For example:

Typing into Google:
Ben Tymens

Gets about 49 pages, most of which are not you. In fact, several are in German, and refer to 'Die Sunday Tymens' and also have the word 'ben' on them somewhere.

Typing:
'Ben Tymens'

Gets only 14 hits, but they all appear to be you.



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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith

Dammit...

Of course, I should know this from searching repeatedly on bibliographic databases, yet never got round to actually applying it to Googling... How strange...


And yes, if they're about stupid rowing contests, they'd also be about me...



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Yep, they appear to all be either parodies, school stuff, book reviews, or crew related.



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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith

And? Are you telling me that you expected to see some work there?



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Nope. And Googling my legal name only proves that I have friends, am in the SCA, and took pictures at a party with a Jane Austen theme.



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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith

Magda wrote:

> Nope.

Somehow that fails to surprise ;D



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Here, I thought I was a slacker, but some of the refs to me are actually work-related. Bum.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

I came across some correspondence from an old friend last night whilst moving some boxes and I decided to look him up on Google. I even used quotes...however, I don't think I really wanted to see what the results were!

His name is "Derek Dicks" LOL

But if any of you happen to know a bloke named Derek Dicks who is about 30 and used to live in Leatherhead and various other places around Surrey, please let me know! I'd love to get back in touch with him and his sister (who used to be one of my nanny friends.)

try www.friendsreunited.com

Lol

Well, none of mine are work-related. At least none that I found - no way was I trawling through all 4510...



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

I'd never tried this before, so the thread inspired me to give it a go.

"Teri Pettit" got 1040 hits, of which I only scanned the first 70. All but three or four of those were for me. (I'm not the gal associated with a company called Northern Lights, nor the Education Specialist.) The vast majority were related to genealogy. The oldest were some newsgroup posts from the early 80's when I was with Xerox.

My favorite that I found was a post I made to rec.humor, which I'd entirely forgotten about. (Add "only child" to your search string and it will show up at the top. The URL is too long to include here.)

What felt really weird, though, was reading about the two Teri Pettit's who weren't me, and in one case seeing a picture. Those of you with common names probably feel differently, but to those of us who go through our entire life never meeting anybody else with the same name, you start to feel like your name means you. It's then a very bizarre feeling to see someone else lay claim to the name too, like they're pretending to be you or something.



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I had similar comments to that from my daughter, and I know I proposed to a couple of people for my mum, very embarrasing :-)



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Sylvester says.... *plock*




actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

The second electrician is the first ones daughter

No one ever did say how the circumference was supposedly calculated, whether or not he was right. I feel I should no this from somewhere, but I don't.

the second electricion is the firsts daughter.

what is strange about the following words: bough, dough, rough, and cough?

And also: slough, ought, and lough (pronounced "loch")...

Apparently, there are eight different pronounciations in English, but I can't figure out for the life of me what the eighth one is... Any ideas?



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Metaphors be with you!

you never answered what was actually strange about them,

SPOILER

they all have "ough" in them but all are pronounced differently.

I think that was what Puck was getting at, rather circuitously. Good one.

Alright, you people know me by now, and ought to know that any puzzle I post is going to be a math one…but don't worry, the math's not too hard.

This one's a two-parter:

a) If the store is selling oranges for 5 cents each and apples for 3 cents each, and I spend 19 cents, how many did I buy of each fruit?

b) Given that oranges are 5 cents and apples are 3 cents, what is the largest amount I can spend such that there is only one possible answer?

19 gazillion dollars, 8 schilling and 4 centavos.

a) two oranges and three apples

b) I'm supposed to be studying right now, you know!



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Metaphors be with you!