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    Neot

    You don't get many people called Neot, do you?

    Is what I thought to myself while passing through a small Cambridgeshire market town yesterday.

    #2
    Neot

    I once went to St. Neots by accident.

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      #3
      Neot

      Not many people called Frideswide either, as I was thinking in Oxford yesterday.

      I love saints.

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        #4
        Neot

        I never had you down as a Southampton fan, Tubby.

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          #5
          Neot

          Gangster Octopus wrote:
          I once went to St. Neots by accident.
          How did that happen?

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            #6
            Neot

            Tubby Isaacs wrote:
            Not many people called Frideswide either, as I was thinking in Oxford yesterday.

            I love saints.
            South Wales is littered with them.

            Not Frideswides, but saints whose names you never encounter in normal life. Athan, Illtud, Donat, etc.

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              #7
              Neot

              Pancras.

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                #8
                Neot

                Enoch.

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                  #9
                  Neot

                  Spearmint Rhino wrote:
                  Gangster Octopus wrote:
                  I once went to St. Neots by accident.
                  How did that happen?
                  The sat nav took him and his seven wives the wrong way.

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                    #10
                    Neot

                    Well, you do at least hear of people called Enoch.

                    I can think of... two.

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                      #11
                      Neot

                      They're fantastic names, SR.

                      I've heard of an Illtyd- something to do with the old GLC.

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                        #12
                        Neot

                        Ives.

                        Apart from that character in Porridge.

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                          #13
                          Neot

                          Surname, doesnt count.

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                            #14
                            Neot

                            my favourite (on a catholic, confirmation type way) is Dismas.

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                              #15
                              Neot

                              The canon of old Anglo-Saxon saints alone is a treasure of crazy names. Add the Celt gang and the odd continental, and you'll never be short of monikers which are unlikely to rival the ubiquity of Johns and Philips.

                              Audifax (feast day January 19) is a brilliant name. If I was a frequent username changer, I'd go for St Audifax.

                              Alfwold
                              Alphege
                              Balred
                              Clotilda
                              Cleowulf
                              Drithelm
                              Derfal Gadarn
                              Dunstan
                              Edburga
                              Elfleda
                              Erconwald
                              Fridolin
                              Godehard
                              Heldrad
                              Hermenegild
                              Idesbald
                              Jarlath
                              Liafwine
                              Maimbod
                              Mustiola
                              Nymphodora
                              Otteran (patron saint of Popbitch)
                              Outril
                              Poppo
                              Publia
                              Rock (presumably Poppo's brother)
                              Rombaut
                              Sexburga (oh yes!)
                              Smaragdus
                              Sunniva
                              Swithbert
                              Symmachus (an early pope. Great name)
                              Syncletica
                              Tatto
                              Telemachus
                              Tibba
                              Tudwal
                              Tyrannio (good name for a Brazilian defender)
                              Ultan
                              Uncumber (alias Wilgefortis)
                              Vaast
                              Vigor
                              Vulflagius (alias Wulphy)
                              Wandrille
                              Wigbert (Hedwig's patron saint)
                              Willigis
                              Wiro
                              Woolo
                              Xystus
                              Zosimus

                              And ganja's patron saint: Juventinus

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                                #16
                                Neot

                                G: too much infornation.

                                Why isnt there a saint Katona? She has done several miracles. She turns wine into water, and she turns talent into ... nothing.

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                                  #17
                                  Neot

                                  I bet St Nymphodora was fun at parties.

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                                    #18
                                    Neot

                                    I like the idea of 'Cleowulf'

                                    A singer with attitude. (Ask St JonnyWankworth)

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                                      #19
                                      Neot

                                      And imagine the scene when St Sexburga dropped in, Rhino.

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                                        #20
                                        Neot

                                        St Aldate?

                                        The day we stopped calling churches after these excellent chaps and called them after the Virgin is where we went downhill as a nation.

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                                          #21
                                          Neot

                                          I've yet to meet a Botolph, yet I used to pass two different churches dedicated to St. Botolph when I worked in the City.

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                                            #22
                                            Neot

                                            I was going to mention St. Mungo, the patron saint of Glasgow, but that seems a bit tame now compared to St. Sexburga.

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                                              #23
                                              Neot

                                              Spearmint Rhino wrote:
                                              Gangster Octopus wrote:
                                              I once went to St. Neots by accident.
                                              How did that happen?
                                              For a while, when I lived in Finsbury Park, I used to get a train from Kings Cross rather than the tube, so I knew all the times of the trains. Wanting a piss, I got on a train with a toilet which I knew wasn't going to stop at Finsbury Park, but also knowing that I'd have time for a piss before it set off.

                                              I was wrong. Ensconced happily in the toilet, to my horror I heard the beep to indicate that the train's doors were about to close. Sadly I was in full flow so I couldn't move until after the doors had shut. And the train had set off.

                                              "Bugger", I thought as I went and sat down, watching Finsbury Park station flash past. "I'm off to Stevenage".

                                              I was wrong. As we approached Stevenage, I stood up, and a bloke asked "Oh, are we stopping at Stevenage tonight?".

                                              "Bugger", I thought as I sat down again, watching Stevenage flash past. And Hitchin. And Biggleswade. "Where the fuck am I going?".

                                              The answer was St. Neots. The three minutes past seven train from Kings Cross apparently was fast to St. Neots. I got home at about nine o'clock with the worst excuse for being late that I've ever heard of...

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                                                #24
                                                Neot

                                                St. Sexburga?

                                                Speechless.

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                                                  #25
                                                  Neot

                                                  Now, we're talking, GO. There used to be 4 Botolph's in the City; indeed there are still 3, as you probably know.

                                                  You probably went quite close to St Ethelburga's as well. I'm assuming she's the same as Edburga from G-Man's list.

                                                  London City churches rock, for the second part of their names. St Andrew By The Wardrobe etc.

                                                  Nice list of them (included vanished ones) here:
                                                  http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hitch/gendocs/city-ch.html

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