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Is this some sort of Syndrome?
Posted by man.of.soup on 2 March 2011 - 1:06pm.
This morning, at work (for the Community Equipment Service, part of Adult Social Care), I noticed an equipment requisition for a Mrs Evelyn King, with the filename: "Req (for requisition) King Evelyn".
My first thought (misreading "req"):
"Wow - Reg King! Wasn't he the lead singer with The Action?"
2nd Thought (on reading it properly):
"Evelyn King! Do her friends call her "Champagne"?"
This is probably a very silly question on this website, but:-
Does anyone else out there suffer from Involuntary Pop Obscurity Name Recognition Syndrome?
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All the time.
I was already right there with you on the Evelyn King thing, even as I read along I can't help it - I regularly ask Rich Robinson in admin if he's finding things hard to handle. And don't get me started on organising transport with the Schenker Group.
yes sadly, it is a syndrome
we have an Andy Rourke who cuts a mean lawn at our place!
Not just names
everything I see seems to turn into a song in my head via very tenuous links. I'm like Rainman The Musical.
Every tune...
...usually reminds me of another one, and *nobody else* can hear the similarity when I point it out. Shocking!
Also, I work with an "Arthur King", thus our company policy on leading surname first on cube nametags is disproportionately pleasing to me.
Unfortunately, as an American unversed in English legend, he is unsusceptible to my jokes.