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16 Apr 11 - 12:01 PM (#3136361) Subject: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: Fred McCormick I've just come across a list of dignitaries and functionaries for the rotary club of Selma (Alabama?). Turns out I'm due to address them on 13th June. Shock. Amazement. Wish they'd told me sooner. Any chance of a a few bob towards the air fare? While I'm boggling over this, I noticed that I'm down to do the meals on wheels the previous week. More shock and amazement, especially as it won't be worth coming home, so I'm going to have to hang about Selma for a whole week. But that's not all. The week I'm giving the public address, Ed McCurdy is doing the meals on wheels, and the following week he's doing the public address! That's eleven years after he died. Clearly one for the department of curious coincidences. After all, I doubt I'm the only Fred McCormick in the world, and I'll bet if you looked hard enough you'd find a few Ed McCurdys as well. But Selma, Alabama? It fair reminds me of the time I was waiting in a hospital outpatients'. I knew it would be a long wait because ahead of me in the queue were Margaret Barry, Sara Grey and some geezer whose second name was Playford. |
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16 Apr 11 - 12:15 PM (#3136369) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: Will Fly Could be worse, Fred - you might be this one: Anyone have experience with Fred McCormick? I have bought a watch from Fred McCormick and am concerned that his communication has stopped. I realize that the holiday weekend may effected his ability to stay in contact. Has anyone ever dealt with McCromick? He has many sales posts on TZ, but I can't find anyone who has ever dealt with him. I hope he's legit as the money has been sent. Thanks in advance gentleman. By the way, if he is legit or not, I'll make sure to update this post. Actually, this Fred was legit - and the watch reached its destination. Bugger being famous, innit? Now - just stop Googling yourself and go back to bed! |
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16 Apr 11 - 12:30 PM (#3136375) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: DMcG I am CEO of Intelsat in *my* spare time |
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16 Apr 11 - 12:37 PM (#3136378) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: GUEST,John MacKenzie I directed The Long Good Friday, I'm informed. Well, I knew about the endless bad Mondays! |
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16 Apr 11 - 12:52 PM (#3136384) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: Fred McCormick Will. Yes but if I didn't google myself, how would I know whether anyone had caught up with my illicit watch dealing activities? Anyway, I wasn't googling myself. Remember that mad bastard of a BNP troll who was stealing people's identities a while ago? As a consequence of this crackpot, I set Google Alert to tell me whenever my name came up on the Internet, so that I could take swift and positive action. I think he's gone back into rehab because things have been quiet for a while. Then the other day I received a catalogue from a company specialising in large ladies' bras. Can you imagine me in a large lady's bra? On second thoughts don't. |
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16 Apr 11 - 12:57 PM (#3136386) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: Bill D I once got a call from a 'friend' inquiring if I was ok, as he had heard Bill Day, the wooden bowl maker had died. Seems there was a semi-famous old guy who had done demos at the Smithsonian Folk Festival. It is NOT an uncommon name....though not as troublesome as being one of the John Smiths. There are no doubt several hundred million folks in the English speaking world who might share names... |
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16 Apr 11 - 01:12 PM (#3136396) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: gnu And me, I'm Gary Owens. |
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16 Apr 11 - 01:14 PM (#3136398) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: Will Fly Can you imagine me in a large lady's bra? ............................................... ............................................... ............................................... ............................................... ............................................... ............................................... Mmmmm.......................................... (sigh) |
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16 Apr 11 - 01:31 PM (#3136415) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: Bill D A T-cup? A Z-bra? |
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16 Apr 11 - 01:43 PM (#3136421) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: JohnInKansas Despite having one of the more common names extant (there's even been another of me at mudcat, althugh I don't think I've seen him post for some time) my only claim to public notoriety appears to have been a rather mediocre actor who played many bit parts as a mobster in multiple B-grade movies in the '40s. His best known "talent" was the ability to flip a quarter in the air repeatedly, and the limit of his versatility appeared in the one movie in which he flipped a half-dollar instead. But to claim even that I have to revert to a "nickname" used within the family to distinguish me from the other three then living with the same (common but never famous) given name. John |
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16 Apr 11 - 01:55 PM (#3136425) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: gnu Hey! I just googled me and the Gary Owens of fame and fortune was born Gary Altman. Maybe if I changed my name to Gary Altman I'd become famous too. Can't hurt the way things are going. |
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16 Apr 11 - 02:40 PM (#3136445) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: frogprince I've been an executive with Motoman for years, but I can't remember a bit of it. I also have some recordings out, either with a band called "The Jesus and God Project", or with an album by that title to our credit. I do find, however, that Google does mention 3 or 4 things that I actually remember being there for Dean |
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16 Apr 11 - 03:29 PM (#3136484) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: GUEST,Eliza I'm apparently Director of Research into Ageing (!!!) and a famous animal portraitist. I have an OBE and also own a furnishing centre! I'm VERY impressed with myself. |
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16 Apr 11 - 03:37 PM (#3136488) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: fat B****rd I was Googling myself (filthy habit) and after finding out that I am by no means the only Charles Stenger on the planet I remembered that I've always thought peple who Google themselves were egotistical prats. Yours EP B****rd |
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16 Apr 11 - 04:12 PM (#3136509) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: GUEST,Eliza I have only once Googled myself, to find out what info about me could be gleaned by the general public. But sadly, my real self is not there at all. Probably a good thing! |
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16 Apr 11 - 04:22 PM (#3136516) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: gnu When I google me I get too many (tw)hits to look at. |
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16 Apr 11 - 06:08 PM (#3136564) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: JohnInKansas In actuality - I'd forgotten about it - my picture is on the back side of the US $10,000 Treasury Bill. Sorry, but I don't have one to show you. It's a very nice picture, I suppose; but green just ain't really my color. John |
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16 Apr 11 - 06:47 PM (#3136583) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: Tangledwood You've got me trying google now. One hit is curious, it's in Welsh. Apparently I'm a Welsh actor who played the part of Graham in a TV series. Odd, because that's my brother's name. |
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16 Apr 11 - 07:05 PM (#3136592) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: Noreen Ha! I am down as one of the authors of a paper in the Biochem Journal : The nucleotide sequence of Scenedesmus obliquus chloroplast elongator methionine-accepting tRNA Strangely enough, this was actually me, in a previous life- well before the days of the internet or digitisation, when research papers actually were papers and were spread around the research community by snail-mail. My, that takes me back a bit! |
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17 Apr 11 - 08:10 AM (#3136791) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: GUEST,Eliza Good gracious Noreen, I'm very impresssed! I can't even understand the title of your paper! Scientists have all my admiration. |
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17 Apr 11 - 11:25 AM (#3136856) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: gnomad Good grief! "About" 11,800,000 results if I search my name excluding the film in which I share names with a lead character. I'm not following up on all that lot, but I do seem to be a busy person. |
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17 Apr 11 - 04:35 PM (#3137008) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: JohnInKansas The site has been referenced here before, but for those who would like a shortcut to the statistics, try: http://howmanyofme.com/ The claim is that the site has listed and counted all the names appearing in US Census reports and can tell you how many times your first and last names appear, and how many times they appear used by the same person. It's much quicker, with a very "compact" report that may be of some help as a starting point for more specific searches. It claims that there are 5,12,015 people in the US using my first name, and that it is the second most popular first name; that 99.63 percent of those using it are male, and lists the first five most common "variant forms" with an option to check the number using each of 11 variant forms. There are 581,623 people in the U.S. using my last name, that it is the 27th most common last name, lists 5 famous people using it, and gives links to searches on 16 famous users. There are 9,547 people in the U.S. using both my first and last name. Results, unfortunately, are for US Census information only. (For those elsewhere it might only suggest how many of your clan had the good sense to come here, so you can puzzle over why they left you behind?) Perhaps there are similar sites for other countries or perhaps other subsets of populations? John |
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17 Apr 11 - 04:40 PM (#3137013) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: JohnInKansas The site lists the results in tables, and unfortunately the copy/paste dropped a zero in the middle of the 5,120,015 of my first name matches. I guess I got so excited when my link worked in preview that I didn't proofread the rest as closely as usual. John |
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17 Apr 11 - 08:19 PM (#3137139) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: The Fooles Troupe Some years ago, I found I was a US Politician fighting for election. |
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17 Apr 11 - 08:44 PM (#3137144) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: Melissa According to the HowMany site, there's "one or fewer" of me. Oddly enough, I used to think there was at least one! |
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17 Apr 11 - 09:23 PM (#3137153) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: JohnInKansas We shall immediately file a report noting that Melissa failed to return the Census forms. I seem to have several recent ancestors among those who never appeared in any Census. Family tradition explained that they were "out herding (someone's?) horses" but I've generally assumed they were more likely "up at the still" when the census taker showed up. John |
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18 Apr 11 - 01:30 AM (#3137193) Subject: RE: BS: F(r)ame at last ? From: Melissa ..and I would have gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for you meddling kids (and the persistent census lady that kept coming back until she caught me) |