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    Funny Hugh Laurie & Stephen Fry comedy sketch! 'Your name, sir?' - BBC

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    3 HN mentions · mentioned in 3 months, 2013–2022

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    3:02 · 7.3M views · Oct 13, 2008

    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.

    HN brings it up as a joke whenever threads touch on long names, name handling or unpronounceable identifiers.

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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @ArchelaosMay 2022· in “Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives”

      > 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

      AsideView on HN
    2. @hirsinDec 2019· in “Hacking GitHub's Auth with Unicode's Turkish Dotless 'I'”

      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)

      AsideView on HN
    3. @tsmSep 2013· in “Your name is way too long for your ID”

      I agree—awkward as it is, there reaches a point where it's just unreasonable to accommodate it: this video

      AsideView on HN