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Honestly my first thought upon seeing the name Julius Caesar is always to think of the English cricketer of the 1800s[0]. I suspect this places me in a minority of one.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar_(cricketer)

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I always think of the baseball player Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_McLish). Apparently his dad wanted to make up for not getting to name his older siblings, so he gave him as many names as possible.

All those names and the nickname that stuck was “Bus”? The best laid plans, I guess.

Are you by any chance a Jordan Jesse Go listener? I had never heard of McLish before and he just came up on the show yesterday as an example of a fake sounding name for a baseball player.

Nope! I actually haven't heard of that (I assume it's a podcast; I don't listen to any personally). I just grew up a big fan of baseball, and since my dad had always been as well, he shared a bunch of knowledge with me directly and through various books I read as a kid. I'm honestly not sure how exactly I first heard of him, since I was so young when it happened.

Yes, it is a relatively niche comedy podcast so it isn't that common to run into fans outside of that niche. But on the other hand I'm also a baseball fan and hadn't heard of him until yesterday so it was a little surprising to see his name again immediately. Plus the story of his name is too memorable for this to just be the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. Just a funny coincidence I guess.

No way you're serious; even as an ardent cricket fan I'd never heard of him.

I am serious. I live in the town where he lived, walk past his grave frequently, and drink in the pub (The Cricketers, Farncombe) where he worked as landlord. The other Caesar has no such presence in my daily life!

Well, I'll be--that's definitely fair enough!

> The other Caesar has no such presence in my daily life!

Apart from having set up the modern calendar (slightly adjusted in the XVII century) and having a whole month named after him, and a few other minor things such as the original conquest of Britain ...

"... what have the Romans done for us?"

"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”

“Brought peace.”

“Oh. Peace? Shut up"

Are there not vestiges of these things in modern UK today or at least England?

Not in the North, no.

I think of the Brazilian goalkeeper.

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