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

* and outstretched *

No hard feelings, Granny. To get the thread back to its original purpose, I'm also

the Sunday Director of the Red Gate Gallery in Beijing,
curator of the Bellevue Art Museum,
a member of the 1989 Uni of Michigan football team,
a third year physics student from the University of Victoria with
honours physics and a declared major and astronomy,
co-founder of the Garden Variety Shakespeare Company,
VP of Programming for the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity in Columbia Uni,
a member of the Fox6 News Team in Alabama,
some scumbag in Massachusetts who beat up a 17-y/o girl for having a relationship with a 15-y/o black boy,
an English stock-car racer who died in a crash in 1976,
a Canadian industrialist,
and finally...Professor of Political Science, BA, MA, Ph.D., University of South Carolina.

Granny

You asked for it Mr Legion, just inputting my surname

a department store in Paris
a complementary Health Centre in the UK
a Church in the UK
My cousin umpteen times removed in the US
a Restaurant in the South West UK
a family in Mexico (hmm have to look into that)
a Plantation in the US
my brother
a doctor in the US (another cousin umpteen times removed)
an Italian scientist
an Australian Scientist (yet another relative)
The victim of an unsolved murder in Belfast (sadly related again)
a descendant of Charlemagne (probably true)
etc....

and by misspelling it slightly (ie, reverting to the original)
a town in northern France

Mr Legion

Drat! Well...did I mention I was the chairman of the Washoe Tribe and VP of the Congress of American Indians? I've even met Al Gore!

Let's end this vicious self-destructive cycle, Granny. Have a And forget that I mentioned Al Gore.

she's just zis little old lady y'know

Well I have

A Ph.D. and author internationally recognised in work in education, human services, juvenile justice and family psychology.
An attorny in Florence, Alberta and professor at Magill University.
A board and card game fanatic.
A computer games designer
A real estate agent
An organic farmer
A Police Captain, who Allen Iverson of the Phildelphia 76ers.
A doctor in Oklahoma
A family tree where someone with my name had a son with my fathers who had a son with my name.
A boat renovator
Another author
A sports reporter
A South Carolina environmentalist
A bowler, whoops that is me.

I almost thought I had one of Janet Renos opponents in the Democratic primary for Florida Governorship but it was only his first and middle name which matched mine.

Under the alternative spelling of the first name

A botanic research assistant
Genesis spacecraft engineer

Alternative spelling of surname
Some kid nad his smarties
A pharmacy professor
Naval officer
Gosford Council's director of works


Alternative spelling of both names
A bowler, not me one in Scotland, I mean one who's played for Scotland.
A sci-fi writer but only by taking his first two names his surname is different.

To dig up an old thread.

The only other person with any presence on the Web who shares my name is a bloke who sells guns in Texas. Marvellous...

B

Doesn't everyone in Texas sell guns?

Or oil.

Or beef.

B

Or own a American football team

Right - with my real name, there is only one link, and that is on a friend's website - so I find myself there...

With the h2g2 nickname - the first two links are to - me here, and then there are various other references to witty ditties in the musical sense - those of Tom Lehrer

(actually - a little off topic - did anyone else see DG's Astrology experiment? Or was it just me and a bag of crisps?)

Apparently I'm a Project Manager at the Jobcentre in Wolverhampton, and no-one else. Feeling a bit lonely now

Yeah, I've seen DGIAE. Very funny. I'm a pisces, but I don't care about horoscopes. Which meant I've avoided peeling a tangerine and flicking the pieces into a very expensive bowl...

Singing the National Anthem backwards - and dressing in purple?

'No 'stab a Capricorn' there!'

I just loved the auction bit at the end of the last program, precipitated by the graph falling off into the gloom...

'I'm not happy'

*cue laughter from audience who thinks he's just playing this for laughs...*

'No really - I'm not happy...'

*shocked silence from audience as they realise that he is in fact, serious...*

But how many times will he go to the gym in the 40 day? It's 3 times so far...

Exercise - read: How many times can you fall off a running machine?

You have put no value on Art!!!

Oooh - I don't know... will £200 do it?

'The beast....'

'And the only reason I didn't look entirely stupid is because I had a nine-year-old schoolboy to help me.'

Oooh - if your connection is fast enough, there a sneak preview on this page of some of DG getting down with his bad self:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/previews/


Click on 'disco Dave' - you won't regret it - and I hope you've got some speakers!



My dears, I do believe we've drifted!

So, getting back to topic, is it valid to just use your surname? Cus I can find a lot more people that way. However, one of them is my sister...

Right, I tried my first name+surname and found:

a clerical officer in Donegal (boring it better get better than that..)

a porn star on a motor bike (obvious use of the surname there)

a New York mother awaiting trial for a rather gruesome infantacide (eeeeeuuugh!)

a horticultural expert with strong opinions on this years kiwi fruit crop (now that's more like it!)

Hey! there's me! The real me! bottom of page 2 of results!


*off to find more*