Am I Dead?

[Misty_Morning]

No it's not what you think...

This is actually something that comes off of another thread...

This is what I posted:


"Talk about being weirded out.....

A couple of years ago I got high speed internet service...The email address that I wanted was based upon my name but had already been taken.

I do not have a very common name so I this kinda pricked my interest.

I am also into genealogy. A few days ago I was performing a local search on my sirname and got quite a few hits.

Today I was checking out the local obits and found out that I am dead......

Appears there was a woman in this same town that had my same exact name and died last year.....and she was only one year younger than me.....

Too fucking odd....."


So, how many of you have encountered someone else with your name?

 

[TheEarl]

There is one other person in the entire world with my name. He's a jazz musician in the US and I believe he is actually my second cousin, although I'm doubt he's aware I exist (unless he's googled himself. I own him in the google rankings). We're both named after the same guy.

Unless he's got kids, he, my dad and I are the only three men with my surname in the entire world.

No pressure on me to have sons...

The Earl

 

[CopyCarver]

When I was in college, there was a guy with my name who was on the FBI's most-wanted list. Apparently, he had about a dozen class-A felony warrants in several states. That made life really interesting for a while. Luckily, the other dude was about twice my age, was a different race, and had only an elementary school education--not likely to get admitted to a major university.

 

[rgraham666]

Not sure Misty.

Try this.

Wait for the sun to come up tomorrow morning, outside.

If you aren't reduced to a pile of ash when the light falls on you, you're still alive.

I'm not worried about you being the other major type of undead. They can't operate computers.

 

[TE999]

I have heard the theory advanced that everyone has a double, an opposite number. a doppelganger if you will, somewhere in the world.

Given the diversity of races, it would seem to rebut that theory.

However, several years ago I met someone with the same first and last names as me, only the MI was different, off by two letters.

He was Black and I am Caucasian, There wasn't much resemblance, but the same names were interesting. He came to my home to buy a ten-speed bicycle that I advertised for sale in the paper. We had a love of riding in common.

We exchanged numbers, but we never went riding.

Maybe there is something to this doubles business.

It's a weird world out there.

Peace.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Did you try to get her email address yet?

 

[Misty_Morning]

Did you try to get her email address yet?

Thank you!

I need to check on that!

 

[cloudy]

There's a romance author with my name (it may be her pen name, who knows), and a bio-chemist (I think), with my name.

Go figure.

 

[Anniejustagirl]

For a time about 12 years ago.... there were 3 of me in this same small midwestern town.. i don't think we would have realized that except that one of us won a contest and the other two of us were contacted and hadn't a clue what they were talking about.... and that's just in my own neck of the woods... might be fun to look a little further.

 

[Liar]

I've googled like mad, but there's only one me. Probably because great gramps made up a new family name out of random letters.

I'm a snowflake, yeah baby.

 

[scriptordelecto]

I worked with a girl who had the same first and middle name as me(odd enough since my first name isn't very common). We were both petite with red hair. What really creeped me out was that our sisters had the same name, and although she had no brother, my brother's name was the one her parents had chosen, if her sister had been a boy. It was very weird!

 

[Guest]

Due to marriage, I have a fairly common name.

I've googled me.

I'm a cast of thousands.

 

[rgraham666]

Due to marriage, I have a fairly common name.

I've googled me.

I'm a cast of thousands.

Feh. There's no on quite like you, sarahh.

 

[Guest]

Feh. There's no on quite like you, sarahh.

 

[Misty_Morning]

Due to marriage, I have a fairly common name.

I've googled me.

I'm a cast of thousands.

Well, my married name was much more uncommon....or so I thought....but I have encountered that more times than my given name...go figure..

Since I am also into genealogy, I found that that my ex-husband's family and my family had actually intertwined several times...throughout 200+ years...

Maybe that's why we were never meant to be....

 

[cloudy]

Well, my married name was much more uncommon....or so I thought....but I have encountered that more times than my given name...go figure..

Since I am also into genealogy, I found that that my ex-husband's family and my family had actually intertwined several times...throughout 200+ years...

Maybe that's why we were never meant to be....

once K and I get married there will be someone else on the same reserve with my name.

(but then, there are only three or four prominant surnames there, and his is one)

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Due to marriage, I have a fairly common name.

I've googled me.

I'm a cast of thousands.

I succesfully kept myself off of google for a good few years (around 5).

My first name isn't common, but it's not that rare (it just sucks). My last name isn't common at all. There is only one of me that I have ever found.

However, I was looking up my ex girlfriend at one point, and found that there is too of her. One that is a little older than I am (my Ex), and another that is about six years older still.

 

[cantdog]

A fellow with a different middle name lived across the river, and the cops over there had us confused, for a time. I met him, once, although he never found out what my name was at that meeting. He's an alcoholic and becoming an Oxy junkie. He steals. He reneges on his rent. He's an asshole, and very unpleasant to be around, personally, because of the usual junkie/alky personality, which he has given full possession of himself to. I have begun signing with my middle initial, and so on, since I became aware of this gentleman.

But the name is not unique to us. There have been obscure historical figures with it, although I can't say they have ever had the same middle name.

More germane to the doppelganger idea, I think, is the appearance, the personal traits, the interests, the profession. I did meet one man who matched me, in those ways, although our names and ancestry were not similar. We spooked one another out a bit, comparing notes. Also, a boothful of his friends (they were with us at the diner we had gone to). Now that was eerie, much creepier than simply having the same name.

 

[minsue]

My current name has no other, at least not on google, but the surname was Anglicized a couple of generations ago and it's not at all common.

The only time I've ever ran across someone with my maiden name was as a character in a book when I was a kid. It freaked me out, they stole my name!

 

[Trinique_Fire]

No it's not what you think...

This is actually something that comes off of another thread...

This is what I posted:


"Talk about being weirded out.....

A couple of years ago I got high speed internet service...The email address that I wanted was based upon my name but had already been taken.

I do not have a very common name so I this kinda pricked my interest.

I am also into genealogy. A few days ago I was performing a local search on my sirname and got quite a few hits.

Today I was checking out the local obits and found out that I am dead......

Appears there was a woman in this same town that had my same exact name and died last year.....and she was only one year younger than me.....

Too fucking odd....."


So, how many of you have encountered someone else with your name?

Holy sh-- fucking creepy, Misty!!

 

[kendo1]

There's only one of me. Google doesn't return any hits.

I reckon I'll know if I'm dead.

 

[Misty_Morning]

Just remember folks....google ain't god.....

chances are there is "another one of you" out there.....

 

[minsue]

Just remember folks....google ain't god.....

chances are there is "another one of you" out there.....

True, but in my current name combo, it's extremely unlikely.

 

[oggbashan]

There are a couple of people in the English-speaking world with my RL first and (rare) surname but none with the same three Christian names and surname.

There was a 17th century divine of my name who wrote an ill-informed book that has a limited fame.

My wife had one Christian name and one short, common, surname. She was at school with another girl with exactly the same name and same age. The other had her name shortened to a pet form. My wife's name was used in full.

Og