In honor of CIDU Bill (Bill Bickel — and definitely not Idiot Bill Bickel) here’s a bit of a tribute:
Usual John sends this in: “I can’t help thinking of Idiot Bill Bickel, and the name Bilden Bickworm makes me think that may not be just coincidence. FYI for those who have not been following CIDU for years: Idiot Bill Bickel was (and presumably still is) a real estate agent who had the same name as CIDU Bill (the original moderator of this website) and inexplicably sometimes gave people CIDU Bill’s email address instead of his own.”
(This was posted as a LOL some months ago; it seems appropriate to repeat it here)
Comics I Don't Understand 
I think something may have glitched on the upload? There are a lot more tags than comics and I have a feeling the tags are right.
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Once my career progressed to the stage where I could stay at nicer hotels on the company dime, I began to run into the issue of sharing a name with a much wealthier guy.
“Are you the [my real name here] of [not my town]?”
I found out early that if I said yes, I got free upgrades and other nice perks.
“Yes. Yes, I am.”
Fast forward a year or two: that guy became a client of a client, I would find myself invited to online meetings I had to no business being in.
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Antonin Scalia used to tell a story about checking into a hotel and having to spell his name, and every once in a while having a clerk ask, “Like the Supreme Court justice?”
“Yeah, just like him.”
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@Andrew Millar: No, the tags are wrong. In order not to forget this annual tribute to Bill, I copy the previous year’s tribute forward to next year, but don’t update the comics until something particularly appropriate comes in. I updated the comics, but did not delete the old tags from last year. Fixed now, just like my cat. :)
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@Max C. Webster: You might enjoy this from 1992
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I have a somewhat unusual name, and I established email addresses at two or three of the early free email services (you know the ones; in exchange for free email they serve up ads based on keywords in your email, and now each of them has hundreds of millions of users) early enough that I could use my actual name without adding numbers, like jsmith@dontbeevil.com. Well, my name is not totally unique in the world, and those other people who share my name sometimes forget that their own email address @dontbeevil.com DOES have a number or something in it to distinguish it from mine.
I have found out a few interesting things about certain people I don’t know. For one, I am better at paying my bills than certain others who share my name.
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This might be a false memory, but I think the comic about the name was on the site around the time it was published and the cartoonist said it was a coincidence and wasn’t influenced by CIDU Bill’s email issues.
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Susanna has an excellent memory: Bill’s original post (dated 23-Jun-2018) is here:
Scroll down to comment #26.
P.S. Apologies if this comment ends up with duplicate copies, WordPress is being obnoxiously difficult about logging in.
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