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    Smile Have you ever Googled yourself?

    Just bored at work and decided to Google my full name... apparently i have a namesake who is a chlamydia screening health adviser! better than last time when i was a porn star

    wondering if anyone else has a namesake or has been bored enough to Google themselves?

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    Re: Have you ever Googled yourself?

    WooHoo!

    Top 3 results are actually me! Check the UK results box and there's even more of me.

    Apparently I'm also a famous photographer. I bet he's p1ssed off when he googles himself and finds me there

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    Re: Have you ever Googled yourself?

    I must have a really common name as 11 pages came up with people who have the same name as me all doing more exciting jobs than me.

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    Re: Have you ever Googled yourself?

    No, my name too common to be of interest.

    I only posted this so I could add this banner add pic - now in 30 colours .
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    Re: Have you ever Googled yourself?

    3 of the top 5 hits were also me on google but they were a long time ago when i won a competition for posting on the bbc website..god a lot changes in a short time

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    Re: Have you ever Googled yourself?

    Yes..and I'm quite rare.. I do get lots of hits as my surname is also a common adjective so it crops up with my forename often but vry few actual hits as a combined name.

    This is not me

    My forum name on the otherhand..

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    Re: Have you ever Googled yourself?

    I still appear to be better known as a Golf Instructor, highly praised for improving swing flexibility! Not to name drop, but:
    "Since I've begun working with Roger, I've made considerable progress. I just wish I had started this program twenty years ago." Arnold Palmer
    "Take a tip from Roger. Listen to him. He's an expert on improving your game quickly."
    Gary Player
    I am also featured as a leading exponent in Flow Measurement, and to quote the website
    "Roger was a quick study on the Marsh-McBirney flowmeter line".
    Well that goes without saying.

    I'm also listed on the Nora Springs (Iowa) Veterans Memorial. I don't know how I died, but I wasn't killed in action.

    Who knew I led such an interesting life?

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    Re: Have you ever Googled yourself?

    this thread prompted me to

    real name - 2 pages all me

    Forum Name - 12 pages of which the first 3 were all me - couldn't be bothering checking beyond that

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    Re: Have you ever Googled yourself?

    I share my name with a sports presenter on ESPN in the States

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    Re: Have you ever Googled yourself?

    I don't share my name with anyone else on Google. True! I'm special, I am..... I get 7 hits if I spell my name correctly, and 6 if I spell it with an extra 'e' (Catherine), and they're all me.

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    Re: Have you ever Googled yourself?

    This is the top listing on Google for my name!

    TO FLUSH - OR NOT TO FLUSH?

    During our monthly committee meetings we discuss many and varied consumer matters which come to
    our attention, covering both local and national items. Recently a question was raised as to the possibility
    that some types of toilet tissue are not user-friendly. Manufacturers of these goods vie through
    advertising for the reputation of producing the softest, the thickest, and the strongest toilet paper. But, we
    wondered, can these extra soft, extra thick, extra strong items present problems in sewage treatment
    works if used extravagantly.
    We, in turn, put this question to Northumbrian Water. The Manager of Water Efficiency (Lorraine
    C******)
    sent us a very detailed reply, the text of which we feel sure you will find of great interest.
    Lorraine C****** is the Northumbrian Water representative of the ‘Bag It and Bin It’ campaign which is
    water industry-led, promoting responsible disposal of personal products. It is managed by UK CEED, an
    independent charitable foundation, and supported by at least nine water supply companies throughout the
    UK - including Northumbrian Water.
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    Here is the text of her reply……. Although enquiries around the water industry show no anecdotal
    experience of problems with toilet paper per se, we do have many problems with other things that people
    put down toilets!. Unfortunately the toilet is often seen as a handy bathroom bin - but this wastes water
    and anything flushed that doesn’t degrade has to be removed and sent to landfill. If it isn’t, it can cause
    sewage related debris problems.
    Disposable personal items are a part of everyday life but flushing them down the toilet results in problems
    which will have a direct impact on the quality of our environment. These personal items include:
    Disposable sanitary towels Panty liners and backing strips
    Tampons and tampon applicators Facial cleansing and other wipes
    Disposable nappies and all wipes Old bandages and plasters
    Medicines Razor blades
    Cotton buds Incontinent pads
    Colostomy bags Syringes and needles
    Packaging of any kind Condoms
    It is estimated that two billion persistent sanitary items alone are flushed down UK toilets every year.
    And this does not include the other items that are regularly flushed. Not only can blockages be caused in
    the sewage system but they can also escape from the sewage network and end up littering our beaches and
    riverbanks. As well as the environmental consequences this also present, serious health risks -
    particularly to children and wildlife.
    The ‘Bag It and Bin It’ campaign aims to persuade everyone to end the practice of using the toilet as a
    wet dustbin - which after all, and if we are honest, is exactly the role we have given it for far too long.
    Our sewerage system was not designed to handle the items which nowadays are used widely in domestic
    situations as well as in hotels, offices, hospitals etc. On average sewage pipes are only six inches wide
    and blockages usually entail expensive repairs and can sometimes result in flooded bathrooms. The
    solution is very simple… DON’T FLUSH IT … BAG IT AND BIN IT.
    The campaigners offer sensible and often obvious advice about what to do with these potentially
    dangerous objects. Medicines should be taken to a local pharmacy for safe disposal … never dispose of
    unused medicines in household rubbish. Likewise, syringes and needles should always be taken to a local
    hospital for safe disposal. Razor blades should be placed in a rigid container before being thrown away
    with household rubbish. Disposable nappies, as with other sanitary products (soiled bandages, plasters,
    incontinence pads, wipes etc.) should be ‘bagged and binned’ - special bags are available from retailers.
    Having read all these sobering facts about possible dangers to ourselves and the environment we have
    moved away from the question we first asked about overuse of toilet tissue! It seems that, contrary to our
    fears, toilet tissue - used sensibly of course - has a positive role to play! Lorraine has received a copy of a
    *report from The Imperial College, London which shows that normal toilet paper is actually a crucial
    component of solid transport in small drains, as it increases the carrying capacity of the wave. (The
    opposite is true of sanitary towels). This is due to the movement mechanism that occurs, which is a
    sliding dam mechanism, where the movement of the solid depends on the size of the pool that builds up
    behind the solid. The addition of toilet tissue increases the size of the dam that forms, and so increases
    the movement that occurs!!
    We are very grateful to Lorraine C****** Northumbrian Water, for the help and detailed information she
    has given in the writing of this article.
    MODERATOR AT YOUR SERVICE
    "If you're going to do something tonight, that you know you'll be sorry for in the morning, plan a lie in." Lorraine

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    Re: Have you ever Googled yourself?

    I come up first listing on Page 1 and also on later pages. My namesake is an american playwriter I believe.

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    Re: Have you ever Googled yourself?

    The only Lynda Gocher on the web (spelt with a Y) that I can find, appears to be me ........ however, lots of my family are on there


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    Re: Have you ever Googled yourself?

    I only get one entry and it's me

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    Re: Have you ever Googled yourself?

    I'm only once on page 1 on Google as myself, there appears to be a politician and an author in the US with the same name. I'm the top couple of hits on the UK pages search though.

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    Re: Have you ever Googled yourself?

    as I already said on the other thread where we we already talking about this - google is not going to be the best way to find people much longer - it doesnt find people now, it finds occurences of words you type in

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    Re: Have you ever Googled yourself?

    I'm all across page one (comments on blogs and things like that) - apart from the last entry where my first and surname appear seperately on a photographer's website.. If you take the space out from between my names you only get two results, and both of them are my bebo pages... I think I might change the privacy on my bebo page - though it will take at least a week to reprocess.. Ah well

    Whitetiger

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    Re: Have you ever Googled yourself?

    Well, I'm bored tonight and remembered something on the forum about googling your own name, so no prizes for guessing what I've been doing for the last ten minutes...

    I got nine hits.

    Five of them are me - nothing terribly exciting, just a couple of mentions in concert programmes and cast lists from uni, plus an entry in a list of graduations included in my old high school's newsletter.

    Two are links to names databases.

    The others are links to a collection of online stories about a couple of cats!

    It makes my life sounds quite dull in comparison.
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    Re: Have you ever Googled yourself?

    I've got a pretty unusual name and yet achieved 218 hits on Google of which the vast majority, if not all, are me to a T. All the result of a previous life/obsession and a now pretty defunct website. Even the Compuserve hosted pages are apparently still out there.

    My forum name, on the other hand, yielded 46,600 hits and I guess few will actually be me.
    Last edited by Whitebeard; 15th-September-2007 at 12:48 AM. Reason: Additional info.

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    Re: Have you ever Googled yourself?

    o yes i googled myself, it was a chilling experience

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