My Own T-Shirt

Lets pick up where we left off yesterday.  I was talking about, if I was a ghost writer, why would I use the name Hank Epstein? There are flashier names I could use to be someone else. I use to catch hell from people about my name around 1997 and still do occasionally.  If something becomes familiar to everyone, especially in pop culture, like a TV show, a song, a movie, among other things,  it is very easy to get labeled and laughed at if your name is part of a quote or character form the pop phenomenon.  Have you caught on to where I am taking this?  I was portrayed as a cartoon character and laughed at because we had the same name.  The one thing that bothered me the most was the cartoon character was not even an animated person.  I almost felt like changing my name because I could not even go to my favorite coffee house without someone cracking a joke. Have you figured it out yet?  For those who have not figured it out yet, they referred to me as a turd?  Yes!  They took my name and referred to me as the talking turd on South Park, Mr. Hanky.  That right, they took my name, Mr. Hank E, and even made t-shirts with a characterture of my face on them. I did get a lot of free drinks because of it, but I never got laid because of my name, go figure.