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View Poll Results: People mistakenly call me Brian/Bryan because ... | |||
I was kidnapped as a young child and my birth name was Brian/Bryan. | 1 | 3.70% | |
It’s a leftover glow from a past life when I was named Brian/Bryan. | 2 | 7.41% | |
There was a mixup at the hospital and I was switched with a baby named Brian/Bryan. | 0 | 0% | |
My parents merely gave me the wrong name. They didn’t capture my aura correctly. | 2 | 7.41% | |
I look like some guy that everyone knows whose name is Brian/Bryan. | 2 | 7.41% | |
My name is Brian/Bryan, but it’s just spelled like a completely different name and I’ve been mispronouncing it. | 0 | 0% | |
I’m beginning a period of hallucination where I believe I’m a person named Brian/Bryan. | 1 | 3.70% | |
I remind people of the dog on Family Guy. | 8 | 29.63% | |
There’s always a very quiet person named Brian/Bryan who’s standing behind me. | 1 | 3.70% | |
It's a Truman show thing, and my character is named Brian/Bryan. | 2 | 7.41% | |
Names are irrelevant. It's all about eye contact. | 1 | 3.70% | |
My name is Brian/Bryan and at some point I got mixed up. | 2 | 7.41% | |
I'm experiencing glitches in the Matrix. | 2 | 7.41% | |
I have another theory that I'll share below. | 3 | 11.11% | |
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05-06-2021, 01:48 PM | Topic Starter |
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What's your theory on my name mixups?
Over the course of our lives, we'll regularly encounter people who get our name wrong. It just happens, and it's no big deal.
However, when people forget my name, they disproportionately call me Brian. (Or maybe Bryan, I can't tell.) This is not a coincidence, because it's really disproportionate. We're talking probably 50 percent of the time, when someone gets my name wrong, they call me Brian/Bryan. There must be a reason for this. What's the reason? I'll post a few of my theories in a poll, but other theories are welcome. I need to solve this mystery. Last edited by Rain Man; 05-06-2021 at 03:08 PM.. |
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05-06-2021, 01:52 PM | #2 |
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In fairness, Brian and Rain have 4 letters in common.
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05-06-2021, 01:53 PM | #3 |
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But Brian/Bryan sound nothing like Rain Man.
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05-06-2021, 01:56 PM | #4 |
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In a former life you were probably known as "Brian of Nazareth." People just "know" who you really are.
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05-06-2021, 01:57 PM | #5 |
'Tis my eye!
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It's Brain.
Of course. |
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05-06-2021, 02:13 PM | #6 |
Would an idiot do that?
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05-06-2021, 02:21 PM | #7 |
You're CARICATURES, ALL of you
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05-06-2021, 01:58 PM | #8 |
Thread I will end you.......
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When people get my name wrong, they change letters and remove letters. Never been called something totally wrong, because they get parts right... just miss on the whole name...
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05-06-2021, 02:09 PM | #9 |
'Tis my eye!
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05-06-2021, 04:08 PM | #10 | |
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Maybe that’s Rainman’s problem: people selectively eliminate all the actual letters of his real name, and then add the letter B-R-I(Y)-A-N....with the net result Brian |
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05-06-2021, 04:11 PM | #11 |
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Yeah, the second syllable of Brian/Bryan is kind of right. So it's like they remember the back half of the name and then play the odds on filling in the first syllable.
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05-06-2021, 04:22 PM | #13 |
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Maybe when you introduce yourself, your brain hears the full version, but the listener hears “Brrrrrrrrb-AN”, so they take a shot and call you Brian in hopes that’s what that strange sound meant?
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05-06-2021, 04:43 PM | #14 |
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05-06-2021, 02:02 PM | #15 |
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Its like calling some women, that have a common personality trait, "Karen".
You remind people of the "Brian/Byron" personality trait. |
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