# Gooling your username **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 26, 2004, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113 "2004-01-26T05:37:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mephisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@Mephisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mephisto)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/41 "2004-01-27T03:30:23Z")
Shoes? Music sites, okay, but shoes?? I didn’t know. And then after a couple pages you start finding sites about some guy named doctor guy named Faust . . . But really, now, shoes? ---
**Author:** ![Mephisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@Mephisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mephisto)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/42 "2004-01-27T03:32:43Z")
Shoes? Music sites, okay, but shoes?? I didn’t know. And then after a couple pages you start finding sites about some doctor guy named Faust . . . But really, now, shoes? ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2004, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/43 "2004-01-27T04:21:17Z")
OK, I had to cheat. A google search for “Ringo” turns up endless numbers of sights related to some aging Brit rocker (or mocker), but even without him there’s still a lot of Ringos out there. So a google search disqualifying both “Starr” and “John” (there’s a writer out there by that name) and demanding the inclusion of “Straight Dope Message Board” turned up three hits: 1.) A post on his own page by **Psieker** describing a long-ago Dopefest; 2.) An entry on a search engine I’ve never heard of for searches for the “bbq boonies homepage” that included a link (that doesn’t work) to a thread I started years ago; 3.) **Max Carnage** ’s [page of Doper photos](http://hometown.aol.com/jonahjamsn/sdmbpix3.html). ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2004, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/44 "2004-01-27T04:52:24Z")
My periodic vanity searches always have a few doppelgangers in there, since “Larry Mudd” isn’t that unusual as a real name. The Larry Mudd that’s Worship Minister at the Manhatten Church of Christ had quite an edge over me for a while immediately after 9/11. There _was_ a big-haired evangelist/missionary type fellow that liked to post pictures of his big-haired, trollish looking family all over the web. He seems to have dropped off the face of the earth, though. There’s a Larry Mudd that’s an organizer for motorcycle club called “Women on Wheels” (WOW.) Probably pretty fun. [This Larry Mudd](http://www.courier-journal.com/reweb/community/homestyle/2003/hs20030201.html)’s regrettable taste in decor has been ranking higher and higher for the last year. I think he’s the replacement for Big Hair Mudd. Slightly OT, I just came across a reference to one of my f\*d up tape projects being played on the Howard Stern show a few years ago. And here I had thought the most exposure I ever got was a 2:00am bit on CBC’s _Nightlines_. I’m not sure if I should be pleased or annoyed. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2004, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/45 "2004-01-27T05:25:01Z")
Hm. 2,100,000. Lots of Maureen O’Hara, O’Sullivan, and this WONDERFUL one for [Mad Maureen](http://www.madmaureen.co.uk/)…plus a few for Maureen Johnson Long, the Heinlien heroine I always wanted to be. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/46 "2004-01-27T17:58:46Z")
Searching for my username straight out brings up but one result: [http://www.pirate969.org/docs/playlist.asp](http://www.pirate969.org/docs/playlist.asp). That appears to be a listing of all the songs some radio station played on a random day. Searching for my name within quotes brings up absolutely nothing. I like that; it looks like an accomplishment. ---
**Author:** ![french\_frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c77e96/32.png) [@french\_frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/french_frog)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2004, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/47 "2004-01-27T18:24:18Z")
Well… No surprises… Stuff about frogs and Frenchies… Some funny stuff though : - [a funny picture](http://www.dwtoons.com/Top%20Secret%20New/French%20Army.htm) - [a funny joke](http://www.anglico.org/Index%20Links/Index%20French%20=%20Frog.htm) - [where to get your boycott-the-French bumper sticker](http://www.metrospy.com/boycott.htm) (Also available : “give war a chance” 😕 ) - [Some economical figures and the truth about French frogs](http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/bizfocus/archives/2002/03/26/129325) ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/48 "2004-01-27T18:34:36Z")
5 hits for mine, all SDMB related. ---
**Author:** ![Janx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Janx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Janx)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/49 "2004-01-27T19:03:09Z")
From \*\* Google \*\* > [@](#): > > Searched the web for Janx. Results 1 - 100 of about 7,900. Search took 0.31 seconds. No way to sort out 7,900 hits - intresting though: 2002 - JANX performs Radiography On The Kern River Pipeline. Established in … Welding Inspector. JANX - Safety and Security through NDT. ================ The Janx Foundation is funded by Janx Partners, LP, an investment company whose principals believe that the proper education and training of America’s youth is … ================ Janx from Bear River Associates, Inc - Open Source Java And XML Based Application Environment. … Janx. Open Source Java And XML Based Application Environment … ================= Janx Pub and Eatery … Big screen TV. Every Weekend is Special at Janx: … Janx is open 7 days a week: Lots of references to Douglas Adams, nothing about me though. ::sniff sniff:: ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2004, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/50 "2004-01-27T19:22:54Z")
I found: - A few sites about dogs named Rinni - A few random people whose names were Rinni (either as a first or a last name) - A link (on the third page) that was a drawing, that said “A simple picture of Rinni for Rinni” - that actually WAS for me, a friend online drew me. - Lots of sites in other languages - Lots of Sailor Moon sites, because people misspell Rini all the time - a [makeupalley.com](http://makeupalley.com) review I did of a lipgloss - links to people’s livejournal userinfos, who have me friended (my username there is also rinni, though it did not manage to come up with my OWN livejournal!) - Eyepieces - 15000 DOG NAMES! - A link to an [indiewire.com](http://indiewire.com) bio that isn’t me. - sites referring to Rinoa Heartilly as Rinni - on page 17, a mention of me working at Wal-Mart and a comment I posted on a website - Coupla ezboard posts of mine (rinni roo) - Someone using the nick PiMpEtTe RiNnI - A link to a quizilla quiz I made Gosh, there are so many pages. However, I started looking, and now I cannot stop until I see all. Boo! This is my nature. I will spare you the details, however. It’s been educational. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/51 "2004-01-27T21:27:36Z")
Mostly what I get is someone who writes a lot of Star Trek fan-fiction. I am not that DangerMom. ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2004, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/52 "2004-01-28T01:00:20Z")
The first six hits (out of 60) are me posting on MB’s … the rest of them seem to be LOTR related about **Lobelia** or **Overhill** ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2004, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/53 "2004-01-28T19:21:15Z")
Well, with the numbers, it’s all me (all three hits). Without, I get lots of sites in unfamiliar languages, other people’s kids, and other people with the same username. And according to [dictionary.com](http://dictionary.com), it’s a word in Old French. But I rhyme mine with “atari” - not “savory.” ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2004, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/54 "2004-01-28T20:23:23Z")
So far: -17 dwalins, some of them moderators -3 Dwalin dog societies -18 billion sites about the character (duh) -10 stories -1 program -3 people who are nicknamed ‘dwalin’ -15 dogs whose names include Dwalin -A _Chilean music site_??? -21 D&d or D&D knockoff characters Most of these sites are in other languages, mostly German, Russian, Spanish, and French. I’m just over a quarter of the way through, but I don’t think I’m going to find myself. Or bother finishing, for that matter. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/55 "2004-01-28T20:24:30Z")
So far: -17 dwalins, some of them moderators -3 Dwalin dog societies -18 billion sites about the character (duh) -10 stories -1 program -3 people who are nicknamed ‘dwalin’ -15 dogs whose names include Dwalin -A _Chilean music site_??? -21 D&d or D&D knockoff characters Most of these sites are in other languages, mostly German, Russian, Spanish, and French. I’m just over a quarter of the way through, but I don’t think I’m going to find myself. Or bother finishing, for that matter. (Over 5000 results! And none of them me…) ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2004, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/56 "2004-01-28T21:00:33Z")
The human google-wack. One response- the email listed at my local race club. Hmm. . . . ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2004, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/57 "2004-01-28T21:56:04Z")
20 hits; all me. Mostly uninteresting posts I made in the Japanese forums I frequent plus one about cooking brown rice I made years ago and _still_ get emal questions about… ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/58 "2004-01-28T22:03:06Z")
17,200 hits, most of which are by/about/in reference to me. There is one, though, that goes to a page at [tile.net](http://tile.net) where you can sign up for a [mailing list about opal cataloging.](http://www.tile.net/lists/showlists.php?list_id=47532) ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2004, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/59 "2004-01-28T22:43:17Z")
2,160,000 hits! (but the majority were Mostly Harmless" 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/60 "2004-01-29T00:25:57Z")
76,000 hits, but that’s not surprising as Amarone is a type of wine. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113.md?page=4)