Ever met your namesake?
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LordHaveMurci said:
HTP99 said:
Not me, however my youngest has, she lives in the same town as us, is the same age, has the same unusual first name; Saskia, and same surname.
One of our neighbours is called Saskia, the only one I've met' lovely name Not many about, I worked with a guy who's daughter had the same name but apart from her and this girl that my daughter knows; whom I've not met, I haven't encountered any others with the same name.
Turns out there is a chap that works for IBM with the same name as me, we were working close with the company and they had a team set up in our building. They emailed me inviting me to a meeting regarding the finance system. Although I work in Finance I thought it was a little odd to request me as I am not that high up.
Turns out they wanted the other chap that works for IBM still it gave them all a good chuckle.
Turns out they wanted the other chap that works for IBM still it gave them all a good chuckle.
DUMBO100 said:
I got 5 friend requests on FB from guys with the same name as me. They had started chatting and looked me up too. We chat and share jokes but have never met. It's quite weird when you see your own name on your FB timeline and think "where was I? What was I doing?"
I have a similar thought when I see my name...but it's not me.Years ago I looked up my name on Facebook and was fairly sure that I wouldn't find another one of me..but I did! So I sent a short message saying "I thought I was the only S****** M***** in the world." I got a similar message back and also a friend invite.
It was then that I looked at his profile and realised that I had been chatting to a 12 year old boy.
I don't really use Facebook anymore, but I'm sure he's a bit more grown up now.
The Mrs is constantly getting friendly emails from people show doesn't know. She shares the exact same "use" name as another lady in her company...
I've never met any of my namesakes. Looking them up on the internet, though, is hilarious:
No 1: Realtors. (US Estate Agents). Several of them. Ah well. At least there's
Science Fiction author
Country and Western Singer
Prof of Archaeology
There's probably enough of us for a convention.
I've never met any of my namesakes. Looking them up on the internet, though, is hilarious:
No 1: Realtors. (US Estate Agents). Several of them. Ah well. At least there's
Science Fiction author
Country and Western Singer
Prof of Archaeology
There's probably enough of us for a convention.
DUMBO100 said:
I got 5 friend requests on FB from guys with the same name as me. They had started chatting and looked me up too. We chat and share jokes but have never met. It's quite weird when you see your own name on your FB timeline and think "where was I? What was I doing?"
Same thing happended to me. Strange thing was the guy who requested me from Melbourne, lives 5 mins from my Dad, works in IT, and rides a motorbike too......
Friend of mine, Billl Robinson, came over from the states for a job offshore Aberdeen, he had a contact name up here.
He called and spoke to the contact, who seem very very friendly, on the lines of "Hello Bill, get yourself up,to Aberdeen, I will book you into the Imperial hotel, come in tomorrow and we will talk".
Well Bill,was well impressed, thought this guy was really nice.
He checked into the hotel, (all paid for), and went into the office and and for the guy he had come to see. When he was waiting a guy came out, looked around, saw Bill, then asked the reception where Bill was.
Turns out there were two Bill Robinsone, both sounded like each other, both were American divers. Anyway they got on like a house on fire and a firm friendship was formed.
He called and spoke to the contact, who seem very very friendly, on the lines of "Hello Bill, get yourself up,to Aberdeen, I will book you into the Imperial hotel, come in tomorrow and we will talk".
Well Bill,was well impressed, thought this guy was really nice.
He checked into the hotel, (all paid for), and went into the office and and for the guy he had come to see. When he was waiting a guy came out, looked around, saw Bill, then asked the reception where Bill was.
Turns out there were two Bill Robinsone, both sounded like each other, both were American divers. Anyway they got on like a house on fire and a firm friendship was formed.
Never met, only digitally.
My email is of the format myname@email.com, and it turns out that a guy with the exact same name as me decided to use mynam@email.com (a letter taken off the surname). For a while I kept getting random emails about business deals, social conversations and pictures of people I'd never met before in my life.
It all came to light when I got en email from "myself" explaining that he had booked a flight and was waiting at the airport trying to find his booking details in his inbox, and whether I had accidentally been sent them. Lo and behold, there they were in my junk folder. Think he managed to catch it on time I don't have a common name and it turns out he also lives in London.
My email is of the format myname@email.com, and it turns out that a guy with the exact same name as me decided to use mynam@email.com (a letter taken off the surname). For a while I kept getting random emails about business deals, social conversations and pictures of people I'd never met before in my life.
It all came to light when I got en email from "myself" explaining that he had booked a flight and was waiting at the airport trying to find his booking details in his inbox, and whether I had accidentally been sent them. Lo and behold, there they were in my junk folder. Think he managed to catch it on time I don't have a common name and it turns out he also lives in London.
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