Having the same name as both your first and last: classic or dud?

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― to say nothing of the dog! (you better believe it), Monday, 30 May 2005 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Jon Jon would be terrible.

― Unfortunate Prankster (Unfortunate Prankster), Monday, 30 May 2005 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Tabitha Tabitha would be good if you said it really fast.

― kirsten (kirsten), Monday, 30 May 2005 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone have this problem except Jerome K Jerome and Phil'n'Gary Neville's dad?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 30 May 2005 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Humbert Humbert.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 30 May 2005 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Lisa Lisa

― Leon Federline (Ex Leon), Monday, 30 May 2005 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently Stuart Cable from the Stereophonics' mum is called Mabel Cable. Which isn't quite the same but is still funny. If you're called Mabel you'd be avoiding a bloke with a surname like Cable rather than marry him, wouldn't you?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 30 May 2005 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to work with a guy named Robert Roberts.

― moi, Monday, 30 May 2005 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

my mate says he used to know a bloke called trevor trevor, who got shot in the head by accident.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 30 May 2005 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i went to school with a greg gregory and later a flores flores

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 30 May 2005 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, c or d? i dont know, its kinda dud. the first didnt call himself gregory gregory and the second changed the pronunication of his surname so im guessing they thought it was pretty dud too. thanks mom and dad!

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 30 May 2005 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

same initial, though - CLASS ic

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 30 May 2005 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

There is a Mexican pop singer names Jose Jose

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 30 May 2005 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

shit, yeh, C or D ... a resounding D. well, for poor ol' trevor, anyway. i'm sure that if he'd been called dave or steve or nebuchadnezzar or something, he wouldn't have been shot in the head.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 30 May 2005 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

JKJ was referenced in Today In History in my local paper.

Also: Glen Glenn, a hollywood sound engineer who's name appeared in many tv show credits.

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 30 May 2005 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

How could I have forgotten Tracy Tracy?

― Leon Federline (Ex Leon), Monday, 30 May 2005 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I worked one time with this fellow named C@rter C@rter, who I remember absolutely nothing about except that. It's sort of horrible on the parents' part, yeah?

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 30 May 2005 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i know a guy named Thomas Thomas. i dont know why parents would do this.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Monday, 30 May 2005 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

isaac isaacs

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 30 May 2005 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Evan Evans

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 30 May 2005 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

my mate says he used to know a bloke called trevor trevor, who got shot in the head by accident.

-- grimly fiendish (simonmai...), May 30th, 2005 10:57 PM. (grimlord) (later)

This sounds like it should be turned into some kind of 'There was an old lady who swallowed a fly...' children's rhyme.

― Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

My gran is called Joan Jones. I must ask her how she feels about that.

― Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

21 answers and not one mention of Sirhan Sirhan?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i still get called "katie kate" as an affection doubling of my first name, i guess, and i dont mind that at all. what about couples who have the same first name - paris and paris?

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I have an aunt and uncle named Gene and Jean — to avoid confusion, Gene gets called by his last name a lot and Jean goes by "Jeannie."

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

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Dud

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

classic, obv

― Sym Sym (sym), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

There's an Afghan cabinet minister (defense, maybe?) named Abdullah Abdullah. Or he's from a tribe that just uses one name or something, so the Western media calls him Abdullah Abdullah. But then we heard that he just wanted to be Abdullah, so we did that for a while. But last I saw it was back to Abdullah Abdullah.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

William Carlos Williams and E. Abbott Abbott to thread, or at least near thread.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Boutros Boutros-Ghali apparently used to have the same first and last name, but then he got married and decided to go the hyphen route.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i work for a guy called michael michael
Gary and Phill's dad is Neville Neville.

― lukey (Lukey G), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)

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Denis Shaw, AKA Den Den

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I once worked with a Hussein Hussein. There's also an Australian flyweight boxer with the same name, though he's nicknamed Hussy.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

david davis

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

magnus magnusson

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Mjr. Major Major

― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Maj. Major Major

XPOST!!!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

my friend worked for a guy named D1ck D1ckler...when she finally quit, he made her dig through a stack of resumes to find herself a replacement. one of them was for someone named Cr@ig McCr@ig--she was tempted to hire him just on the comedic value of the situation, but ended up hiring an acquaitance who needed a job.

― waxyjax (waxyjax), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I know someone I personally know named Eponymy Eponym.

― Owen, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Did they go out with Valerie Valerrá?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a landlord called Michael Michaels. Apparently his son was called Michael Michael Michaels. Nice fella, runs a greek restaurant in Camberwell.

― Simeon (Simeon), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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