Thursday 9 November 2006

Bad Names For Twins

  • Catherine and Kathryn
  • Luke and Darth
  • Bob and Not Bob
  • The Indistinguishables
  • Jesus and Judas
  • Samantha and Her Sister
  • Yours and Mine
  • Good Twin and Evil Twin
  • Jane and the Back-Up

60 comments:

  1. Simon and Garfunkel?

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  2. 'Ronnie and Reggie' might be asking for trouble.

    Especially if they're girls, of course.

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  3. I'd laugh to meet a pair of identicals where one is called, 'Clone'.

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  4. I like this game!

    How about these:

    Her and It
    Martin and The Freak
    Michelle and Beelzebub
    Egg and Spoon
    Lib and Lab
    Paris and Aberystwyth
    Simon and Pythagoras' Theorem
    Baby and Placenta

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  5. Brilliant! Another reason to stop working/socialising/sleeping...

    Twins where one is destined to do considerably better than the other in the long run:

    Jason and Kylie
    Pete and Dud
    Sonny and Cher
    Mozart and Salieri

    Twins where one is destined to outlive the other:

    Hardy and Napolean
    VHS and Betamax
    Granny Lark and Grandad Lark

    Twins who will both meet a nasty ending:

    Thelma and Louise
    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

    Twins who will argue all the time:

    Laurel and Hardy
    Dastardly and Muttley

    Twins where one is destined to kill the other:

    Caesar and Brutus

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  6. George and Ringo?

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  7. Anonymous3:36 am

    destined for incest:

    Harry and Sally

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  8. These are great! You funny guys, you. Excellent results can also be obtained by mixing and matching: 'Dastardly and Garfunkle', for instance, or 'Betamax and Placenta' or 'Granny Lark and the Sundance Kid'.

    Here are a few more:

    Romulus and Retard
    Diana and Camilla
    Stephen but Clive
    Michael Henderson + 1

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  9. Now, for the sake of tedious pedantry, I think it's worth pointing out that we're looking at names specifically for twins, not just for siblings. So let's look at ones that have particular resonance for twins, particularly, I'd imagine, identical ones.

    That said, here's some more:

    Emma and Emma's Organ Donor

    Paul and Paul's Alibi

    The One We're Dressing In Green and The One We're Dressing In Blue

    Laura and Why Couldn't This One Have Been A Boy

    Sally and No Wait Maybe This One's Sally

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  10. James Casey makes a good point. Along those lines:

    Jonny and Stillbirth

    Sandra and Deformed

    Kevin and Kevin Just Slightly Uglier

    Luke and Up For Adoption

    Rachael and Where's Rachael's Sister? Oh Who Cares

    Barbara and Clean the Scullery, There's No Handsome Prince Coming For You This Is Real Life

    Raymond and Thank God It Wasn't Triplets

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  11. And some more...

    Heir and Born A Minute Too Late
    X and Y
    Yes and No
    Number One and Poo
    John and John
    Adolf and Josef
    Charity and Accountancy
    Eric and The Concept of Chance

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  12. I really like James' "Luke and Up For Adoption" and Matt's straightforward solution in "John and John", and of course many of John's originals which kicked us all off. Joe I feel needs to spend less time writing award-winning novels and working out how to win variations on 'Ex-Libris' and put in some serious nameage.

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  13. Anonymous1:22 pm

    Huey Lewis and The News?

    -- A Fan

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  14. How about:
    Gladys Knight and The Pips
    Jason and The Argonauts
    Sex and The City
    Faith and Atheism
    Duck and Cover
    Null and Void
    Loved and Afterthought
    Forgiven and Forgotten
    or triplets:
    Signed, Sealed and Delivered.

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  15. "Forgiven and Forgotten" I like a lot, but I fear Joe is stretching our credulity in his last minute bid to be taken seriously in the game.

    "The Pips" and "The Argonauts" are surely not names for individuals, but for twins joined at the hip in some way. So we're actually talking about a whole new category of individual siblings twinned to a pair of Siamese twins. I'm not even sure such a thing is possible. (Certainly they wouldn't be identical twins, would they?)

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  16. Anonymous11:53 am

    David and Goliath
    Lucy and Lucy's Twin
    Gerry and Gerry with defect
    James and that other one.
    Jekyll and Hyde.
    Edward 1st and Edward 2nd
    Expected child and Whoa a second one!
    Dolly and Clone

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  17. Anonymous7:05 pm

    How do, how's you?

    Little & Large (the unofficial nickname for the twin identical nephews in my life.)

    Rich & No, he's ten mins younger.
    Sam & Hurry up: we'll be late.

    Botchit & Scarper.
    Brian & Stewie.
    Morph & Chas.
    Roobarb & Custard.
    Herbie & Vore #
    Emmy & Oscar.

    Two sisters who'll always hate each other.
    Jennifer & Angelina.

    *Crawls back to flu-ridden sofa and re-editing.*

    James C - the "One we're dressing in green/blue." You know my parents, surely?

    # With "thanks" to the now folded Muzik magazine for that one.

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  18. My God, I've created a monster! But a lovely monster. As if Frankenstein's creature turned out to do a lot of secret work for charity.

    My favourites from the new lot are 'Lucy and Lucy's Twin'; 'Forgiven and Forgotten'; 'Eric and the Concept of Chance' and 'The One We're Dressing In...' But my favourite individual name is still 'Grandad Lark'. There's just so much potential in a child called 'Grandad'...

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  19. Anonymous4:12 pm

    Two more...
    Sam & Ella
    Porgy & Bess
    And that's it.

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  20. Anonymous11:55 am

    This One and That One
    Frank and Woodley
    Sweet and Sour Pork (for all noodle lovers!)
    Him and Her
    Fish and Chips
    Get Out Of Me and The Worst Pain I've Ever Felt
    Baby 1 and Baby 2
    Dumb and Dumber
    Loved and Unloved

    (Don't know if you heard about it but there was this couple who actually called their child "Tallulah does the Hula from Hawaii" Bahaha. Poor thing!)

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  21. Anonymous11:59 am

    Lol, Baby and Placenta

    -Spoilt and Couldn't Care Less
    -James and Oops, I forgot
    -Lawyer and Doctor (Let's hope they live up to their names!)

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  22. Salma & Nella
    Polka & Dot
    Love & Lost
    Jack & Jack's Stunt Double
    Cain & Abel

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  23. Thing 1 & Thing 2

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  24. Prometheus & Bob
    Jack Sprat & His Wife
    Venus & De Milo
    Mary & Little Lamb

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  25. Anonymous3:26 am

    Miracle and Majesty

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  26. Anonymous6:55 pm

    Beauty and the Beast

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  27. Anonymous8:04 pm

    i think that bob and robert would be pretty bad

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  28. Anonymous5:43 am

    Roger and Mimi

    Edward and Bella

    Alice and Jasper

    Peter and Carslie

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  29. Sarah5:45 am

    Thing one and thing two

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  30. Jayleigh5:47 am

    Bim and Bam

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  31. Anonymous10:46 pm

    Gorgeous & WhatInTheWorldIsThisThing

    Beauty & Frankenstein

    Creature One & Creature Two

    Betty & Etc

    Lyle & Thing

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  32. Anonymous4:32 am

    Freedom and Justice...
    Jack and Jill...
    Cute and Freak...bwahaha
    Keyboard and Mouse?...
    See and Sew...
    Thought and Thoughts
    Monster and Dave...?
    Roll and Ball...
    Three and Tree?...bwahaha
    One Third and Two Third...where is Three Third..?

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  33. Anonymous11:36 pm

    hanzel and gretel
    naughty and nice

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  34. Anonymous3:56 am

    What about..
    Jekyll and Hyde
    Pride and Prejudice
    Ernie and Bert


    :)

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  35. Anonymous7:45 pm

    sugar& spice
    James1& James 2
    Microsoft& Apple
    Nike& Slazenger
    Lakeside& Westfield
    Baby& Extra
    Cowboy& Indian
    we're out of& toilet paper again
    Friday& Saturday
    Tequilla& Jack Daniels
    Ecstacy& Speed

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  36. Anonymous7:46 pm

    james and featuring andrew

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  37. Anonymous7:47 pm

    david's and paul's

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  38. Anonymous6:28 pm

    Copy & Paste
    Pheonix & Iliana
    Pink & Purple
    Pee & Pea
    Toilette & John
    John & Jane (Deer)
    Hope & Faith & Grace
    Ben & Jerry
    Bill & Jill

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  39. The too late Frog7:54 pm

    Tom and Jerry ?
    Sherlock and Holmes ?
    Fromage ET Dessert ? (because in french restaurants it's generally cheese or desert)

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  40. Mary Jo12:14 am

    Harley & Davidson

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  41. Ambrose1:17 am

    Cheech and Chong

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  42. I've got identical twins that are called Jacob and Tobias - when I told my Dad he asked if Tobias would be called Toby. I said yes.
    "So people would all be asking, is it Toby, or not Toby? That is the question!" he replied.

    So I always think how I could have called them Toby and Not Toby, if I was a cruel mother...

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  43. (Thinking of Arthurian mythology)
    Guinevere and Morgana
    Arthur and Mordred
    Merlin and Nimueh
    Or to take a different tack:
    Sherlock and Moriarty (or Jim)
    I heard tell of a pair of American twins that were called Orange Jello and Lemon Jello...

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  44. I know I'm late to this party, but I feel I have to share this one: Many years ago I worked in a hospital. I was talking with one of the girls from maternity one day, and she told me that a couple of staff had to take a moment aside that morning to dissuade a woman from her conviction to name her twin boys James and Jim. The naming wasn't meant as a joke; the mother genuinely wasn't aware of the relationship between the two names.

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  45. Anonymous10:42 pm

    Jack and Jill?

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  46. Anonymous3:18 pm

    How about

    sunlight and megabyte (i know some one cruel enough to call their kids this)

    Barbie and Ken
    Lois and clark
    Justin and Bieber
    Tweedledum and Tweedledee
    Hailey and 3 minutes late
    Samsung and Nokia


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    Sugar , spice and everything nice
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  47. Anonymous9:14 pm

    Mackenzie and Chelsea (Mac and Cheese)!

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  48. Anonymous4:09 am

    Dylan and the unexpected

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  50. Wash, Rinse & Repeat as needed

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  51. How 'bout the old line, Denise & De-nephew?!

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  52. Anonymous10:37 pm

    Oopsy & Daisy!

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  53. Anonymous9:50 pm

    Tube&tied
    Vase&ectomy

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  54. Anonymous6:30 pm

    HARRY AND BO THEN WHEN YOU SHOUT THEM U WILL SAY 'HARIBO COME HERE!!!'
    ELLA AND BELLA
    DUMB AND DUMBER
    TOM AND JERRY
    MIKE AND MOLLY
    SMURF AND MINION
    LOL AND ROFL
    MOLLY AND OLI
    SUN AND SHINE

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  55. Anonymous2:01 am

    Jenny & Craig

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  56. Anonymous4:39 pm

    Toe and Jam
    Tam and Pon
    Nipple and Nipplet
    Mick and Donald
    Sister and Sister
    Marilyn and Monroe
    Heather and Feather
    Pee and Poo

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  57. Anonymous4:51 am

    Charlie and Charlise
    Fred and George

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  58. Anonymous6:05 pm

    Sense and Sensibility
    Sense and Nonsense
    Celsius and Fahrenheit
    Dennis and Gnasher

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  59. Anonymous9:31 pm

    Peter and Wendy

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