Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:36:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Those Keith Lynchs sure do get around...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Mike Bartman wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/02/donkey_shocker/

> Perhaps this would be a good hotel for a con?  I doubt they'd have
> problems with hall costumes!

> Note that the Keith reference is to someone at the paper, not in the
> story it published...

Five years ago on the rec.arts.sf.fandom newsgroup I posted:

  "Keith F. Lynch" seems to be only me (though I didn't check all 899
  pages).  Take away the F., and I become a forestry professor in
  Kansas, the editor of _Building Your Mate's Self-Esteem_ and _Teaching
  Your Children about Sex_, a professional guitar player in California,
  a movie editor in Britain, the owner of a car repair shop in Arizona,
  a hydrologist at NOAA in Wakefield, Virginia, a saxophonist in Houston,
  a salesman in St. Louis, a prize-winning weight lifter in Florida, a
  member of Blue Ridge Toastmasters, a Liberal Democrat Councillor in
  Lash Hill Ward, a member of the Texas Sheepdog Association, and a
  radio controlled car racer in Pennsylvania, among much else.

  I haven't looked at all 1530 pages which mention "Keith Lynch" but not
  "Keith F. Lynch", so there may be many more.  Most of those pages are
  about me, anyhow.

  Plus "Keith" is movie director David Lynch's middle name, so I get
  lots of hits from that.

  Too bad we don't all have unique names.  If we did, we could use
  numbers of web pages containing a name as a way to measure how famous
  each person is.

  For instance Jesus Christ scores 1,840,000, while John Lennon only
  rates 342,000, nearly tied with Elvis Presley at 347,000.

The 899 pages mentioning "Keith F. Lynch" have become 15,800 pages.
The 1530 pages which mention "Keith Lynch" but not "Keith F. Lynch"
have become 26,800.  Jesus Christ now scores 15,700,000, John Lennon
2,660,000, and Elvis Presley 4,620,000.  So I conclude that John
Lennon today is more famous than Jesus Christ was five years ago.

And not only am I not the only Keith Lynch, I'm not even the only
Keith Lynch to be falsely convicted of a serious crime!  The other
one wrote _Dirty Justice-Who Killed Mommy?_ about his experiences
with Georgia's court system.

I think I'm still the only Keith Lynch in fandom.