Wei Wei sounds Chinese, but the Shih Young Kim I knew was from South Korea and spoke very poor English. He came to our high school from 1994 to 1996. Same time frame?
Same time frame but definitely a different guy. I’m pretty sure he was Chinese, and he spoke nearly perfect English since his family had been in the States from the time he was very little.
Ah well…at least we got a hit on the name. 
No hits on any names, but here’s my list:
Joe Deskevich
Jim Seljos
Cathy Savage
Barbara Kuhn
Lon Markus
Sue Dehaan
No hits (aside the wildly common names, which I’ll assume are coincidental).
Lotus Goldstein
Grace Kelly
Elizabeth Jappay
Casey Zombor
Brad Kerth
Devin McKinney
Ooooh, I knew a Michelle Reyes (well, actually knew *of * her is more like it) and I grew up in SoCal. This would have been 20+ years ago in the South Bay area.
Know him? I’m in a photo with him!
I once met a Joe Jones, so two hits for me.
My list:
Sherry Small
John Gorsky (I knew two of them)
Phil Hoffman (Yes, the movie star)
Brad Stoddard
Karen Weiner
Brad Cole
Janet Esposito
Gina Ott
No hits for me!
Here’s a list:
- Karen Fitzgerald
- Christina Ballinger
- Robert Hoffman
- Mike Lally
- Kerry O’Rourke
- Lori Baker
- Mary Beth Farrell
- Mitch Smith
- Chris Couch
- Mike Greenwell
I work with a Richard Rose. He’s an LPN in a psych hospital.
My list:
Tim Swan
Danielle Ortelli
Dawn Campguard
Nancy Flynn
Gary Williams
Kristin Janda
Peter Spooner
No hits from me yet. Try these:
Tim Behunin
Roy Boehm
Jack Butters (Buttars?)
Matt Caldwell
Don Case
Scott Chandler
Jason Childers
Mike Christensen
Vince Cunningham
Dan DeWitt
Jennifer Eggleston
Mike Franke
Adam Geise
Chris Geyer
Sharon Ham
David Hamilton
Cory Hawkins
Jeff Heinrich
Odie Huber
Jonathan Hunt
Matt Hyde
John Jungles
Tom Kari
Mike Langston
James Marshall
Jared Morgan
Chad Olsen
Melissa Pincock
Matt Purvis
Robert Preston
Ryan Saleh
Mark Schmidt
Mike Stowell
David Strawn
Wendell Thompson
David Tullis
Nancy West
Steve Yonker
I knew her about 20 years ago, but she was going to junior high school near downtown LA at the time. My guess is, probably not the same, which is too bad.
Childhood friend from upstate New York.
tdn – pretty funny – it’s not really a hit, but it does have the 6 degrees to it. That is not my Eric Mumpower, but apparently his cousin. I had heard about him through a mutual friend who had met him (your EM) when he googled trying to find the one to which I am referring.
I purposely listed the names that were strange enough I figured there wouldn’t be hits on or if there were would be “real” hits. Funny.
I’m waiting for someone to see his or her Actual Name.
I was worried about such a thing when I did the OP. I gather that either that has already happened and been ignored or this crowd has names a little further from “common.”
Now, the trick for Dopers who have “common” names would be to include their own name in their list. This way, they can hide behind the drapes, so to say.
Probibly not the same one. The one I knew worked in auto mechanics from the time he was 12 years old, or thereabouts.
Sgt Schwartz
I did include my name in my list. Common enough to get a boatload of google hits, not common enough to be hit randomly, I think.
Hold on – explain this again.
Eric has a cousin named Eric. I know one, you know the other. And when a friend of yours Googled your Eric, he got mine instead (no doubt from a page related to the one I posted). And so this friend went to meet my Eric?
If I’m even partially right on this, then I think we have a winner for the thread.
When I was in high school, I was on the Academic Challenge team as a sophomore, junior, and senior. Bob Alexander was the captain when I was in eleventh grade (we won, as we had the year before – I was the captain as a senior, but the person who was charged with delivering my school’s application to the sponsor “forgot all about” the task until it was too late).
Ok, let me see if I can 'splain it. My friend Eric is a brainy sort who tends to forget that people actually like him and like to talk to him now and then. Our other friend decided that he wanted to know what Eric was up to, so did a GIS for Eric Mumpower. He got multiple hits and they were all this Eric Mumpower at MIT. On a whim (since our Eric was seriously a brain), he emailed the MIT Eric. The MIT Eric explained that no, he was not the EM my friend was looking for, but rather his cousin and yes, he did know how to contact our Eric. My friend did not actually meet your Eric in person, only via email.
I don’t know much about your Eric, but ours was the product of an American dad and German mom. He is a total brain and a lot of fun to get drunk with. He should be around 34/35 nowdays and last I heard was living in Germany.
So, do we get a prize for this one?
When I was in college, Michael Packert-Hall was my professor of English Renaissance Drama Exclusive of Shakespeare. He hyphenated his surname upon marriage, but now (based on alumni newsletters I’ve recently read) goes simply by Michael Hall. Don’t know if he divorced, or merely chose to simplify.