# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/61 "2004-01-29T00:37:03Z")
Surprisingly, only 3 hits of fatty porn before you get to the real me at hit #18. The number one hit is a webpage which doesn’t have anything to do with. Most of the other hits are about a free standing bathroom unit (?). ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/62 "2004-01-29T00:42:52Z")
One link to the use of the term on a fanfiction site (I got it from the fanfiction/fandom world), one link to my Threadspotting nominees, and two porn links. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/63 "2004-01-29T02:44:49Z")
Well, I just tried “Scylla SDMB,” and the first hit I got was this: > **[This really bothers me...](https://sdmb.livejournal.com/64416.html)** > > I very rarely post here, but a href=http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=161c6e6c5ef41436578802ca8b2eb284threadid=155008this post/a by Scylla calling his wife an evil whoreslut is really awful. Ive seen other mean threads by him about... I’m not sure what to make of it, or how I feel about it. ---
**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 29, 2004, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/64 "2004-01-29T03:22:49Z")
I’m confused. How do I go about [gooling](http://www.goole.com/) my username? If I goo **g** le it I get far too many buddhist tibbetan meditation dude websites. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/65 "2004-01-29T03:47:59Z")
I knew what I was going to get before I even opened up Google. If you don’t already know what I got, chances are _you really, **really** don’t want to know._ ---
**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 29, 2004, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/66 "2004-01-29T08:50:42Z")
Most of the hits are about drugs, pregnancy, music or comics. Looked through a couple of pages and didn’t see myself; not going to go any further. According to googlism, I’m: viable?, latin for child, living being, not a human being, ‘unborn child’ 07/, not a kidney by kathleen nolan, not equal to, ‘unborn child’, a boy who has g6pdb, viable? viability is the time at which the unborn human can live outside her mother’s womb, fully human at some stage, not a parasite, forming?, fed through the placenta, not a person, about 2 1/2 inches long\*, the crucial issue for abortion, like cancer, inferior, seriously wrong, an innocent human being, challenged, a person, not equal to taking a life, now 3 inches long\* and weigh[ing] almost an ounce, not viable, not a person in the relevant sense, human life, probably viable, potentially a human being (because I have a full human genetic code), removed, not an actual human being, a genetic female\*, the expected size for my age, not responsible for any harm done, calculated from the last menstrual period, still too tiny for the woman to detect movement\*, healthy, in an improper position, a human being from conception, a human being, and (finally) being monitored with ultrasound. Whew. It’s exhausting, this business of being so many things to so many people. - Lies and untruths, I assure you! ---
**Author:** ![Daftbugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Daftbugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daftbugger)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/67 "2004-01-29T12:34:55Z")
The top 4 sites are me. I used to not get any porn at all, surprisingly, but now someone is using ‘daftbugger’ on a porn forum :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/68 "2004-01-29T13:47:59Z")
1,590,000 references ---
**Author:** ![Kulau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b487fb/32.png) [@Kulau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kulau)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2004, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/69 "2004-01-31T08:34:53Z")
664 hits, the first one was a [hotel](http://www.global.net.pg/kulau/) in Papua New Guinea named after me, woohoo 🙂 Well, the fact that my username is Melanesian would probably have something to do with it, my name is more based on the slang meaning than how they’re using it there though. Interesting that the hotel is in the town that I was born in. > [@Scylla](#): > > Well, I just tried “Scylla SDMB,” and the first hit I got was this: > > [http://www.livejournal.com/community/sdmb/64416.html](http://www.livejournal.com/community/sdmb/64416.html) > > I’m not sure what to make of it, or how I feel about it. Looks like you’re developing a fan club, Scylla! I’m new by the way. Hi everyone. ---
**Author:** ![caligynephobia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@caligynephobia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligynephobia)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/70 "2004-01-31T18:52:38Z")
1. I thought it had to be an obscure condition, but [this place](http://www.changethatsrightnow.com/problem_detail.asp?PhobiaID=1431&SDID=351) claims to have a team dedicated to treating it, though I wonder if the site’s front page is part of the treatment or part of the problem. Actually, this and most of the first handful of sites dedicated to caligynephobia appear to be templates where the word “caligynephobia” has been inserted in to generic “phobia” slots (“Though a variety of drugs are often prescribed for Caligynephobia . . .”). I’ve been rethinking this and now believe that what I thought was a fear of beautiful women ten years ago was actually “not being good with chicks” instead of a genuine condition. Oh well. Maybe I need a new username. ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/71 "2004-01-31T19:18:59Z")
shoes and a Japanese message board I think ---
**Author:** ![Tuco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tuco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuco)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/72 "2004-01-31T19:39:08Z")
Well, Tuco being a character from a very famous film I wasn’t expecting any to be about me and I was right! The first link of 19,000 ([www.tuco.org](http://www.tuco.org)) is The Universities Caterers Organisation, the second link ([http://home.nc.rr.com/tuco/looney/acme/acme.html](http://home.nc.rr.com/tuco/looney/acme/acme.html)) is much more interesting - it’s the ACME product catalogue! Oo, oo, and there’s a Tuco Industrial Products Inc. to ‘handle your temporary industrial heating and air movement needs’ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/73 "2004-01-31T19:41:23Z")
When I google my username absolutly _nothing_ comes up. ---
**Author:** ![HotRail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6bbea6/32.png) [@HotRail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HotRail)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2004, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/74 "2004-01-31T20:30:22Z")
I get 3,410 results for my name. A lot of them relate to miltiprocessor chips, whatever that is. There’s somebody on livejournal with the same username. To my surprise, i find only one reference to the practice of hotrailing, which is snorting meth through a heated glass straw (hotrail is a nickname I earned many years ago in high school after sticking the hot end of the straw into my nose instead of the cool end. I kicked the meth, but i cant seem to get rid of that damned nickname) ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/75 "2004-01-31T20:52:56Z")
503! The very first one is my Teemings Contributer page. There’s a poet out there calling herself zoogirl, but it’s not me. I do have some poetry out there, but it’s mostly in my real name, except for Teemings. Funny thing… I searched my IRL name last week and there’s someone with my name publishing kid’s books on bugs!! Could almost be me, but it ain’t. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/76 "2004-01-31T21:14:27Z")
I came up with one of the worst stories of all time: [Basics of Fishing.](http://www.d23.org/Ike/mayer/SciFiSam.htm) (No idea why it’s called that). I am SciFiSam, and I do write, but I am _not_ responsible for i]that\*! ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2004, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/77 "2004-01-31T21:55:15Z")
Wow. 29,000,000 hits. I think I’m in the lead! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2004, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/78 "2004-01-31T22:21:18Z")
About 1,580,000 hits, according to Google. Most of them relate to the magazine (I named myself after the cocktail); one relates to the [Cosmopolitan Hotel](http://www.cosmohotel.com) in Tribeca, another to the [Cosmopolitan Club](http://www.prairienet.org/cosmo/) at the Univ. of Illinois. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/79 "2004-02-01T00:00:40Z")
> [@Avarie537](#): > > And according to [dictionary.com](http://dictionary.com), it’s a word in Old French. Avarie is a common used name relating to a mechanical breakdown on boats. I guess if it’s your 537th you should consider selling your boat 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2004, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/80 "2004-02-01T00:16:56Z")
“Governor Quinn” pops up around 178 or so times, mostly in reference to the Lt. Gov. of Illinois. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113.md?page=5)