The Other Big Daves

If I had pondered another second, I never would have named this Big Dave's Blog. Surely I could have come up with something more clever or descriptive or original. But I didn't. I was only experimenting when I signed onto Blogspot, testing the waters of HTML programming. Didn't think I'd be still posting almost two years later.

Oh, well. One of my personal philosophies is that life is what happens when you've made other plans. So it goes.

When I check my sitemeter statistics to see how folks stumble upon my blog, a great many of them are Googling "Big Dave." But chances are they're not looking for me. Here are some Big Daves who have garnered celebrity status.

Big Dave B: Whenever someone hits my blog by Googling “Big Dave’s Line Dance”, I know they’re looking for Big Dave B, an Englishman who teaches line dancing in the United Kingdom. He won a Crystal Boot, which I assume is for dancing though he doesn’t say so. I tried line dancing once, but everybody else on the floor was going the opposite way I was. Maybe I should have become a line dance teacher myself. Then I could have set those others straight.

Big Dave O: In the “Gee I wish I’d thought of that”, this Big Dave is the author of Big Bucks with Big Dave. He’s a pizza magnate who ran a pizza and sub shop up north in my home state of Michigan here. A foodservice consultant now, his web portal offers tips for “pizza professionals who want an unfair advantage.” Mmmmmmmm, I’m all for a fair advantage myself. It seems more American, doesn’t it?

Big Dave, “the hardest man in Manchester”: If you look up Big Dave in the on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia, this is whom you will find. This Big Dave stopped Saddam Hussein’s plan to conquer the world, then later had a fling with two prominent members of the British royal family. He’s an “infamous comic book character”, Wikipedia says, but it doesn’t say why.

Big Dave G: Another Englishman (The Brits like their Big Daves). This Big Dave’s website tagline bills him as “The strongest man who ever lived.” He won a National Oyster Award for an anti-bullying campaign he’s promoted. Oyster Award? Not sure I like the sound of that. Wonder if thought was ever given to naming this honor after another denizen of the sea. Maybe crab, or whale, or flounder, or . . . On second thought, I guess oyster’s not so bad.

Big Dave P: This Big Dave was badly in need of a new kidney some years back. His website had some information on being a live donor for a kidney, liver, pancreas or lung transplant. (Gee, it used to be they only wanted your blood.) Big Dave P. had a lot of folks cheering him on in his quest for health, including a runner’s group named Hot Mamas for Big Dave. I tried to Google to find out whether he ever got his kidney. Never could find out. I hope he did.

Big Dave Patlak: He ran for Congress down in Florida last year. In his website, his first priority appeared to be legislating for national windstorm insurance. I’m not sure that’s a top priority for Americans. Maybe that’s why he lost to the Republican incumbent in his district.

So I’m just one small fish in a big sea of Big Daves. Maybe someday I’ll come up with a better name.