Too many Todd's to keep track of.

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Let me start by saying that there is more than one person in the world with the name Todd Ouellette. One person named Todd Ouellette (Pictured to the right) is my best friend. I have known this one since 1984. (Which means that I have know him for 20 years as of 2004, remember that as you read on.) On the week of July 4th, 1995 Todd and several other of my friends went on vacation to Washington D.C. Todd was 27 years old at that time. Well shortly there after a local paper, "The Nashville Scene", carried an article in Chuck Shepherd's News of The Weird that mentioned the name "Todd Ouellette" and said that he was 27 and had been in Washington D.C. in March. When the Todd I know read the article he was mad about it at first, and contacted Chuck, but later Todd thought it was funny. The Todd I know thought that one of his friends had submitted a fake article to Chuck as a joke on him, but we all told him that none of us did it. We thought it to be a remote possibility that the article was about some other person who:

Was also named Todd Ouellette
Was also 27 years old in 1995
Was also in Washington D.C. in that same year

For many years I had the full text of this article posted on my personal web page, and I always thought that if I were ever going to get a complaint, that it would be from Chuck Shepherd for re-posting one of his articles. But I never heard from Chuck. I did one day start getting e-mail enquires from a woman, who's name and e-mail address I will not list. She asked about the article and why, out of all of the News Of The Weird articles that exist, had I chosen to re-post that one. I answered her explaining that I posted it because it was such a weird coincidence that my friend has the same name that appeared in the article, and that he is the same age, and that he was in DC at around the same time period. Then I got an e-mail from another person, also named "Todd Ouellette". But this is NOT the Todd Ouellette I know. He is NOT the Todd Ouellette that is pictured on this page. He informs me that he IS the Todd Ouellette that Mr. Shepherd wrote about in the News Of The Weird article that I had reposted. He informs me that he found Mr. Shepherd's article both insulting and misrepresentative of his actual meeting with President Clinton. He demanded that I take the reposted article down, and that I apologize. He also expected me to contact all the web search engines, Yahoo, Google, etc., and ask them to purge the page from their caches! Well being a reasonable person, I removed the reposted article as soon as I got his e-mail. I then wrote him back, as I did not understand why he wanted an apology from me. I did not write the article, I just reposted what Chuck Shepard had written, verbatim. He seemed to take a personal slight at the fact that I had a picture on this page labeled with the name "Todd Ouellette" and it was not a picture of him. He did not seem to grasp the fact that it was a different Todd Ouellette. Apparently he thought that I had decided to just put some random picture there. We seemed to come to an amiable agreement that I would take the article down, and be done with it. Imagine my surprise when one of my co-workers forwarded me a message that this other Todd Ouellette had submitted to my work place! In that message he called me a nut. He claimed that I had posted a "bogus" News Of The Weird article. While I cannot say if the content of the article was true, false, accurate, or inaccurate, I can say that I did not makeup a "bogus" article, it legitimately came from the official News Of The Weird site. Oh, heck, I will just re-post the e-mail here: (But I will censor out the other Mr. Ouellette's address and phone information.) -----Original Message-----
From: Webmaster@comdata.com
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 11:36 AM
To: Gannon, Tom
Subject: FW: Comdata WebSite Contact Us Form

This came to me today. Thought you might want to see it. I guess there are several Todd Ouellette's in this world....

-----Original Message-----
From: webmaster@comdata.com
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 22:14
Subject: Comdata WebSite Contact Us Form

The following is a new submission from the Contact Comdata Corporation page on the Comdata.com Web Site database.

Name: todd ouellette

Company: perturbed

E-Mail Address: CENSORED

Location: CENSORED

Phone: CENSORED ext.

Account Code:

Number of Trucks:

Comments: Hey uh do you have some nut name "Tom Gannon" working for you.

I am the Todd Ouellette who me w/ Bill CLinton in March of 1995 (long story.)

T Gannon (who claims to work for you) has a bogus 'News Of The Weird' article about me on his web site (http://tgannon.discordian.org/) He has another person's photo listed w/ it and makes several false statements about stuff I allegedly said.

I also have been informed that he sends emails to people claiming we are friends and have known each other for "20 yrs."

Is this guy whacked out of his head or what?

Please don't inform him of my contact with you as I am considering a restraining order against him.

Please tell me what ever you can about his mental state.

Todd Ouellette
CENSORED
CENSORED

As I said I am a reasonable man, so per the other Todd Ouellette's request, I have deleted the article from this page, and will not re-post it on my site. But if you are really curious about what it said, other sites may still repost it, you could do a Google search on the first line of the article, "President Clinton invited sidewalk protestor". But I think that the other Mr. Ouellette is making a concerted effort to get the article purged from the internet, and if he is still using tactics like the message above that he sent to my employers, then at some point I imagine he will get the job done and the search will not return anything.

So why do I have this page here? Because he pissed me off and I wanted to write about why. Instead of e-mailing me directly in the first place and saying, "Hello, I am the Todd Ouellette that that article is about, and it misrepresents me and what happened, please take it down." he has one of his friends play 20 questions in e-mail. Then when he finally contacts me in person, he never once mentions that he has sent a sent a charactor attack to my Employer! If I weren't a valuable, trusted, and well know employee this tactic could have caused problems with or even cost me my job.

Todd Ouellette

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