Comments on: Henry/Harry

By: "Henry"

"Henry" — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:07:43 +0000

I do not know which one of us has written this post.

By: tarski

tarski — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:49:35 +0000

You’re telling me that the posts written by “Henry”, are written by Henry?

We all know that, but what about the ones written by Henry?

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:45:24 +0000

I am so tired of being mistaken for Jared Leto. Come on, people.

By: dsquared

dsquared — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:45:10 +0000

I’ve just realised that we can all play this game; the ones signed “Kieran” are written by me.

By: Tad Brennan

Tad Brennan — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:49:25 +0000

wait wait wait

You’re telling me that the posts written by “Henry”, are written by Henry? And the posts written by “Harry”, are written by Harry?

Who writes the ones written by “Fido”?

By: Ciarán

Ciarán — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:01:29 +0000

Which one of you is in Sandhurst then?

By: Belle Waring

Belle Waring — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:46:06 +0000

I blush to admit that I have made this mistake myself. Also, dsquared, you are a humorist on par with The Editors.

By: dsquared

dsquared — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:52:46 +0000

Nice one Harry.

By: david

david — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 03:00:21 +0000

There is great pride to be taken in insulting Robert Conquest.

By: matt

matt — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 02:16:15 +0000

er, sorry about that to both of you. At least I got my Jon/John problem right this time. Any chance of you all taking on catchy and easy-to-recall nick names?

By: Amardeep

Amardeep — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 01:28:59 +0000

It’s depressingly formal, but you might solve the problem by simply changing your author tag-lines (by lines?) to your full names. “Harry Brighouse” and “Henry Farrell” are easier to distinguish on the fly than “Henry” and “Harry.”

By: Kevin Donoghue

Kevin Donoghue — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:33:29 +0000

Reminds me of how another philosopher solved this problem with a brief letter to the editor of The Times :

Dear Sir,

We wish to make it clear that neither one of us is the other.

Bertrand, Lord Russell
Russell, Earl of Liverpool

By: Richard Bellamy

Richard Bellamy — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:53:22 +0000

I was always confused about “Herry”, the biggest of the blue muppet monster on Sesame Street. Is “Herry” really a name, or was there some sort of big disagreement about whether to name him “Harry” or “Henry” (or, as I thought it was as a child, “Hairy”), and this was the unfortunate compromise?