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posted March 25, 2019 10:18 AMHide Post
Currently work with Jimmy Stewart, James Taylor, Steve Martin, Pamela Anderson and Jaclyn Smith.



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posted March 25, 2019 10:20 AMHide Post
John Lydon?



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posted March 25, 2019 10:25 AMHide Post
There was a kid in my high school named Bruce Lee.

And he was far from being the real one; overweight, tall for a Chinese guy, shy.



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Savor the limelight
posted March 25, 2019 10:34 AMHide Post
quote:
Originally posted by egregore:
I have the same name (first and last) as the lead singer of a punk rock band. It is sufficiently obscure that the subject has never come up.


So not Gordon Gano, how about Jay Tiller?
 
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posted March 25, 2019 11:53 AMHide Post
The client rep at my bank is named Winston Smith. Not a hugely famous name, but I asked him how often people comment on it. He said only about once a year will someone make the connection.


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posted March 25, 2019 01:42 PMHide Post
quote:
Originally posted by CoolRich59:
The client rep at my bank is named Winston Smith. Not a hugely famous name, but I asked him how often people comment on it. He said only about once a year will someone make the connection.


I used that as an email alias for several years. I was surprised at how little it was recognized.


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posted March 25, 2019 02:15 PMHide Post
My friend, Rick Nelson, was an air traffic controller (now retired). He's the alive one.
His namesake, the singer-songwriter, died in a plane crash.
 
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posted March 25, 2019 04:01 PMHide Post
Charles Bronson signed my first Florida Concealed Firearm License.


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posted March 25, 2019 04:28 PMHide Post
I also know James Brown. He's the man at the Indiana University School of Journalism. He's referred to as Dr. Brown, never as The Godfather of Soul. He does not have a brand new bag, but says he feels good, so good.
 
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His diet consists of black
coffee, and sarcasm.
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posted March 25, 2019 05:19 PMHide Post
I found this out a few years ago when, having nothing better to do at the moment and for shits and giggles, did a Google search of my own name.
quote:
Originally posted by trapper189:

So not Gordon Gano, how about Jay Tiller?

Nope, neither of those. (Whoever they are.)
 
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posted March 25, 2019 07:13 PMHide Post
I taught Ethan Hunt to shoot.

No kidding.

On a related note, I also found my Charles Bronson issued Florida CWP going through a drawer the other day.

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His diet consists of black
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posted March 31, 2019 08:28 AMHide Post
Not an exact match because of the spelling, but there was a client in the shop recently named Zane Gray. And there was a Steve Martin and a Martin Short (but not the famous ones) in my high school.
 
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posted March 31, 2019 09:46 AMHide Post
Ironically, the wife of my next door neighbor 13 years ago was Diana Ross. My wife had a friend named Charli Brown (woman). I worked with a John Holmes.
 
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I had such friends.
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posted March 31, 2019 11:13 AMHide Post
I dated Debbie Reynolds in college.




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posted April 01, 2019 10:09 AMHide Post
A famous name would be a pain in the ass but how would would you handle a name like Connie Lingus, or Dick Dangle, Phil Ashio?


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posted April 01, 2019 11:04 AMHide Post
Met an Army Aviator whose name was JAMES BOND.

He was good with it. Said it WAS fun to tell women in bars his name. Typical pilot.
 
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