# Because we've all done this........ **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 28, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-weve-all-done-this/314669 "2005-07-28T23:23:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-weve-all-done-this/314669/21 "2005-07-29T15:49:49Z")
About 35 hits, most of which are me (random film credits, my one mention in Daily Variety, an article the local paper did about me, a few “man on the street” quotes from the paper). I’m also apparently a porn star or model of some sort. > [@](#): > > ``` > Biography > > ``` > > Born: June 19, 1978 > Born in: Texas > Nationality: UK > Hair-Color: Black > Bust-Waist-Hips: 87 - 52 - 88 > Eye Color: Gray > Height: 169 cm > Shoe: 36 > Talent Agency: London - Elite I’m assuming since the shoe size is not an American one, that the Bust-Waist-Hips is centimeters, not inches. At least, I hope. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-weve-all-done-this/314669/22 "2005-07-29T15:54:07Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > Even if I put my name in quotes, I get erotic fiction. It’s bad. You don’t happen to be a middling-important heavyweight in West Coast volleyball circles. Because I write erotic fiction under a pen name, and every time I put my pen name in quotes on Google, I get this volleyball person. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-weve-all-done-this/314669/23 "2005-07-29T16:13:08Z")
I used to publish law books during the XVIII° century, but I eventually became a soccer player. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-weve-all-done-this/314669/24 "2005-07-29T16:28:18Z")
With or without my name in quotes, there are literally thousands of hits - mostly because of a professional baseball player, a midwestern politician, and a wedding DJ who all share my name. But with quotes, and also adding the state in which I live, I get the review of a local restaurant I wrote years ago for CitySearch. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-weve-all-done-this/314669/25 "2005-07-29T16:49:52Z")
Many of me were in the military. And a somewhat famous doctor who does something connected to education. And a Democratic politician in New Jersey. None, however are about me. ---
**Author:** ![Balle\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Balle\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balle_M)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-weve-all-done-this/314669/26 "2005-07-29T19:00:43Z")
Wow. I never realized what an exciting guy I was: Astronomer Skateboarder Amateur Thesbian Professional Photographer Gun Nut (OK, this one actually _is_ about me) Some sort of Cattle Baron Shill for a Pesticide Company Special Forces Staff Sergeant Bluegrass Musician Ham Radio Enthusiast ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-weve-all-done-this/314669/27 "2005-07-29T19:14:35Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > The daily comic has changed, so folks might want to start using [this link](http://www.comics.com/wash/candorville/archive/candorville-20050728.html) instead. That threw me, as well. Thread title is “Beacuse we’ve all done this…” and it links to a cartoon of a guy with dynamite strapped to his chest… :dubious: Something you need to tell us, **silenus**? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Eyed\_Stranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@Green\_Eyed\_Stranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Eyed_Stranger)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-weve-all-done-this/314669/28 "2005-07-29T19:34:10Z")
Well, the first link I got was titled “Living with a Colostomy”, so I got a bit discouraged. GES ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-weve-all-done-this/314669/29 "2005-07-29T19:54:07Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > That threw me, as well. Thread title is “Beacuse we’ve all done this…” and it links to a cartoon of a guy with dynamite strapped to his chest… :dubious: Something you need to tell us, **silenus**? When the wife is away for a week, the mind does wander a bit… 😃 Thanks, **Hal**. I owe you one. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-weve-all-done-this/314669/30 "2005-07-29T19:57:22Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > You don’t happen to be a middling-important heavyweight in West Coast volleyball circles. Because I write erotic fiction under a pen name, and every time I put my pen name in quotes on Google, I get this volleyball person. Unless you were writing erotic fiction about that American Idol movie (what was it called?), you’re probably not the one. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-weve-all-done-this/314669/31 "2005-07-30T02:41:02Z")
Hmph. What a buncha lightweights. Results 1 - 10 of about 373,000 for “Michael Miller” Results 1 - 10 of about 147 for “Michael John Miller” I’m an MD, DVM, Pilates Instructor and USELESS in these kinda searches. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-weve-all-done-this/314669/32 "2005-07-30T03:44:42Z")
723 hits. Damn, there’s a lot of people walking around out there using my name! Most prominently, a Scottish football (soccer) player, a Professor of Psychiatry (ick!!!), and an avant-garde filmmaker. Couple dozen hits that were genuinely me interspersed in there, including, to my astonishment, a record of my Eagle Scout ceremony which took place in 1976! ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_Norder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Dan\_Norder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Norder)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-weve-all-done-this/314669/33 "2005-07-31T02:57:32Z")
Lots of hits, most of them me for the first several pages. Author, publisher, old tech things I worked on, all sorts of good stuff. Ooh, and I’m glad I checked because I just saw for the first time that someone referenced my research in the _Journal of American Foklore_ in the Spring 2005 issue… unfortunately I must have let my membership lapse and I haven’t seen it… wouldn’t you know they go and use me on a source for something at a time when i’m not in the group. And the online reference that mentioned it won’t let me get it, grr. I need to track that down. The author of the piece is a Jungian so I bet her conclusions are opposite of mine… and from the abstract it sounds like she also references rather bogus studies. Once in a great while there’s a mention of the other guy with my somewhat unusual name who just accidentally lives in the same town I do but isn’t directly related. Of course as much as his existence is occasionally annoying to me (going to a health clinic and having the records cross occasionally), my existence must be really annoying to him when he goes to Google himself. 😃 And then way down on Google’s list are accidental pairing of the Germanic stock words that happen to match my first and last names. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-weve-all-done-this/314669.md?page=1)