What’s in a name?

Until WordPress gets it’s own spellchecker, I’ll continue to have open thefreedictionary.com in a different window. By now almost everyone in the world will have googled themselves, so I thought I’d look myself (‘Dury’) up in the dictionary. I got the usual results relating to Ian Dury (the poet and singer who I’m named after), but a few other surprising results.

Firstly I have a memorial. The Dury Memorial, according to the Canadian Veterans’ Affairs Website, is “a beautifully landscaped park, complete with stately maples”. How many people can say they have a memorial?

I was also surprised by a slightly more contemporary reference to do with the Gorillaz. They released a promotional CD of Interviews titled “We are the Dury”. Although they have a rather exciting website at Gorillaz.com, I have yet to find an explanation of the title…