In 1985, author John Train compiled a list of remarkable human names, some favourites being (and wondering how such monickers influenced their lives) being the pirate of Falmouth Arystotle Tottle, Betty Burp and Membrane Pickle of the Bureau of Vital Statistics of Florida and Cranberry Turkey Breckenridge, Jr and Mausoleum Jackson of the Division of Vital Records of Virginia, Edward Pine-Coffin of the Poor Relief Commission of Dublin, Fauntleroy Schnauz of the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, New Jersey, Iccolo Miccolo who played the piccolo for the San Francisco Symphony, Quo Vadis Harris of the New England Journal of Medicine or Tetley Ironside Tetley Jone, tea heir. Find your match at the link up top.
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