Mr. Slim, named the richest man in the world by Fortune Magazine, is estimated to be worth $74 billion.
What happens when you've got 155 "dopplenamers" versus your competitor's slim 2.3 name matches?
Drummer Slim Jim Phantom named Lemmy "the last of the Mohicans" of rock.
At the Boston seminar, Lemov played a video of a class taught by one of his teaching virtuosos, a slim man named Bob Zimmerli.
Now, some of those experts are catching on to how quickly video games are moving into the territory formerly dominated by a slim blonde named Barbie.
But he also gained a protective crew of friends who call this area home, including the 40-ish slim musician named Ben with a bandaged hand of his own.
Mr. Whitman adopted the stage name Slim and began to appear on the radio show "Louisiana Hayride," whose performers also included Hank Williams, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis.
He grew up on a dairy ranch, wrote his first song, "That's the Way the Cowboy Dies," at age 10, and took the stage name Slim Dusty a year later.
"Slim used his name and face to promote poker in a way it had never been done before, and without Amarillo Slim, the poker world would likely not exist in the way we know it today," Poker Player News said in its obituary.
Iceberg Slim, whose legal name was Robert Beck, burst on to the scene nearly half a century ago, with his memoir "Pimp: The Story of My Life" (1967), followed immediately by the novel "Trick Baby" (1967), which was adapted for the screen by Universal Pictures.
