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I agree—awkward as it is, there reaches a point where it's just unreasonable to accommodate it: this video
Funny Hugh Laurie & Stephen Fry comedy sketch! 'Your name, sir?' - BBC
7.3M views · Oct 13, 2008 · 3:02 · 0 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2013–2022
A classic sketch from A Bit of Fry and Laurie in which a man at a police station has a surname that is very hard to pronounce. Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie play it out as a comic exchange.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN brings it up as a joke whenever threads touch on long names, name handling or unpronounceable identifiers.
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“This sketch always comes to mind”
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Precisely. This sketch always comes to mind this video You're under no obligation to accept names that are hard (as in painful) for you (except if you're the police, I suppose. Ironically)
“Reminds me of the classic Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry sketch”
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> As a human even if I hear a name in another language I still fundamentally understand that it is language. Reminds me of the classic Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry sketch "Your name, sir?": this video