In older days, some women were known as "Fanny" - I am thinking of Fanny Cradock, whose real name I think was "Phyllis"

Edited by Willo (25 Aug 2016 1.04pm)

But names that were once fashionable in bygone days and would NOT have been considered in fairly recent times are back in vogue. I have heard of young children being called Alice, Edith and Florence.Perhaps "Fanny" will be all the rage in the not too distant future.

Well, using the term "fanny" to describe a lady's special area is dying out anyway. The only thing keeping it going is "Oh South London is wonderful". So perhaps if we stop calling it that then there'll be a lot more Fannys on the street. Then who knows? A boom in kids called Gaylord, Dick and Rectum?

I knew somebody who worked at a Cornish police station (which is irrelevant to the story really) who told me the police had continuous trouble with a flasher called William C0ck who insisted on being called Willy.

I had a good friend at school Tracy w***ling (which I guess is just an unfortunate surname). There is also a girl I know here [and this is not a joke] whose name is Sunovar Hoare. Stoned parents or what?

Red and Blue Army!

Many years ago I had obviously done something to annoy my mother and she called me a son of a bitch to which I just laughed and said "I know"