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After all, unless you’re Cher or Sirhan Sirhan, nobody has the same first and last name. One of our top managers' name is Herman Herman. 10 years ago or so, he
by georgecmu 16y ago
After all, unless you’re Cher or Sirhan Sirhan, nobody has the same first and last name.
One of our top managers' name is Herman Herman. 10 years ago or so, he was working next to a guy, whose name was Martin Martin. Of course, Martin Herman was lurking nearby as well.
- awj 16y ago...sounds like you worked in a 70's sitcom.
- Luc 16y agoNames in Egypt often follow this pattern, because the second name is actually the father's given name. So you get combinations like Youssef Youssef or Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
- SerpentJoe 16y agoI'd say go find Herman Martin but it's probably like McDonald's Monopoly where you get the first three and the fourth is extremely rare.
- metageek 16y agoWas Martin Martin from Germany? Here at ITA, we used to (before my time) have someone of that name. He was born in Germany, but naturalized in the US; his last name was too difficult for many Americans, so he gave up and had it changed to match his first name, so it'd be easy to say and remember.
- pushingbits 16y agoOne of my teachers in high school was named Rafael Rafael. Grew up somewhere in Indonesia (I think) and never got a last name. So they just duplicated his first name.
- sharkey 16y agoThe uni department I worked at once had a student called "Daniel". He was on a engineering scholarship from somewhere in remote Africa and had never needed another name. He was rather rueful that nobody had told him to make one up when he applied for his passport, because it caused him all kinds of difficulty. He was all kinds of things on different bits of paper: "Daniel Daniel", "Daniel -" and, memorably, "Daniel Dash".
- neworbit 16y agoYeah, people give my friend David Davis crap all the time too. To be fair, he gave his parents at least as much crap.