# Without Googling, do you know who I'm talking about? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 17, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368 "2011-07-17T19:49:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/1 "2011-07-17T19:49:59Z")
To pass the time on longer car trips, Ben and I play the Name Game wherein I name a famous person and he has to name another person whose first name starts with the first letter of the previous person’s last name, etc. Said famous person does not have to be a performer, but can be well known for other things such as heads of state, serial killers, Casey Anthony, etc. I let his J answer pass because _I_ know who it is but then we argued whether he is “well known”. So let’s see… Without Googling, do you know who Jacob Wetterling is? Locations in your response may be helpful. Jacob Wetterling was a boy who was kidnapped from his hometown here in MN when I was a kid in the late 80s and whose mother has since become a public figure advocating for child safety, particularly focused on the areas of abduction and abuse. Big story here but I’m not sure how far it reached. ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/2 "2011-07-17T19:56:23Z")
I do because I live in Minneapolis, though I’ve only lived here since 2000 and only know because my husband told me about him. As far as I can tell it had a pretty significant psychological impact on kids from around here who were about Jacob’s age at the time. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/3 "2011-07-17T23:28:26Z")
No, I don’t know who he is. I live in Tucson, AZ. It may have been national news at the time, but it was over 20 years ago, and I don’t remember hearing of him and don’t know who his mother is. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/4 "2011-07-17T23:37:53Z")
Don’t recall ever hearing of him. Live in Pacific NW past 20 years, formerly lived on East Coast. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/5 "2011-07-17T23:40:17Z")
No. Ohio. Spent the late 80’s in Georgia. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/6 "2011-07-17T23:40:55Z")
I bet you don’t know who [Kyron Horman](http://www.katu.com/news/local/124903454.html) is either. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/7 "2011-07-17T23:41:15Z")
Georgia then and now. No clue. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/8 "2011-07-17T23:42:14Z")
Nope. I even lived there for a few years in the mid-90s. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/9 "2011-07-18T00:26:39Z")
Not a clue. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/10 "2011-07-18T00:31:14Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > I bet you don’t know who [Kyron Horman](http://www.katu.com/news/local/124903454.html) is either. Him, I’ve heard of. Jacob, I’ve not (or if I did I’ve forgotten). I’m 51 yrs old, lived mostly in the South except for two years in Los Angeles. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/11 "2011-07-18T01:04:11Z")
Central NY State. The name vaguely rang a bell, but I had to vote no. Reading the story makes me think I probably heard the name as his mother was making a pest of herself, but she didn’t get me to care. Doesn’t do much for her cause, does it? Last time I played a similar game was in the late 80s. It was “given two letters, come up with someone significant”. I got credit for AR by coming up with Anastasia Romanov. If your OP was intended to make me care, and all it did was resurrect a memory of playing a game in 1989, it isn’t doing anything useful. If your intent was to generate a ruling for a boredom-fighting word game, then… Ummm… Did you win? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/12 "2011-07-18T01:14:27Z")
Nope. Lived in Philly then as now. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/13 "2011-07-18T01:18:33Z")
Yes, but I live in Minnesota, and I have a daughter about five years younger than him. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/14 "2011-07-18T01:21:10Z")
Yes. I live near the Twin Cities. ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_Norder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Dan\_Norder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Norder)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/15 "2011-07-18T01:33:46Z")
No clue. Was living in Wisconsin at the time and most of my life up until about four years ago and generally read the news and especially news about crimes. Sounds like it must have been only a locally famous event. ---
**Author:** ![Meme\_Chose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Meme\_Chose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meme_Chose)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/16 "2011-07-18T01:47:31Z")
Yes. From SoDak. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/17 "2011-07-18T02:16:25Z")
Yes. Was he a paperboy at the time? My daughter is a little old than he would be, and things like that stuck with me. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/18 "2011-07-18T02:20:01Z")
Southern US and nope. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/19 "2011-07-18T02:35:33Z")
Yes but… Minnesotan. Worked on the original Wetterling foundation website. Had friends who worked on Patty’s campaign for House. ---
**Author:** ![Silophant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Silophant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silophant)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/20 "2011-07-18T02:36:18Z")
Nope, grew up in Southern Minnesota, now live in Minneapolis. Of course, I was born after the fact. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368.md?page=2)