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I share the same name with a local TV star in my country. Even that is a PITA. Can’t imagine being named Mark Zuckerberg or Michael Jackson or anything like tha
by eknkc 11mo ago
I share the same name with a local TV star in my country. Even that is a PITA. Can’t imagine being named Mark Zuckerberg or Michael Jackson or anything like that.
At some point there were teenager girls calling me (no idea how they got the phone number). I started acting like they called the right person and there would be happy screams on the other hand. I guess the high point was that. I decided that might not be a good idea though. Would definitely continue if my “fans” were middle aged men.
- rzzzt 11mo agoMichael (A.) Jackson is the inventor of representing programs in this diagram format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_structured_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_structured_programming
- mjd 11mo agoIt used to be that whenever I told people about his work, they'd ask if that was the beer guy.
- Biganon 11mo agoThere's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson_(writer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson_(writer) , who was one of the most famous experts on beer and whisky.
- rwmj 11mo agoI seem to recall when he was on TV he leaned into the joke ("not that Michael Jackson"). Of course that was long before the days random people could send abuse on Twitter.
- nickserv 11mo agoMichael Jackson is a fairly common name though, I went to school with one. Also with a George Washington, he had a harder time...