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I some times sing "Rockhopper" to the tune of the B-52's "Rock Lobster"!

Scary what a mancrush can make you do.

In one of my former jobs, a few of the workers would call me "robster"

Speaking of names, it's really annoying being a totally obscure underachiever and yet having the same first and last names as a local prominent business dynamo/do-gooder in your town-- who is not, in fact, related. Take if from me.

Could be worse. They could be a well-known chronic thief/scam artist.

Many of my namesakes seem to be in art or journalism (based on internet ramblings), fields I'm no stranger to myself. The closest to a well-known one is a Hollywood animator.

The only other person I've ever known with my same name was my late grandfather. I've seen Internet references to others, but don't know a thing about any.

I'm the only Anthony on either side of my family.

On my father's side, half the men are named Anthony. On my mother's side there were a lot of Marys. Those, of course, are my parents' names.

Fortunately, I wasn't named after my father, although it was my older brother and sister who got to choose my name.

So your real name is "Stinky Poopyhead" I presume.

Even better than a living duplicate name is when one of your unrelated duplicates drops off the twig and is well-known enough to somebody to get mentioned in a major newspaper's Obituary article.

Then the next day, you're sitting at work at the reception desk trying to earn your wage, and all your college buddies keep calling you to ask what it's like being dead;Oh, and did you leave them anything nice beforehand ?

Yes, this happened. She was a prominent producer of sports shows on the East Coast. I've gotten to be really, really fussy about getting my middle initial onto documents and into signatures over this last decade or so.

I don't really have to worry about my name being duplicated (although there is one other person with my name who has his own website). However, my name does remind people of a certain age of an old-time radio program.

I don't mind the comparison. When someone asks, I point out that that character was not using his real name; I can't say the same.

No one well known has my name however one of the supervisors at my old job was named Gary Cooper.

Do you wonder why some people give their kids double names, like John Johns or Stephen Stephens?

In the book Freakanomics, the author tells the story of a guy who named one son "Winner" and the other son "Loser". Winner ends up in jail, while Loser becomes a police officer and answers to "Lou".

I know a woman named Minnie Barr.

When I was in high school, there was apparently a kid at an Albany-area school named Justin Time.

One of my old school buddies (who's stopping by later today, in fact) has the same name as a famous football coach-sportscaster. Only the spelling is different. My friend is not remotely athletic and weighs about twelve pounds-- with his shoes on.

But he is better adjusted than that poor slob in Office Space who was named Michael Bolton.

I have a cousin and an uncle who share a name with an annoying, low-brow television personality.

Another uncle shared a name with an old-time actor/comedian, but their last names were spelled significantly different (even though pronounced the same).

My dad shared a name with a DC Comics inker of the 1970s.

People I know with odd names -

Crystal Ball
Candy Caines
Donald McDonald
Humphrey Dunphy

(BTW I LOVE the last name, It makes me giggle)

two names that I have come across that I like are:

Heyman Gorelick
Bunny Askew

Of course, Houston was home to Ima Hogg , daughter of Texas Governor Jim Hogg and noted patron of the arts. She roughly is to Houston what Isabella Stewart Gardner is to Boston, though with a funnier name.

um...how stupid were her parents....or was it just a very serious no laughing at others era. alas poor ima rose above it.

I'd get my revenge by having "Here lies Jim 'I'm a big fat stupid idiot' Hogg" on the tombstone.

If I were still trying to write comics, I would absolutely name a character after my full Hebrew name-- because I'm just that damn vain. Also, that way I'd know if my close friends and loved ones were really reading my comics or just throwing them in the recycling bin unopened.

cleome, what kind of egotistical dumbass Mary Sue crap are you pulling here, anyway ?

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