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Offline The Peepmaster

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People Called Jim.
« on: July 29, 2008, 04:25:29 PM »
Has anyone noticed that some people called Jim aren't really called Jim at all. More often than not it transpires that their actual name is James!

I doubt very much whether James I (a king), was ever called "Jim".
Nostalgia is not what it used to be. 😟

Vulture

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Re: People Called Jim.
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2008, 04:47:24 PM »
James T didn't seem to mind being called Jim.

Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: People Called Jim.
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2008, 05:13:13 PM »
I just realised how few people called John I've known (personally). I mean, it's quite a common name, isn't it? I had a school friend called John Cole, when I was at Junior School, and his name was John, but apart from that I can't think of anyone off the top of my head, (other than another John from Art College who I didn't know all that well).
Nostalgia is not what it used to be. 😟

Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: People Called Jim.
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2008, 05:14:27 PM »
James T didn't seem to mind being called Jim.

James Theakston was Jamie actually.
Nostalgia is not what it used to be. 😟

Vulture

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Re: People Called Jim.
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2008, 05:27:01 PM »
Ha Ha. Very funny. James T KIRK........

Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: People Called Jim.
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2008, 05:39:26 PM »
I feel that Peepmaster is going to present us with his "Jim" poem if we aren't more careful with our responses in this thead.

People will come from strange lands to hear me speak my words of wisdom. They will ask me the secret of life and I will tell them. Then maybe I'll finish off with a song. The Nomad

Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: People Called Jim.
« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2008, 06:09:07 PM »
What a great memory you have, Diane!
Nostalgia is not what it used to be. 😟

dslex...dislex...confused

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Re: People Called Jim.
« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2008, 06:10:41 PM »
I suspect "John" got less popular when it became the word used to describe the paying companion of a lady of ill repute, kind of ironic given that DDC is a John [in the name sense rather than a customer sense].

Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: People Called Jim.
« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2008, 05:54:57 AM »
What a great memory you have, Diane!

That's because I take these herbal memory pills - well I would do if I could find them.
People will come from strange lands to hear me speak my words of wisdom. They will ask me the secret of life and I will tell them. Then maybe I'll finish off with a song. The Nomad

Malc

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Re: People Called Jim.
« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2008, 03:55:12 PM »
They're in your knicker drawer with the squashed tube of Rectinol that you haven't used since your last pregnancy.

Oh, hang on, that's my missus...

Offline Tarquin Thunderthighs lll

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Re: People Called Jim.
« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2008, 08:56:52 PM »
 ;D
I apologise, in advance.

sheikharthur

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Re: People Called Jim.
« Reply #11 on: August 02, 2008, 03:55:39 AM »
I knew a kid whose family name was Gurney ...he was christened Ernest...grew up as Ernie Gurney and later changed his name to Jim.... I thought that was bad but then saw signs for an estate agent in Bridgenorth..... His name is Nicholas Tart...(brave man to keep that name eh?)

peter

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Re: People Called Jim.
« Reply #12 on: August 02, 2008, 09:43:50 AM »
I worked with a Mr Rick
and yes his first name was Peter.
Parents what are they like.worse than a boy named Sue

Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: People Called Jim.
« Reply #13 on: August 02, 2008, 10:27:56 AM »
I knew a kid whose family name was Gurney ...he was christened Ernest...grew up as Ernie Gurney and later changed his name to Jim.... I thought that was bad but then saw signs for an estate agent in Bridgenorth..... His name is Nicholas Tart...(brave man to keep that name eh?)

I lived very near Bridgnorth. One of the loveliest towns in England. I remember Nick Tart's Estate Agents. There's also an Estate Agent called Dolittle & Dalley.
Nostalgia is not what it used to be. 😟

Joan

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Re: People Called Jim.
« Reply #14 on: August 03, 2008, 11:16:30 PM »
Ah, Jim (and various versions thereof) - a common name in our family: father, both grandfathers, uncle (the said Jas Campbell, Malc), father's cousin, our cousins (two), cousin's son.  Needless to say, they're aren't any in the next generation.  My first boyfriend was a Jim.  My son is John, DDC - was always a bit worried about the American association with the loo rather than the one you mentioned.