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[Slytovhand]

My name is old Cymric (aka Welsh) and is pretty easy to pronounce.. if you choose to listen!

So - as a call centre operator who has gotten sick and tired of either getting completely ridiculous misinterpretations, or having to waste my time explaining it... I now use Frank.

The thing that gets to me about being Frank with people is that I still get called Ray or Craig....

I even had once when I answered normally "This is Frank", and got "Well - hello Francis".

Can you imagine how amused I was when (as I said - I work in a call centre, which has enough Indian employees anyway - is still onshore - and not outsourced to an Indian call centre)... a customer rang, I said "... this is Frank", and get "Ah, Frank - what a good Australian name". <smirk smirk>

And on the other topic, we have a few thousand accounts here. Naturally - we have a few local celebrities with accounts with us (if I ever get them, then I treat them like any other customer, like I don't even recognise them...) - and naturally, we have a few John Smith's too... the world's like that!

[MyEccentricHell]

Our company directory has a Barbie Bratz, Michael Jackson, Michael Meyers, and a Fred Kruger. I can only imagine how embarrassing those names are.

I've never even thought to give a fake name when placing an order. Usually I just give my first name & last inital.

[plan9au]

my local starbucks now only makes my order under the name Captain America, the result of a 2 week bet i had with friends, Since im there regular enough that they know me by sight, they ussually get the new girl to call out my order....childish i know but everybody in the store gets a laugh and that is a good thing isn't it

[edible_hat]

Thomas T. Thomas will not reveal what the middle letter stands, I even emailed him and he claims it just sands for 'T'. I beat he get bugged about that alot.

I had a high school art teacher called J J Johnson. The Js stood for Jon Johnathan. Students usually called him Triple J after the radio station of the same name.

[cinema guy]

I had a manager who's name is no lie, John Smith.

I had an uncle with that name. He said whenevr he checked into a hotel, people assumed that he was using a false name.

[Gurndigarn]

Whenever I call the shipping company for a pickup, I become Jim Smith. Simply because that way, they don't ask me to spell my name. I don't want to talk to those idiots any more than I need to.

[TryNotToBeThatOne]

I always feel sorry for those people who have the same name as people who became famous; like Nicole Brown Simpson in S. California. She had to contact her credit cards to get them re-activated, with proof that it was her & that she wasn't dead.

Or some 30 or 40-something guy named Nick Cage, who's not an actor? The list goes on.

[cinema guy]

There was both a Tom Jones and Rob(bie) Williams who worked at the cinema.

[edible_hat]

There was both a Tom Jones and Rob(bie) Williams who worked at the cinema.

That reminds me, I know a Robbie Williams. Sometimes I blog about having lunch with him, it always results in comments from people who don't know me very well asking if I can get his autograph.