Meeting your name sake

[KalamityKel]

Think im the only one in the UK :))

[Azul]

I met another Azul some years ago in Lisbon,

I took care of him and he doesn't exist anymore.

That makes me sort of a classic now.

[Brendan]

I have never actually met anyone with the same name as me. That What?s in the Name website says there is one other person in the UK with my name although I have a suspicion that they are both me and that I have just confounded some bureaucratic system somewhere. A google search only reveals me and another guy who appears to be the drummer in a band based in Johannesburg.

I do have a story though:

As a student I worked in a video shop and one night this bloke came in and asked if he could take out a video on his son?s account.

?No problem sir? said I. Being a clerk of the friendly and helpful persuasion (Achieved by ensuring that I stuck to a strict regime of regular caffeine and THC intake.). ?And what would your son?s name be??

?Brendan Wotsisname.? said he.

?Is it fuk!? said I. ?That?s my name that is and I know not of anyone else in this two cortina town that shares my magnificent moniker.?

?No really it is.? he remonstrated, ?I named him myself.?

?Listen bucko,? said I, ?This is surely a ruse on your part to take advantage of my kind nature and make off with my gracious employer?s only copy of Bikini Babes in Space, leaving me done up for the crime. Now offski before I set the hound on you.?

I looked over my shoulder at Sebastian my fearless bulldog who accompanied me on nightshifts. He opened one eye, gave me a ?not likely? look, rolled over, broke wind and continued to chase cats in his sleep.

?Please? said the suspect customer, ?I swear to all the gods and on the graves of all my dead relatives that I am being honest. If you just make pointy clicky there with that computer you will see that my son does in fact have an account here and that, no matter how unlikely it may seem, he shares your name.?

?hmmm? I said, one of those drawn out suspicious hmms, and I made with the pointy clicky on the computer. And do you know what? There it was, as clear as day, another fellow with my name.

?Bugger me!? I exclaimed.

?No thanks? said the now valued customer. ?But I may tell my other son, who has recently adopted an alternative lifestyle, that you also offer such services.?

So he paid his 16 Shekels (as it was half-price Tuesday) and disappeared off into the night, with the only copy of Bikini Babes in Space, never to be seen again.

When it came to the monthly stock-take and the only film of the Astronaut Swimwear genre was missing I related this story to Big Vince (the owner of Vince?s All Night Video). In reply to which the fair and magnanimous Big Vince made liberal with terms like ?Slacker?, ?Smartarse? and ?Smelly mutt? before we came to a mutual decision that in order to grow as individuals it would be best if we went our separate ways.

[SeanMacGabhann]

if Brendan really used the word "bucko" in that conversation......

[ClareC]

I'm with citizenED and BJL, one with the angry Squirrel >:D

[Keef]

Moos Wrote:

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

I too am "as rare as a wombats wingnut", 3 of me apparently.

[Brendan]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> if Brendan really used the word "bucko" in that

> conversation......

Listen bucko.

[TillieTrotter]

Brendan that was great, there can only be one of you for sure.

[capt_birdseye]

This Weeks Top 10 Surname and Forename Searches

1: john smith (571)

2: jesus christ (200)

3: ben dover (192)

4: dave gorman (143)

5: richard head (137)

6: mike hunt (130)

7: harry potter (126)

8: homer simpson (121)

9: david beckham (118)

10: seymour butts (112)

Seymour Butts! Classic!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I'll have you know, Moos, there are only 2 of me and she's me second cousin!

[Moos]

Right, I'm off to gun down one of the other Moosiz in order to even out the numbers. I don't think I'm related to any of them, so it doesn't count as a crime. Or have I got that wrong?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

You have my blessing.

[citizenED]

Moos, think its called Double Jeopardy or something - you cannot get done for wiping out someone of the same name. They need a test case, so go ahead.

worth reminding peoplem of the comment on a previous thread about children's names, of the primary school teacher who had two little girls in her class, each called Unique!

[jollybaby]

4 of me according to that website but 5 on Facebook - now how does that work?! From googling my name seems to be very popular with American cheerleaders too.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Nice chart... now I'm not saying I'm better than Jesus... that's for you to go home and think about ;-)

[badger]

Are people on this thread taking my name in vain? tschsh!

[Ultraconsultancy]

My family had that great presbyterian tradition of giving all the men the same name, and all of them were officers in the Royal Scots, so even their career doesn't differentiate them. BTW I completely broke the tradition.

I did know four people called either Cameron Angus, or Angus Cameron; since we were all at military school where Angus Cameron would usually be listed as "Cameron, Angus" this added to the confusion, with hilarious consequences, as they say in west end farces.

[Alan Feedlebra]

Nobody has my name.

Nobody.