Another Meme

[selenite0]

Though it's not called a meme when the site is asking . . .

Have you ever met or known someone who has the same name as you (first and last) but is not a relative?

There's a few guys out there with my name. I traded email with one who found me through Google. He was a Celtic pagan / historical re-enactor / aerospace engineer with kids. Fortunately we were on opposite sides of the planet or there'd be no telling us apart.

He said all his friends had declared that he was the evil twin. I wasn't going to argue.

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[snippy]

I've never met anyone with my names (that is, I've used 4 combinations of first name and last name during my life and I've never met anyone with the exact combination) but my maiden name is very rare. There are, on the other hand, *lots* of people with my current name in the exact same spelling. Most of them are men, though. One is a football player.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

That's eerie. According to the (paper) phone books, there are a lot of people with my last name in Sacramento, and a few of them even had my brother's name (Michael John). None of them are relatives.

[bdunbar.livejournal.com]

There is a guy with my name at NASA. We traded email, once.

I do get a small amount of mail from people, thinking that I am he. And that I have have some kind of mysterious pull with NASA and can get things done for them. Like internships. And approving their wacked schemes for space launch.

Not so many since I splashed 'I am not the Brian Dunbar who works at NASA' on my blog.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

There's a lawyer in Louisiana with my name. I keep wondering what people think when they Google her and find all the manga stuff associated with me. XD

Heh ...

[btripp.livejournal.com]

I make quite an effort to sign up for any "new, hot" on-line things before some "cheap imitation BTRIPP" can get there ... however, I missed a few over the years.

It is AMAZING how much crap mis-directed e-mail I get, though, from people trying to reach Barbara, Betty, Bill, Bob, etc. Tripp ... this used to be primarily an AOL thing (they were BTRIPP###, but somehow the ### got lost in communicating with their friends), and I would get all sorts of crap ... hell, some of these folks were such morons that they evidently didn't understand that the ### was an essential part of their e-mail address and would sign up for stuff with my e-mail account ... not being a saint, there are a few "BTRIPPs" out there on things like Classmates.com (having the registered e-mail address makes it easy to get the password, after all) where it now clearly states that said person "is too damn stupid to be allowed near a computer"!

There are a few "Brendan Tripp" folks out there, two other ones on Facebook, for example (one is from New Zealand and one is apparently a meerkat in a smoking jacket), but the one that has to find me irritating is a preacher that has "Brendan" as a middle name, but uses it all the time.


(http://www.btripp.com)

[archangelbeth]

Yes - she went to UNH at the same time as I did, and lived in the same voting district. But she went by Liz and I went by Beth or Elizabeth. (I got two calls for her: one was about boyfriend drama, and one was the bookstore saying her books were in.)

I never met her.

There's a few others running around loose -- I think one was involved in a paper about military uses of velcro.

[jazz007.livejournal.com]

My first name is too uniquely spelled. I do, however, occasionally get gmail for my uncle John, who is firstinitallastname, instead of firstinitial.lastname.

Same name

[bkseiver.livejournal.com]

As close as I have come was at Disney's Animal Kingdom last week. We had reservations at the Yak & Yeti for lunch, and they were in my name. "Barbara S for 2". They called "Barbara S for 3", and Bob and I thought they had written it down wrong. It turned out that there was another Barbara S there, with a party of 3. Go figure...it's not a common name anymore.

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

I don't think they exist. It's rare enough for me to meet someone who shares either of my names, let alone both. Hence not using my real name on LJ.