# I was searching for THIS and I found THAT... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 13, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-searching-for-this-and-i-found-that/690709 "2014-06-13T16:51:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-searching-for-this-and-i-found-that/690709/1 "2014-06-13T16:51:04Z")
Sometimes internet searches lead us to strange places. I recently had two amusing examples: 1. I was searching for which Foghorn Leghorn cartoon he used a whole tree to make a baseball bat (“Henhouse Henery” btw.), and the results from a search for Foghorn Leghorn bat included a series a cartoons depicting Foghorn and Dawg as gay rapists attempting to overpower each other. 2. I was searching for the name of a vaguely-recalled axe murderer movie which I didn’t find, but I did stumble upon “Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyon”, a rather dark take on the popular folklore hero. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-searching-for-this-and-i-found-that/690709/2 "2014-06-13T16:54:27Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > 1. I was searching for the name of a vaguely-recalled axe murderer movie which I didn’t find, but I did stumble upon “Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyon”, a rather dark take on the popular folklore hero. The Legend Of Lizzie Borden? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-searching-for-this-and-i-found-that/690709/3 "2014-06-13T17:08:52Z")
I was in a Maya class (3D modelling and animation) and we were each assigned a monster to develop. The instructor put monster names in a hat, and I drew the basilisk. We next went to the internet to grab reference images. A basilisk is part hen and snake, so I did a search for “hen.” I got tentacle porn. A classmate told me told me it was called “hentai.” Evidently hentai vastly outranks hen in searches. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-searching-for-this-and-i-found-that/690709/4 "2014-06-13T17:17:23Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > 1. I was searching for the name of a vaguely-recalled axe murderer movie which I didn’t find, but I did stumble upon “Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyon”, a rather dark take on the popular folklore hero. So I Married an Axe Murderer? ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-searching-for-this-and-i-found-that/690709/5 "2014-06-13T17:34:25Z")
If you’re searching for [Merkin Concert Hall](http://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch), make sure your search includes the words “concert hall.” ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-searching-for-this-and-i-found-that/690709/6 "2014-06-13T18:01:13Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > The Legend Of Lizzie Borden? > [@wguy123](#): > > So I Married an Axe Murderer? No, it was posted on the [http://irememberthismovie.com/](http://irememberthismovie.com/) site, as follows: > [@](#): > > CRAZY AXE WEILDING DUDE > In the end a dude killed a bunch of people in a boarded up empty school or something. He killed them with an axe in cold blood. The people seemed to know him. In the end he got into his car and made out with his imaginary devil girlfriend and drove off. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-searching-for-this-and-i-found-that/690709/7 "2014-06-13T18:05:10Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I was in a Maya class (3D modelling and animation) and we were each assigned a monster to develop. The instructor put monster names in a hat, and I drew the basilisk. > > We next went to the internet to grab reference images. A basilisk is part hen and snake, so I did a search for “hen.” I got tentacle porn. > > A classmate told me told me it was called “hentai.” Evidently hentai vastly outranks hen in searches. Similarly, if you ever want to research the tropical hardwood called ebony, you might instead find vast numbers of pictures of nude African-American women. I believe things like that were why Google made moderate safe search the default for their search engine. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-searching-for-this-and-i-found-that/690709/8 "2014-06-13T20:46:04Z")
Searching for “pair of tits” returns page after page of cute tiny birds. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-searching-for-this-and-i-found-that/690709/9 "2014-06-14T05:53:50Z")
I posted this recently in the “worst things” thread, but I was looking for old Ford truck parts and got results for “Transvestite Midget Dog Fuckers”. I’ll say it again: You can’t make this shit up. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-searching-for-this-and-i-found-that/690709/10 "2014-06-14T06:26:32Z")
I don’t remember how I got there, but I was not looking for images of Jesus on food, yet that is where I wound up. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-searching-for-this-and-i-found-that/690709/11 "2014-06-16T02:44:21Z")
A few years ago, my wife and a coworker were trying to remember the name of the company that made a line of bath products called “Dirty Girls”, which they had seen at a trade show. So they googled “dirty girls”… and you can probably guess how well that turned out. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-searching-for-this-and-i-found-that/690709/12 "2014-06-16T03:13:15Z")
I made my wife laugh awhile back. She wanted to know what the name of those “little” accordions were (concertinas). I told her “It’s a good thing I remembered the name- a Google search on ‘squeeze box’ would have been no help at all”.