Customers/Clients with the same names as pop stars...

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Ha ha, a guy named STUART MURDOCH just took our online Dyslexia Index.

It's not the famous one, but I just cracked myself up at the idea that it might be.

Tell me about your pop star name doppelgangers...

― Ma$onic Boom (kate), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Julio Iglesias used to work in our Madrid office

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Bear with me. I haven't slept properly in a week. Everything is funny right now!

x-post, HA HA!!! YES!!!

― Ma$onic Boom (kate), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Not pop stars, but graduating with me from the University of Lancaster last week... Christopher Lambert.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Creepy RPG dungeonmaster ex-boyfriend of schoolfriend: Keith Moon.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

well i'm the drummer from placebo for god's sake...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I have to deal with two Micahel Jacksons.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i get emails every six months or so asking if i'm the sci-fi/fantasy actress colette ____, who i apparently have the same name as. have also been asked if i'm the australian womens basketball champion of the same name. sometimes i'm tempted to write back and say 'why yes i am! and how clever of you to find me working for a charity in north london!'

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got all your "fantasy" videos, Colette!

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Customers I have spoken on the phone with in the past week who share names with popstars: Rob3rt Sm1th, R0bert Pl4nt.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I just bound a policy yesterday for a man named J0n W1ll1ams!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I send information on headaches to John Bonham earlier this week.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got all your "fantasy" videos, Colette!

damn, i was hoping to keep that, er, side private!

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I do business on a regular basis with an antique book dealer called Eddie Murphy.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

One of our customers is Mr Edge

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

We have a client Se4n C0mbs.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

We used to handle the money for one time Red Sox GM Dan Duquette. A cool 10 million in his brokerage accounts.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I had dealings with Phil Collins at Customs and Excise.

― Bidfurd, Friday, 23 July 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to live with Beth Gibbons

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Velveteen, that doesn't count...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

we have a michael jackson and a phyl collins on our student record system

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I work with a short, fat, slightly walnutty Mexican guy named Jose Canseco.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 23 July 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to deal with a Robbie Williams, a Michael Jackson, a Mark Radcliffe, a Linda McCartney, a Gerry Rafferty and, best of all, a Sidney Devine in my last job - all IFAs in Scotland, the North of England or Northern Ireland.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 24 July 2004 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I work with a Bobby Fisher.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 24 July 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i went to college w/ DAVID BYRNE (he was an asshole). and one of my sisters works w/ a dude named DAVID BOWIE (pronounced "BOOO-eee" and he prefers "Dave" to "David").

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 24 July 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to know a college librarian named Donald Johnson. He claimed to not have a TV or ever seen Miami Vice.

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 25 July 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

There used to be a doctor in the psychiatric hospital in Inverness called Dr Donald Duck. Cue much hilarity for all small Invernessian children reading the local paper, where he was ridiculously prominent in front page news.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 25 July 2004 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Today someone took our web dyslexia index WHO HAS THE SAME NAME AS A PROMINENT ILX0R!!!

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"Queen G. Margolis"

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

It wasn't her, though. I checked. Unless she's moved to Hertfordshire and has a ten year old son that she's never talked about. ;-)

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I work with a Huey Lewis.

― Huck, Friday, 6 August 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

does he think it's hip, to be square?

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

He works at a newspaper!

― Huck, Friday, 6 August 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Newspapers are rectangular.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Once worked with a woman whose last name was "Malkmus" 'til she got married. No, I couldn't resist asking if there was any relation. No, there wasn't.

― mike a, Friday, 6 August 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

At the same job, we had a customer rep named "Pam Anderson."

― mike a, Friday, 6 August 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I've mentioned it before somewhere on here, but I once worked in a coallating center with a scary fat neocon named Michael J. Fox.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, we had a Michael Fox visit from the States. We were all intensely amused.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

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