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
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?
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
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.
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 .
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
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..
I still appear to be better known as a Golf Instructor, highly praised for improving swing flexibility! Not to name drop, but:
I am also featured as a leading exponent in Flow Measurement, and to quote the website"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
"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?
Roger
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
I share my name with a sports presenter on ESPN in the States
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.
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
I come up first listing on Page 1 and also on later pages. My namesake is an american playwriter I believe.
M
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
--ooOoo--
Age is a question of mind over matter, if you don't mind, it doesn't matter
Leroy (Satchel) Paige (1906-1982)
Mickey Mouse's girlfriend, Minnie, made her film debut, along with Mickey, in "Steamboat Willie" on November 18, 1928.
That date is recognized as her official birthday.
I only get one entry and it's me
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.
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
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
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.
Last edited by ducasi; 20th-September-2007 at 10:56 PM. Reason: per request
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.
o yes i googled myself, it was a chilling experience
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