As I read a thread about the atttack in London today I came across 'Andrew Sparrow has left Westminster'. Obviously I read on. It seems there is another Andrew Sparrow working for the Guardian.

Most of us have namesakes somewhere. So much so that even the most obscure pairings seem to have matches as I have often discovered doing searches on Google of FB. 

"MROdoc is a mobile based intelligent document browser which fully integrates with dent & buckle and Cabin Survey."

(www.output42.com)

But we all knew that, didn't we?

It seems a lot of me are posthumous.......... :doubt:

Roger W said:

"MROdoc is a mobile based intelligent document browser which fully integrates with dent & buckle and Cabin Survey."

(www.output42.com)

But we all knew that, didn't we?

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Sums me up quite well I suppose. I am currently mobile, reasonably intelligent and do a lot of reading (document browser) and our current dig is producing a lot of dent and buckle.

mrodoc said:

Most of us have namesakes somewhere...

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If you have a commonplace Welsh surname and a mainstream first name it's not 'somewhere' but 'everywhere'! 

There were four other Rob Joneses in my secondary school class of 31 lads.  : 

This is why so many Welsh people have nicknames or adopt additional names - anything to differentiate us from all the other buggers who share the same name!



It's all the fault of a visiting English judge sometime in the eighteenth century:

Then strove the judge with main and might
The surrounding consonants to write,
But when the day was almost gone
He found his work not nearly done.

His ears assailed most woefully
With names like Rhys ap Griffith Ddu,
Aneirin, Iorweth, Ieuan Goch,
And Llwyarch Hen o Abersoch,
Taleiesin ap Llewelyn Fawr
And Llun ap Arthur bach y Cawr.

Until at length, in sheer despair,
He doffed his wig and tore his hair, ....
And said he would no longer stand
The surnames of 'our native land'.

"Take ten," he said, "and call them Rice."
"Take another ten and call them Price."
"Take fifty others, call them Pughs."
"A hundred more, .... I'll dub them Hughes."
"Now Roberts name some hundred score."
"And Williams name a legion more!"

.... "And call," he said, in disdained tones,
"Call the remaining thousands .... Jones!"

moletta said:

As I read a thread about the atttack in London today I came across 'Andrew Sparrow has left Westminster'. Obviously I read on. It seems there is another Andrew Sparrow working for the Guardian.

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It's a hell of a life, running the instructing business, the gear shop, and on top of that, not only having to spend half the week in Fleet Street, but constantly jetting over to LA to work on the storyboards....

http://www.andysparrow.com/

Could be worse. I know of somebody called Dwayne Pipe. Last time I looked there were six Nick Chipchases on Facebook. We had two Pete Roses in the same caving cottage at the same time once.
For a massive name search site try -

https://pipl.com/

One of those Deep Web search things.