Monday, 23 March 2026

The cemetery surname-game



We have long had a family tradition of making a question or statement from peoples' names as with:


Does Melvyn Bragg? 

Is Anthony Strong?

Is Gareth Batty?

Does Charles Thomas Ogle?


Pete Burns. 

John Waters. 

James Rodgers.


Today we played the game in the cemetery - and the (feeble) best I had found was: 

Is Margaret Gray? 


But my wife got a special commendation for:

Does Ellie Teasdale? 


2 comments:

Laeth said...

there's an old meme with the caption 'Roger Waters while Jeremy Irons', and depicting them doing precisely those things.

Bruce Charlton said...

@L - Separately from this surname game, our affectionate family nickname for JI has always been Jeremy Ironing-Board.

Back in the middle 1980s (beginning with Brideshead Revisted on TV), Irons was a household name, and he is an excellent actor; but as he got older he did not successfully make the transition from "juvenile lead" star, to starring as a "character actor" in big productions... At any rate, although always good; he is no longer a household name.