nomenclature
My name is james cooper. Yesterday at church I met another james cooper. He goes by the name of jim and we chatted about barrels. Do you have any idea what the formula for the volume of a barrel is? Try to work it out before you look it up.
Anyway, my point isn't about my similarly named friend, it's the fact that that's the 2nd other james cooper I've met. The first house I lived in was at 1 scotts way in kirkby in ashfield. Directly across the road lived a slightly younger lad also by the name of james cooper.
Anyway, my point isn't about my similarly named friend, it's the fact that that's the 2nd other james cooper I've met. The first house I lived in was at 1 scotts way in kirkby in ashfield. Directly across the road lived a slightly younger lad also by the name of james cooper.
- The odds of there being someone out there with the same name as yours? Pretty high
- Odds of meeting someone with the same name? Moderate
- Odds of meeting a second person person with the same name? Low
- Odds of living next door to someone of the same name? Very low
posted by nj at
08:55
4 Comments:
You're sounding like Dave Gorman http://www.davegorman.com
Or perhaps you should start a Cooper DNA test. http://www.roperld.com/RoperGenetics.htm#project
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Anonymous, at 3:26 pm
soon there will be only one
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nj, at 4:35 pm
Incidently, the 2nd James Cooper lived on the street parallel to yours two years ago... So although not across the road - 'twas only around two corners. Maybe the next one will be three streets over!
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Anonymous, at 10:49 pm
At my school the most common names were Lee, Kim, Chen, Li, Lin, Park, Zhang... you get my drift... maybe Johnson or something. In my grade alone there were two David Lees and two David Lis. I knew 2 Jenny Chens who were best friends, and three kids who went by Jin Kim in my middle school P.E. class and they weren't related. in some communities its definitely the norm. I've met a handful of smiths and johnsons, but right now i can think of a ton of lees and kims, maybe 30 unrelated each at the top of my head.
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Anonymous, at 8:34 am
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