# Calling Elizabeth Gallagher **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 6, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-elizabeth-gallagher/703848 "2014-11-06T03:35:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-elizabeth-gallagher/703848/1 "2014-11-06T03:35:07Z")
If your name is Elizabeth Gallagher and you are Canadian, then you could embark upon a free round-the-world trip starting next month, no strings attached. Story [here](http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/04/travel/free-world-trip-elizabeth-gallagher/index.html?iref=allsearch). Seems a young Canadian man in March arranged a dream vacation for himself and his girlfriend, name of Elizabeth Gallagher. But they’ve since broken up, and he’s stuck with the ticket. So he needs an Elizabeth Gallagher – any middle name will do – to take the ticket. Free and he promises no hanky-panky. He’s heard from a lot of Elizabeths, but none has had the last name of Gallagher. So if you are Canadian and have that name, or know a Canadian by that name, please contact the gentleman in the story. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-elizabeth-gallagher/703848/2 "2014-11-06T03:39:52Z")
I wonder whether anyone will change their name for this… ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-elizabeth-gallagher/703848/3 "2014-11-06T03:43:21Z")
They’d have to do so awfully fast. Departure from NYC is December 21. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-elizabeth-gallagher/703848/4 "2014-11-06T04:05:28Z")
Sounds like the fabric of reality has developed a rift in the barrier between our Universe and the Rom-Com Universe. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-elizabeth-gallagher/703848/5 "2014-11-06T04:19:10Z")
And I note that the happy couple will be here in Thailand for New Year’s. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-elizabeth-gallagher/703848/6 "2014-11-06T14:49:10Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > They’d have to do so awfully fast. Departure from NYC is December 21. Doesn’t take long in Canada, my daughter had hers done in about 6 weeks and she wasn’t rushing. I doubt she’d want to go through it again even for a round the world trip though 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-elizabeth-gallagher/703848/7 "2014-11-06T14:56:29Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I wonder whether anyone will change their name for this… Ode to Elizabeth Gallagher \*Heard you’re leaving Canada, that’s OK Maybe your little news item has just begun If you feel like Natallee Holloway, just turn and run Cause you can have a change of heart… Lizzy don’t use that number…! Don’t just be a clone of someone else Guy sounds pretty broken. (what is he? 12?) Lizzy don’t use that number…! If you want to travel, float a loan From Milan to Bangkok to New Dehli …its different cellphones… There’s a cruiser in Toronto, he wants your name For the pool, shopping, cabin side? I just don’t know Hope you have a balcony & don’t have to row And he could re-arrange your heart… [Chorus]\* ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2014, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-elizabeth-gallagher/703848/8 "2014-11-30T13:01:01Z")
[Just an update](http://www.thestar.com/life/technology/2014/11/10/toronto_man_looking_for_elizabeth_gallagher_inspires_new_ticketsharing_website.html): No Elizabeth Gallagher has been found yet, but the man’s tale has inspired another Toronto man to start the Connections website for other people who may get similarly stuck with a spare ticket to find someone to use it. You can also be notified of any tickets becoming available in your name. Probably a good chance of a bite for the John Smiths of the world, not so much for the Engelbert Humperdincks. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-elizabeth-gallagher/703848/9 "2014-12-18T15:56:23Z")
And all’s well that ends well. [A second Elizabeth Gallagher has been found to replace the original.](http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/18/travel/canada-ex-girlfriend-world-trip/index.html?hpt=hp_c5) So if you were planning to change your name to qualify, don’t bother now. The original story put them here in Bangkok for New Year’s. Alas! I won’t be here to wish them well, as the wife and I will be upcountry. But if these two don’t fall in love and get married – after a big blow-up created by a huge misunderstanding, of course – then Hollywood has not taught me anything. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-elizabeth-gallagher/703848/10 "2014-12-18T20:07:57Z")
I like the way they put it in [this](http://nypost.com/2014/12/17/man-finds-woman-to-replace-ex-for-free-trip-around-the-world/) article, especially this part: > [@](#): > > “It’s strictly a platonic trip. It’s going to be great,” Axani said. > At first the new Elizabeth Gallagher thought a trip with a stranger whose ex-girlfriend’s name is the same as hers was “crazy,” but she hit it off with Axani after talking on the phone with him for hours. > “It definitely did seem a little bit creepy at the beginning, but now that I talked to him, it’s less creepy and more awesome,” she said. > She already has a boyfriend, though. > “This is totally sort of like as friends,” she said. “I have a pretty serious boyfriend. We’ve been together for a while. We’re planning on buying a house and we have a puppy, so yeah, I’m not really looking for anything at all.” > She acknowledged her boyfriend isn’t thrilled. I’ll bet. I seriously hope to hear about how their relationship status has changed when they return. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-elizabeth-gallagher/703848/11 "2014-12-18T20:23:44Z")
From the article in **corkboard** ’s post: _“This is totally sort of like as friends,” she said. “I have a pretty serious boyfriend. We’ve been together for a while. We’re planning on buying a house and we have a puppy, so yeah, I’m not really looking for anything at all.”_ “totally sort of like as friends.” Heh. That’s a strong and convincing stand if I ever heard one! > [@Crash Test Dummies](#): > > People might think that we were on our honeymoon > We’d know better, even though we slept in the same room > > . . . > > We don’t have to be wife and husband > to take a trip, aaaaa > across the ocean! [_The Voyage_ - **Crash Test Dummies**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMcWtGkKE28) ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-elizabeth-gallagher/703848/12 "2014-12-19T00:49:41Z")
This story just reeks of being a bad romantic movie. Probably be on Lifetime by mid-January.