the Force was with you. ;)
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7:41pm, 30 Nov 2020
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NDWDave
Going back a few posts, I work with a Nigel/Nige. His real name is Graham but as the 18 year old newish employee, he crashed his car because he was going too fast. He got nicknamed Nigel (Mansell) and it has still stuck 30 years later

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Maintained by HappyG(rrr)
Hi Fetchies

Come here and tell me about your Fetchname:
- how did you come up with it?
- how do you pronounce it? (prompted by pedroscalls - is it Pedro-Scalls or Pedros-Calls?

There're are a few that um and I've summarised from answers in the thread in a lovely Wiki article here:

Here is the list to read AND ADD YOUR NAME !!

fetcheveryone.com/article-view.php?id=550

Feel free to add your own name here and also in the article, in the style above.

Remember, everyone can edit a Wiki, just follow the link!

Cheers! :-) G
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