Well, according to Google, the vast number of mes out there include:
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[li]the VP for some life-sciences research facility[/li][li]a Grade 10 offensive/defensive lineman (kind of strange because his height and weight are pretty close to mine)[/li][li]an Australian obedience trainer for malamutes (a “top-notch” one, might I add)[/li][li]a specialist in “quimper faience,” which turns out to be tin-glaze pottery of some sort[/li][li]a tutorial leader for an English 110 class[/li][/ul]
The last one actually is me, and I was somewhat surprised to see myself on the web. Apparently my professor put the course syllabus on his own webpage. Neat!
I’m ashamed to admit that I have Googled myself – but mostly because I already knew of at least two other people with the same name as myself. (One of those – whom I’ve met, and was in the same business – had the same middle intitial, as well.)
So, using my real name, I could be:
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[li]An English paper conservator[/li][li]Some kind of researcher at the Centre for Construction Technology and Research at the University of Western Sydney[/li][li]A geologist at the Coastal Resources Centre at University College, Cork[/li][li]The creator of “The Donor Wall,” a system for displaying plaques with people’s names[/li][li]An Australian composer and orchestra conductor now living in Europe[/li][li]An Arizona realtor[/li][/ul]
And that’s just from the first Google page – not including the “real” me, or any of the other people with the same name I know of.
(My name is vanilla Anglo-Saxon, and aparrently pretty common, especially in Australia and the UK.)
Googling for “G.B.H. Hornswoggler,” on the other hand, does not match any documents. And that’s good, since I made the name up myself and only use it here.
But I’m also me. (My thermo prof posted pictures of all of us in his class online. Every pic sucks, as they were taken at 8am by said prof. For the morbidly curious the gang’s all here .)
I virtually don’t exist so i tried to look for my mother… and I found the one for all these years has claimed to be my mother but I also found a porn star with succulent boobs. Now I have this oedipus complex with her.
I am a realtor, a lawyer, an army guy who works on tanks and a guy who runs a grain elevator in California.
I also found some pictures I’d posted years ago and people who had put some handouts I’d done for presentation at conference. All of them credited me, so it’s OK.
Just for a change, I searched for my last name in Google Images. I’m now a little worried - about 1/2 of the photos were male college professors with glasses and short hair.
I think we might be some kind of secret agents put on earth by aliens. We will be activated to fulfill our secret mission at the secret signal.
But I’m not going to tell anyone that actually we are
210,000 hits. I didn’t think I was that popular. I am running for sheriff, an internation cricket player in England, and a small time folk music artist from Olympia. I looked through the first 100 and 3 of them are me, #6 was a post I made at the Teemings link from the Straight Dope’s homepage, and the other 2 were buried around 80, both from contributions I made to a book about practical jokes and revenge.
My full name only brought 104 hits, adding my middle initial took the total to 57,000.
I am a software engineer and a campus recruiter for Clorox. I seem to be a pretty ordinary guy, doing mundane stuff all over the world. Except for one small thing, for which I will burn in hell forever:
Apparently I am the one who discovered The Bangles.
Well I knew that, but these are poems I can’t seem to remember writing …
What else … some articles I (really) wrote for the college paper, my listing on the company Web site … oh, look, they got my extension wrong. At least they managed to spell my name right. Hm, a few of my own Web pages, journalism awards and scholarships I won back in college.
But what I didn’t know:
I’m a Pennsylvania high school basketball player.
And all my relatives appear to have aliases, according to the family trees.
I’m also on a dissertation committee.
I play cymbals.
I’m six and a half years younger than I thought.
I’m a new member of some gerontological health organization.
-I directed several episodes of Babylon 5, and was an assistant director on other episodes as well as Ad on most of the Star Trek films. (The career I wish I had)
-I own a factory in Kentucky
-I’m a pastor in the South
-I hit on several of my own webpages, ones on my own site and others I’d written for my employers.
Apparently I’m a member of the House of Representatives, from California! :eek: Why didn’t my constituents tell me? In any case, I’d like to thanks the good citizens of California for putting their trust in me, and I promise to represent you to the best of my abilities…
apparently, I:
-am one of the foremost Java Programmers on this planet
-work as a Computational Fluid Dynamics Engineer for NASA
-am I student at Duke University
-am the Group VP of National sales at VertexRSI
-am a lawyer in Philly
-lived in CA during the Gold Rush
-wrote a book about the founding of the Mormon religion
-work at the Gateway Village welcome center on PEI in Canada
stopped at page 30 of millions (my first name is a verb, so its EVERYwhere !)
still, pretty interesting
