I share a name with a very famous professional athlete. I don’t even think about it usually but as soon as I have to give my name to someone I can pretty much count on some remark about the athlete by the same name.
I’ve dealt with this in many ways over the years but my most recent method is to pretend to have never heard of that famous person by the same name. That makes the conversation awkward and they usually move on.
Also, if you meet someone who shares a name with a celebrity, keep these things in mind:
- There is nothing you can say about it that is funny or clever. We have heard it all before. Just don’t.
- If you do have something to say about it that is truly original and absolutely hilarious, see the previous rule.
I went through something similar.
I realized that a Japanese dishwashing powder company is using my face as its logo.
Mr sparkle!
Well there’s your answer, fishbulb.
We need more!
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Yeah, it could be worse. I used to work with a guy who shared a name with some random executive that went on a racist tirade that went public. He had to lock down his social media because of all of the death threats.
Father Johnathan?
A friend of my brother has the same name as a Muppet. Used to haul his ID out in bars and use it as an ice breaker. I mean he could have used “me like you” as an ice breaker, given his physical appearance, so not sure how much of an advantage this gave him.
Edit: just realized I inadvertently imitated Cookie Monster, but it was a different Muppet.
Definitely Elmo
My money’s on Guy Smiley
Wasn’t there an American president named Elmo something?
Well there was president Grover Cleveland; and president Teddy Roosevelt had a son named Kermit. Jim Henson liked to use historical names occasionally for Muppet characters. No Elmos in the White House yet though.
… Floyd Pepper?
Bobby Benson
Why should I change it, he’s the one who sucks.
Calm down, Adolf.
Not exactly a famous person, but I have a somewhat unusual name that happens to be exactly the same as a fairly prolific music executive in my country.
It’s kind of a win-win, because it’s not someone most people have heard of so I don’t get the remarks, but also I’m basically un-Googleable lol
being un-googleable is seriously underrated. if I ever had kids I’d give them the most common names possible for exactly that reason. Sure it can be annoying when you’re the 8th John in your class but that’s a lot easier to get used to than the amount of bullying and harassment you could get for having a really uncommon name, especially if it’s a silly name or shared name with garbage famous person
maybe gets you get reservations at the fancy spots
I share a name with and average skilled hockey player who played for long time on mediocre teams. We are also the same age.
Although my name is uncommon it is not rare. So many other lawyers, insurance sales, etc who have a larger online presence mask me very effectively.
It’s enough that googling my name is a waste of time.
It also helps that I have a small footprint online with no social media accounts linked back to my real name.
Back in April a bunch of us from work went over to Singapore to rig up backdeck equipment to mobilize this ship ready for work. Upon meeting the captain of the ship we had chartered for the operation, we learned that his last name was Kirk.
That’s just awesome
My family shares a fairly uncommon surname with a professional athlete we are (as far as we can tell) completely unrelated to.
My father always joked that we should answer “we don’t discuss that” when asked about it, as if there had been some huge falling-out.
I do this when time travel comes up, but more because I get tired of explaining the block universe theory and no one likes a guy that tries to convince them that they don’t have Free Will.
I have an uncle called Chris Hemsworth. He’s like 65 so I don’t know if he even knows the connection.
My tattoo guy shares a name with a very famous author and theres a sign outside his station that says “No not the author and if you ask you will be charged extra”
George Martin does tattoos?
No. But EL James does.
Everyone thinks I sell coke and have tons of money
Pablo Escobar
Hi there Mr. Quincey
Rick Ross?
Hi there Mr. Quincey
My Dad has the same name as a reasonably famous sports star in a different country. Unfortunately for me when I Google my name it’s just associated with rapists in the US… 😭
Let me guess…Your dad shares a name with hockey star Jack Draper, and he named you Chile after his favourite Jimi Hendrix song?
It’s terrible. I’m the one who have to deal with the consequences every time that woman makes a bad decision.
She is a great actress though.
I admire the dedication
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There are worse people to share a name with haha you lucked out on that one. I guess she still has time to do something awful though
Maybe she’s up to some of her wacky shenanigans again, like making her coworkers wear pink to set every day and fining them if they don’t or pretending to be a fake account of herself to “organically market” her latest movie and mess with a bunch of 30 year old tech workers on an obscure forum just because it’s funny or something.
Who knows.
I have a student named Serena Williams. I asked her the first day if other professors make light of it. She said yes dejectedly and I promised her I wouldn’t. I’ve kept my word so far
Can anyone answer that question?
And we have Serena with the Ace!
What’s really fun is looking like a celebrity. Dear old Dad looks like a very well known actor, possibly one who is famous for driving a silver Dodge truck in a cop propoganda TV show and being talked about in Barrens chat.
I’ve managed to avoid being confused for the same person by having long hair. Now I look like Jesus.
When Chuck Norris does push-ups, he doesn’t push himself up. He pushes the world down.
Chuck Norris doesn’t sleep…he waits.
Chuck Norris sleeps with a pillow under his gun.
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Only Chuck Norris can use a copy machine and get an original.
The first time I showed my wife Alan Alda, she was so freaked out cause he looked like a clone of her dad.
Alan Alda looks like every upper class democrat who proudly flies a coexist sticker on the back of his car but goes on self righteous, semi racist tirades at Starbucks bitching about how black people cost Hillary the election
Good burn. Take my upvote. Let us hope Alda sees this. He would be hurt, yet impressed.
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I love that my online presence is practically invisible because of the celeb with the same name.
I did get a really spicy email from one of their fans once.
What does spicy mean in this context ? angry ?
Explicitly sexual.
Its crazy, even an uncommon but popular surname helps.
I share a name with someone who is obscure enough to not come up in many conversations, but famous enough that he monopolizes the Google results for my name.
I quite enjoy the relative anonymity.
same with me and a mildly famous banjo player (lol)
Nice. Mine is an opera director.
