I have multiple given names, so once a conference put just my given names as name on the badge and my surname as part of the affiliation...
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Related to Saad Mann?
Edit: Sorry, he is Saad Maan. 
Great name for an archeologist.
Or an anesthetist.
Terrible name for a Jedi.
*Great name for a Jedi
Of course!
Or spider man villain
Who could have possibly known that the evil doer Sandman was, in fact, Sandy Mann all along. That's some Superman level disguise work for sure.
"Also, you may want to bring your son to a oncologist, for unrelated reasons."
Love digging in sand too, clay soils can bite me. Absolute hell
When I was nearing the end of grad school, they asked us to submit any degrees we'd earned to be listed next to our names in the graduation ceremony program. I "left high school early" so I have a GED (and am proud of it). So I listed my degrees as GED, BA.
A few days later the person putting together the programs finds me in the refectory, pulls me aside and quietly asks me "um, GED? Is... is that high school?"
"Sort of," I reply.
"Uh, yeah... we don't usually put those in there..."
Still have a GED sharing wall space with my Master's either way. Win.
If Sandi Mann does not specialize in sleep science and dream psychology, they’re leaving money on the table. Probably.
She is an author, directs a clinic, and is a university lecturer. She specializes in the psychology of emotions.
Probably
This is why I stopped giving my name at takeaways starting with “Er…”.
would me great if if was for a statistician
That would be a good affiliation for a quantum physicist.
Technically...
No probably
This feels like when my phone is guessing who is calling me.
Probably Sandi “Hi, this id Sandi….
Go PU!
Good ol' P.U.!
I, too, am probably a psychologist at this point in my life.