On Wed, 9/24/08, G. Matthew Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you talking about me or this Matt Rice: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Rice > Between him and that Matthew Rice product line in the UK: > http://matthewrice.co.uk/ > I've had to become "G. Matthew Rice" to get > more than one listing on the first page of Google > results. Yes, the name switch was completely for > vanity purposes. :-D > Honestly, it was done just to stop a lot of confusion > people seem to have > over others that use a middle name as their common name. > Heh, I just did a quick check and there's a Bryan Smith > that plays football.
No, I'm the guy that hit Stephen King with his Van: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Smith NOTE: I've known this one for years, not via Wikipedia. > Time for you to pull out an initial, too. ;) No, my middle initial doesn't cut it. >From 2000-2006, every election year (every 2 years), various Florida law enforcement agencies flag all vehicles owned by "Bryan Jon Smith", as someone with an outstanding warrant for his arrest. It is both a detainment and voting nightmare for myself. I'm hoping they finally threw him in jail this year, although with how our state governments work here in the US, it takes _decades_ to get things out of the system. The DoD and SEC have no problem getting my background straight, but every officer, deputy and trooper seems to have far more "fun" with that stuff. I personally love it when they _finally_ actually check my "numbers" and get access to a "real computer" -- one that can actually pull up those fancy "pictures" of someone. No, it's not the fat geek they just detained, but a much more studly guy who looks far more of a con artist than I could hope to be in my dreams. I guess I just have that "con artist" looking gut? ;) Smith: First most common surname in the US Bryan: Eight most common non-surname in the US (even the British spelling with a "y" is in the top 100) Jon: Fourth most common non-surname in the US (although the British spelling without the "h" is less common) To make things more interesting, I'm an Irish-American, not British, so I should normally use an "i" and add the "h". Why do you think I go by "BS"? There's always a "Brian"/"Bryan", and there's always a "Smith", everywhere I go, and I'm always turning my head. To make matters worse, when I say "Bryan Smith, Bryan with a 'y'" there is a chance they will spell it "Brian Smyth[e]" by putting the 'y' on Smith. Sigh. So you want my life instead? ;) -- Bryan P.S. I originally started signing my full name when I was a teenager, but my mom said "that was stupid." So I just started using "J" as a result. Dumb. Over three million Smith's in the US (closing on 4?), well over 1%. And well over 1% of those Smith's are named Br[iy]an Smith. There are literally hundreds of people in the US who share my exact, full name right down to the spelling last time I checked. Again, if you start playing with just "Brian Smith" or "Bryan Smith" -- 8th and 1st most common name+surname combo, you're into high 5 figures. I believe adding the J is high 4 figures, just about 10% of those. _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
