Big Pants, Burpy and Bumface

Some of the content of Potty, Fartwell & Knob was frankly unsuitable for those (as TV once warned us) “of a nervous disposition”, or children. Big Pants, Burpy and Bumface therefore addresses this by presenting a world survey of strange but true and funny names. Those of the title – Big Pants, a native American, Ricard Burpy (born in Somerset in 1816) and Albert Bumface of Paris give something of the flavour of the names you will encounter – not to mention Pincus Elephant, Soppy Leggs and Willy McBum...