Irrational hatred of people who have the same name as you

But really, that *is* irrational. I mean, you can hardly own Jim.

ILEveryoneontheseboardscalledMark.

You're just jealous because B was pimping the other Jim out to Phil, aren't you?

I thought we'd had a very similar thread before. I accidentally offended Matt Coastaltown.

ILEveryoneontheseboardscalledMark.

-- mark grout (mark.grou...), May 26th, 2006 9:30 AM. (mark grout) (later) (link)

There seems to be a high concentration of people called Mark on this board. I am one of them, that's why I picked a silly name for my login to avoid confusion!

(sorry for the repeat, didn't bother searching cos I assumed it was just me who was, you know, mental).

The other day when ken got my number from me, I seem to remember insisting that he put me in his phone as "Primary Jim". Although the details are fuzzy, I was drunk cos finland had just won eurovision.

It's annoying as fuck going to Celtic games, someone in the crowd shouts "Gerry!" and *everyone* turns round to see if it's them.

Is Jerry with a J short for Jeremy or is it a name in its own right? If so then I suppose Jerrys have more right to the name than Gerards. Is Jerry with a J a North American thing? I don't think I know any British Jerrys.

I used to go to school with lots of people with the same first name as me. I didn't like them, but then again I was a misanthrope and didn't like anyone.

I don't hate him though. He's a teddy boy, which is admirable. More admirable than being a PhD student anyway.

OTM.

I love (platonically) my famous namesake pro wrestler Mark "The Hammer" Coleman (he's even from southern Ohio like me!). Recently I've become aware of a celebrity journalist also named MC here in NYC, don't hate him (yet) though given what I used to do for a living I'm wondering if people think we're the same person?

Caek, I read your name as Ca-Ek and think of you as a relative of Superman, I hope that's okay.

The internet still indicates to me that I (firstname lastname) am unique in the entire world. If anyone wants to prove me wrong, please do!

I don't hate people with the same name as me, since I don't really know any (i've known... one person with my name? and she spelt it differently). They generally only exist as middle-aged people's maiden aunts or similar that my mother decides to tell me about, and variant spellings/pronunciations that people come out with. I'm not much of a fan of that girl in that Oscar Wilde play though as she is a wet and causes people to tell me how simply pretty they think the name is.

v true. these days i'm only jim to my workmates.

I hate all Kates. They are clearly evil. Katies are OK, though.

I have never met anyone who shares my surname, which makes me feel strangely proud.

Hehehe

I moved around alot growing up. At one high school, I was continually be called to the principal's office for something a different Sarah Johnson did. They would make me sit alone in a room, then come in and yell at me until I could get a word in edgewise to explain it was someone else.

I deduce therefore that now I know two as well, counting another longtime friend of mine.

I don't mind other people sharing my first name (it is very common!), as long as i'm the first "michael" in their mobile phonebook. Otherwise i end up being "mike work" or "mike sheffield" or "mike ginger" or "mike some other suffix". People have surnames for a reason!

-- electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound@)

the country music/sausage guy is still alive

But I guess it's not totally irrational, because he (allegedly) molested kids and (more importantly) always fucks up my google results.

Do I harbor an irrational hatred of whoever this person is? Kind of, actually. It would have been awesome, actually, to see someone with my name, but the middle initial is just a step too far.

oh, and most of the andrews i've known are fine with me.

http://images.43things.com/profile/00/01/12/70314s160.jpg http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/images/ALW.jpg

Hehehe

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), May 26th, 2006 10:46 PM. (later)

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shut the fuk up ya english cunts gesga isny like london oot here lifes tugh wen yev got aboot 100 gangs a neds kikin aboot smell yez ya cunts

-- glesga troops (asifyagoo...), April 25th, 2006.

I feel the same way about Gregs! For some reason I always assume the thing we will have in common is the liking videogames rather than the liking poncey books, I am completely unable to articulate why but it seems less Greg-ish somehow.

Right, well, thanks.

(haha sucked in oops ;P)

As I mentioned on the IA thread, I get a lot of mail these days intended for people who share my name.

I got in first with myfirstnamemylastnameATgmail.com. They thought they were tricky by giving out myfirstname.mylastnameATgmail.com to everyone. That period doesn't do anything, you know.

Anyway, here are a few.

Hello,

This email to inform you that we received your registration form and payment for the upcoming Lifeguard Training course at ASRC. More information to follow via email as the first class date approaches.

Thank you for choosing ASRC.

Kinda feel bad about this one:

Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 11:34 AM

Subject: RE: roster - 4/2

Baker
Bohnert, K
Erickson
Fennell
Hall
Joffe
Lawrence
Leonard
Newman
Schenk - host
Soren
Bohnert, T
Summers
Wetherton
Whitton
Chris Katakis - sub

Reminder - NO TENNIS, 4/9 - spring break

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(Later, I got this from the same guy.)

guess that means you do not play ?

Dear the bakers,

On behalf of The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation, I would like to thank you for supporting the Run or Walk to Conquer Cancer. Your generous donation helps to support critical cancer research at The Princess Margaret.

Thank you for sharing our vision and committing yourself to the fight against cancer. Please find your enclosed tax receipt.

Sincerely,

Paul Alofs
President & C.E.O.

Date Item Name Qty. Unit. Price Item Total Tax Percentage Item Receipt Amount
28/03/2012 General Donation 1 $25.00 CAD $25.00 CAD 100.00 % $25.00 CAD
Please note your tax receipt is in PDF format. To view or print your receipt you require Adobe Acrobat Reader

Testing - is this your new e-mail ?

Of course you didn't know it was snapper week.
Happy Snapper week! :-)

[followed by 14 .jpgs of women displaying their vaginas in public.]

Good Morning:

I thought it wise to copy you with the attached agenda so you won’t be “blindsided” when I call on you at the meeting.

Joan, as with last year’s meeting, will you have the Treasures Reports to hand out? (If you do I’ll be happy to make copies for you.)

Jacque just give a verbal report on the last Board meeting we had.

[pplains] I will ask for an update on the Drainage Problems caused by the Morning Side Construction.

Committee Reports: I will give each Committee an opportunity to report.

David & [pplains] before calling for a vote on Amendments to the BYLAWS I’ll give you the floor to explain & answer questions.

Since I haven’t heard back on nominations from the nomination committee, I will open the floor to discussion & nominations. I will ask all those listed on the Proxy Vote if they are elected to the board, would they be willing to serve? Then I will call for a vote.

Should there be any additions or suggestions, please let me know by next weekend.

Thanks,

Dick

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As a Citizens United supporter who lives near Des Moines, Iowa, I would like to personally invite you to join Citizens United and Governor Mike Huckabee at the premiere of the pro-life film "The Gift of Life":

i have another name like that. i keep getting emails titled 'prayer concerns' from the vicar of Faith Lutheran Church, Tullahoma, Tennessee.

Information about a Chinese-American family's reunions and holiday activities.

Casework for a Midwestern divorce lawyer.

sounds like an opportunity to steal someone's life and live two at once.

i work on x informed by y and someone with my name does y informed by x. i've been mistaken for him a couple of times, i doubt that i'm known enough for the opposite to have happened. i don't mind, it makes me seem more interesting and productive than i actually am.

It's a little strange, I go by Tre Baker in 98% of my dealings, but it's just a nickname I've had since I was two weeks old. While Tre Baker looks a little modern (if you google it, you'll likely find a Harvard grad who writes for dangerousnegro.com before coming across pictures of Bobby Petrino associated with the sports site I work for), my real name is much more conservative and old-fashioned. (it was my grandfather's, hence why I'm a Tre).

So every once in awhile I get these Kappa Alpha Psi invitations to go skiing on a reunion weekend addressed to the other Tre Baker and then get some crazy Tea Party missive addressed to my real name's address. Kind of a weird feeling, how these other people are traipsing through life with my name like that.

I have an irrational hate of people who think they have the same gmail address as me. So much shit is people signing up for crap and using my email.

I have the exact same issue as pplains, but I feel my name is even more common.

When I sign up for a new online service and enter "aimless" as my sign-on, I am always pissed-off when it has already been taken and I have to adulterate the purity of my sign on handle. wtf, false aimlesses, you were never me.

I briefly dated a Lee, spent three weekends together before breaking it off. Mainly because we just saw things too differently to be a viable couple, but it would have felt really strange having a girlfriend with the same name as me.

Jeff otm, I have a folder with over 500 mails called "Farrells", from various people who think they have my email address. Most of them are harmless and quite apologetic - Annas and Amandas and Aarons, oh my. Highlights in ascending order are

. Someone who has used my email address for Redbox, which I guess is an automated video library in convenience stores? This one is in a 7-11 in Washington, and it's kind of interesting to get a random report on someone's impulse-rentals

. Anthony Farrell, affarr✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧, who is a senior member of the Institute of Structural Engineers, Caribbean Branch. He seems to be doing well, a lot of the mails are serious contractors and investors mailing him about serious things. The conference he arranged last year with my email address on the pdf application form was a bit rough for both of us, though.

. And then there's the Farrells who included me in their round emails after the matriarch of the family had died, and the estate needed settling. I corrected the sender, but by that time other people had responded and I had to email them, and jesus none of that was fun.

degoogling doing it's job actually admirably there!

Misdirected emails

Could not remember the name of that thread, thanks caek.

Maybe one day, we will need categories again.