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Posted: 5/21/2008 4:16 PM
Post subject: Have you SEEN your doppelganger?
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theenglishman
Active player (348)
Joined: 3/21/2006
Posts: 940
Location: Toronto, Canada
PSX TASer of 2013
It's one thing to find out someone exists who shares your name, especially if it's rare - it's another thing altogether to find a picture of them! So I was randomly searching Google for my name (I do that sometimes) and I accidentally hit Google Images. And this guy pops up: What. The Fuck. This was weird, because I was under the impression that the only guy I shared my name with had died 111 years ago. So apparently I ALSO share my name with a black kid from Vancouver. Anyone else have actual pictures of their doppelganger?
My current project: Something mysterious (oooooh!) My username is all lower-case letters. Please get it right :(
Posted: 5/21/2008 4:31 PM
Post subject: hi tem, iz u on teh irc?
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alden
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Joined: 2/11/2007
Posts: 1522
So can we assume that this is you then? :P TEM, you so crayzay
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Posted: 5/21/2008 4:34 PM
Post subject: Re: hi tem, iz u on teh irc?
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theenglishman
Active player (348)
Joined: 3/21/2006
Posts: 940
Location: Toronto, Canada
PSX TASer of 2013
alden wrote:
So can we assume that this is you then? :P TEM, you so crayzay
Eh...that was about ten, twelve years ago. Thankfully the multicoloured bars have since disappeared when I hit puberty.
My current project: Something mysterious (oooooh!) My username is all lower-case letters. Please get it right :(
Posted: 5/21/2008 4:37 PM
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Comicalflop
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Joined: 6/13/2006
Posts: 3300
Location: Massachussetts, USA
Speedy TAS of 2009
This guy friended me on facebook. For a while I thought I must have clicked on myself to add friend by accident; many google searches had led me to believe I was the only Josh Nyer in existence. Also, when my older brother went to Israel with a bunch of kids from Boston, he said one of the Boston kids looks exactly like me. I wish I still had the photo, but it was uncanny how much he looked like me.
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Posted: 5/21/2008 5:46 PM
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Halamantariel
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Joined: 1/30/2005
Posts: 564
Location: Québec, Canada
That guy has the same name, and is only 3 years older than me. He also happens to live really close to where I live (He's in Louiseville, about 50 minutes drive away). Link: Bottom of the page, click on Olivier Bellemare. The rest of the search results for images of "Olivier Bellemare" are mostly images from tasvideos.
Posted: 5/21/2008 8:08 PM
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superjupi
Joined: 10/15/2007
Posts: 685
Huh. Amusingly, Google does not have pictures of anyone with my name. Not even me! I once worked with a girl that had my last name, so when I was hired, the other employees assumed we were related. That is, until they actually saw me in person, and then asked if one of us was adopted. Other than actual family members, I've never met anyone else with my last name. I'm always the only person in school with my last name, and that's between four elementary schools, junior high and high school, and two universities.
Kirby said so, so it must be true. ( >'.')>
Posted: 5/21/2008 11:15 PM
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Chamale
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Player (182)
Joined: 10/20/2006
Posts: 1355
Location: Canada
Alexandre Lamoureux seems almost ridiculously common. A search for that, in quotes, yields 700 results, with only around 20 related to me.
Posted: 5/21/2008 11:20 PM
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lewisje
Joined: 5/21/2008
Posts: 15
Location: Cincinnati, OH
My name is fairly common; when I went to undergrad at IU there was another James Lewis (James Alan Lewis IV) who was a couple years younger, and here at Penn State there is a man working at the Office of the Physical Plant who shares my name exactly except the form of his suffix (James Edward Lewis, Jr.; I use "II" instead). Also there are a couple authors sharing my name, like James R. Lewis, who I think writes about the paranormal, and this guy from the Center for Strategic and International Studies: http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_experts/task,view/id,111/ Dr. James Andrew Lewis, Director and Senior Fellow, Technology and Public Policy Program I was shocked when I was watching C-SPAN, my usual fare, and saw "JAMES LEWIS" on the screen a couple years ago during a panel discussion on Internet terrorism. Anyway I'm fortunate to have such a common name, because if you Google it most of the results won't be related to me.
Posted: 5/22/2008 12:02 AM
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Brushy
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Joined: 11/13/2005
Posts: 1587
I don't think there are any other Aapo Reichardt's in the world, because Aapo is a Finnish name and not that common one, and Reichardt is kind a rare lastname.
Posted: 5/22/2008 12:28 AM
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RT-55J
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Joined: 11/27/2004
Posts: 688
Location: WA State, USA
Both my first and last name seem to be quite common, so I'd be quite surprised if I was the only Alexander West in the world.
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Posted: 5/22/2008 12:44 AM
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Rridgway
Joined: 2/13/2007
Posts: 448
Location: Calgary, Alberta
On a unrelated note, a website I made for school at the age of 5 is still up. Clicky Since Robbie is the 23rd most used first name in Scotland where I was born, and Ridgway originates from an area in England, I doubt I am alone.
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Posted: 5/22/2008 1:07 AM
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Raiscan
Joined: 11/11/2006
Posts: 1235
Location: United Kingdom
Noone else on the internet has my name. Anywhere. ... I get the impression this topic is not for me.
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Posted: 5/22/2008 1:47 AM
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nesrocks
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Player (246)
Joined: 5/1/2004
Posts: 4096
Location: Rio, Brazil
Searching for my father's name returns 1 result (no picture, just a list of names). My name is the same as his, + Junior, which results some hits, that are all me and all TAS related (weird). But there are several matches for the shorter name I've been using... Too many to count.
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Posted: 5/22/2008 2:15 AM
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mmbossman
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Joined: 11/18/2006
Posts: 2426
Location: Back where I belong
GBx TAS of 2008
Raiscan wrote:
Noone else on the internet has my name. Anywhere. ... I get the impression this topic is not for me.
Nor me :(
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Posted: 5/22/2008 2:16 AM
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Sticky
Joined: 2/26/2007
Posts: 1365
Location: Minnesota
Apparently I am from Austria and Michigan. Actually, I am very surprised that there were any hits at all for my full name... I didn't even bother looking up just plain "Alex" Speaking of Alexander, there sure are a lot of Alexanders/variations-of-Alexander on this site ;) Another note, Alexander became a more popular name after Alexander the Great raped Europe.
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Posted: 5/22/2008 3:15 AM
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Bisqwit
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Joined: 3/8/2004
Posts: 7469
Location: Arzareth
Yliluoma is not that common name, and Joel is a rare name in Finland too. (Well, was when I was born. It has since become much more common.) Still, chances are that within 10 years there's another. (No inside information, just extrapolation on probabilities.) But from the more common interpretation of "doppelganger", I suppose there are many people who look like me. Brushy for example thought he saw me last week in Turku, when I was in fact nowhere near Turku.
Posted: 5/22/2008 3:22 AM
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arflech
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Joined: 5/3/2008
Posts: 1120
Rridgway wrote:
On a unrelated note, a website I made for school at the age of 5 is still up. Clicky
The site looks so modern...how old are you? Then again, when I was 5 there wasn't even a World Wide Web yet...that had to wait until I was 6 lol
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Posted: 5/22/2008 6:17 AM
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Tombad
Joined: 8/3/2004
Posts: 380
Location: Finland
Bisqwit wrote:
Yliluoma is not that common name, and Joel is a rare name in Finland too. (Well, was when I was born. It has since become much more common.) Still, chances are that within 10 years there's another. (No inside information, just extrapolation on probabilities.)
I'm like that as well. Sallanmaa is limited to my rather small (extended) family and I would guess that Toni is not a very common first name any more. Even if I had a son and would like to name him after me I would use the alternate spelling "Tony" for people to not get confused. (SciAm keeps sending the magazine to Ms. Toni Sallanmaa :()
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Posted: 5/22/2008 6:19 AM
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Bisqwit
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Joined: 3/8/2004
Posts: 7469
Location: Arzareth
Toni was a very popular name in Finland in the 70-80s. I'm mildly surprised to hear that it isn't that anymore.
Posted: 5/22/2008 6:48 AM
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P.JBoy
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Location: stuck in Pandora's box HELLPP!!!
Seems I have a very common name
Posted: 5/22/2008 6:53 AM
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Bisqwit
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Joined: 3/8/2004
Posts: 7469
Location: Arzareth
P.JBoy wrote:
Seems I have a very common name
Yes, no doubt there are many Patrics and many Johnstons. Put the name in quotes or separate them with a special character such as period to make it search for the name literally, not just pages having either name component.
Posted: 5/22/2008 7:02 AM
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Randil
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Joined: 4/20/2005
Posts: 2161
Location: Norrköping, Sweden
"Johan" is very common name in Sweden, but my last name, "Södling" is very rare (I think there are ~20-30 persons in total). So I guess I'm the only one in the world with my name. (Googling it only returns results about myself)
My own page on this site.
Posted: 5/22/2008 8:10 AM
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KennyMan666
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Joined: 8/24/2005
Posts: 375
Location: Göteboj
Fairly convinced there's no other Magnus von Goës Karlström out there. I know however at least one other person online who looks like I used to look, pre-beard. And pre-hair, kind of.
Det man inte har i begåvning får man ta ut i energi. "I think I need to get to Snoop Dogg's level of high to be able to research this post." -Samsara Read my fanfic, One Piece: Pure Corruption
Posted: 5/22/2008 10:24 AM
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Yrr
Joined: 8/10/2006
Posts: 289
Location: Germany, Bayern
I don't find people with my name in Google. However my father and my grandfather have the exact same name xD My brother told me, that there are around 18 Gottfried Krapf's in Germany, though. Would be strange, since my last name is rare and my prename is very rare.
Posted: 5/22/2008 3:59 PM
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Twelvepack
Joined: 5/2/2006
Posts: 1020
Location: Boulder, CO
I have the same name as a famous CS:S player. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Miller all google results seem to have to do with him I have also met 3 others with my exact name in person. One even went to my high school, which caused endless confusion when they tried to suspend me for something he did.
Has never colored a dinosaur.
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