Sunday, August 01, 2004
Am I the world's third most famous living non-musical Rufus?
Almost everyone who is called Rufus and who is actually famous, and currently alive, is a musician: Rufus Wainwright (soulfull gay icon), Rufus Reid (jazz bassist), Rufus McGovern (alt.country rocker), Rufus (as in Chaka Khan), Rufus Harris (christian recording artist), Rufus Campbell (pro-bagpiper), not to mention Rufus Sun and Rufus Grove who are bands and therefore don't really count.
Scouring Google, you will find that this is now the 50th site listed when searching for "Rufus". I was most curious about the other intervening Rufi. Number one most famous living non-musical Rufus is definitely Rufus Sewell (UK actor), and number two is probably Rufus Beck (German actor), after that it degenerates into a bit of a squabble for third place. Weeding out the distractors: Rufus Guitars (no Rufus actually involved), Rufus Leonard (another fictional brand name), and Rufus ShinRa (a character from Final Fantasy), we get left with only 3 challengers:
Rufus Young (astronomer), whom I'm confidently discounting, because he provides zero personal information, and no website update in the last 8 years, so he may well be one of the many non-living Rufi.
Rufus Green (Acting web editor for the National Maritime Museum), he gets ditched down the list, because he's only in an "acting" position, not even a permanent web editor.
Rufus Sanders (trainee teacher), whom I'm rejecting merely because his web design is cluttered, and he updates a lot less often than me.
Q.E.D. I am the third most famous, living, non-musical Rufus, who would have thought it? Feel free to submit other Rufi for my scrutiny, but I assure you my analysis has been quite comprehensive.
Almost everyone who is called Rufus and who is actually famous, and currently alive, is a musician: Rufus Wainwright (soulfull gay icon), Rufus Reid (jazz bassist), Rufus McGovern (alt.country rocker), Rufus (as in Chaka Khan), Rufus Harris (christian recording artist), Rufus Campbell (pro-bagpiper), not to mention Rufus Sun and Rufus Grove who are bands and therefore don't really count.
Scouring Google, you will find that this is now the 50th site listed when searching for "Rufus". I was most curious about the other intervening Rufi. Number one most famous living non-musical Rufus is definitely Rufus Sewell (UK actor), and number two is probably Rufus Beck (German actor), after that it degenerates into a bit of a squabble for third place. Weeding out the distractors: Rufus Guitars (no Rufus actually involved), Rufus Leonard (another fictional brand name), and Rufus ShinRa (a character from Final Fantasy), we get left with only 3 challengers:
Rufus Young (astronomer), whom I'm confidently discounting, because he provides zero personal information, and no website update in the last 8 years, so he may well be one of the many non-living Rufi.
Rufus Green (Acting web editor for the National Maritime Museum), he gets ditched down the list, because he's only in an "acting" position, not even a permanent web editor.
Rufus Sanders (trainee teacher), whom I'm rejecting merely because his web design is cluttered, and he updates a lot less often than me.
Q.E.D. I am the third most famous, living, non-musical Rufus, who would have thought it? Feel free to submit other Rufi for my scrutiny, but I assure you my analysis has been quite comprehensive.
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