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Yeah, I've searched for my name. I want to make sure people can find my all-important informative writings, damn it. And I'm a narcisist.

Of course, while searching, I've also learned that I'm a pretty good real estate agent, a horse rider, and a member of Plumbers & Pipefitters Union Local 51.

How's about yourselves?

― David Raposa, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm in some state congress somewhere

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whenever I google my name I just get the flame-haired notorious-for- shagging-Nelson beauty of the eighteenth century.

― Emma, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

An Archietecht and St Anthonys x Of Easton Penn.

― anthony, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Senator for Illinois (now ex-Senator) - who I saw on TV during the US election. He was nasty.

Radio DJ Tom Ewing who owns tomewing.com

Another Radio DJ of the same name in Hong Kong.

Somebody who owns a "Midget Mustang".

And OF COURSE Somerset's greatest Smashing Pumpkins-influenced combo the Tom Ewings.

― Tom, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I could have sworn there were other Kate StClaire's online, but I just googled again, and they seem to have dropped off the internet. Very strange.

Searching under my "real" name reveals, as I've stated before, the Baroness of Chester, a Young British Artist from Goldsmiths, a Lib Dem MP from Oop Norf somewhere, bulldog breeders, snowboarding champions and a character from a crap horror film starring Brooke Shields.

Please, even if you do find out what it is, do not post it to the internet, as it will get my stalker coming calling.

― Kate the Saint, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Eat this

Jonathan Daniels is recognized as a saint by the Episcopal Church, and is enshrined as a modern day martyr in the Chapel of Martyrs at England's Canterbury Cathedral.

― Jonnie aka Jonathan Daniels, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The spooky thing is - Googling brings up *22* pages of my real name...

― Kate the Saint, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, wait, sorry, there's more pages, that's just a google thing. Now why the heck does Google bring up 22 pages at a time? Is someone fucking with me...?

The weird things you find, searching for yourself. I found a review of a show by a band I used to be in back in my younger, wilder days. I had completely forgotten about it- the party was busted by the police and our performance ended with me being arrested at gunpoint. Sigh.

Reveiw of recent, unscheduled Dreaming Spires performance

...then the cops came in and... "They drew on her (Kate, guitarist),... and not with crayons." "It couldn't of happened to a nicer person"

-Jason Martin, Brown Cuts Neighbours

― Kate the Saint, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Only two: a top baroque cellist and the CBI's deputy regional director for the East of England.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have six for my full name "christopher paul brown" and I live in Ponca city, wherever that is and I'm a pre med in the Phi Beta Delta fraternity. I didn't bother with what I'm usually called ie just plain old Chris Brown as that's far too common (and the same as the head of the NSPCC).

Where the hell is Ponca city?

― cabbage, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Only one (and his names spelt differently), Billy Dods , used to occasionally see him when I lived in Dundee.

― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, as friends are well aware, I have a very famous doppelganger in the form of an antique musical instrument appraiser who appears on the Antiques Road Show. Recently I've also discovered that I'm a character in some online role-playing game: a gay playwright from New Orleans. I'm sort of following this character's progress right now.

― Kerry, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tho I have a usefully odd name (and have called myself mark s on these boards primarily so as not to fill my google pages with half-baked off-the-cuff silliness), I have a doominganger, who took part in the parent-teacher three-legged race in some local school for local ppl in Boston, Mass., in 1996.

― mark s, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, and sometimes I'm in Dream Academy, I forgot about that. ;-)

― Kate the Saint, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I propose that we all make reference to MARK SINKER at every possible juncture, thus ruining his Google vanity project and possibly his future career prospects.

― Nick, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kate, this is like some preposterous 3-2-1 riddle.

― Nick, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I died in 1934 aged 61. I am buried in Crowley Cemetery, Ray County, Missouri.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, the Dream Accademy thing is cause of Kate St.John. For some reason, people get us confused, and this really amuses me. You can find my "real" name out there if you're really interested, but I prefer not to use it online, because I have fucking stalkers who WILL appear and fuck up my life and this board if you use my real name.

― Kate the Saint, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

for a while i was the only ethan padgett in the world, but i think about a year ago some bastard kid was born in the midwest with my name, the bastard. i remember when i was in kindergarden the charlotte observer did a story about odd children's names and i was singled out as the only 'ethan' in the charlotte-mecklenburg school system, but now i think it's a little more common. fun fact, john wayne named his son ethan.

― ethan, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

er. My Dad. Though his internet presence is minimal.

― Pete, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm an ex-boxer turned novelist who is also some kind of Indian foreign minister. At least I think they're all the same person; I've never actually followed the links.

― Kris, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am lots of academics and a major general, but more importantly I have my own CORNISH ALE! Yes, John Davey's Cornish Ale, seek it out right now.

Just out of interest, has anyone Googled a person called X from ILM/ILE, put a face to the name and later found out it was an entirely different person called X?

― John Davey, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, and then I commissioned her to write a column called 'The Diary of X' in the local newspaper. She was supposed to be the voice of generation X but the whole idea turned out to be clearly appalling.

― Nick, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nick may I eat your dreams?

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

WHAT CAN WE DO WITH THIS MAN?

― Nick, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All we can do is love him.

Damn, I pulled down a lot of money in these horse shows. Why the hell am I always strapped for cash?

― David Raposa, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am an untamed firepuss!

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What does that even mean?

― Ally, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

With my full name no hits! I am unique!

But without my middle name there is:

A Karate fighter me
A US Marshall me
A few dead me's
A democrat in South Jersey me
A sportswear manufacturing me in New Zealand
A toxicologist me
And a bike racing me

I feel all post modern and multiple now!

― jel, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

have called myself mark s on these boards primarily so as not to fill my google pages with half-baked off-the-cuff silliness
And there's me thinking it was some sort of ironic tribute to old skool rappers.

― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I appear to be unique also -- not a single other person in all the Google searches I made had the same name as my real name. My handle is too common a word to see if other people use it.

― palpable, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Apparently there is an American psychologist called David Greenfield, and he's the titties, so it seems.

― DG, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think I can say with some certainty that I am the only Nitsuh Abebe on the planet.

― Nitsuh, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jello? NO thanks, I'm an angel!

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

good lord lookit This

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mike, I'm so sorry to read that.

― Kerry, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You know its not me right?

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sure, Mike. Sure.

I did just locate another Nitsuh -- she's married to some architect or civil engineer or something. So at least there are two Nitsuhs in the world, if not two Nitsuh Abebes.

― Nitsuh, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you are a woman?

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, not a woman.

But I thought it'd be fun to not specify above, and see if anyone reacted. Cause, you know, I very well could be, for all you lot know.

― Nitsuh, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Take a look down below nits

― Mike Hanley, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's some guy in Poland who wrote a book about architecture also named "Tadeusz Suchodolski."

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Never mind webnet, had another me three years ahead at primary school (would get his girlfriends phoning - ha!). And then another me in 1st year university classes. Reputation would occasionally precede me in does-not-compute ways. Which musta been WAY WORSE for them. Also share name w/ lead character in book "Generation X" - feh.

― AP, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A few years ago I found one who lived in North Carolina. Alas the novelty was recently obliterated when I found I am Byron Weiss #2 at BMG. And now we get each others emails and phone calls. Its fucked.

― bnw, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As mentioned before: a lesbian girl living in france. but apparently i also know how to cook. just check nathalie.com; not my kitchen. the only machine that is used in my kitchen is a microwave.

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Only high school girls on soccer teams. Otherwise my name is unique.

― Melissa W, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wow, I didn't know my site was listed on Google. It's only been up for a few weeks at its current address.

― Mike Hanley II, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What the hell! who are you! THere can be only one!

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The mirror universe Hanle y - now THERE's a concept...

― Andrew L, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Skipping 15 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

k-BLIMEY graham i have not trampolined since i was about 15 and they FORCED us to in PE! and i am SURE it is partially responsible for my subsequent back trouble grrr...

― katie, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am unique!, which is odd since I have an appalling common name (& it's not even the spelling - the other obv. spelling of my name just gets the great-great-great(etc)-grandfather I was named after).

― Ess Kay, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When not topping the poll in the Pulaski, Virginia, Town Council elections, I live in Racine, Wisconsin. I’m crazy for Oldtime music, play flat picking guitar style and reallly enjoy accompanying good (even not so good) fiddlers. Would love to jam and make connections with other Oldtime freaks in my area.

― Jeff W, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nitsuh.htm

― tae kwon do nitsuh!!!, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When I google my own name, I am the only me that comes up, and sadly enough, it's mostly from ILE threads. BUH!

― Lady Wolf, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My other according to amazon.com apparently shares the same birthday as me. (My paranoid theory of this: someone is hoping to lure people looking for my wishlist to theirs, to buy them gifts (a playstation 2 game and a ladder?!) instead of moui!)

― bnw, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have two internet doppelgangers who have the temerity to work, like me, in not-for-profit lefty type environments. Curses. How are people to disinter my words of wisdom from the interweb with these interlopers?

― Nathan Barley, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That's a kick-ass ladder, though, Byron!

― nabisco, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish I could say I was the World's Greatest Martin Skidmore, but there is another who is Sensei of the Imperial Shotokan Karate School, which sounds a lot cooler than me. It is not me, in case anyone Googled me and was therefore scared to argue with or insult me.

― Martin Skidmore, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a Rosemary Gilbert who's a real estate agent in Michigan. If you put my real name you would learn that I am a 1998 Pi Delta Phi member.

― rosemary, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Only a girl who was in Little Shop of Horrors in Queens. As my last name is a very common word and my first name is a very common name I get lots of hits where they're not connected.

― Maria, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My last name is very common in German-speaking countries, so I can't quite keep the people straight, but I have the same name as a competitive swimmer, a ping-pong player, a guitarist, an elementary school teacher...and the wife of a missionary to Papua New Guinea.

― j.lu, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mine lives in guelph and does cross-country

― mark s, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Just me, although middle + last name reveals not my father but a man of French citizenship who landed in New York from London in 1866. I think that we're related.

― Colin Meeder, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Amazong (as I keep typing it) sells Ladders???

― Graham, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

apparently I teach Spanish I and II at a school in Ohio as well as coach Track and Hockey. Plus if you go to the web page I can throw a shot-put.

― Chris, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hooray there is now a vicar me and a geophysicist me. But, I have to admit, that out of all the me's I'm the best.

― jel --, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevive. Googled my own name. I was wondering how many results I'd have to plough through before finding myself (so to speak). 171 was the answer. Turns out I am also a mediocre college football player and the songwriter for one of the worst bands of the 80s.

― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:58 (twenty years ago)

One of my dopplegangers was convicted of cattle molestation in New Mexico or Texas (I forget which), but was luckily acquitted.

― naus (Robert T), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 00:34 (twenty years ago)

The other All1son Ke4rney is getting married, in Maryland, in the same month as me, and is registered at the same place I am!! I only know this because I was horribly confused when Bed Bath & Beyond accused me of marrying someone named "Kevin". Or Kyle, maybe it was. Who cares, anyway, I don't know anyone with EITHER name. Very odd though.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 01:02 (twenty years ago)

WHat! You mean for all these years I have been thinking you were that OTHER Ally - sorry for calling you a tart all those times.

― Latham Green (mike), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 05:25 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.streetfightermarketing.net/images/ad1.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 06:51 (twenty years ago)

http://www.streetfightermarketing.net/images/sfmfyb.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 06:53 (twenty years ago)

http://www.jewishaustralia.com/shop/shop_images/thumbnail/136.jpg

one of these dudes

― nephil, Wednesday, 25 January 2006 07:18 (twenty years ago)

In the middle of this photo is Nick Currie, who works at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia's Engineering Experiment Station then unwinds with his (frankly lugubrious) friends at Ansley Golf Club.

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 08:27 (twenty years ago)

Well, last month I found someone's website with a CV of various IT type qualifications, experience, etc, ten years younger than me, with the exact name as myself (middle name included).

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 08:45 (twenty years ago)

I am head of PR at Nickelodeon, I am a professional footballer, I am a political activist in Woolongong, I scored a tri for some posh school's rugby team.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 09:01 (twenty years ago)

I'm
an illustrator for children's books.
an author on a book on how to quit smoking.
an supporting actress in a 60s sexploitation flick.
and a german tv personality.

― sonore (sonore), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 10:08 (twenty years ago)

My full name is just me. However, if you italianise my first name, you get many, many hits on an Australian molecular bioscientist from Canberra.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 10:37 (twenty years ago)

I'm a Dallas based artist whose work is brightly hued with characters that dance in a light hearted aura.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 10:42 (twenty years ago)

Somewhat bizarrely, I have an online pseudonym doppelganger who posts to what appears to be a scat fetish site. You can investigate more if you're curious.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 11:05 (twenty years ago)

...well covered

― nephil, Wednesday, 25 January 2006 11:14 (twenty years ago)

It's what they appear to be covered in that's more worrying.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 11:15 (twenty years ago)

THe most wonderful thing about tiggers...

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:38 (twenty years ago)

Judging by the one picture I looked at, the one time my curiousity got the better of me, springs is most definitely NOT what their bottoms are made out of.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 15:11 (twenty years ago)

I thought that this thread was going to be about people on the internet who look like you.

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/9469/swordme1id.jpg

Which would've been unfortunate.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:27 (twenty years ago)

big sword

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:30 (twenty years ago)

1. Dude who wrote High Noon
2. Famous dolphin expert (actually his first and middle name = my whole name, but I get him a lot in Google searches)
3. British chamber-pop singer-songwriter, viz:

ihttp://www.popnews.com/popnews/cunningham2/cunningham2.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:37 (twenty years ago)

i'm a former aerospace engineer who's achieved my dream of hollywood screenwriting (where i put in a lot more hours and make less money - but i'm finally HAPPY, damn it!) with the help of scientology.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm some sort of government official on energy and conservation in Colorado. But then by the third hit I'm me again.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Apparently I live in NYC and I'm the worst painter in the world.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:52 (twenty years ago)

I actually like his paintings! Except for that first one, which is pretty terrible. But the rest look cool. Although you can see his influences pretty clearly: Richter and Ruscha. "The Kids Were Alright" reminds me, oddly, of Marcel Dzama minus the surrealism.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:56 (twenty years ago)

The original -- Tracer Hand

ihttp://www.pbrnow.com/images/riders/95-90023.jpg

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)

besides being a noted pop critic, i'm a "Communication Fellow currently working with Great Works courses. A doctoral candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, she has also taught composition and literature at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and worked as as a Writing Fellow at the College of Staten Island." (That's from Baruch's website -- eerie because I took a class at Baruch once.)

"jodi" is a "portrait and wedding photographer in the seattle, washington and portland, oregon areas." (again, weird: i've lived in portland.)

"jodie" is "an account executive at MedTemps Inc. in Bellevue, Washington." (um, i'm popular in washington!)

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:02 (twenty years ago)

I actually like his paintings!

the "new waves girls" and "the new romantics" i like a lot.

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:03 (twenty years ago)

i am a multitude, but this is clearly the best me:

http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/minibios/p/images/Jprkilt_small.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:03 (twenty years ago)

I guess one of the guys who wrote the original Java code shares my name... So far, that coincidence hasn't helped my career. "I" have also published quite a few technical and medical articles. I'm pretty fucking impressive. Oh, and I've talked about shitty bands that I've seen.

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:06 (twenty years ago)

There is a guy who writes (wrote?) for Perfect Sound Forever who shares my name AND has very similar music taste. Very disconcerting.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

The person who shares my name runs the third-largest charity in America (I hit right after her, but no pics, just scans of articles). So that's what all the alumni bumf from college is all about...

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:17 (twenty years ago)

I have apparently written this quote, which is deemed interesting enough to be on quote websites:
"Laughter is complete rapture vocalized."

I'm also this person:
http://www.wgbv.com/photov/list.do?personId=788

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:27 (twenty years ago)

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