I apparently have a same-named distant cousin or something in the UK.

At least, I got a couple of emails from a legitimate British company doing some sort of photo shoot today.  Two different people; I assume that they were giving the wrong email address, or something.  In flagrant disregard of apparent Internet protocol I did not immediately roll with it for the entertainment value, mostly because I am not actually an asshole* and these people are trying to run a business.  I merely told them nicely that they had the wrong address, they said sorry, and it was all good.

Although — and this is what makes it interesting — I saw a photo of the dude that they thought that they had, and danged if the guy didn’t look a bit like me, and a bit like my dad.  The hair in particular; I recognized the hairstyle right away.  I guess a branch of my paternal line moved to England instead of America, back in the day?  Wouldn’t surprise me: as Robert Anton Wilson noted, the English love the Irish, as long as we’re not actually in Ireland.

OK.  There was nothing more earth-shattering than that.

Moe Lane

*No, really!  At least not to people who didn’t take a slap at me first.  Don’t start nothing, won’t be nothing, and all that.

3 thoughts on “I apparently have a same-named distant cousin or something in the UK.”

  1. “In flagrant disregard of apparent Internet protocol I did not immediately roll with it for the entertainment value…”
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    As your internet attorney I advise you to rent a very fast car with no top. And you’ll need the cocaine. A tape recorder for special music. I advise you to take a hit out of the little brown bottle in my shaving kit. You won’t need much, just a tiny taste. Acapulco shirts. Get the hell out of Maryland for at least 48 hours. And we’re going to have to arm ourselves, to the teeth!

  2. Had a similar thing happen to me, right as I was getting ready to move out of an apartment. An apartment manager for a building in the nearby city emailed me saying my application for rental had been approved. Which was weird, since I hadn’t applied there and I was moving out of state anyway. I worried I was the target of some scammers, but quickly figured out that she had just sent the email to me in error because of a two letter swap in my first name. Turns out that there was a distant relation in town with nearly the same name.

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