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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2002 12:19 pm
by Wolf_Girl
I'm relatively new to YTOTW, and have never posted on this message board, so please excuse me if I sound stupid.

Something that caught my eye in the last storyline was the similarity between two of the characters, Brian and David Lexington, to my two brothers. Both have the same names, Brian and Dave. Both look similar to the characters, and both are the same age (Brian 22, and Dave 19)...and, of course, we're all American. Now this may not interest you people in the least, but I just thought it was a little strange so i wanted to bring it up.

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2002 12:28 pm
by Yahtzee
That is pretty strange, yes, considering I made up their surname and ages on the spot when I added them to the cast page, as well as the fact that they are brothers which has never been referred to in the strip. Do your brothers ever dress up as superheroes and talk in an exaggeratedly enthusiastic manner?

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2002 12:50 pm
by Wolf_Girl
I think if they did we would have had them institutionalized by now. But since they're both out of the house at this point there's no real way of knowing.

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2002 1:57 pm
by RhubarbCelestial
Oooooooooo!

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2002 2:09 pm
by Dr_Looney
I'm Dave and I'm... 18. And know noone called Brian. Damn.
Next time I'll do better, honest.

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2002 3:35 am
by Darnn
Yes, but look at it this way: You've got a last name that could be abbreviated as 'Hutch'. Not many can say that.

Look at me, for instance. What have I got? I can't even win any of those stupid raffles where you send in your name composed of letters found under Cola corks, because there are too many damn letters in 'Victor Flickstein'.
All I've got going for me is that the first halves of my name and surname rhyme...

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2002 5:12 am
by Yahtzee
Like Arthur Yahtzee!

As for Ben Croshaw, I find it annoying because everyone I meet spells Croshaw as Crowshaw, which is wrong. But my initials are B.C., which can also mean Before Christ, or even Bruce Campbell.

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2002 5:44 am
by Dr_Looney
Darnn: Yeah, I think 'Hutch' is probably favourable to 'VicFlic'...

And people always get my last name wrong too. It's HUTCHENCE, not Hutchings or Hutchinson. I spent ten minutes trying to explain this to the woman at the leisure centre on Friday, to no avail.

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2002 6:04 am
by SimeSublime
You think thats bad. My last name is Osborne. Even when you write it down and spell it out for ppl, they insist on spelling it Osbourne, or Osborn. To make things worse, my dad's name is Stewart, but everyone spells it Stuart. What really pisses him off, is when they spell it Stuart Osborn.

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2002 7:19 am
by Dr_Looney
Funny how topics alter over time... Anyway, if you read the credits of Westwood's Blade Runner game, you'll see there was a Paul Bastardo working on the game. I think he's got it the worst.

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2002 7:29 am
by ZOMBIE USER 3288
I remember seeing this one movie (on MST3K called "The Space Mutiny" I think) with guys named "Fuzzy Skinner" and "Guy Pringle". Not quite as good as "Bastardo" but still relevant.

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2002 7:30 am
by ZOMBIE USER 3288
It might have been called "Space Mutiny" not "The Space Mutiny" if anyone gives a shit.

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2002 3:48 pm
by Kasaii
When I was in seventh grade, there was a kid in my school named Eric Buttkiss.
Pronounced phonetically.
And they called him down to the office every week or two.
How's that for awful?

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2002 10:45 am
by Yahtzee
I read about a story, many years ago, about a man who lost his job at a garage and started stealing cars, cleaning them throughout, seeing to the engine, then returning them to their owners brand new. His name was Colin Sadd.

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2002 12:45 pm
by UnitedmothersINC
aww.....that sucks....my first name is Colin....but my last isn't Sadd!!!

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2002 7:02 pm
by Wolf_Girl
The only problem with my name is that it's just to common for my taste. Everywhere I go there's always three or four people with the same one. It gets pretty confusing for me. I actually *want* some weird-ass name nobody got right...or at least something like "Jane", that name's cool.

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2002 3:34 am
by Darnn
What <i>is</i> your name?

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2002 5:53 pm
by Wolf_Girl
Sarah Scott. Plain, simple, and boring.

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2002 2:04 am
by Darnn
That's quite interesting, actually, since the first thing I thought of when I saw your post is Sarah.

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2002 5:26 am
by Comic Book Guy
the first thing i thought when i read one of her posts was food but then thats all i think about so does that count?