howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
15 December 2010
14:2384754#1
thought i would google my name and see what came up.
all the usual references to the forum, then suddenly "howard mcsweeney obituary".
funny i thought, don't feel that unwell, turned out to be an american chap that died during the summer at the ripe old age of 95.
went to university, served in the second world war, seemed to be involved in allsorts.
wondered whether he was jewish because of howard or catholic because of mcsweeney.
turned out to be a presbyterian.
never thought there would be anyone else with my name.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
15 December 2010
14:3984759#2
I thought I would do the same and there is an obituary notice for some-one with my name but my name-sake was not as interesting as yours Howard.
This could turn into an interesting thread if other members do the same.
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Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
- Posts: 778
15 December 2010
16:3484768#3
Googled myself out of curiousity and alas all the Jens seem to be survivors... including one who had a heart transplant and then her old diseased heart went on display!!
Nice!
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,247
15 December 2010
16:4284769#4
Well.....
I am a Brady Bunch actor and comedian
A taxidermist in Cannock
A 23 year old (I wish) studying economics in Cardiff
and, I am accused in Brisbane of a bomb hoax.
all on the front page - what an eventful life.
I wonder what you get when you combine all that.
A funny young man stuffing the Labour Government's economic record and putting a bomb under Gordon Brown's reputation....
Sounds about right.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
15 December 2010
16:4884770#5
barry
you jan and jenni have got fairly standard names, there will be thousands thrown out.
i think that it has to be an unusual name that will bring up the interesting stuff.
offhand i can only think of keith sansum out of our members having a name out of the ordinary(the surname that is).
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
- Posts: 2,096
15 December 2010
16:4984771#6
My retirement party included a Powerpoint presentation of googling my name - all me and very embarrassing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
15 December 2010
16:5284772#7
there was a ray newsam in my class at school, not you though.
couldn't play a banjo to save his life.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 3,037
15 December 2010
16:5884773#8
2770 mentions on Google if I type my full name in ", apparently I'm still alive!!
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
- Posts: 2,096
15 December 2010
17:0184775#9
No change there then Howard! What school was that, I've never met myself?
I just bit the bullet and googled myself again (distraction activity from some unappealing jobs I should be doing online) and yippeee!!!! my comment about the white cliffs of Sussex has got me into the Fortean Times.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
15 December 2010
17:1084776#10
ray
south west ham technical in canning town.
thinking about it he spelt it "newsom".
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
- Posts: 2,096
15 December 2010
17:1684777#11
Howard, he's probably a distant relative, the spelling gets corrupted a lot, even on my Grandad's war medals. There's a lot of us around Leicester.
Checked a bit further and my most embarrassing ones have gone, but there's an astrophysicist with my name.
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,321
15 December 2010
17:3384779#12
My name defaults to Terri Nunn, some sort of German singer!
Fair takes your breath away!
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
- Posts: 778
15 December 2010
17:4084780#13
aww you see Howard I put in my middle name as well, and it only chucked out 117 results....
so i am a lot more individual than we all thought.. and half of those results were actually me!!
And most of them in Hampshire which is the family name is from, even Jennifer Sutton Photography.. quite excited about that one.. and then remembered .. its not me!!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
15 December 2010
18:3384785#14
hadn't realised that sutton was a predominantly hampshire name, what with newsam being mainly leicestershire it adds a new dimension to local history.
i suppose that barry's surname will be traced back to one of those welsh villages that when pronounced ends up with someone being sprayed with spit?
a name i have spotted since i have moved here that seems to crop up a lot is "knott" as in the famous kent and england cricketer.
never seen it anywhere other than here.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
15 December 2010
18:3484786#15
There is alot about me on there too just log my name in.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
15 December 2010
18:3684787#16
mine fairly just me
ordinary guy
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
15 December 2010
20:3184833#17
looked earlier found out that my namesake is a melboure fc hero and politision.there where few others mostly politicos in australia.
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,709
15 December 2010
21:4284864#18
The first 3 are in order
American Politician born 1976
American visual artist
The associate editor of "endgadget"
The 4 is a repeat of the first
The 5th is the Director of Supporters and Communication at Missing People
The next is my twitter account
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
- Posts: 4,150
15 December 2010
22:0184866#19
I see my namesake is an actor who was taken ill last June for an urgent operation for an abscess in the stomach.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
15 December 2010
22:1384868#20
I am:
A character in an online novel written by someone at Princeton University,
An actor who played a starring role in the film The Count of Monte Cristo and;
Buried in Mount Magnet Cemetery, W. Australia.
Then I stopped looking.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
