Penn Jacobs is alive and well...
I was duped for a period of at least 3 years.
A friend of mine introduced me to a friend of his at a party - his friend's name was Penn Jacobs. Penn was a really likeable guy - intelligent, witty, charming, handsome. He lived in Boston. He was erudite - I thought "Wow! How lucky is this guy to have such a great name like Penn Jacobs!?!?! It totally fits!"
A few years later we visited Penn at his apartment in Washington, DC - he'd moved to take a job down there. During that visit, they dropped the bomb.
Penn's real name wasn't Penn Jacobs. That was merely a put-on, a josh.
I won't say what his real name is because this is the internet and I have a sense of decorum. Besides, I wasn't mad or anything - just a little shocked and disappointed - not in anybody, but just that his name, which fit him so well, wasn't really his name.
I still like Penn, and I even accept his actual name now, but I always think first of Penn Jacobs. Let this be a lesson to ALL of you - first impressions are the ones that count!
If you ask me, I still think he should legally change his name to Penn Jacobs. So rarely does a name fit one so well.
Anyway, the former Penn writes a blog named Thumos.
http://thumos.blogspot.com
Now he's Mr. T... albeit, no mohawk.
Will it never end?
A friend of mine introduced me to a friend of his at a party - his friend's name was Penn Jacobs. Penn was a really likeable guy - intelligent, witty, charming, handsome. He lived in Boston. He was erudite - I thought "Wow! How lucky is this guy to have such a great name like Penn Jacobs!?!?! It totally fits!"
A few years later we visited Penn at his apartment in Washington, DC - he'd moved to take a job down there. During that visit, they dropped the bomb.
Penn's real name wasn't Penn Jacobs. That was merely a put-on, a josh.
I won't say what his real name is because this is the internet and I have a sense of decorum. Besides, I wasn't mad or anything - just a little shocked and disappointed - not in anybody, but just that his name, which fit him so well, wasn't really his name.
I still like Penn, and I even accept his actual name now, but I always think first of Penn Jacobs. Let this be a lesson to ALL of you - first impressions are the ones that count!
If you ask me, I still think he should legally change his name to Penn Jacobs. So rarely does a name fit one so well.
Anyway, the former Penn writes a blog named Thumos.
http://thumos.blogspot.com
Now he's Mr. T... albeit, no mohawk.
Will it never end?
posted by kenkramar at 8:58 PM
2 Comments:
That's too funny -- it reminds me of "way back," when I called a mutual friend "studsly" which, unlike Penn Jacobs, has a quite different connotation, especially for new female acquaintances. He nicely asked me to please stop, which I've respected to this day.
Yep - I remember that... I think that when other people began referring to him that way, he started getting concerned. I recall a similar thing with the "Manchichi" nomer. He was thinking "Misfits", we were thinking "cute-toy"
On the Penn Jacobs thing, I was actually impressed that I was spoofed for such a long period of time!
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