I am Andy Sawyer

[faustus]

No, I'm Andy Sawyer.

No, I'm Andy Sawyer.

I'm Andy Sawyer and so's my wife



Ahem, no I'm not.

So why do I still get emails like this?

good afternoon Dr. A,
my name is ------- -------- and I'm a student
of the university of my city --------, Italy). 
(I've written also to dr. Sawyer, what's the correct email?)
My thesis will be about John Wyndham and my
professor said me you've in LIverpool a great archive of this brilliant
author.I would ask you if it could be possible send
to me the photocopies  of the essay (monography) of David Ketterer
regarding Joh Wyndham. Is it "my brother, J. Wyndham, a memoir by
Vivian Beynon Harris" (edited by David Ketterer OR "A part of the
family: Joh nWyndham's the the midwich cuckoos as estranged autobiography)"
by David Ketterer?How  will be it the total cost
(photocopies + delivery cost)? How much time to arrive in
Italy?This document would be very important for
me.Thanks for the attention.

As I've said before, there is nothing wrong with being Andy Sawyer. And Andy Sawyer does a better job of being it than I ever possibly could. I am not now, nor have I ever been, Andy Sawyer. I do not live in Liverpool, I do not work in Liverpool, in fact I've probably spent no more than 30 days in the city.

Sigh...

Maybe I should take out a full page ad in Ansible.

Comments

[grahamsleight.livejournal.com]

I half-expected to find another copy of this in the Foundation email box - I get occasional bits for Andy there - but didn't. So can state, without fear of contradiction, that I am not Andy Sawyer either.

(BTW, doesn't your email address include your surname, which is not Sawyer? Bit of a giveaway, I'd have thought...)

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

Yes, it does. You'd of thunk. In fact, apart from a Vector-Editors Rocketmail account back in the day, my email addresses have always had my surname as part of it.* And Andy has had two basic versions of his, and I think a Secret Hotmail, which contains the name Sawyer.**

The salutation was even Dear Dr A, not Dear AS.

Of course, it doesn't help that there are probably ghost pages put there with my name and the $££ being connected but even so, I am repeatedly mistaken for a reviews editor. It's a name that has six letters and ends in the same two letters.*** One MA student suggested a quick drink after work, which would have been pleasant save for the twelve hour round trip.