Dick Braine to lead Britain's far-right UKIP party

They’ve had 3 this year.

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What’s the prob? The only party leadership requirement is to be a member.

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If they keep going at this rate then everyone can have a go at being leader.

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One of my relatives once saw a doctor named “Dr. Deeth”. Apparently, the original spelling had been d-e-A-t-h but the doctor had their name legally changed to reflect the pronunciation.

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Don’t forget my boy Dick Swett!

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Death or De’Ath is not that uncommon as a name- possibly from an ancestor who came from the Belgian town of Ath.

See, for instance, John Death who was Mayor of Cambridge in the 19th century:

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Now there’s an action movie franchise just waiting to happen.

This summer…

prepare to meet…

JOHN

DEATH

[beat]

ESQUIRE

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Lemme help! Ages ago, I worked somewhere that had a client named Richard Siemens (of course he went by Dick).

There used to be a vacuum repair place in Ann Arbor, behind Stadium Hardware, with a proprietor named Dick Sampier. Only thing is, on his sign, that “i” in his last name looked very much like an “l”.

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No one has mentioned the urologist Dick Chopp yet?

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No yokes, but when I worked in elfin safety for a larger organisation our director was Ms D’eath-Namechangedtoprotecttheguilty.

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