Meeting your name sake

[OutOfFocus]

I am just recovering from the shock of meeting Andrew Black. Whenever I get an email at work that completely confuses me I then twig that it is the other one. Usually if it is for some thing in Scotland it is a bit of clue. Today I got a hotel bill for London. I don't tend to need a hotel in London. After a couple of emails I discovered he was visiting the building I work in.

I felt a bit of a twat going round asking "have you seen Andrew Black" in case anyone knew me!

Anyone else had interesting confusions with name sakes.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I have a second cousin with the same name and surname. She is married so it was her maiden name now but I remember being very miffed when I first discovered her as I thought I was unique (odd surname).

[TillieTrotter]

My daughter was given a ticking off for booking herself a facial in work time when it was actually someone else with the same Christian and surname as her.

[OutOfFocus]

AndrewDBlack Wrote:

> I felt a bit of a @#$%& going round asking "have

> you seen Andrew Black" in case anyone knew me!

I am trying to remember what I said that was so rude that it needed to be replaced by @#$%&

My recollection is that it was twat (t w a t)

[louisiana]

I have come across three of me in other parts of the world: a journalist in Brussels, a tennis player in Australia and an agronomist in California. All found on the interweb, never met face to face. That would be strange.

[OutOfFocus]

I made a CD in 1902 :

O ruddier than the cherry by George Frideric Handel

Performer: Andrew Black (Baritone)

Date of Recording: 1902

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=19594

Curiously I have actually sung this aria.

I got a letter forwarded by my college a few years after I left asking me to play the violin in a concert in Cambridge. I have a lot of musical skills by scraping strings with horsehair isn't one of them :-$

[BJL]

I'll never know. I can safely say that there is no one on earth with the same name as me.

Last year, I had a very interesting bit of confusion with two women with the same name who worked for the same company in Australia...

[Nero]

This is quite fun

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I am "as rare as a wombats wingnut" according to that site.

[Asset]

14 people in the UK with my name according to it.

[BJL]

You are unique. You are one with the angry Squirrel. Shout 'I am the unique. I am unified with the badger overlord.' People will run away. That's because they're jealous. JEALOUS..

[Asset]

you must tell us your name now.

[SeanMacGabhann]

11782 people with my name

common as

[TillieTrotter]

I have two of you in my family Mr Mac.

[Huguenot]

Imagine my shock whilst working in Beijing for a big straight-laced US corporate, to discover that there was another nick fawbert also in asia who was an activist anti-corporate campaigner.

It's very difficult to persuade people that there's a doppelganger when your name's an archaic french word for 'deck swabber'

We had some laughs, I can tell you.

On another Chinese note, when Mao was upgrading China with printing presses etc, he discovered that the endless permutations offered by people's surnames was creating substantial hassle for the manufacturers of the blocks. To address these he insisted that people choose from one of a hundred or so alternatives.

With typical chinese humour when faced with such bureaucracy, the populace got their revenge by choosing one surname for entire towns. You can still go to towns in China today where everybody's called the same name.

Brings new meaning to the old Spartacus debate.

[TillieTrotter]

You don't exist. Go and look in the mirror. If you see something then we're wrong else you're some kind of magic pixie, elf, carrot or vampire. Sorry.

Oh dear, that is me, I always thought I was abit dodgy and now I know.

[bagpuss78]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> I am "as rare as a wombats wingnut" according to

> that site.

Me too, only 2 of me!

[citizenED]

Well, we all know the other Bagpuss!

Me, i'm like BJL. 'I am the unique. I am unified with the badger overlord.'

[Moos]

I'm with Bagpuss and PGC - there are 3 of me in the UK.

Sean, I did think of you when Nero posted the site! :-S :)

However, MAJOR loss of points for using "your" for "you're", grr.

[buggie]

i'm the only english one of me on Facebook... according to yournotme there's 11 of me - "There are probably more people killed in yoghurt, cream, marshmallow and fluffy thing accidents each year then there are of you."

My other half has a cousin 4hrs younger than him who was given the same name as him.

Their nan hadn't told either family that they had the same name in mind (suppose she didn't think it likely both would be boys).

Anyhoo, this meant that on our first date he explained how he was going to the wedding of the cousin of the same name that w/e & reassured me it wasn't him.

(I was going on Dermot O'Leary's radio show that day so he was more worried I'd try and run off with him!)

[SeanMacGabhann]

::o

when did I use "your" instead of "you're"???

Only instance of "your" on here is in the thread title which uses it correctly (I think anyway...)

[annaj]

*GASP*

SeanMac in bad grammar shocker!

No, actually I can't find it on this thread.

I'm quite common it seems - one of 158.

My maiden name is less common, only 75 of them, but I like being annaJ.

[Ant]

Seems there are 6 people in the UK with my name.

Bastards. I was using that. Give it back!

[Moos]

Tempted to let that rumour run just to tease Sean, but no - I meant the naughty website yournotme.com what Nero so kindly posted for us.

[Moos]

....besides which I'm not arrogant enough to allocate points to other Forum members. What would they be allocated or deleted for? - and who would care?!