boojange
VIP Member
This same name stuff is an obsession with the weirdo family I've married into...let's call my husband Bert 53. Well, Bert's dad is also Bert as was his Dad, my Bert's grandad. Bert the grandad decides to name both his eldest son Bert (my fil) and his eldest daughter Berta...has ten other kids, one of which calls his first born son Bert, who is my Bert's cousin...
Ten years ago Bert the cousin dies. We go to Dead Bert's funeral. Dead Bert's mum, dad and siblings are all devastated obviously, at the end of the service we are gathering outside of the crematorium and Dead Bert's family are thanking the attendees. Some old colleague of my husband runs over to us, bursts out crying and exclaims, 'you're not the dead one, thank god! I read it in the obituaries and thought you'd passed on! So glad it's not you!'
Comedy gold! Dead Bert's family were horrified!
When I was pregnant they suggested Bert as a name. They got told to eff off!
Ten years ago Bert the cousin dies. We go to Dead Bert's funeral. Dead Bert's mum, dad and siblings are all devastated obviously, at the end of the service we are gathering outside of the crematorium and Dead Bert's family are thanking the attendees. Some old colleague of my husband runs over to us, bursts out crying and exclaims, 'you're not the dead one, thank god! I read it in the obituaries and thought you'd passed on! So glad it's not you!'
Comedy gold! Dead Bert's family were horrified!
When I was pregnant they suggested Bert as a name. They got told to eff off!
This same name stuff is an obsession with the weirdo family I've married into...let's call my husband Bert 53. Well, Bert's dad is also Bert as was his Dad, my Bert's grandad. Bert the grandad decides to name both his eldest son Bert (my fil) and his eldest daughter Berta...has ten other kids, one of which calls his first born son Bert, who is my Bert's cousin... my Bert is five years older than cousin Bert.
Ten years ago Bert the cousin dies. We go to Dead Bert's funeral. Dead Bert's mum, dad and siblings are all devastated obviously, at the end of the service we are gathering outside of the crematorium and Dead Bert's family are thanking the attendees. Some old colleague of my husband runs over to us, bursts out crying and exclaims, 'you're not the dead one, thank god! I read it in the obituaries and thought you'd passed on! So glad it's not you!'
Comedy gold! Dead Bert's family were horrified!
When I was pregnant they suggested Bert as a name. They got told to eff off!
Last edited: