# Ego-search

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ego-search/482950>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [January 25, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ego-search/482950 "2009-01-25T20:30:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ego-search/482950/21 "2009-01-30T22:30:47Z")

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You’re always in the last place you look.

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ego-search/482950/22 "2009-01-30T22:32:37Z")

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Alternatively, where was the last place you remember seeing yourself?

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**Author:** ![Elyanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5ac83/32.png) [@Elyanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elyanna)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ego-search/482950/23 "2009-01-30T22:38:54Z")

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Under the couch, with my keys.

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ego-search/482950/24 "2009-01-30T22:38:59Z")

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There is no you.

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**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ego-search/482950/25 "2009-01-31T02:26:11Z")

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There is only me.

Hostile Dialect,  
Hostile Dialect, Narcissist

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**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ego-search/482950/26 "2009-01-31T05:21:53Z")

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> [@Hostile\_Dialect](#):
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> This is simply brilliant. Also, I love myself.
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> Hostile Dialect  
> Hostile Dialect, Narcissist

This seems as good an opportunity as any to mention that I am quite taken with your sign-off.

Look at me,  
CairoCarol

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**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ego-search/482950/27 "2009-01-31T07:31:17Z")

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> [@CairoCarol](#):
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> This seems as good an opportunity as any to mention that I am quite taken with your sign-off.
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> Look at me,  
> CairoCarol

And I just love the way it looks in quote tags! Hey, a mirror!

Hostile Dialect,  
Hostile Dialect, Narcissist

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**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ego-search/482950/28 "2009-01-31T11:39:16Z")

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> [@brewha](#):
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> Found it! (It’s the one in bold(bolding mine))

Now that made me laugh. 😃

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ego-search/482950/29 "2009-01-31T12:00:19Z")

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Since the OP doesn’t seem to have returned to the thread(or even the Boards!) since it was posted, let’s assume that (s)he can’t even find the Boards, much less him/herself.

Closed.

**samclem** Moderator, General Questions

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