Bizarro World
Prepping for my interview tomorrow morning with Tom Sowell, I spent a moment just now on Google, trying to find the transcript of an interview I'd done with Dr. Sowell last year. What popped up? This.
Peter Robinson, better known as Marilyn, is a
British pop singer who achieved international fame in the 1980s with his hit song "Calling Your Name".
Robinson was a part of the British New Romantic movement, a late 1970s underground post-punk fashion movement that became popularised in the early 1980s....Boy George and Marilyn moved into a squat in Kentish Town, a suburb of London. Boy George claims they were later chased out by a neighbour who tried to break down the front door with an axe because the neighbour was attracted to Marilyn, whom he assumed was a woman and later found out was a man. Also according to George, in his autobiography Take It Like A Man, Marilyn once attempted to seduce David Bowie at a nightclub venue called 'Legends', but was rebuffed.
Is there another Andrew Klavan? A secret Rob Long or David Limbaugh or Claire Berlinski?
Tell me, someone--tell me I'm not alone.
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Peter: I'm afraid I can't compete with that one. The best I can do is report that some ten years ago, maybe 15, I was in an obscure convenience store in town and noticed that posted on the bulletin board was a bad check from one David Limbaugh. Upon closer inspection, I discovered that I was not the David Limbaugh in question. But I thought about suing the guy for tarnishing my name, then realized he could countersue for what I'd obviously done to his reputation and probably have a better case.
Aug '10
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Is this the singer that closes his eyes and tilts his head up when he is about to sing ?
We all thought you would be at the bday party for the 90 th ?
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Wait a minute. You mean to tell us there are two David Limbaughs in Cape Girardeau?
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Peter -- I came across two other semi-well known Peter Robinsons all the time on Google when I used to work as an elf in your workshop at Hoover.
There's Peter Robinson the mystery novelist. And then there's Peter Robinson the current First Minister of Northern Ireland and leader of the Democratic Unionist Party. Occasionally your Forbes columns would accidentally make it onto his personal website.
Jun '10
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Dave Molinari is also a sports writer covering the Pittsburgh Penguins. He even has a Wikipedia page. I gotta catch up. Do you think "commenter on Ricochet" could earn me a spot in Wikipedia?
Sep '10
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You should see the goof that comes up when you google Pseudodionyius.
Pffffft. Flake.
Jun '10
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How's this for crazy, there's also a British pop singer named Rob Long... Apparently the bizarro Mr. Long wrote a hit song for the movie Twilight. See, they're both writers!
Other similarities include: both Rob Longs have great hair styles. As do both Peter Robinsons. Peter have you considered dread locks? Might be a nice ice breaker with Dr. Sowell.
Edited on Dec 13, 2010 at 9:15pmNov '10
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Every time I google my name I'm reminded of how dismally I did in Ski to Sea.
Maybe we should all write up what we want to come up when we google our own names, some great story? I'm trying to think of a better one that Marylin, and I can't.
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Peter Robinson
Wait a minute. You mean to tell us there are two David Limbaughs in Cape Girardeau? · Dec 13 at 9:11pm
Actually, no, but in a town close enough that he somehow convinced the local convenience store to accept his check. But thanks for spelling Cape Girardeau correctly.
Aug '10
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Well, there's a science teacher at my old high school who shares a name with some pretty sketchy characters, missing persons and folks on parole and so on -- but I'm pretty sure they're not him.
As far as I know, no one shares my name. Just Googled myself now, and the few matches are either me or partial matches only.
Oct '10
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Peter you're in luck! There are hundreds of Robert McKays...and that's just on facebook. My Ricochet profile is #10 on Google...after Robert McKay fine art, Robert McKay the tax planner, Robert McKay the professor at Maryland Law, Robert McKay the actor at IMDB, and the whitepages to let us know there are 631 Robert McKays in the United States.
Wikipedia has me as the deceased former head of NYU Law.
Oh, and when they were doing my background check for the Army they found a Robert McKay (different middle initial thank goodness) who is a registered sex offender somewhere in the south.
And if you change the last name spelling to MacKay there are a world more.
Edited on Dec 14, 2010 at 8:11amSep '10
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Peter, you're not alone. Sigh. Under the White Pages, 70 or so guys named Dan Holmes came up, but not one of them was I! Wonder how I managed to escape that.
I feel a little queasy looking at all the info about all those other guys named Dan Holmes. Sort of like I'm not an individual anymore--something like that...
But, as far as I looked, which wasn't far, no one appeared that was as famous as Marilyn.
Edited on Dec 13, 2010 at 10:13pmJul '10
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My mother had a first name that is usually a male name. Once when she was pulled over for a minor traffic violation, they ran her name and it got a hit on an outstanding warrant.
Fortunately, the cop noticed that she wasn't a 6'4" black male, and they let her go.
Dec '10
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That is hilarious, but more importantly...another interview with Thomas Sowell!!!
Peter, can you give us a preview of what to expect from that and when it will be available?
I have never come across a namesake like the one you found, but I did come across a blog by a Purdue grad student (a public university in western Indiana) a few years ago whose website's tag-line read: "Atheist. Progressive. Hockey." The reason this was so funny? I went to a school at Taylor (a private university in eastern Indiana) and my blog's tag-line at the time read: "Evangelical. Conservative. Baseball."
May '10
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I once tried to start a yahoo group exclusively for people with the same name as me. I contacted several but i think they thought I was crazy. But what do I care? Since I inherited all that money from that general in Nigeria I've got no worries.
Jun '10
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I collided worlds with another namesake because we both ended up with the same Comcast e-mail address. He was so excited to meet me that he kept sending me a ridiculous number of weird e-mails to me in order for me to get to know him. It got creepy and I asked him to stop. Just because you have the same name, doesn't mean you have anything in common. Mr. Limbaugh's example hopefully supports my point of view. If you try it again, tread carefully!
May '10
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I could Google my name for days and keep finding people. When I was in 7th grade, there was a 6th-grader named Aaron Miller (Aaron was his middle name... the jerk). He was a trouble-maker. I often got called to the principal office and sat there for ten minutes to an hour before someone would realize I was the wrong Aaron. It happened so often that my mom complained to the school about all the classtime I was missing.
Still, that was less annoying than being in a class with three Erins a few years before. My teacher got into the habit of calling me "A-run" to clarify.
Anyway, I sleep soundly each night knowing that, though I've seen snow only two or three times in my life, I am a master hockey player. I also develop Middle East policy for the State Department. And I'm an opthalmologist. And I....
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Here's the other Joe Escalante I found. Evidently his high school reunion committee is looking for him. He doesn't hold a candle to your guy though Peter. I'm jealous.
May '10
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Textbook move, Peter. Call out the gas before someone else does. Let's see, he was famous in the 80's...add 25 years...how old are you? Don't worry, I'm not "calling your name," if you know what I mean. What happens on the 'chet, stays on the 'chet.
Jul '10
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I don't use google because of their politics, but i did use Bing to search My Namesake. Apparently someone is working awfully hard to make Me look bad.