My educated guess would be this: (David P. + World of Warcraft = gotcha!)
Could be, I looked at the first row of photos and stopped there. Didn't bother with his online gaming hobby.
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Someone's using my name. What do I do?
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Could be, I looked at the first row of photos and stopped there. Didn't bother with his online gaming hobby.
Soooo, which one is the real deal?
On another, (also) totally irrelevant, note it's one of the advantages of being a man: being googled doesn't bring up all these nude pics..phew!
And that's just an initial, but amazed it was there. I'll let you guess:
I had thought MY name was unique until I saw the movie, Top Secret! At least my name isn't Heywood Jablowme.
YouTube: video
Okay, that was hilarious. I am going to have to watch it. This could be right up there with Blazing Saddles.
I wrote a "life goal" list a long time ago. One of those items was to see my name in a movie credit. Well, I discovered there is a film editor that I share a name with. I can cross that goal off!
And I, too, have a unique name.
And I, too, have a unique name.
probably the first thing those pesky collectors do is a search for people with the name they're looking for.....who've recently changed their phone number.....then they start with them
Some have been bold enough to tell me that my phone number was used on the credit application. I lived in Minnesota followed by Texas. The dead beat lives in California. Although it was not impossible, I did not believe them.
I share my first name with every third Jewish person (yes, including some girls) and my last name with every other Jewish person.
I had thought MY name was unique until I saw the movie, Top Secret! At least my name isn't Heywood Jablowme.
One of my favorite movies.
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I thought that by spelling my name a different way, there wouldn't be anyone else with that name. Was I wrong. I got a letter, an actual snail mail letter demanding that I give up my domain name because someone shared that name and spelling. Then I later found out there is someone famous with my name and spelling He wrote many of Sir Elton John's songs.
So much for unique spelling.
Jacob Levi?
Many years ago a couple I know who foster kids had moved and changed doctors. He hardly ever went, but a time arose when he needed to.
The doctor pulled up his notes and wanted to talk about how he was getting on with his Heroin addiction as he had been on methadone for a number of months!
Despite trying to explain he wasn't that person, the doctor was convinced he was lying.
there's no surer way to convince them you're who they're looking for then to deny you are
there's no surer way to convince them you're who they're looking for then to deny you are
Actually, all you have to do is deny it, provide some info like a different middle initial and they stop although you can see the weakness of their method, begging someone to admit they are who they are looking for.
That's actually really funny because I work in the field of psychiatric pharmacy and deal a lot with drug addiction. That story's a good one. Must have been frustrating for the kid! I imagine the doctor assumed the kid was a stereotypical lying heroin addict.
There's not a ton of Jewish names out there since conventionally you name your children after a deceased Jewish family member or close friend. In that sense, the same 3 names just get recycled over and over again.
Not quite, Aryeh (Arrrr-Yay) is my official first name, though I go by the shortened "Ari" form 95% of the time because a lot of people can't figure out the pronunciation without explanation or say will say "what????". I might as well legally change it at this point
. Sadly also, Goldberg is not actually my last name, though it's my grandmother's maiden name. It's actually an old inside joke* but somehow it stuck as some of my user names. I guess it expresses my Jewishness while maintaining my anonymity and allowing me to pose as a different Ari Goldberg that may be out there with a heroin problem. Despite prevalence of people with my name, I was one of a few Jewish kids in my grade back in the homogeneous and WASPY Connecticut town where I spent most of my life growing up. In fact I was the only person with Jewish parents on both sides in my classes. There were 2 other kids who were Jewish, but they were just half Jewish from their moms side so they didn't have the last name and they could easily hide amongst the gentiles. There were a couple other kids with Jewish sounding last names but they weren't actually Jewish.
*I had this very sweet but crazy, old, senile English and History teacher in High School. She would forget everybody's name and just make up names instead. It was her schtick. I always got called by some Jewish sounding last name. I didn't take it personally, she was a nutcase, but she was well liked by everyone. Honestly it's better than what she called some other people.
Usually she settled on Goldberg, but you know there's also Goldberger, Goldstein, Goldbaum, Goldblum, Goldfarb, Goldblatt, Goldschmit, Goldwasser, Goldschneider, Goldman, Gold, Golden, Feingold, PLUS the'"Silver and Green Editions' (i.e. Silverstein, Greenstein, Greenspan), Berstein, Einstein (if I made an intelligent comment), Frankenstein (around Halloween of Course), Cohen, Kaplan, Levi, Levin, Rabinowitz, Horowitz, Bloomberg, Bochman, Hochman, Feldman, Wisemann, Weinstein, Kleinman, Guggenheim, Seigel, Segal, Shaprio, Rosenberg/bloom/stein/farb/thal, Roth, Rozenweig...... etc
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