Guy Kawasaki has a funny blog entry which mentions one case of mistaken identity.
A few years ago, I had organised a user group meeting at a local PC superstore and we’d gotten about 20 people milling around discussing computers. The PC superstore staff were happy because we all seemed to have our own teeth and hold credit cards. The users were happy because they got to hang with geeks on a Saturday afternoon. After a couple of hours, one of the attendees turned to me and said:
“When is this MJ guy going to show up?”
I wouldn’t have minded but I’d been running the UG for three years at that point. Was I a shy and retiring type or did they think that I looked like my picture on the web forum (a rather harried-looking Daffy Duck). It was a bizarre experience anyway. I don’t look like anyone famous except maybe this guy. You don’t think so?