You're Not Original

Pyser · 01-18-2005, 10:24 PM

I'm sure we've all googled our own names by now. Well, when I did that, I found that some "writer" (aka college kid) has been using my name as his main character in some series of crap stories. So I just wrote him and told him if he doesn't stop using my name, I'm going to start writing bad stories about some character using his name.

Coupled with the fact that I checked my name on Friendster, and there's like 4 more me's there, too!

Can't tell you why I'm upset, but come on. I don't like there being another me out there. At the same age. Responding to the same name I do when roll is taken (or was taken, when that was an issue).

There may be some girl out there saying my name is the worst lay she's ever had. What if I meet her best friend, and she thinks I suck in bed, even though it's another me??

And so on.

AZSpeechCoach · 01-18-2005, 10:28 PM

But if you ever commit some serious crime, you can blame it on the other you.

Pyser · 01-18-2005, 10:37 PM

that's true. there is a world of upside to this I never considered.

i feel like i should write my whole life story down, and give it to this other me. then, if something should happen to me, he could step right in, and no one would miss a beat.

it's actually like i have my own understudy. hmmm...

cuervo72 · 01-18-2005, 10:43 PM

Dude, I'm a "III"...so I've known of at least two more my entire life.

PilotMan · 01-18-2005, 10:48 PM

LMAO!

mckerney · 01-19-2005, 01:16 AM

I'm also a Division 1 college football coach.

BigDawg · 01-19-2005, 04:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pyser

I'm sure we've all googled our own names by now. Well, when I did that, I found that some "writer" (aka college kid) has been using my name as his main character in some series of crap stories. So I just wrote him and told him if he doesn't stop using my name, I'm going to start writing bad stories about some character using his name.

Geez dude, let the poor colege kid alone ... noone cares what your name is or do they care he used it in a book. Maybe you should step away from the computer, walk outside, look around theirs 1 billion people on this planet.

Get a hobby, go watch a movie, leave some college kid alone with your jibberish.

Axxon · 01-19-2005, 04:46 AM

I have run into a couple of other Axxon's too and it only bothers me when I can't use it as a sign in name. Thing is, Axxon is a made up name that I used in a story 20 years ago. I've even found some lost friends who saw the name and remembered the story and asked if I was me. If I put that story online I guess I'd get some of the duplicate Axxon's sending me the same type of email thinking I'd copied them. The irony.

Axxon · 01-19-2005, 04:48 AM

dola, I guess many people made up the name actually. I googled Axxon and found out it's also the name of several companies.

Man, all these S.O.B.'s copying me.

Axxon · 01-19-2005, 04:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pyser

There may be some girl out there saying my name is the worst lay she's ever had. What if I meet her best friend, and she thinks I suck in bed, even though it's another me??

She'd be right but for all the wrong reasons?

McSweeny · 01-19-2005, 05:43 AM

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Originally Posted by BigDawg

Geez dude, let the poor colege kid alone ... noone cares what your name is or do they care he used it in a book. Maybe you should step away from the computer, walk outside, look around theirs 1 billion people on this planet.

Get a hobby, go watch a movie, leave some college kid alone with your jibberish.

someone's sense of humor is misfiring this morning

sachmo71 · 01-19-2005, 08:12 AM

I am a unique snowflake.

Tigercat · 01-19-2005, 08:29 AM

My name is very uncommon, but not uncommon enough, in Australia my namesake seems to like to commit violent crime AND get caught. Stupid island of criminals.

Crapshoot · 01-19-2005, 09:17 AM

I know my name is unique - That's why I changed my user name on the board..

Pyser · 01-19-2005, 12:51 PM

hey, I'm also a writer for USA Today! nice!!

i think it would be great to have a "me" convention. just get as many of us together as possible, preferably at a bar that checks IDs very strictly. wonder if they would get suspicious if like 30 people with the same name showed up.

then we could all swap wives or something.

sterlingice · 01-19-2005, 01:02 PM

Mine is also unique. Something about the dad's side of my family getting off the boat about 4 generations ago and making up a new last name for America.

SI

JeeberD · 01-19-2005, 02:16 PM

My real name is unique, but there are other "Jeebs" out there.

I stand alone as JeeberD, though...

Fidatelo · 01-19-2005, 02:32 PM

My name is stupidly common. That's one thing I like about Fidatelo, I've never once had a website respond with "that username is taken", it's 100% mine baby!

fantastic flying froggies · 01-19-2005, 02:40 PM

I used to be a formula 1 grand prix driver...

Abe Sargent · 01-19-2005, 02:42 PM

I'm an online writer, so my name gets a bajillion hits from all my articles and people linking to my articles and whatnot.

-Anxiety

DanGarion · 01-19-2005, 02:42 PM

There is a Medal of Honor recipent that I share my real name with.

And except for some idiot on Dark Age of Camelot that stole my name I'm the only DanGarion in teh w0rld!

heybrad · 01-19-2005, 02:47 PM

Holy Crap!!!

www.bradhawkins.com

heybrad · 01-19-2005, 02:48 PM

Nobody has posted in the forums in a quite a while so my career must be going in the shitter.

KevinNU7 · 01-19-2005, 02:51 PM

One of my High School friends hooked up with this guy with the first name Kevin at a party a few towns away. We then found out he had the same last name as me. That was akward but created so good High School jokes

fantastic flying froggies · 01-19-2005, 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KevinNU7

One of my High School friends hooked up with this guy with the first name Kevin at a party a few towns away. We then found out he had the same last name as me. That was akward but created so good High School jokes

Wow!

I would have thought that NU7 was a very unusual last name!!!

JeeberD · 01-19-2005, 03:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by heybrad

Holy Crap!!!

www.bradhawkins.com

Damn, you're one sexy bitch!

Franklinnoble · 01-19-2005, 03:04 PM

Quote:

Justice comes to Rite Aid's Franklin Brown
Accounting Today, November, 2003 by J. Edward Ketz

On October 17, a federal jury in Harrisburg, Pa., convicted the former chief counsel of Rite Aid, Franklin Brown, on 10 counts, including conspiracy to falsely inflate the earnings of Rite Aid and lying to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

This verdict constitutes the first conviction of a corporate executive following the massive wave of corporate scandals that hit the business world in 2001 and 2002. As such, this welcome news serves notice to the remaining corporate crooks that justice is coming.

To recap: Last year, the SEC filed charges against Rite Aid's former CEO, Martin Grass, ...

What's funny is that I used to work for Rite-Aid when PCS HealthSystems was a subsidiary of that company... I used to get his e-mail all the time.

Glengoyne · 01-19-2005, 03:10 PM

When I was in college there was another guy named Steve McClure listed in the phone book. We often got each others calls. Shortly after my first marriage, my wife got a call from the other fellow's aunt, who was very surprised that he had been married. They talked for nearly half an hour.

EagleFan · 01-19-2005, 03:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pyser

There may be some girl out there saying my name is the worst lay she's ever had. What if I meet her best friend, and she thinks I suck in bed, even though it's another me??

I bet there's another 'him' out there thinking the exact same thing.

Pyser · 01-19-2005, 03:23 PM

this is why my wife-swap idea is so brilliant.

of course, i would need to get married. but i think all the other "me's", we should share. everything. we already share a name. i could use some of their money, too, i suppose.

EagleFan · 01-19-2005, 03:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pyser

this is why my wife-swap idea is so brilliant.

of course, i would need to get married. but i think all the other "me's", we should share. everything. we already share a name. i could use some of their money, too, i suppose.

Just make sure the other 'yous' aren't married to poor, 450 pound, white-trash beasts. That wife swap thing won't look so good then.

Pyser · 01-19-2005, 03:29 PM

true. maybe i should put together a "me" newsletter.

Greyroofoo · 01-19-2005, 07:55 PM

I'm a real estate agent and a race car driver

Mac Howard · 01-19-2005, 08:13 PM

Google returned 1,640,000 items for Malcolm Howard so there goes any idea I had of being unique

cuervo72 · 01-19-2005, 08:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Greyroofoo

I'm a real estate agent and a race car driver

http://www.markmartinrealty.com/main.htm

???

Buccaneer · 01-19-2005, 08:23 PM

You guys never realized it but I had been dead since 1991 (if you don't believe me, look at the birth year). http://www.defleppardsol.com/steve2.htm

miked · 01-19-2005, 08:43 PM

I have a hard time finding others with my name...except this coach:

Here I am, I rule!

Pyser · 01-19-2005, 09:40 PM

ive got to stop. now im also a vice president of a college, a hockey player, an art gallery owner, and a nazi!

(the nazi will not get our newsletter, nor be involved in the much anticipated March 2005 wife-swap).

Pyser · 01-19-2005, 09:41 PM

dola, mike d, i thought you were a beastie boy.

one loney beastie i be, at that.

vex · 01-19-2005, 10:01 PM

My real name is slightly common, but "vexroid" returns 169 entries, and they're all me since I came up with vexroid in 2000

Many are from FOFC, OUFans.com, a couple of Christian forums, and my biography from 10th grade is still on there

TLK · 01-19-2005, 10:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by heybrad

Holy Crap!!!

www.bradhawkins.com

I just joined your fan club..... woooo hooooo....

Glengoyne · 01-19-2005, 10:35 PM

Hmm, I'm apparently a cutting Edge rock climber in the U.K.

Pyser · 01-20-2005, 01:30 PM

hmm, another "me" just denied my request to be his friend on friendster.

a me divided cannot stand! who doesnt want to be friends with their potential alter-ego??

korme · 01-20-2005, 03:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sachmo71

I am a unique snowflake.

your not your fucking khakis

Huckleberry · 01-20-2005, 04:04 PM

I'm the only me in the world. Probably ever.

My internet user name is obviously much more common.

Gallifrey · 01-20-2005, 04:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EagleFan

Just make sure the other 'yous' aren't married to poor, 450 pound, white-trash beasts. That wife swap thing won't look so good then.

Good one EagleFan.

I have been told many times that hits are directed to the music sites that I show up on from someone searching my name (not common, but easy to spell correctly when they have the record cover) in one of the engines.
I had never searched my name on Google or Yahoo until reading all this, and sure enough they start popping up.

MacroGuru · 01-20-2005, 04:26 PM

Im a RB for the Kansas City Chiefs

Im Nonacademic Farm Staff at the University of Illinois

Im an Exec. VP at Novellus

Sgt in the 460 Squadron RAAF durring WWII

Craptacular · 01-20-2005, 09:15 PM

Common last name, uncommon first name. I know there's a school named after me somewhere down south. I was in the same class as someone else at UW with my name. I used to get some of his junk mail, especially early in the school year after our addresses changed. Hopefully he never got anything important of mine. He wrote a column for one of the school newspapers, and I often wrote letters to the editor. We probably confused some readers.

Last time I googled my name, it came up with a lot of stats and articles for a pro soccer player, and a college golfer.

miked · 01-20-2005, 09:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by indoorsoccersim

Im a RB for the Kansas City Chiefs

Im Nonacademic Farm Staff at the University of Illinois

Im an Exec. VP at Novellus

Sgt in the 460 Squadron RAAF durring WWII

If you're Larry Johnson, you could also be a has-been, once-was-great baketball player.

If you're Christian Okoye, you have a weird name.

MacroGuru · 01-21-2005, 12:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by miked

If you're Larry Johnson, you could also be a has-been, once-was-great baketball player.

If you're Christian Okoye, you have a weird name.

Nope, just pinged my name Dennis Thomas....

01-18-2005, 10:28 PM	#2
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01-18-2005, 10:37 PM	#3
Pyser Pro Rookie Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Los Angeles	that's true. there is a world of upside to this I never considered. i feel like i should write my whole life story down, and give it to this other me. then, if something should happen to me, he could step right in, and no one would miss a beat. it's actually like i have my own understudy. hmmm... Last edited by Pyser : 01-18-2005 at 10:37 PM.

01-18-2005, 10:43 PM	#4
cuervo72 Head Coach Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Maryland	Dude, I'm a "III"...so I've known of at least two more my entire life. __________________ null

01-18-2005, 10:48 PM	#5
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	LMAO! __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops.

01-19-2005, 04:46 AM	#8
Axxon Pro Starter Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Phoenix, AZ	I have run into a couple of other Axxon's too and it only bothers me when I can't use it as a sign in name. Thing is, Axxon is a made up name that I used in a story 20 years ago. I've even found some lost friends who saw the name and remembered the story and asked if I was me. If I put that story online I guess I'd get some of the duplicate Axxon's sending me the same type of email thinking I'd copied them. The irony. __________________ There are no houris, alas, in our heaven.

01-19-2005, 01:16 AM	#6
mckerney Coordinator Join Date: Oct 2000	I'm also a Division 1 college football coach.

01-19-2005, 04:48 AM	#9
Axxon Pro Starter Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Phoenix, AZ	dola, I guess many people made up the name actually. I googled Axxon and found out it's also the name of several companies. Man, all these S.O.B.'s copying me. __________________ There are no houris, alas, in our heaven.

01-19-2005, 08:12 AM	#12
sachmo71 The boy who cried Trout Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: TX	I am a unique snowflake.

01-19-2005, 08:29 AM	#13
Tigercat College Starter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Federal Way, WA	My name is very uncommon, but not uncommon enough, in Australia my namesake seems to like to commit violent crime AND get caught. Stupid island of criminals.

01-19-2005, 09:17 AM	#14
Crapshoot Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Dec 2003	I know my name is unique - That's why I changed my user name on the board..

01-19-2005, 12:51 PM	#15
Pyser Pro Rookie Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Los Angeles	hey, I'm also a writer for USA Today! nice!! i think it would be great to have a "me" convention. just get as many of us together as possible, preferably at a bar that checks IDs very strictly. wonder if they would get suspicious if like 30 people with the same name showed up. then we could all swap wives or something.

01-19-2005, 01:02 PM	#16
sterlingice Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Back in Houston!	Mine is also unique. Something about the dad's side of my family getting off the boat about 4 generations ago and making up a new last name for America. SI __________________ Houston Hippopotami, III.3: 20th Anniversary Thread - All former HT players are encouraged to check it out! Janos: "Only America could produce an imbecile of your caliber!" Freakazoid: "That's because we make lots of things better than other people!" Last edited by sterlingice : 01-19-2005 at 01:02 PM.

01-19-2005, 02:16 PM	#17
JeeberD General Manager Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The Town of Flower Mound	My real name is unique, but there are other "Jeebs" out there. I stand alone as JeeberD, though... __________________ UTEP Miners!!! I solemnly swear to never cheer for TO

01-19-2005, 02:32 PM	#18
Fidatelo Pro Starter Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Winnipeg, MB	My name is stupidly common. That's one thing I like about Fidatelo, I've never once had a website respond with "that username is taken", it's 100% mine baby! __________________ "Breakfast? Breakfast schmekfast, look at the score for God's sake. It's only the second period and I'm winning 12-2. Breakfasts come and go, Rene, but Hartford, the Whale, they only beat Vancouver maybe once or twice in a lifetime."

01-19-2005, 02:40 PM	#19
fantastic flying froggies Pro Rookie Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Sunny South of France	I used to be a formula 1 grand prix driver... __________________ Detroit Vampires (CFL) : Ve 're coming for your blood! Camargue Flamingos (WOOF): pretty in Pink

01-19-2005, 02:42 PM	#20
Abe Sargent Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Catonsville, MD	I'm an online writer, so my name gets a bajillion hits from all my articles and people linking to my articles and whatnot. -Anxiety __________________ Check out my two current weekly Magic columns! https://www.coolstuffinc.com/a/?action=search&page=1&author[]=Abe%20Sargent

01-19-2005, 02:42 PM	#21
DanGarion Coordinator Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: PNW	There is a Medal of Honor recipent that I share my real name with. And except for some idiot on Dark Age of Camelot that stole my name I'm the only DanGarion in teh w0rld! __________________ Los Angeles Dodgers Check out the FOFC Groups on Facebook! and Reddit! DON'T REPORT ME BRO!

01-19-2005, 02:47 PM	#22
heybrad Norm!!! Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Manassas, VA	Holy Crap!!! www.bradhawkins.com

01-19-2005, 02:48 PM	#23
heybrad Norm!!! Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Manassas, VA	Nobody has posted in the forums in a quite a while so my career must be going in the shitter.

01-19-2005, 02:51 PM	#24
KevinNU7 College Starter Join Date: May 2003 Location: Beantown	One of my High School friends hooked up with this guy with the first name Kevin at a party a few towns away. We then found out he had the same last name as me. That was akward but created so good High School jokes __________________ Boston Bashers - III.14 - (8347)

01-19-2005, 03:10 PM	#28
Glengoyne Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Fresno, CA	When I was in college there was another guy named Steve McClure listed in the phone book. We often got each others calls. Shortly after my first marriage, my wife got a call from the other fellow's aunt, who was very surprised that he had been married. They talked for nearly half an hour.

01-19-2005, 03:23 PM	#30
Pyser Pro Rookie Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Los Angeles	this is why my wife-swap idea is so brilliant. of course, i would need to get married. but i think all the other "me's", we should share. everything. we already share a name. i could use some of their money, too, i suppose.

01-19-2005, 03:29 PM	#32
Pyser Pro Rookie Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Los Angeles	true. maybe i should put together a "me" newsletter.

01-19-2005, 07:55 PM	#33
Greyroofoo Pro Starter Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Alabama	I'm a real estate agent and a race car driver

01-19-2005, 08:13 PM	#34
Mac Howard Sick as a Parrot Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Surfers Paradise, Australia	Google returned 1,640,000 items for Malcolm Howard so there goes any idea I had of being unique __________________ Mac Howard - a Pom in Paradise

01-19-2005, 08:23 PM	#36
Buccaneer Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Colorado	You guys never realized it but I had been dead since 1991 (if you don't believe me, look at the birth year). http://www.defleppardsol.com/steve2.htm

01-19-2005, 08:43 PM	#37
miked College Starter Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: The Dirty	I have a hard time finding others with my name...except this coach: Here I am, I rule! Last edited by miked : 01-19-2005 at 08:44 PM.

01-19-2005, 09:40 PM	#38
Pyser Pro Rookie Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Los Angeles	ive got to stop. now im also a vice president of a college, a hockey player, an art gallery owner, and a nazi! (the nazi will not get our newsletter, nor be involved in the much anticipated March 2005 wife-swap).

01-19-2005, 09:41 PM	#39
Pyser Pro Rookie Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Los Angeles	dola, mike d, i thought you were a beastie boy. one loney beastie i be, at that.

01-19-2005, 10:01 PM	#40
vex Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Tulsa	My real name is slightly common, but "vexroid" returns 169 entries, and they're all me since I came up with vexroid in 2000 Many are from FOFC, OUFans.com, a couple of Christian forums, and my biography from 10th grade is still on there

01-19-2005, 10:35 PM	#42
Glengoyne Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Fresno, CA	Hmm, I'm apparently a cutting Edge rock climber in the U.K.

01-20-2005, 01:30 PM	#43
Pyser Pro Rookie Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Los Angeles	hmm, another "me" just denied my request to be his friend on friendster. a me divided cannot stand! who doesnt want to be friends with their potential alter-ego??

01-20-2005, 04:04 PM	#45
Huckleberry College Starter Join Date: Dec 2001	... I'm the only me in the world. Probably ever. My internet user name is obviously much more common. __________________ The one thing all your failed relationships have in common is you. The Barking Carnival (Longhorn-centered sports blog) College Football Adjusted Stats and Ratings

01-20-2005, 04:26 PM	#47
MacroGuru Coordinator Join Date: May 2003 Location: Utah	Im a RB for the Kansas City Chiefs Im Nonacademic Farm Staff at the University of Illinois Im an Exec. VP at Novellus Sgt in the 460 Squadron RAAF durring WWII __________________ "forgetting what is in the past, I strive for the future"

01-20-2005, 09:15 PM	#48
Craptacular College Starter Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: The Mad City, WI	Common last name, uncommon first name. I know there's a school named after me somewhere down south. I was in the same class as someone else at UW with my name. I used to get some of his junk mail, especially early in the school year after our addresses changed. Hopefully he never got anything important of mine. He wrote a column for one of the school newspapers, and I often wrote letters to the editor. We probably confused some readers. Last time I googled my name, it came up with a lot of stats and articles for a pro soccer player, and a college golfer. Last edited by Craptacular : 01-20-2005 at 09:16 PM.