# Googling your username **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 21, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googling-your-username/270413 "2004-10-21T15:14:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googling-your-username/270413/1 "2004-10-21T15:14:49Z")
Okay, I _do_ have work to do, what’s your point? Came across [this](http://www.cubbie.com/twickste.htm) while googling my username. I’ve got $5 that says no one can top it. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googling-your-username/270413/2 "2004-10-21T15:35:42Z")
Well, how about [this](http://sarzeau2003.free.fr/nous/mangetout.html) ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googling-your-username/270413/3 "2004-10-21T15:41:27Z")
Pretty doggone good – but not better. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googling-your-username/270413/4 "2004-10-21T15:41:32Z")
Another reason I need to seriously consider changing my username. I don’t get any odd or cool sites with a search [just this](http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.aspx?PID=JK1245) ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googling-your-username/270413/5 "2004-10-21T15:46:11Z")
I kind of like [this one](http://www.ghanimag.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googling-your-username/270413/6 "2004-10-21T15:46:17Z")
I got what I expected: a bunch of links to Elvis Costello and/or retail sites. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googling-your-username/270413/7 "2004-10-21T15:47:08Z")
5 whole hits, and not for anything cool, either. Just stuff like [this](http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/nic/tansi/tansi.htm) and [this](http://www.glen-l.com/picboards/picboard8/pic466b.html). I didn’t expect any hits at all, but I guess I should have counted on the typos. ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googling-your-username/270413/8 "2004-10-21T15:48:19Z")
I get 216,000,000 hits. I’m sure there’s something cool in one of them. Finding it is going to take a while. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googling-your-username/270413/9 "2004-10-21T15:54:15Z")
I come up with a lot of Fairy sites, but I’m amused by the tag line for [this one](http://www.flutterbybutterfly.net/) ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googling-your-username/270413/10 "2004-10-21T16:02:59Z")
Look! [Generic Wedding People](http://www.ditulliophotography.com/id28.htm)! I don’t know them, but they sure look pretty. I love weddings. \<\\> ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googling-your-username/270413/11 "2004-10-21T16:06:06Z")
The second and third hits were for a review of the 2000 movie, “Romeo Must Die”. The review was titled, “Kung Fu Shakespeare”. But the really weird thing: the review was in the student newspaper of my college alma mater! (Twilight Zone music…) ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googling-your-username/270413/12 "2004-10-21T16:11:42Z")
Absolutely nothing that isn’t correctly attributed to me. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googling-your-username/270413/13 "2004-10-21T16:12:18Z")
All I get are things I posted elsewhere. I completely forgot about [this](http://www.x-entertainment.com/updates/entries/archives/00000347.html)! My reply is about half-way down. ---
**Author:** ![Tiggrkitty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tiggrkitty/32/17966_2.png) [@Tiggrkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tiggrkitty)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googling-your-username/270413/14 "2004-10-21T16:19:20Z")
I get zero hits. That means I am an original!!! ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googling-your-username/270413/15 "2004-10-21T16:22:22Z")
Didn’t expect anything, but I shouldn’t have been surprised to find others adopting this username (none of the other BJMoose is me). Nothing worth sharing. (at last: a truly pointless post!) ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googling-your-username/270413/16 "2004-10-21T16:26:25Z")
Not a single result that isn’t related to me. That’s boring. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googling-your-username/270413/17 "2004-10-21T16:29:07Z")
Plenty of hits, but #1 is interesting: [Tolerance, toxicity, and caloric availability of intravenously injected tapioca dextrin solution in rabbits.](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12999634&dopt=Abstract) :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googling-your-username/270413/18 "2004-10-21T16:29:33Z")
One link to someones web site with a pretty good quote by me regarding Star Wars Episode I. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googling-your-username/270413/19 "2004-10-21T16:29:34Z")
Lurking near the bottom of the first results page was some info about a guy by the name of [**Xenophanes of Colophon**](http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/xenophanes/). Now _that’s_ a name. > [@](#): > > He was a travelling rhapsode who criticised the stories about the gods told by the poets, and he defended a novel conception of the divine nature. Well, who among us hasn’t? Meanwhile, in Google Images, [this](http://www.cfmgallery.com/artists/Bachelier/images/Colophon.jpg) was kind of odd, [this](http://www.rainwatersoft.com/cats/byron/pix/byron_4.jpeg) was less odd but cuter, and [this](http://www.annaliistruzione.it/colophon/immagini/colophon_r5_c2.gif) was quite cool, in an abstract sort of way. ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googling-your-username/270413/20 "2004-10-21T16:30:57Z")
I got zero hits too. \ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googling-your-username/270413.md?page=2)