John Larkin Was That You on the News?

Nope. There are a lot of John Larkins running around.

one of the guys on comp.dsp has a list of guys with the same name as him :)

-Lasse

I get calls for the Greenpeace John Larkin, and the WWII vet John Larkin, all sorts of things. I'm sort of immune to a Google search.

I don't suppose that you (Lasse Langwadt Christensen) have my problem.

he

:)

Depends on how you count, there are 391 Lasse Christensen in Denmark, but with the middle name it is unique

-Lasse

It seems like I've met an unusual number of Tims and Williamses in electronics specifically, but that's probably just confirmation bias.

Like "John", "Williams" is about as common as "Smith", so there's a lot of...us?

I haven't updated this in years, so half of these are probably duds;

Tim

Seems like I come from a long line of thieves, rebels, forgers, and poachers:

Same with my Scot ancestry. Fled to Jamestown on the first boat, changed their name from McTavish to Thompson, settled in Culpeper, VA. When pursued by the Brits, fled up into the North Mountain region of what is now WV. Seneca Caverns, wired by my father and Uncle Wilmer, are still owned by relatives (French side of the family :-) ...Jim Thompson

My wife's Irish great-grandfather kept coming to the USA, getting into trouble (rumors of one murder), and getting kicked out. Every time he re-entered, he had to change the spelling of his name, so now it's really non-standard.

We have dark family rumors of some French blood, too.

Have a cousin, John Williams, who's also a musician... Needless to say, he uses his middle name instead. ;-)

Tim

...and pass up all that free press? ;-)

Juniors?

Jamie

The small town that I grew up in had three Michael Terrells. One of the others went to the same school, and was two grades higher. He was always in getting into trouble, and I would get called to the principal's office. He would see me, sigh and say, Not you again, I wanted the other Michael Terrell! One of the two had the same middle initial, and used the same bank. They managed to put a large cash transfer from my savings, into my business checking account into his personal checking, then denied it. It took a threat of my calling the state bank examiner to come shut them down before they admitted their error. The manager was stunned that I knew not only his name, but his home address and unlisted phone number. :)