(19.5.06 23:46) Yes it's a funny one when you meet someone going under your very own name isn't it? That harmless delusion one lives under of unique individuality takes a bit of a biff however silly you think it is to react like that. I used to drive up to London one day every week in my former life of wholefoods shop bod, and early on I was at Community Foods (huge place off M1 roundabout, er, Brent Cross I think) going round and this call came over the tannoy for me. 'Oh that's funny' thinks I, 'must be work calling me with something they forgot to ask me to get' and go walking up to the invoice desk. "Hello, I'm Tim, there's a call for me?" "Oh that's for Tim here." "No the voice said call for Tim Pukowski, that's me." "Oh really? That's funny, Tim Pukowski is our main buyer/seller here." Never forgotten that curious moment of unshakeable fact that someone has my name. Tim and I often used to exchange a few words on future visits though....

(20.5.06 00:11) Oh blimey. 'e-Existentialist Doubt'. How confusing. Or maybe.....you wrote it to yourself. And it's all going a bit Fight Club.

(20.5.06 02:53) No, Mike, I didn't write it myself. There's a whole bunch of Fiona McCanns on Google--even a doctor!

(20.5.06 12:39) Oh how I envy you Fiona McCann(s). Alas my name is so uncommon that any attempt at privacy would be shattered if I mentioned any part of it. My parents, well, mother, had a touch of the Trixiebell Geldoffs going on in her head.

(20.5.06 14:59) I'm a 1st lt in the us army,an ice hockey player in boston,a hockey player in sligo, both a sgt and an inspector in the police force,an expert in french property,came 161st in an 8k road race in charlestown and the managing director of an Irish mobile phone company.no wonder i'm tired all the time

(20.5.06 19:20) I'm just me, it seems...

(20.5.06 23:37) That's funny Steve! Your expertise in French property should be able to help cj. BOF, perhaps that's why even your nickname is unusual. Tim, they also say that their is a 'twin' for everyone in the world. What do you think? Yes, Alan--there is only one you!

(21.5.06 23:38) A twin for me? Well, the Tim at Community in London, very pleasant chap, but very christian (as was everyone there, still nobody's perfect) and also caried a beard perfectly well. So there's two definitely can't do things for me, so that Tim and this one not identical! I seem to remember one time in Germany (when I'd escorted Connell to his new humans, the first rehoming of Kerry Greyhound Homefinders!) when I was, aw shucks it's a tad embarrassing to remind myself of it now, entirely not i-t literate and a few months short of even getting this laptop to drag me into 21st century life, so as I almsot said there: I was on the computer of my friend Konrad in his work place in Koln, and he said about why not have a look for anyothers with my name, and there was one bloke in Australia who was 10 years younger for a start, rather fancied the thought of swapping with him. Ah but I'm happy to stay in Ireland, where it's been monsoon floods sort of weather today.

Fiona (22.5.06 18:31) We have a porn star Fiona McCann too? Dammit, that one isn't me either. Nor the doctor. Now I feel like the Fiona McCann underachiever, although I currently turn up on page 4 when you google Fiona McCann. Twice in fact. Guess which one's me.

Fiona (22.5.06 18:34) P.S. There was a funny project / book by a man named Dave Gorman on this exact subject. He made a bet with his friend about finding a hundred other people with his name, and went around the world meeting them all. http://www.davegorman.com/search.htm

(22.5.06 19:53) Dear Fiona, Are you the water polo person from Liverpool? How cool! Thanks also for the link. If you want to be tops in Google, get yourself a wordpress site with google ads and submit yourself. There are just some sites google loves. I see they picked up my freeflux site right off the bat, and I am just toying with that one. You wouldn't want to be a porn star would you?

Fiona McCann (22.5.06 20:13) Nope, not polo person either. I am the hack who writes for The Times from Argentina with David Charter. ("Bush puts brave face bla bla"). The Argentina Fiona McCann (am pretty sure there's only one of us here at least). Also sporadically seen on fionabuenosaires.blogspot.com.

(24.5.06 12:59) Well, for heaven's sake! Then you're famous!! And if that is your picture with your eyes open on your blog, then you are also beautiful! How lucky you are to be both famous and beautiful. Now I will have to make a post about you of course and add your link. Thank you for writing. I'm sure there are lots of people here who will want to read your blog. I'm glad you worked out how to put a pic on your Blogspot. Okay--I go to write about you!

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