Forgot to include this in the piece, but there's also one in a small MENSA-like group for "big thinkers" and I had to ask them like five times to remove me from their group emails, and each time they seemed baffled by what I was telling them. The irony was not lost on me.
"Once had" implies that it's no longer in use, which unfortunately pimpbot2000_2002 most assuredly is. Apparently, I thought email would be a fad and decided to use a Conan sketch as my handle (and pimpbot5000 was taken! The nerve!)
I think sticking with it this long is one of those things that's come back around to impressive, like not having a Facebook account. Like, in 2014 it might've been [judgingly] "wow, you still have that email?" / "wow, you're not on facebook?"
In 2022, it's [with respect and reverence] "wow, you still have that email?" / "wow, you're not on facebook?"
This is where I reiterate that, despite it being a fairly apt name for the newsletter I now publish to thousands of people, I selected "actioncookbook" as a Twitter handle in 2013 solely because it was a complete non-sequitur.
narya63, Narya being the Elven Ring of Power worn by Gandalf. Luckily since then I've been able to catch lastnamefirstinitial pretty easily.
On the worse end, a guy I lived with in college, who sucked, didn't get the memo I guess and when he was registering for his school login went with 'jello.' Imagine applying to jobs in the year of our lord 2006 and leading off with 'jello.' I think he's a defense contractor now.
I routinely get emails addressed to a “Matthieu” with the same French last name as I from the Canadian Automobile Association to my MattLastname gmail account. I plan on using my Canadian brothers information for discounts if we eventually make that trip to Prince Edward Island or Newfoundland.
This is, thankfully, a problem I will never have. I am almost assuredly the only person on the planet with my first name/last name combo. Maybe there's another out there but it's unlikely. My family is relatively small and my surname was Americanized when my great-grandfather emigrated here in the 20s, and my first name is not culturally similar to my last name.
Oddly enough the situation would be completely reversed if I had my mom's surname. I'd be first.last23409827094729048@gmail even if I was an early adopter.
My first emails were [bunch of numbers] at compuserve and a school account which I could only access from a mainframe terminal. My "cannot use for professional purposes" original email was related to Scottish food; I still use the name for Instagram and as a decoy twitter account (so that my mother, a geriatric twitter user, wouldn't start trying to chat with me on there).
I do have firstname.lastname on gmail, outlook, and icloud, as well as lastname.firstname on gmail. I get a _lot_ of emails for people in the UK and British Commonwealth, although the first instance was some guy in Virginia who used a similar email for a myspace account for his dog (harrumph).
Anyway highlights include: income tax documents for some guy in South Africa (repeatedly), soccer team dues for a kid in Australia (also leaked over to iMessage), details on Canadian foreign ministry support for repatriation of remains, ongoing emails for a company in Canada that helps you repair your credit (apparently the guy recently bought a new mattress, good for him), sailboat mooring / parking spaces for a marina in Ayrshire, maintenance appointments for a Vauxhall Mokka in East Lothian, and messages to some guy near Newcastle whose debit card kept getting rejected for his Virgin mobile / broadband account. Apparently there's no middle ground in money management for people with "our" name.
My maiden name was Jennifer Davis and I work for the VA, which has about 300K employees. At one time 17 of us had the same name, but since I I've worked there for almost 30 years, I was the first and had the original email.I've gotten a lot of stuff (including HR related things) that i had no business seeing over the years. I got married and changed my last name to Burns and now there's only 3 of us!
I've only ever received what looked like someone else's email a handful of times and I would swear they were junk if they weren't so innocuous. I get emails from some grandparents checking up on their granddaughter (I think) and also something similar but in German. Has probably happened 5 or 6 times total and I just read them and do not respond in any way in case doing so will doxx me to hackers.
my email now is firstnamelastname at gmail dot com
Luckily I am the only person in the world with my name, so I don’t have the problem described above. Good luck in your quest to absorb their powers, er... help them, though.
As far as I'm aware, I'm one of four with my name. I take a particular delight in having displaced the voice actor Mark Primiano as the higher Google search results for our name and especially when a picture of me sneaks into his IMDB page. It is very funny to me at least that I've started looking into how to do audiobook recordings and other voice acting things and realizing I would not be able to use my actual name because somehow someone with it beat me to the punch.
There's a Sarah (middle initial maiden name) in the UK who has marvelous taste in clothing from Top Shop and a strong tendency to purchase items from and then return them to Wayfair. She keeps up with her car maintenance and loves makeup, and I like to pretend that we're friends because she's British. I did jump on the "please provide a business recommendation for this person applying for a job" and tried to explain that I'm not *that* Sarah. I just checked that account, and it would appear her friend emailed her an e-ticket to see The Lion King back in January- I do hope she was able to go to the show. Always go to the show.
So, I have had cdbarker in various forms since 1996 at Michigan and I feel this deeply, be it yahoo or Gmail.
I had to help Cecil Barker get his medical test results from UVa health by calling them because it seems like there was a screw up on his MyChart, I had to help Pinellas County get critical infrastructure documents to the right place.
But mostly, I hate Cheryl Barker for thinking to set my email as her dumping grounds for her spam, to the point where I spent a year decommissioning the Yahoo address because it became nigh unusable.
Haven't had a problem with the email stuff since I was in too late to Gmail to get the OG for my first and last, even though my last name isn't common, but I know there are at least a few other of "me" out there from googling. For the longest time the top result was some bodybuilder out of Oklahoma, but a quick search today revealed that a new challenger has emerged in the form of a golf recruit in Ohio.
I never got emails for them, but there was a Scott Hines who did a consumer-advocacy segment ("Scott Hines In Your Corner") on Oklahoma City local news, and a Scott Hines who was the embattled mayor of Rancho Mirage, CA. The latter really kept my Google Alert updates interesting for a while.
I so understand the spelling thing. I have a hyphenated last name post marriage and while I do not usually need to actually spell it out, the "my name is <first> <Lastname1-lastname2>, that's <lastname1> dash <lastname2>" phrasing is branded onto my cerebellum after 20+ years.
You might also be amused at the number of data systems that even now struggle with hyphens.
Forgot to include this in the piece, but there's also one in a small MENSA-like group for "big thinkers" and I had to ask them like five times to remove me from their group emails, and each time they seemed baffled by what I was telling them. The irony was not lost on me.
"Once had" implies that it's no longer in use, which unfortunately pimpbot2000_2002 most assuredly is. Apparently, I thought email would be a fad and decided to use a Conan sketch as my handle (and pimpbot5000 was taken! The nerve!)
I think sticking with it this long is one of those things that's come back around to impressive, like not having a Facebook account. Like, in 2014 it might've been [judgingly] "wow, you still have that email?" / "wow, you're not on facebook?"
In 2022, it's [with respect and reverence] "wow, you still have that email?" / "wow, you're not on facebook?"
This is where I reiterate that, despite it being a fairly apt name for the newsletter I now publish to thousands of people, I selected "actioncookbook" as a Twitter handle in 2013 solely because it was a complete non-sequitur.
I am naming my next child Action Cookbook just so you get all of their misdirected messages.
We can make sure you get all sorts of misdirected email if it would help you get more comfortable!
narya63, Narya being the Elven Ring of Power worn by Gandalf. Luckily since then I've been able to catch lastnamefirstinitial pretty easily.
On the worse end, a guy I lived with in college, who sucked, didn't get the memo I guess and when he was registering for his school login went with 'jello.' Imagine applying to jobs in the year of our lord 2006 and leading off with 'jello.' I think he's a defense contractor now.
My best friend's email address was liverdamage@hotmail until he finally left his radio station job and needed a more resume friendly one.
I routinely get emails addressed to a “Matthieu” with the same French last name as I from the Canadian Automobile Association to my MattLastname gmail account. I plan on using my Canadian brothers information for discounts if we eventually make that trip to Prince Edward Island or Newfoundland.
This is, thankfully, a problem I will never have. I am almost assuredly the only person on the planet with my first name/last name combo. Maybe there's another out there but it's unlikely. My family is relatively small and my surname was Americanized when my great-grandfather emigrated here in the 20s, and my first name is not culturally similar to my last name.
Oddly enough the situation would be completely reversed if I had my mom's surname. I'd be first.last23409827094729048@gmail even if I was an early adopter.
My first emails were [bunch of numbers] at compuserve and a school account which I could only access from a mainframe terminal. My "cannot use for professional purposes" original email was related to Scottish food; I still use the name for Instagram and as a decoy twitter account (so that my mother, a geriatric twitter user, wouldn't start trying to chat with me on there).
I do have firstname.lastname on gmail, outlook, and icloud, as well as lastname.firstname on gmail. I get a _lot_ of emails for people in the UK and British Commonwealth, although the first instance was some guy in Virginia who used a similar email for a myspace account for his dog (harrumph).
Anyway highlights include: income tax documents for some guy in South Africa (repeatedly), soccer team dues for a kid in Australia (also leaked over to iMessage), details on Canadian foreign ministry support for repatriation of remains, ongoing emails for a company in Canada that helps you repair your credit (apparently the guy recently bought a new mattress, good for him), sailboat mooring / parking spaces for a marina in Ayrshire, maintenance appointments for a Vauxhall Mokka in East Lothian, and messages to some guy near Newcastle whose debit card kept getting rejected for his Virgin mobile / broadband account. Apparently there's no middle ground in money management for people with "our" name.
My maiden name was Jennifer Davis and I work for the VA, which has about 300K employees. At one time 17 of us had the same name, but since I I've worked there for almost 30 years, I was the first and had the original email.I've gotten a lot of stuff (including HR related things) that i had no business seeing over the years. I got married and changed my last name to Burns and now there's only 3 of us!
I've only ever received what looked like someone else's email a handful of times and I would swear they were junk if they weren't so innocuous. I get emails from some grandparents checking up on their granddaughter (I think) and also something similar but in German. Has probably happened 5 or 6 times total and I just read them and do not respond in any way in case doing so will doxx me to hackers.
fballplayir87 at aol.com
there shall be no further comment about it.
my email now is firstnamelastname at gmail dot com
Luckily I am the only person in the world with my name, so I don’t have the problem described above. Good luck in your quest to absorb their powers, er... help them, though.
I like how your old, outdated AOL name is more appropriate for a resume than say, your current twitter handle.
As far as I'm aware, I'm one of four with my name. I take a particular delight in having displaced the voice actor Mark Primiano as the higher Google search results for our name and especially when a picture of me sneaks into his IMDB page. It is very funny to me at least that I've started looking into how to do audiobook recordings and other voice acting things and realizing I would not be able to use my actual name because somehow someone with it beat me to the punch.
There's a Sarah (middle initial maiden name) in the UK who has marvelous taste in clothing from Top Shop and a strong tendency to purchase items from and then return them to Wayfair. She keeps up with her car maintenance and loves makeup, and I like to pretend that we're friends because she's British. I did jump on the "please provide a business recommendation for this person applying for a job" and tried to explain that I'm not *that* Sarah. I just checked that account, and it would appear her friend emailed her an e-ticket to see The Lion King back in January- I do hope she was able to go to the show. Always go to the show.
So, I have had cdbarker in various forms since 1996 at Michigan and I feel this deeply, be it yahoo or Gmail.
I had to help Cecil Barker get his medical test results from UVa health by calling them because it seems like there was a screw up on his MyChart, I had to help Pinellas County get critical infrastructure documents to the right place.
But mostly, I hate Cheryl Barker for thinking to set my email as her dumping grounds for her spam, to the point where I spent a year decommissioning the Yahoo address because it became nigh unusable.
*shakes fist* CHERYL!
I mean, I'm glad that Cheryl and I have political alignment, but I did not need all of those James Carville fundraising emails.
Haven't had a problem with the email stuff since I was in too late to Gmail to get the OG for my first and last, even though my last name isn't common, but I know there are at least a few other of "me" out there from googling. For the longest time the top result was some bodybuilder out of Oklahoma, but a quick search today revealed that a new challenger has emerged in the form of a golf recruit in Ohio.
I never got emails for them, but there was a Scott Hines who did a consumer-advocacy segment ("Scott Hines In Your Corner") on Oklahoma City local news, and a Scott Hines who was the embattled mayor of Rancho Mirage, CA. The latter really kept my Google Alert updates interesting for a while.
I so understand the spelling thing. I have a hyphenated last name post marriage and while I do not usually need to actually spell it out, the "my name is <first> <Lastname1-lastname2>, that's <lastname1> dash <lastname2>" phrasing is branded onto my cerebellum after 20+ years.
You might also be amused at the number of data systems that even now struggle with hyphens.
/mindless data entryperson types in your name as [first] [Surname1dashsurname2]
I'm honestly amazed this hasn't happened. Yet. That I know of.