h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well I get...

Ferrari restorer
Prize winning Australian photographer
Organist at a Methodist church in Delaware
Competitor in a US microlight competition
Something to do with a flasher

Oooh I'm multitaltented

Professor Department of Mathematics University of Michigan.
Someone who works for Wyomissing Real Estate
A woman with something to do wih Equestrian Sculpture and Fine Art
An Author
Research Director
MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology
& Reproductive Sciences

And I think I'll stop there bearing in mind my name brought up 1,290,000 hits on google LMAO

Well here's what you get for having a rare name...

First one: me, Uni alumni news

Second one: me, some dodgy quotes about shaving wookiees.

Third one: erm, me, contributing to Football365

Fourth one: not me! Apparently I'm a wrestler in Ellsworth, Wisconsin, but not a great one as I was beaten by a bloke called Chad.

And then me again. More football. But not where I originally wrote it, which is rather strange.

And none under any other combinations of my name, so I am (extremely nearly) unique.

I am:

a doctor in experimental economics in Royal Holloway Uni of London,
the Chairman of the Washoe Tribe of Nevada & California & VP of the National Congress of American Indians (),
an author and syndicated columnist for the South Boston Tribune,
a professor of law in Hong Kong,
Executive Producer and CEO of Four Winds Media,
a "32 year-old author of the forthcoming title, Labyrinth of Chaos, a mystic, philosopher, and writer with over ten years of professional writing experience",
an orthapaedic surgeon,
a wildlife artist,
a NZ WW2 flying ace,
Labour Party councillor for the ward of Stepps,
a senior member of the law firm Bull, Housser & Tupper,
a police officer in Torrington,
*another* lawyer ,
lead vocals/guitar in The Primate 5,
VP of Brainerd United Educators,
managing director of an ad company,
a Scientologist missionary,
a US Army private...

How do I fit it all in? Time-sharing, of course. I got 4,930 hits. This is *fun*.

I'm apparently:

a dealer in Jukeboxes from Islington,
an oceanographer from Southhampton,
and Editor for Final Cut,
a blacksmith.

And many more things. I must have a very popular name.

I was the victim of a 'savage' attack in Birkenhead where i suffered a broken jaw...the perpetrators only 'suffered' three years though

i never felt a thing.

Probably 'cause i'm also a Conservative MP,
an olympian Hockey player,
a member of the Saffron Walden Model Railway Club,
a writer of books about Vishnu,
and a former lieutenant in the South African Police Force.

(just wait till they get out of jail, we'll *all* be waiting for 'em)

Google search for all permutations of my name bring up a big fat nothing (even if I spell my surname a little bit wrong).

A search on my last name reveals me to be an ugly looking dog in Newfoundland, a series of porcelain dolls, a fine looking lady whose first name is Chastity (and is spelt wrong on a couple of websites), a lecturer at the Bryan School of Business Economics and 774 other entries. None are for me.

Anyone for a spot of "Dave Gorman Jeopardy" ?

The only person I've worked out so far is Liam Graves (aka Cap'n Spankmunki) back in posting 1.

I get
1) Adninistrative officer in the department of geography at Queen Mary University of Nodnol
2) Me - on H2G2
3) Me on vbCity.com
4) KATHERINE DUNCAN-JONES (erm..who?)
5) Me again on DevelopersDex
6) Authors of "A mixed method Poisson solver for three-dimensional self-gravitating astrophysical fluid dynamical systems"
7) David Bowie's son - article on him changing his name (to mine )

i have found thomas mendelsohns (for lo! that is my name) but none of them appear to have done anything other than exist in family trees...

Oh can we count when we actually find ourselves?

"I travelled the universe to find myself...turns out I was right here all along"

If we don't count finding ourselves then I'll be condemned to life as a substandard amateur wrestler in smalltown USA....can't even have hair extensions, a steroid addiction and a dodgy costume like the famous ones

Well *I'm* chairman of the Washabe Tribe Despite not having an even vaguely Indian-sounding name...

the first 30 or so google references to me are about an american footbaleer. Couldn't be bothered to look futher
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but spelling my first name differently 2
A Bindery Assistant at a Uni in NZ
A 2002 Phi Kappa student at a US Uni

from the areas I think they're both distantly related

I have a very unusual surname

Am I right in thinking that you're Welsh? 'Cause that might explain it Makes me feel dirt common, since I came up with over 4,000 matches...

Yup, but my surname's of French origin. 1066 & all that

1066? I knew you were old, but Jeez...