Picking on people who share names with bastards
November 19th, 2007 at 16:56
I’ve invented a new game. Its called “How many people on Facebook share a name with someone I don’t like?”. I’ve been trying to think of a snappier title, but the best I can come up with has to be read in a Scottish accent: “Guess who many?“.
It turns out that there’s loads of unfortunate people in the world. Here’s a top-13 list of some unlucky people cursed with sharing a name with some truly dreadful people:
- Nick Griffin – 274
- David Cameron – 252
- James Blunt – 171
- David Mellor – 47
- Jeffrey Archer – 37
- Maxine Carr – 12
- Richard Blackwood – 12
- Richard Littlejohn – 8
- Ian Huntley – 5
- Vernon Kay – 3
- Lowri Turner – 2
- Madeleine McCann – 1
- Adolf Hitler – 0
There are 171 James Blunts in the world. I especially feel sorry for the ugly ones, who have the joke set up for them by their namesake. At least no one named their kids Adolf Hitler, I guess.
I feel sorry for the Madeleine McCann on there – every day she must glance at the Daily Express front page on the way to work, only to learn that she’s either alive, dead, or whether or not her parents killed her, depending on the editorial slant the paper are taking that day. And every time her location is questioned, it must sound like some sort of sick joke, rather than a genuine enquiry. I hope she’s not planning any trips to Portugal otherwise we could be in for a year of the press saying “Maddy has been found” and then speculation on how she’s managed to age by 20 years.
And the poor other Richard Littlejohns – if they Google for their own name, as people (er, I) sometimes do, they might inadvertently think that I hate them.
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