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Teased about Moulding

When I was at school, the kids used to gather round me in the playground and say "Uuuh! Mouldy!" while pulling faces of disgust and fake horror. A popular song at the time started "John Brown's body lies a-moulding in the grave". I was often compared with mouldy bread and they would find stale sandwiches to give me which had gone mouldy. All Mouldings have probably suffered similar torments. Looking back at it now, it seems very funny but at the time it was very upsetting. It took a long time for me to see the funny side and to be able to give as well as I could take. It was a friend who, being rather large, everyone feared who solved the problem for me. He gave me the nickname of "Mow" (pronounced like "how") and it stuck, so as everyone called me that, the mouldy bit all faded into the background.

It would be very interesting to hear of more stories of schooldays with the name Moulding so please share them with us all here.

John Moulding writes: I come from Preston in lancashire, at school i was called mouldy cheese or the pope seeing as my middle name is Paul. Reading your account brought back the memories of being teased.

Travis Moulding writes: Is school I was always teased about eating mouldy bread and any other food that could grow mould. Funny now but very tragic then. I soon realized the kids making fun of me were not to be taken seriously. top

  1. Yup, me too. Mouldy was a common bit of name-calling for me at school. My youngest son gets called that too but luckily he’s popular and it doesnt seem to be malicious.
    My brother and somewhat myself got called Mole or Molly which seemed a lot nicer.
    — Richard Moulding    4 January 05    #
  2. I was also stirred at school. Having the first name ‘Richard’ or Dick for short, I was called ‘Mouldy Dick’.. But hey that is the way these things can go with school kids….
    — Richard Moulding (Melbourne)    4 February 05    #
  3. I’m now at college but whe I was in school I only used to be called a few names on occasion by people trying to funny, luckily it didn’t really catch on. As soon as my older brother was called it at school he found it hilarious that people thought it was original and started to call himself, ‘the great mouldingo’!
    — Rose Moulding    21 March 05    #
  4. The Great Mouldingo! I love that one! Positively Positive!
    — Peter    22 March 05    #
  5. Lol, yep its now his email address and he’s 24! Moulding is a brilliant name, I have a huge family and its just great when all the ‘mouldings’ are together. If anyone gets teased about their surname then its surely a compliment that the teasers havn’t been able to find anything worse about you than the name you were born with!
    — Rose Moulding    27 March 05    #
  6. I like being a Moulding, I never took any comments about my name seriously, like Shortypants says, it’s a compliment if they think that’s the most worst thing about you.

    It’s bang in the middle of the alphabet as well, so in any alphabetical queue, you’re not going to have to go first (a bonus at school when I was never listening to what we were supposed to be doing, and had to guess based on the behaviour of the people in front of me)
    — Pete Moulding    15 April 05    #
  7. At least people don’t forget your name easily! If I have to wait for a table at a restaurant, I used to give my name as “Moulding”, but after a few times of hearing “Table for MOULDING! Table for MOULDING!” shouted across the room, I now just say “I’m joe” instead.
    — Joe Moulding    17 April 05    #
  8. At least your name’s not Gaffney, although I suppose he never has a problem getting a taxi now
    — Pete Moulding    18 April 05    #
  9. When the X-Files was at its most popular there was a lad from school who insisted on calling me “Fox Mulder”, the link tenuously being that “Mulder” is almost only one syllable away from Moulding… erm, like if you say it in an unusual accent? He kept asking me if I’d seen any aliens. To be honest it wore thin fairly quickly, mainly cos it was just a rubbish nickname.
    — Joe Moulding    18 April 05    #
  10. I only ever got teased about my name when the people at school really should have grown out of sirname teasing. I was 17 and the boy i fancied insisted on making the same hilarious gag every time the register was called out. When it came to my name he’d shout out that if i was called ‘apple’ instead of alice, my name would be similar to the phrase ‘the apple is moulding’. Strange the people you have crushes on at school.
    — Alice Moulding    19 April 05    #
  11. Alice, is it possible he had fruit tourettes? he couldn’t help shouting out the names of fruit?

    Have you guys ever thought about changing your name? When I was younger my mum wanted to change her name and offered to let us kids change too. I’d chosen mine as Pete the Destroyer, but she wouldn’t let me change it to that.

    As I remember I was about 18 at the time
    — Pete Moulding    19 April 05    #
  12. OMg, when I was young my mum wanted to change her name as well! wouldn’t it be strange if we were all related…..............
    The name moulding is definatly NOT something to be teased about, however, repeated posting on this thread about our own surnames and the childhood trauma related to it is a whole different kettle of fish.
    P.S. Can we start a thread about the teasing I recieved (and often still do) from having the head of a small orange?
    — Rose Moulding    19 April 05    #
  13. small orange i say old chappie old now i reamber i wierdo with a small orange for a head and she just loved xena all the youg chaps old chaps were always trying to eat her
    — fayemoulding    23 April 05    #
  14. Rose, do you get teased about having the head of a mandarin or a satsuma? just wondering.
    — Joe Moulding    23 April 05    #
  15. Ahhh, I love faye’s comment, it’s so genuinely bonkers. Makes no sense but you can’t help but love the poor little sausage.
    — Pete Moulding    11 August 05    #

  16. I’m Peter’s younger brother and fortunately because he was eventually nicknamed Mow, I subsequently was nicknamed ” Little Mow”. Because of my Lancashire Accent when people ask me to say my name again, I usually say ” like Rotting ” It always provides a smile and they instantly spell my name correctly.


    — Jonathan    16 March 06    #

  17. I was the tallest boy in my year at school. In fact I was taller than the boys one and two years older. None of them ever called me anything I did not want to be called.

    (Except one kid who then threw himself backwards over a desk, kicked himself in his own backside several times and then threw himself against a wall. All the witnesses, who happened to be shorter than me, agreed with my version of events when interrogated by the school headmaster.)


    — Peter    12 September 06    #

  18. wow! We are many, although there are not many in Australia. My name is Rory Moulding and I am from Sydney Australia, my father is Geoff Moulding and his father is albert moulding, before him was john Moulding, and we were English Immigrants.

    Pleased to meet you all :)


    — Rory Moulding    9 December 06    #

  19. I am also in Australia
    Goldcoast Queensland
    we came out here when I was 18 months old – I am now 50
    Please to meet other “Mildews” hehe


    — Kerry Moulding    2 January 07    #

  20. I am the youngest son of Jonathan. my nickname at school was my surname.


    — Dan Moulding    20 June 07    #

  21. hey there,
    yes theres only a few of us Mouldings we a special.what a wonderful name!iam 21 from originally beautiful NSW now in freezing Victoria!


    — Sophie Moulding    18 July 07    #

  22. Hello,
    I never thought that there were that many Mouldings out there!! Its good to see that the name is more popular than I thought!! My father Leslie Moulding is from Utah!!


    — Lucinda Moulding    27 May 08    #
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