Maurice Joseph Micklewhite was a young English actor who needed to "massage" his name to act on the stage, so he took the name "Michael Scott."
As his career progressed, he needed to join Equity, the trade union for performing arts and entertainment interests in the UK. The union already had a member who went by Michael Scott.
Micklewhite had a brief discussion of this problem with his agent in Leicester Square. He caught sight of the marquee on the big cinema there and saw the word "Caine." The rest of the title was obscured.
"It's a good job the trees were in the right place," Michael Caine later recalled. "Otherwise I would have been called Michael Mutiny."
I've been "Brian O'Leary" all my life, but in today's world with computers and the vast numbers of (anti-Irish) ignorami, I've seen my name spelled at least a dozen different ways.
But I've only developed one hot sauce in my life—something few people get around to doing, naturally—and it has its own beautiful name that I created and this delicious condiment is called:
Naturally Ordered Hot Sauce.
It's an homage to the Natural Order Podcast, a project that I do with my pal Adam Haman.
You can get it here for a limited time:
If you like it that much and want to order it by the dozen, I can arrange that too. I just did it for one of our people so he can give the 5oz bottles away for the holidays.
For the special orders, simply respond to this email and I can tell you how it goes.
As always,
Brian
P.S. – NaturalOrderPodcast.com is where you go for the aforementioned show.
