# GWB is miserable?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwb-is-miserable/276984>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 28, 2004, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwb-is-miserable/276984 "2004-11-28T11:31:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwb-is-miserable/276984/1 "2004-11-28T11:31:25Z")

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You ever get those weird brainfarts where you look at a word, and you know it’s spelled right, but it just doesn’t _look_ right? I do. All the time. I had one just now with the word miserable, and even though I knew it was spelled right I decided to throw it into Google just to make sure.

[Whaddaya know](http://www.google.com/search?q=miserable&sourceid=opera&num=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8%5B/url), George W. Bush is miserable! The funny thing about that is that the word isn’t anywhere on the page; it appears to be listed first because of the number of sites containing that word that link to it.

Odd.

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**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:** [November 28, 2004, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwb-is-miserable/276984/2 "2004-11-28T11:40:36Z")

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Didn’t we have a [google bombing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb#Accomplished_Googlebombs) thread yesterday?

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**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwb-is-miserable/276984/3 "2004-11-28T13:11:06Z")

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Now I feel bad for him, Jimmy Carter, and Michael Moore. ☹ Poor guys.

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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwb-is-miserable/276984/4 "2004-11-28T13:40:12Z")

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Specifically, the Google bombing is associating W with the phrase “miserable failure”.

[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3298443.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3298443.stm)