Posted on 10/07/2018 9:18:50 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A Kentucky man went viral this week after going online to lament the fact that his name is similar to that of Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court nominee who was confirmed after a weeks-long controversy involving multiple allegations of sexual assault.
Kentucky's Brett Kavanagh, who spells his name without a "u," told local outlet Louisville Courier Journal that it became increasingly "crazy" having the same name as a man who was at the center of a dramatic nationwide controversy.
Kavanagh went viral with a tweet saying "This is a terrible time to be named Brett Kavanagh," which has been "liked" over one million times and retweeted more than 162,000 times.
This is a terrible time to be named Brett Kavanagh
Brett Kavanagh (@Brett_Kavanagh) October 6, 2018 “Dude, it was literally like a machine gun,” Kavanagh told the Courier Journal. “It was like my phone caught a virus. It was constantly vibrating.”
He said that he is in sales and has to start phone calls by saying his full name.
"The first thing I say is my name is Brett Kavanagh,” he said. “And literally the first reactions is ‘Wait, what did you just say?’ I have to stop and explain it’s been a crazy couple of weeks.”
He told the newspaper that he does not have many opinions on the newly-minted Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh.
“I don’t know the guy,” Kavanagh said. “We have the same name, our hair is kind of parted in the same direction. That’s about it. Oh, and we both like beer."
He said the best part of going viral has been the responses from other people who share names with embattled public figures.
A man with the Twitter handle "goodmikepence," apparently sharing the vice president's name, replied to his original tweet saying, "Welcome to the club, brother."
Another woman apparently named Susan Collins replied with her condolences. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) was a pivotal swing vote in Kavanaugh's confirmation.
“It’s ended up being this really fun forum where everyone has come out with their similar names," Kavanagh said.
Another man named "Michael Cohen," who apparently shares a name with President Trump's former lawyer who pleaded guilty to eight federal counts over the summer, wrote, "We should have a club."
If the innocent suffer it's all for the greater good.
>>Brett Kavanagh (@Brett_Kavanagh) October 6, 2018 “Dude, it was literally like a machine gun,” Kavanagh told the Courier Journal. “It was like my phone caught a virus. It was constantly vibrating.”
If that phone was in your pocket the whole time you can call out the Left for unwanted sexual assault.
How queer that the bent of the article is that they only found people who had “controversial” names tied to issues on “the right” (and Trump’s lawyer isn’t even on the right).
This is a time to use your middle name as your first for a while, or give yourself a ‘business name’.
I’ll bet some recipients of his phone calls were shocked.
“What did you say your name was?”.
Today’s cell phones don’t have a separate receiver that can be slammed back into the cradle. That’s one thing I miss when I’m speaking to someone who deserves to be hung up on with a resounding SLAM! in the ear. There is probably an APP for that.
Wow, I’ll bet it’s almost as bad as being named Adolph Hitler.
"...Brett Kavanagh..."
Umm, Brett while we have your attention, did you happen to meet a Susan Ford back around, oh, 1982? Just wondering.
Haywood Jablomey didn’t appreciate the jokes he got about his name when Bill Clinton was testifying during Monicagate.
The Shill at The Hill again.
The Louisville Courier-Journai has been a left wing paper for as long as I can remember it and that goes back to the mid ‘50s.
or Charles Schumer...
Years ago, fresh out of college and renting a floor of a 2-family, upstairs a “John Kennedy” lived with his mother. The guy could not be any more opposite of JFK. He was an uneducated unemployed zero. He joined the Marines, and hated it. Don’t know what happened to him, or if he even got thru initial training.
“Today’s cell phones don’t have a separate receiver that can be slammed back into the cradle”
Air horns work well!
How about the small town lawyer in Weatherford TX who changed his name to Matthew McConaughey? Name recognition? How stupid is that?
He spelled it slightly different but that was his big attempt at notoriety.
Back in the 1990s, Al Nino of San Jose, CA used to get a lot of angry calls for causing all the rain.
Here’s a list of sympathetic twitter respondents.
Steve Bannon
Bruce Y Lee
Michael Jackson
James Carter
Matt Lauer
James Brown
Alex Jones
Susan Collins
Kevin McCarthy
Thomas Edison
Robert Meuller
Tim Burton
I would have played it to the hilt. A dozen or so calls after you tell everyone the Secret Service is recording everything that you are saying will make your smartphone shut up pretty quick.
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