There's
- David Walker, Bishop of Manchester
- Dave Walker, Church and Cycling cartoonist
- David Walker, Civil Rights activist
- David Walker, Catholic bishop in Australia
- David Walker, Expert in Leisure Centre Safety for RoSPA
- Dave Walker, vocalist with Fleetwood Mac
- David Walker, astronaut
- David Walker, bon viveur and partner of Polly Toynbee
This is quite a selection. I have only met one of them (David Walker). However I do wonder. Is the Walker clan unique in that all its members called "David" are successful? Or is there a simpler explanation? Is David Walker simultaneously the Bishop of Manchester, a Catholic bishop, a cartoonist, a rock singer, an astronaut, a 19th Century Civil Rights activist and Polly Toynbee's accident-preventing partner?
Nah, probably not. Nobody could cope with the pressure, surely. Not even David Walker.
You should try David Green. There are two vicars of that name in Rochester Diocese let alone all the other suspects!
ReplyDeleteIf I ever have a David that needs walking, I always look in the yellow pages under David walkers.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't worried about dopplegangers until I went onto facebook, I was distressed to find that about fifty other people have the nerve to 'take my name in vain' and pretend to be me.
ReplyDeleteThis is destroying my credibility - there is no way that I'm the person who walks tightropes, or the one who cross dresses as Dame Edna Everidge, or the one who sells sexual aids, nor the one who appears to be in a multiple marriage relationships, with 4 partners, not all of the same gender, nor the one who plays football for Preston North End, nor the one who is in the running to be governor of Florida - and endless others. Mind you, I wouldn't mind being the me married to that Cindy Lauper, whose gorgeous voice would keep me engaged for a long time.