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Computer geek changes name to Jack Bauer

by Anna Johns, posted Feb 21st 2007 9:32AM

jack bauerJack Bauer is a good name. It's a strong name that doesn't denote much ethnicity. It's the name of a fictional American hero.

And now it's also the name of a computer programmer in Britain. Tim Annan, 35, loves 24 so much that he has changed his name to 'Jack Bauer'. And he makes people at work call him that. He says, "It beats being plain Tim from Watford." Yes. Now he's "crazy Tim from Watford." No word on whether he does a lot of heavy breathing into a cell phone like his alter-ego.

According to British newspaper The Sun, the British Jack Bauer is single. Surprise, surprise.

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treegoat

Oh brother - scary fan alert.

February 22 2007 at 1:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brent McKee

Britain makes it amazingly easy to change your name to anything you want to. Just as an example there was a guy who legally changed his name to include the titles of all of the albums by his favourite musical group. So changing your name to Jack Bauer would be a non-story anywhere but here.

On the other hand changing your sex is just about impossible. Oh you can have the gender reassignment surgery with all the hormones and what not, but if you were born a man you are still a man even if you've exchanged your penis for a vagina.

February 21 2007 at 2:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
JW

What a moron.

February 21 2007 at 1:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
const

"It's a strong name that doesn't denote much ethnicity."

Doesn't get more German than Bauer.

Ah, the crappy pc world we live in....

February 21 2007 at 11:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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