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An Evening Comment Diversion / Dustin Rowles

Comment Diversions | June 16, 2009 | Comments (179)


Tonight’s task is simple: Google yourself. Tell us what you find. You need not reveal your name, of course. But this is especially amusing if you have a name shared by others. I appear to be the only Dustin Rowles in existence, so it’s mostly just reviews and stuff. Nothing to see there. But, it’s kind of fun to share your findings if, for instance, someone with your namesake is also a gay porn star or owns a used car lot. Most gratifying, however, is to find that it’s you specifically being referred to in the top position.

Have at it.


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Comments

Apparently I'm awesome enough to just get my race results from the last few years. I even get my own pictures!

Posted by: Dr. Spaceman at June 16, 2009 8:40 PM

Nothing. All the results have my names in the wrong order. Does this mean I fail or that I'm exceptionally original? Special, if you will?

Posted by: admin at June 16, 2009 8:40 PM

Funny, I just Googled you too, Rowles.


Let's just say you are lucky we don't have a Committee on Anti-American Activities anymore.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at June 16, 2009 8:41 PM

LOLOL, okay, so I got two. The first is this weird photographer dude who has a website with my name in the domain (www.christian-hagen.com), which is bizarre to me.

But my favorite is an IMDB entry for some actor. Credits:

Girls Will Be Girls: The Jizz Party (2008) .... Jeff
Hairspray (2007) .... Male TV Reporter
No Place to Hide (2006) .... Lawyer
"Uh-Oh!" (1997) TV series .... Slime Tour Referee

So, there you have it! I was the Male TV Reporter in Hairspray. Bet you're jealous now!

Posted by: ChristianH at June 16, 2009 8:48 PM

Google wondered if I didn't spell my surname wrong and offered an alternative search/spelling. Yet, there were several results for the correct spelling, 2 of which were me, both professional.

Just for fun I Googled my moniker. The result was my blog. Not much fun there either.

Posted by: Eyvi at June 16, 2009 8:48 PM

I am officially the 81st link on google if you search just my first and last name. No famous people, although most of the links were for a doctor from Indiana or correspondence from a civil war soldier with my name. There was one possible reference to me higher up from a genealogy site; they had my name and my father's name correct, but not my mother's, so it could be a weird coincidence. Mostly quite boring.

Posted by: Nate at June 16, 2009 8:49 PM

I have a very unique name. Most of my results relate to a trip I made last summer, riding my bike across the U.S. The only other result refers to a NY Times article from 1922 about a Russian spy being deported from Britain but the name is spelled slightly different.

Posted by: Borg at June 16, 2009 8:49 PM

My name is uncommon enough that, outside of a few people in Ireland, no one shares it, which means that most of the first-page hits are me - my Facebook page, my college Ultimate Frisbee team's website (I used to be treasurer), results from debating competitions I've been at and so on. I am, however, also an anaesthetist and two annoying teenagers from various corners of the country. Huzzah!

Posted by: Shay at June 16, 2009 8:51 PM

Unfortunately, I share a name with a new cartoon character on the ole Cartoon Network.
So it's hard to compete with that.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at June 16, 2009 8:52 PM

I would need a much more commonly occurring last name for this to work. I only get high school box scores and the Nobel Prize I won in Medicine.

Posted by: branded at June 16, 2009 8:52 PM

This is weird! I'm third and ninth on the first page.

Third - spock.com entry on me that shows info from my MySpace page and lists related searches - "likes movies" "straight" "Walt Disney World Resort." WTF is spock.com for? Stalking?

Ninth - a PDF link to my college choir program from 2003, when I was historian.

Posted by: Melissa at June 16, 2009 8:55 PM

My firm does too effective a job of marketing; I'm the first 25 or so results except for some guy in Buckeye, Arizona. After that, however, the notable thing is that most of the people who have (or had) my name are, ahem, deceased.

Damn you Final Destination! Wait, is that a roller skate with a lit stick of dynamite rolling tow---

Posted by: socalledonlycousins at June 16, 2009 8:57 PM

I share my name with a Romance novelist, so I don't show up as me for about four pages. Fun.

Posted by: Major Etiquette at June 16, 2009 8:57 PM

My name is not a particularly common one. My first name is the 25th most common male name in the US, and my last name is #456. However, put them together and you have the same name as a Gold Rush era train robber as well as the official artist of NASCAR. So pardon me while I fashion a gaudy collector plate, and then take it outside and shoot it....

Posted by: sansho1 at June 16, 2009 8:57 PM

My name is so common, there are just a ton of entries. None of them refer to me. I like being a mystery.

Posted by: Cindy at June 16, 2009 9:02 PM

If I google my name, my facebook page is the second result. I evidently share a first and last name with a local designer in Atlanta, some chick in Panama City, FL, and a reviewer on Amazon.

Most hits past page one are things that feature my first and last name, but not together or obituaries for old biddies, since my first name was super popular about 80-90 years ago.

Posted by: Genny (actually Rusty now) at June 16, 2009 9:02 PM

omeone with your namesake is also a gay porn star

*Ahem*?

Yeah, I googled my name and got my videos from Squirtz and Videoboys. Is it odd that the one I did with JP Jackson came out later than the one with Jeremy Roddick, yet it still shows up first in the search?

Posted by: Jeremy Feist at June 16, 2009 9:03 PM

I mentioned doing this the other day, which I'm sure is where you got the idea, but anyway, I'm still:

1. A doctor at Duke Medical Center (Clinical Interests: Movement disorders, Parkinson's disease and other Parkinsonian Disorders, generalized and focal dystonias, Huntington's disease, Lewy body disease, myoclonus, Restless legs syndrome, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Corticobasal Ganglionic Degeneration, Multiple System Atrophy, Shy-Drager syndrome, spasmodic torticollis, tremor disorders, tic disorders, Botulinum Toxin injections, deep brain stimulation implant)

2. A singer/songwriter, living in Nashville and working on my fourth CD.

3. And, if you flip my first and last names, an abstract painter.

Any of you ladies like a deep brain stimulation implant? Sounds multiple-orgasm enabling to me.

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at June 16, 2009 9:03 PM

I'm apparently both a Hockey player and a chiropractor. Which blows my mind because I am the exact opposite of both professions. My friend apparently shares the name of a porn star, which I cannot say I do.

Posted by: Kamikaze Feminist at June 16, 2009 9:04 PM

Apparently I am the youngest flying ace of World War II. Once he shot down four victims in 36 hours. He crash-landed twice and was shot in the leg once. By the way, all this happened in the same month.

And then there is me on Facebook and Pajiba. Neat.

Posted by: Vermillion at June 16, 2009 9:08 PM

Apparently I'm in the movie TAPS

Posted by: Alex at June 16, 2009 9:14 PM

@ Optimus Rhyme: I'm guessing your real name is Blossom Utonium.

Sadly, my government name is real common. I share it with a former host of Double Dare, an astronomer, some tech nerd, a sports reporter in Oregon (which is funny as I'm a former ink-stained wretch) and a fine art photographer among others. I hope nobody thinks that jerk on Twitter is me, either with my real identity or my alias. (But which one is the alias?)

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at June 16, 2009 9:17 PM

This doesn't work so well when you hyphenate your last name. My results were all me. Mostly links to abstracts of seabird research papers. Haven't done a whole lot since grad school, apparently....

Posted by: meaux at June 16, 2009 9:17 PM

This comment diversion can suck it. Everybody knows that when you Google me, all you get is George Clooney's bimbo ex-girlfriend.

Although, to be fair, that also means I can pretty much do whatever the hell I want on these here interwebs and it all gets blamed on some other dumb bitch. I win!

Posted by: Sarina at June 16, 2009 9:17 PM

Ooh, ooh! The game gets a lot more fun when I use just my maiden name:

1. "Marketing PR Strategist who finds time to practise yoga, savour great wine/cheese and groove to new music."

2. "I'd rather be singing for the Lord than anything else."

3. "Come in for m---- c-----! My sweet young pussy is waiting for you! ... SCANDINAVIAN: Do you want m--- c----? Come and watch me fuck and suck on cam"

Posted by: meaux at June 16, 2009 9:18 PM

Apparently I'm also a family lawyer, computer programmer, and champion bass fisherperson, with my own line of lures. Lawyer, sure I hope so, computer geek, yeah, kinda, but champion fish-catcher? Are you kidding me? This blows, I'm done with the self-googling.

Posted by: lordhelmet at June 16, 2009 9:22 PM

I find my online resume (I have my own domain), a couple of blogs, my Facebook, LinkedIn, myspace profiles, etc. I am also the only one with my name so it's all the usual boring stuff.

Posted by: Amy at June 16, 2009 9:25 PM

I have a really ethnic last name, and apparently I'm either a Lutherin Minister or a lawyer from the Czech Republic.

Also tried my nicknames, but I got nothing from em.

Posted by: George at June 16, 2009 9:26 PM

Ha! Meaux I did the same thing. Loads of results, two are me, both on the first page. Then I added my middle name and google ignored my surname altogether, married or maiden, and showed me a bazillion results, all for the daughter of a famous, deceased, martial artist.

Posted by: Eyvi at June 16, 2009 9:29 PM

Anything with the exact same spelling as my name is just my stuff like Twitter, Facebook, AIGA, and school. Then, there's this fucking cheerleader from Australia on Facebook. In two days, I shall have her head. There can be only one!

Posted by: jM at June 16, 2009 9:30 PM

It's just me, sadly... except for the fact that my name is used as the name of a 72 year old doctor in Michael Kelleher's on-line novel "Three Times Dead" That was weird.
http://tr.im/oJKy

Posted by: Spender at June 16, 2009 9:31 PM

This comment diversion can suck it. Everybody knows that when you Google me, all you get is George Clooney's bimbo ex-girlfriend.

Sarina's real name is Renee Zellweger?

Posted by: branded at June 16, 2009 9:31 PM

If I use my real name, the first 10 or so are for an Administrative Assistant in Alabama who is, evidently, *quite* good at networking! I wonder if anyone from high school has looked me up and found her on every social networking site that has ever existed.

If I use my Pajiba name, it's mostly links for me except one for YouTube video in which a lady (who is NOT me) is clearly insane. And bored. And there's a link for A complete pictoral history of the world's cutest kid, Ms. Lainey L. BoBainey. I may check it out and see if this child is truly the world's cutest kid and if she's not, socalled, can I sue them for defamation of character or something?

Posted by: Lainey at June 16, 2009 9:31 PM

Under my old last name I am a German supermodel and a transgendered forum troll. Under my new last name I test video games.

Posted by: m at June 16, 2009 9:33 PM

I was hoping to find any outstanding arrest warrants from Taylor, Tarrant or Wichita Counties of Texas.
Guess I oulived those sonsabitches. Hah!

Posted by: Spender at June 16, 2009 9:33 PM

My doppleganger is a star rugby player in Ireland. I wish I was that rugged...and in shape.

Posted by: B-Unit at June 16, 2009 9:37 PM

First hits are from work-related stuff, which include photos.

Which is why I don't use my real name here.

Posted by: TK at June 16, 2009 9:40 PM

Let's see, my alter ego is a natural history writer, photographer, and illustrator. And the author of the Wildlife Guide to Chile. Cool.

When I include my middle initial, Google starts showing me. I see a poem I published, my name in the program for a conference I presented at last November, and a very old telephone listing. So that's nice, I guess.

Posted by: Sharon at June 16, 2009 9:41 PM

Oooh, but when I enter my standard online username, I'm EVERYWHERE.

Posted by: Sharon at June 16, 2009 9:42 PM

Me, myself, and I are the first 3 pages (and the first 5 images). Then I get interrupted by some searches that include both my and my brother's names, and we are usurped a page later by Nicole Scherzinger of Pussy Cat Dolls. Hey, my name's Nicole! I can sing, can't dance... which makes me the polar opposite of a PCD. Boo.

Posted by: staramour at June 16, 2009 9:44 PM

Anyone do a Google Image search on themselves? I come up third again. It's weird to see all the others with my name. We're all brunettes, apparently.

Posted by: Melissa at June 16, 2009 9:45 PM

Full name just brought up facebook and work related stuff. Still, it's nice to see the entire first page of google devoted to me, me, me!

My first name brought up a concrete company, something related to libraries and... holy crap, I'm the Queen of Sweeden!

Posted by: ScienceGeek at June 16, 2009 9:51 PM

Huh. An image search turns up a college basketball player, a rugby player (I'm a hooker!), a couple of criminals, an Iowa State football player, a rapper and a whole bunch of dorks.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at June 16, 2009 9:51 PM

Apparently, I'm a political lobbyist, simultaneously living in Chicago AND North Dakota, played in the Australian Football league in 1918, and somehow involved in the band Simple Minds.
Oh, and I served 21 years in Western Penitentiary for murder. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, I don't care what happens to me because I'm already dead inside.

Posted by: Jim Doggie at June 16, 2009 9:52 PM

Sweden, not Sweeden. Some Queen I am.

Posted by: ScienceGeek at June 16, 2009 9:57 PM

Apparently, there are far too many consecutive vowels in my name.

The first and second results were articles about my (slightly differently spelled) doppelganger being murdered by her lesbian lover in Pennsylvania.

The next is about a chick with my exact first and last names (exceedingly weird, though I'm not willing to share my name in order to demonstrate that) being named Miss Teen USA in the state directly south of mine.

The next few after that, pure me, all work-related. God, being "professional" is hell on the anonymity.

Posted by: Edwina the Magnificent at June 16, 2009 9:58 PM

"According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, I don't care what happens to me because I'm already dead inside."

That shit is so much better than George Clooney's bimbo ex-girlfriend. My friends have been telling me I'm dead inside for years, but The Google has never formally announced it for me.

Posted by: Sarina at June 16, 2009 10:00 PM

i have the same name as a playwright, an actor from a 1983 episode of doctor who, an electrician on the movie 'face/off', a federal judge in pennsylvania, a photographer specializing in b&w, and a representative from north carolina.

and my screen persona is a neworder song.


Posted by: gp at June 16, 2009 10:02 PM

My real name turns up my facebook, myspace, a judge list from a german contest I volunteered to judge at UT, and my german blog from last semester. As far as I know, no one else has my name.

Shells Bells, however, is a Boston based pinup model who will soon be entering the Kitten Koffin Zombie Pinup contest.

Posted by: Shell'sBells at June 16, 2009 10:03 PM

@ Optimus Rhyme: I'm guessing your real name is Blossom Utonium.

He said NEW character. So his name is obviously Ben 10.

Then, there's this fucking cheerleader from Australia on Facebook. In two days, I shall have her head.

I know what you meant, but I went the dirty filth sex route anyway. Never looking back, either.

Posted by: Vermillion at June 16, 2009 10:06 PM

Bleh, I came up in a few articles from my college newspaper regarding campus political groups. The first link was to an elementary school but unfortunately I also came up in an online obituary.

I also found myself on Google maps, which is pretty creepy.

Posted by: Monica at June 16, 2009 10:07 PM

Just me and a dead woman in Canada. But I get three pages of hits. I guess it pays to be an Important Volunteer Person.

When I was married I shared my Google hits with a nuclear physicist.

Posted by: Wednesday at June 16, 2009 10:11 PM

spender, why do you always make me so hard?

"but that was another man's game. a younger man's kind of hunt."


that IS wierdo!

Posted by: gp at June 16, 2009 10:13 PM

There are a whole lot of scientists and economists with my name. Though I have a few articles that have risen in the rankings since I fell in good with a few other writers, the highest of my google rankings is a now-non-existent webpage that Bitter But Brilliant ruined for me. If I ever find out who stole my TWoP tag, registered over there, and started flame wars, I will begin to enact a systematic series of digital-life destroying events that will make American Dad's Roger's destruction of Sydney in "The One That Got Away" seem merciful.

Posted by: Robert at June 16, 2009 10:13 PM

I'm a scientist and I have several publications, I have 8 pages of hits and I'm first on the first page.

Posted by: goldend at June 16, 2009 10:14 PM

Just a few soccer articles. my name is shared with a footballer (I emphasise not a football star). Just a player who plays with a shitty team, oh and a facebook page which someone had set up for me once. i'm really not into the social networking websites. Anyway. that's it. Nothing very interesting really.

Posted by: barf at June 16, 2009 10:14 PM

This isn't a game for those of us with John Doe gubmint names. I often need to go to the third level of identification (1=last name, 2=first name, 3=address) on airline flights, because there is someone else on the SAME FUCKING FLIGHT with my name!

I gave up after flipping through the first 15 pages of results on Google image search (the results on regular Google aren't quite as harsh, but finding my own personal entry is still the equivalent of finding the lost contact lens on the floor). If I hadn't started using Yahoo in 1995 there is NO WAY that I would have anything resembling my given name as a Yahoo ID. As it is I get weird probes all the time (via email and IM) inquiring about yet another lost soul with my legal name; just last month I ended a lengthy correspondence with some folks in Britain who had been sending me my eponym's payroll records via email.

Here's the real kicker: within my own highly specialized industry (where I choose to believe that I retain a certain notoriety), I had to sit through a meeting this morning where we looked at a proposal from another company whose author had the same name as mine.

I hate Anglo-Saxon naming conventions.

Posted by: Che Grovera at June 16, 2009 10:15 PM

My name is so common there are probably thousands of people (male and female) who have the same name as me worldwide. I've never done anything to warrant a Google entry, so none of the millions of hits I get with my name even refer to me.

Posted by: Jeez Louise at June 16, 2009 10:16 PM

I'm a scientist and I have several publications, I have 8 pages of hits and I'm first on the first page.

Posted by: goldend at June 16, 2009 10:14 PM

That's clearly not the only place that you're first.

Posted by: Che Grovera at June 16, 2009 10:17 PM

Hey, my name's Nicole! I can sing, can't dance... which makes me the polar opposite of a PCD. Boo.
Posted by: staramour at June 16, 2009 9:44 PM
_____________________________________
Nope. It puts you at the top of my list, Nicole.

Posted by: Spender at June 16, 2009 10:21 PM

Good Gawd, I loves me some Pajibans.
Self-effacing good times.
If I had enough beers I'd invite you to my tiny apartment right f-bombin' now.

Posted by: Spender at June 16, 2009 10:27 PM

Hahahahaha!

I am NOWHERE on the Web. Page after page after page of NOT ME.* And that is the way I like it.

True story: One idle Sunday afternoon I got to thinking about my very first boyfriend, the one from First Grade. Sweet boy. And just because I had nothing to do, I went to Google. And in thirty seconds, I shit you not, I knew what he looks like now, who he's married to, his kids' names and where they all live. Oh, and where he works. Lucky for him I'm not mentally unbalanced, isn't it?

Nonentity is good.

(*However, a person whose name is one letter off from mine is apparently a prominent cancer researcher. That's nice. Anybody know how to do that "identity theft" stuff?)

Posted by: Jerce at June 16, 2009 10:27 PM

Hmm. The first couple hits don't spell my name the same (thanks Google), but hits 3-6 are me on scientific publications. After that we get more misspellings. How exciting.

Posted by: Anne (in Reno) at June 16, 2009 10:27 PM

Anybody know how to do that "identity theft" stuff?)

Posted by: Jerce at June 16, 2009 10:27 PM
__________________________________

If I did , Jerce, I'd be sending mash notes to D.R.

Posted by: Ryan R. (aka Spender) at June 16, 2009 10:30 PM

Apparently I have a golf academy and design jewelry. I was hoping one of my papers would show up, but no dice. I guess my research article on the mechanical unfolding of titin is not a high-hitter.

Posted by: s. pisaster at June 16, 2009 10:32 PM

I guess my research article on the mechanical unfolding of titin is not a high-hitter.

Posted by: s. pisaster at June 16, 2009 10:32 PM

Since all of this research seems to initiate from the University of Illinois main campus, I guess that makes us neighbors. Can't quite tell which funky-to-my-white-boy-ears ethnic name is yours, so I'll leave any further speculation alone for the moment.

Posted by: Che Grovera at June 16, 2009 10:37 PM

I know what you meant, but I went the dirty filth sex route anyway. Never looking back, either.

Ha! I'd expect nothing less. And you're not the only. When I told my friend about my plan he said, "After sweaty angry sex, right? What the point of a doppelganger if not to learn firsthand what you're like in bed?"

Posted by: jM at June 16, 2009 10:39 PM

Ha, a backdoor excuse for explanation. Just think I use my middle name because I'm pretentious as hell? It's not just that ... it's because there are actually more "Steven Wilson"s than there are people in the world. Some musician, a writer for Mexican Rolling Stone, a Cubs pitcher from a couple decades ago, some former Air Force guy who insisted he had evidence of a government cover up of UFOs and mysteriously disappeared ... I've even met several other "Steven Wilson"s in person over the years.

Hence the middle name, which is convenient because it's awesome. It's my dad's name (consistent with the awesome hypothesis) and it is well established as the best middle name for full name use (Andrew Lloyd Webber, Frank Lloyd Wright).

There is apparently only one other "Steven Lloyd Wilson", but he died in a plane crash last year according to the Google, so I am the current name holder of record.

Posted by: Steven Lloyd Wilson at June 16, 2009 10:46 PM

I found an OB/GYN, as well as a drummer..... it seems that a joke here should be obvious, but I am not grasping it...

Posted by: Patty O'Green at June 16, 2009 10:46 PM

wow a lot of people share my name.
but when i checked my own it says i have a criminal record i do not have a crinminal record i'm on very good terms with the Police Chief.
i have a record of being in a mental instatution but not a prison.

Posted by: Utah Dynamo at June 16, 2009 10:51 PM

When I told my friend about my plan he said, "After sweaty angry sex, right? What the point of a doppelganger if not to learn firsthand what you're like in bed?"

Posted by: jM at June 16, 2009 10:39 PM

I've come to expect nothing less from you, jM. Perv. It pained me to learn that you made an appearance at the last PajibaCon -- for opportunity lost.

There's only one thing that confuses me about you: when you Google yourself, which initial stands for "panda"?

Posted by: Che Grovera at June 16, 2009 10:52 PM

Woo I'm the only me on the internet!
(this does not make for interesting reading)

Posted by: Alayna at June 16, 2009 10:53 PM

Mine is ME!

Web google: the first result is Facebook. Boring. The second is a community newspaper article about a production of Charley's Aunt I was in with a community theatre group a year ago.

Images google: the first result is me in the aforementioned play. It's... not flattering. I'm at rehearsals. It's a BAD hair day. No makeup. Braces of the clear plastic bracket variety, which aren't noticeable except it makes you look like your teeth jutt out a foot. I'm in a dress that most certainly did NOT get used in the actual production, because it made me look like Jane Eyre age 102.

But I'm thrilled to bits that my google results are about me in plays. Makes me feel like an actress.

Posted by: Ling at June 16, 2009 10:54 PM

Huh. Real me shows up on the first page, about five down, following a professional photographer and someone from Vancouver who shares my name. Lets see... second page.. stupid twitter account (she's an arachnophobe too!), stupid comment on one of Hef's slutty ex girlfriends, and shit. Someone who writes erotic Twilight fanfiction . I'm prematurely declaring myself the winner of the regular search. Go on, try to beat the shame of sharing a name with someone who writes sparkle porn.

Posted by: battgirl at June 16, 2009 10:56 PM

Apparently I'm the least arty person ever to have my name. Amongst the top few results I have a guy who makes chairs (presumably artistically); a couple of people who make woodwind instruments (I assume it's two people, why would anyone need 2 different website for their clarinet business?); a painter; and a guy who's done visual effects for some pretty big movies.

I have an impressively common name.

Posted by: Chugga at June 16, 2009 10:58 PM

Not bad. Nine of the ten links on the first page are to me, including two Pajiba links (coming in at #4, "Introducing the TV Whore" - that'll do wonders for my next job search!)....

Now, what'll it take to get a gay porn star link in the top ten?

Posted by: seth at June 16, 2009 10:58 PM

I found an OB/GYN, as well as a drummer..... it seems that a joke here should be obvious, but I am not grasping it...

Can't blame you. I normally associate proctologists with rimshots, not OBGYNs.

Posted by: branded at June 16, 2009 10:59 PM

I have a fairly uncommon name, and I work professionally in live theater. This means that 90% of the results I get are actually about me, and are almost all about theaters or shows I've been involved with.

Posted by: Bistro at June 16, 2009 11:00 PM

I'm in academia, so the first hit is my university home page, followed by my Facebook page, then some of my publications. Farther down, though, I found a woman with my name who's a rep-in-training for some beauty company. Still, for several pages it's all me. BO-ring.

Now, my former-married-name doppelganger was in an episode of Nash Bridges. Also boring. That name brings up mostly real-me stuff, too.

The one interesting thing I found is that someone seems to have put stuff online dating back to my pre-internet high school and college days (yes, I'm an oldie for this place), like the cast and crew of a couple plays I did.

Posted by: appwitch at June 16, 2009 11:00 PM

There's only one thing that confuses me about you: when you Google yourself, which initial stands for "panda"?

The one that fits snugly in the middle. BAM!

Posted by: jM at June 16, 2009 11:00 PM

My maiden name is Organ, so you can imagine the results. Especially looking up my brother... lot's of results about "*&^%'s organ". Ah the joys of gay porn.

Posted by: All's Well at June 16, 2009 11:00 PM

Well, let's see: I was married to Disney cartoonist Bill Peet (took damn fine care of him, too, apparently); am a naturopathic doctor with a specialty in Ayurveda (ooh! And I wrote a book!); Owner, Healthy Inspirations Ltd/ Director Natrol (UK) Ltd; am a 65-ish woman in Rochester, NY with a Facebook page; am the Senior Vice President and National Sales Director for GNC; and oh look, there's my actual Twitter page, second to last on the first page of hits. Oh, and Betty Friedan thanks me in the introduction of her 2006 memoir, "Life So Far". Jesus, there are really a lot of me. Neat!

(Ha! I found my mom on page 3. She has a Classmates.com profile.)

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at June 16, 2009 11:01 PM

I'm also Karl Rove's grandmother.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at June 16, 2009 11:02 PM

But battgirl, I know for a fact that you love Edward Cullen with every ounce of your heart. And you write yourself into your own stories so you can get closer to him. You're like Stephen King. Except with shiny vampire smut.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at June 16, 2009 11:05 PM

Posted by: Steven Lloyd Wilson at June 16, 2009 10:46 PM

Your middle name is one of my faves too- my best friend in first grade was named Lloyd.

I just found a little announcement in some ridic small local paper from the awards ceremony they had when I graduated from the community college last year. I got the divisional award and one for my 4.0. My mom cried like I was magna cum laude at Harvard or something.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at June 16, 2009 11:10 PM

The one that fits snugly in the middle. BAM!

Posted by: jM at June 16, 2009 11:00 PM

P snugly in the middle. Oh. Being a bedwetter is a dealbreaker.

Posted by: Che Grovera at June 16, 2009 11:28 PM

Ooo! I'm also a "director of procurement."

Heh-heh. Who needs some?

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at June 16, 2009 11:37 PM

I'm team Jacob, Optimus. That shiny bastard can go fuck himself.

Posted by: battgirl at June 16, 2009 11:44 PM

I win. I FUCKING WIN. You guys have GOT to watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUZ1f1_EgEQ

That girl has my name. Or most of it anyway. But. There it is. Holy fucking shit you guys.

YOU MUST WATCH.

Posted by: figgy at June 16, 2009 11:53 PM

I. AM. FREAKING. OUT.

Posted by: figgy at June 16, 2009 11:54 PM

Well, since I never use my real name on the interwebs, a google search revealed only one person with my name who apparently was on the red carpet at the Toronto Film Festival 2008. That is all, and that makes me a saaaaad panda.

AvB, Karl Rove's grandmother? Good lord. You unleashed unholy hell on America!

Posted by: popejenn at June 16, 2009 11:56 PM

Steven Lloyd Wilson - when I was little, I had an imaginary friend named Lloyd. It was pronounced "LaLoyd". Not sure how old I was and I have no clue where I came up with the name, but I must have seen it written on something & tried to sound it out. My dad will still occasionally ask me if I've talked to "LaLoyd" lately.

Posted by: Lainey at June 16, 2009 11:57 PM

FIGGY WINS. AND I AM CALLING THE POLICE ON HER RIGHT THE FUCK NOW.

Posted by: Vermillion at June 16, 2009 11:59 PM

wow...I am apparently
a) and member of the English Women's cricket team
b) someone obsessed with paper
c) a really bad fan artist who loves sheep (!)
d) a violin teacher.

If I limit it to Australia only, the first entry is in fact me...but it is a list of people who booked the electron microscope at my University, so it's not very exciting...you could also find a contact for me at my old job, a media release about my coming runner up in an essay competition when I was 14, and my name on a list of current honours students where I just finished studying.

I think my favourite is that my name appears as a character in a Mills and Boon novel, though. Someone paid 80 cents for it on an Australian auction site. It describes her as 'sexy'. Christ, my mother used to read that trash...that would have been...awkward, methinks...

Posted by: redfeathers at June 16, 2009 11:59 PM

Figgy, I just...I don't...my therapy bills will be coming in the mail.

Posted by: branded at June 17, 2009 12:01 AM

SPENDER IS RYAN REYNOLDS OMG.

Posted by: figgy at June 17, 2009 12:04 AM

Figgy, it doesn't count when it's actually you! You've got some nice moves though.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at June 17, 2009 12:04 AM

BWAH!!! I youtubed my name and found a guy! He's a British "date guru" with a faux-hawk that has a red stripe up it. Seems like quite a wanker.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at June 17, 2009 12:09 AM

Doing just my first and last name generated a ton of links that were not me (college athletes, myspace & facebook pages, an actress). When I did my full name in quotations, however, I did get a link to my undergrad thesis on a Danish science journal search engine. Seriously.

Posted by: stewey at June 17, 2009 12:18 AM

That girl has my name. Or most of it anyway. But. There it is. Holy fucking shit you guys.

YOU MUST WATCH.

Posted by: figgy at June 16, 2009 11:53 PM

What's the big deal? EE has always been in the hands of a five-year old...

Posted by: Che Grovera at June 17, 2009 12:24 AM

Oh now that's just mean. You made the little girl cry and now she's gonna send one of her minions (did you SEE them?! and her DJ friend?) to kill you with Spanish rhymes.

Posted by: figgy at June 17, 2009 12:29 AM

totally off topic...

But I just watched my Tivo'd last episode of Pushing Daisies.

And I'd like to say a big FUCK YOU to ABC executives.

Posted by: Drake at June 17, 2009 12:30 AM

Wow. I am actually first on the Google list for my name. That's gotta be worth something. Also, I am a sexy Danish soccer (football) player.I can live with that. And a passable artist. Oui Oui! There is also another one of me on Facebook.
Oh, and porn. Something to with porn eventually showed up. That might just be Google though.

Posted by: Odnon at June 17, 2009 12:32 AM

Yeah, I'd rather be a convicted murderer than a creepy Spanish girl. At least I get to be immortalized on the LAPD Historical site for killing one of L.A.'s finest. That's an honor no one can deny.

Posted by: Jim Doggie at June 17, 2009 12:35 AM

Oh, and googling me....

An old movie review on Rotten Tomatoes
A pile of old usenet postings
Some obits of friends and family
And an MST3K magic eye I made in (holy shit) 1994.

Posted by: Drake at June 17, 2009 12:35 AM

Oh now that's just mean. You made the little girl cry and now she's gonna send one of her minions (did you SEE them?! and her DJ friend?) to kill you with Spanish rhymes.

Posted by: figgy at June 17, 2009 12:29 AM

Spanish rhymes are seductive, not fatal (unless you conflate the two, in which case the problem is exclusively yours). Thus, I win.

Posted by: Che Grovera at June 17, 2009 12:38 AM

Oh shit. THIS is who is judging the EE's? I can't step to those moves, that voice, those clothes. I haven't got a chance in hell and was outclassed from the f*cking get go. I'm out, all of you. Forget it. Just forget it.

Posted by: replica at June 17, 2009 12:44 AM

jesus, figgy, warn people a little. you *know* we can't resist clicking on shit.

Posted by: gp at June 17, 2009 12:46 AM

I have an unusual name, so most all the entries are me. I foolishly registered with Classmates.com, so those are the first few items. I sure wish I get rid of Classmates.
Then, there are several entries where I commented on blogs and apparently used my real name. I thought I was using my user ID, but I guess not. Then it gets a little odd. I have lived in Alabama all my life, including college, but there are two entries that have me graduating from schools in Texas and Michigan. Another item puts my name on a Facebook page of a girl who has my same first name, but I don't know her at all.

It is almost as if the Internet hiccuped and transposed my information onto someone else's demographic.

Posted by: rlr260 at June 17, 2009 12:48 AM

Actually, number #1 is BAM...my Facebook page, meaning, once and for all, I rule all of Googledom!

In addition, I am also clearly a world-champion turkey taxidermist and the co-creator of a free Canadian magazine dedicated to overindulging in alcohol and drugs, called Vice. Oh how I wish I were surprised...

Posted by: The Pink Hulk at June 17, 2009 12:56 AM

I warned you! Well....ok I didn't, I told you to click. Because I need the world to be as aghast as I am. That video is so confusing.

Che: The saddest thing is that half those lines don't even RHYME, but I think the writers think they do. So the fatality comes from your brain trying to put all this stuff together while it's trying to deny the fact that this video exists though the evidence is right there but it can't. You see? Fatal.

OK not gonna hijack this any longer. The only other results I get are for women in Spain.

Posted by: figgy at June 17, 2009 12:58 AM

My double is a visual artist. What really sucks is that I don't like or respect his work at all.

Posted by: HappyGobo at June 17, 2009 12:59 AM

The only other results I get are for women in Spain.

Posted by: figgy at June 17, 2009 12:58 AM

This is your big problem in life?

Posted by: Che Grovera at June 17, 2009 1:02 AM

No! No, wait! I am not her. I swear! I hate the color pink! and and and I don't have DJ friends! And I don't sing!

Damnit. Now I'm gonna have to go and stab that bitch.

Posted by: figgy at June 17, 2009 1:03 AM

I'm definitely guilty of having Googled myself before, only to find a relatively well-know paleoarchaeologist from New Zealand shares my name. It was convenient, however, when I started getting his emails. Due to the time change, I usually got them as I was getting home from the bars, and may have subsequently approved someone on his team to spend $12k on a microwave oven capable of heating wood chips.

oops.

Posted by: ruby_nicole at June 17, 2009 1:04 AM

my facebook page is first, when i went to google images, the only picture that shows up is me holding a domo easter bunny in target

Posted by: kelley at June 17, 2009 1:04 AM

Love ya, figgy! ;)

Posted by: Che Grovera at June 17, 2009 1:04 AM

I come up first for a political contribution I made during the last campaign. Some website tracks that shit.

Posted by: L.O.V.E. at June 17, 2009 1:05 AM

...may have subsequently approved someone on his team to spend $12k on a microwave oven capable of heating wood chips.

Posted by: ruby_nicole at June 17, 2009 1:04 AM

OK, I'm still laughing. Some things simply cannot be made up.

Posted by: Che Grovera at June 17, 2009 1:08 AM

There is apparently only one other "Steven Lloyd Wilson", but he died in a plane crash last year according to the Google, so I am the current name holder of record.

Posted by: Steven Lloyd Wilson at June 16, 2009 10:46 PM
---------------------------------------------
You had him killed, didn't you?

My Google search is all me for the first 12 hits or so, then spotty from then onwards. The further you go, the more Ralph Lauren shows up.

Posted by: Lauren at June 17, 2009 1:12 AM

The first and third results are for someone on Twitter. Greeeeat.

Other than that, I 1) have a dead son who was a duck hunter.
2) have a dead brother (with the same name as my actual dad) and am vocally in favor of both God and other people shutting the fuck up
3) "haha you cant have me i belong to joey."
4) LOve RnB - DoNt mInD HiP hOp - UnSuRe BoUt rAp
5) am a doctor, med student, lawyer, law student, homemaker, Naughty Halloween Costume, and Hottie For Sale

Results about me? None that I can see. I use a stage name for porn, you see.

Posted by: SaBrina at June 17, 2009 1:18 AM

Oh, I know. I tend to have that effect on people.

Posted by: figgy at June 17, 2009 1:20 AM

Mostly boring stuff for me. If you search for my name, the website I link to here is first, so that's kinda cool, I guess. ::shrugs:: But stuff like Facebook and Twitter comes up.

But there's another guy with my name around my age who's a lacrosse player. There's a group photo of one of his teams and he's totally cuter than I am. Shit.

Posted by: whatBENwatches at June 17, 2009 1:24 AM

Oh, and porn. Something to with porn eventually showed up. That might just be Google though.

Rule 34.

You had him killed, didn't you?

Helloooo....he has three names. What kind of people love three names? Assassins and serial killers.

So yeah.

Posted by: Vermillion at June 17, 2009 1:36 AM

My college roommate shares a name with a famous 80s porn star. I Googled her from work one day to see if she was working on any stage/theater projects. I'm glad I didn't lose my job.

Posted by: Girl With Curious Hair at June 17, 2009 1:41 AM

Hahahaha, one of the image results for my name is of Jeremy Feist.

Posted by: SaBrina at June 17, 2009 1:51 AM

Helloooo....he has three names. What kind of people love three names? Assassins and serial killers.

So yeah.

Posted by: Vermillion at June 17, 2009 1:36 AM

What about Republican Presidents? William Howard Taft? Warren Gamaliel Harding? Richard Milhous Nixon? George freakin' Walker Bush?

What effin' kind of name is "Gamaliel" or "Milhous" anyhow (besides being cooler than Lloyd)?

Posted by: Che Grovera at June 17, 2009 1:53 AM

What about Republican Presidents?

The evidence is indeed mounting....

Posted by: Vermillion at June 17, 2009 1:59 AM

A Wiccan priestess. LOL FOREVER.

Posted by: teacupnosaucer at June 17, 2009 2:21 AM

I am, it seems,

- An associate professor of cosmology.

- Myself, via my author's bio on my publisher's site. (Yay! Now, somebody buy the books.)

- A university administrator in Cairo.

- Myself, via my personal / bio page in an obscure online community nobody has heard of, and we like it that way. (Yay?)

- Followed by pages of random English-speaking net-citizens, none of them me.

Under the common abbreviation for my name, I am a deceased hair-obsessed D-list celebrity from a previous generation. For pages. I, the real me show up nowhere.

My Pajiba-handle, however, shows up enough to make me feel like an actual fake person. It looks like in net (sic), my persona has far higher media exposure and name recognition than "I" do.

Y'all are eddikated here, right? You know that Mark Twain was a pen-name, and that George Orwell wasn't his given name. Twain was clear on the real / fake thing. Orwell not so much.

From this it seems like the plan is to start a fake blog and become my persona. There are worse fates than to follow the steps of George Orwell (not his real name.) Like, for instance, becoming a hair-obsessed D-list pseudo-celebrity.

Twain / Orwell '12
If we're going to elect poseurs, let's get good ones.

Posted by: BierceAmbrose at June 17, 2009 2:23 AM

The Devil's Dictionary was a quaint conceit, BA, but it's a non-starter in the Twitter era. Besides, Orwell was fragile. Your persona(e) are gonna have to be tougher than you've shown here so far.

Posted by: Che Grovera at June 17, 2009 2:36 AM

I share a name with a bible counselor out in BC. He is listed on numerous kids' myspace pages under inspirations. I was thrilled to find out about this.

I use my middle name to differentiate myself from this character. Unfortunately, my middle name is Christian.

Thrilling again.

Posted by: Darcy at June 17, 2009 2:43 AM

Wow, I just searched for me on youtube (your fault, figgy) and found the short film I worked on for a class last Fall. Damn. The professor could have let us edit it more before he smacked it up. Some of the shaky shots are KILLING ME. But I was on sound, so they're not my fault.

Posted by: Sharon at June 17, 2009 2:46 AM

My name is unique enough that I just got my own facebooks and stuff. LAME

Posted by: Nadine at June 17, 2009 3:42 AM

My name leads to my facebook.
And I just found out that I'm scheduled to die in 2070. Not to bad really, that would mean that I live to be 95 years old. Just find it a bit scary that the 4th hit on Google is "who dies in 2070" with my name showing...

Posted by: Hanneke at June 17, 2009 4:39 AM

I'm always American. I guess my name is very popular there (I'm not American, just in case that's confusing).

I have my own website and I'm a freelance writer/television producer. Puh, some Yank has got my life!! Well, better than mine.

On a side note, the other day I got an email about Microsoft's new search engine, Bing. I am not sure about that name, as saying 'I have just Binged myself' sounds somewhat rude.

Posted by: Carrie at June 17, 2009 5:11 AM

Oh crap, elsewhere I'm a doctor. I'm not playing this game any more, it's too depressing.

Posted by: Carrie at June 17, 2009 5:12 AM

the combination of my first and last names is so unique that reporting any of the results would reveal my full identity in a flash.

pros and cons, eh?

Posted by: celery at June 17, 2009 5:16 AM

I thought I was the only one of my kind, but I apparently run a rehabilitation clinic in Palatka, Florida

Posted by: Cris at June 17, 2009 5:23 AM

Last time Jim Smyth got googled there was a very generic artist who liked to paint pictures of flowers. He is now in his next phase of ripping off classic artists and is doing pencil studies of the human body.

There also happened to be a knife maker by the name that loved to ply his wares on line.

There also happen to be quite a few seemingly Irish nationalist books about anti-catholicism and the history of the working class which has me wondering whether these were written by my great grandad namesake; the drunkard black sheep of the family who hated everyone and ran away from his family a lot. Irish nationalism, the working class and hating the rest of his heavily catholic family kinda fits the picture I have of him except he probably could barely write when he was sober coming from the arsehole of England known as Barrow in Furness.

Posted by: jim of the lower case at June 17, 2009 6:29 AM

Saying that most of the examples Ive found are probably James Smyths who go by the name of Jim. Ive yet to find someone whose actual legal name is Jim, like me.

Posted by: jim of the lower case at June 17, 2009 6:31 AM

I have a lot of my art up online, so there's mostly that. Non-art related it turns out I was a member of the 1999 graduating class of East Side Christian High School in Greenwood, SC. I also came across a really sad story where a mom with my name gave the commencement speech at her murdered son's graduation. So sorry, random lady with my name. This stranger is sad for you.

Posted by: AdaHaze at June 17, 2009 6:32 AM

I share the same name with a US Congressman. Since he seems to be not all that liked I don't particularly see this as a good thing. At least my rap sheet doesn't pop up on the first few pages. I swear, you rob a dozen measly banks and you're labeled a "criminal" for life.

Posted by: TylerDFC at June 17, 2009 6:54 AM

This is an interesting diversion...considering that I do this from time to time to make sure there isn't anything out there that could be slanderous or detrimental to my job and such.
I did this about 2 days ago and I found the usual...an elementary school named bearing my name and a bunch of different links containing info about it and the like-named woman for which it's named, a couple of links to theatre reviews for shows I was in, a link to a facebook page for a girl with the same name (oddly not a link to mine, though), and I think I found a link to my myspace page. The only thing I found that I wasn't happy with was this peekyou.com page that gathers info about you from various internet sources such as profile pictures, etc. They had a couple of past myspace profile pictures of me that aren't bad (they wouldn't have been profile pics otherwise) but they're no longer visible on my myspace/facebook pages, so I'd prefer they not be in the search engine. I contacted them a few days ago to see if they can remove them. I don't mind links to my pages (they're private anyway) but I'd prefer to control what pictures of me are available via Google search.

Posted by: Whorish Mouth at June 17, 2009 7:39 AM

Paul Southworth

I'm the first 4 results, followed by the President and CEO, CircuLite, Inc., followed by me four more times, then this guy:

http://www.coopfoodstore.com/featured/employees/1559

I don't have a very common name (never met anyone with my last name who wasn't related to me), so to think that there are other dudes out there with my EXACT name kind of freaks me out a little. It's MY name.

GIVE IT BACK.

Posted by: Paul Southworth at June 17, 2009 8:10 AM

I learned long ago that I have the same name as a (apparently) very popular porn star. Luckily I've never experienced any kind of mistaken identity.

I also shared the same name with the former spokesperson of the university where I work, and this woman apparently pissed people off on a regular basis, because I was forever getting her hate mail. Once the dean called me, forcing me to interrupt my experiment, and began screaming at me to do some "damage control" for some crisis, and then gave me attitude when I politely told him he had the wrong woman. Seemed pissed that I dare be someone else. I also received a lot of "confidential" info from her co-workers in my inbox. If I were a nastier or less lazy person, I could have done some serious blackmail.

Other than that I'm not looking too hard on the net for myself; I had a stalker once and I'm not eager to find any evidence that he might still be fixated on me.

Posted by: DeadBessie at June 17, 2009 8:20 AM

Hey, Figgy. Tu tienes pon pon? Pon pon. Pon pon. Pon pon pon pon.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at June 17, 2009 8:27 AM

Probably the only (pulls mask off, revealing true self) Leanne Scorzoni in the world. Shows old soccer team results from college, a poem I wrote in college that I put on a blog (I still talk to the guy the poem was about), plays I was in, that's pretty much it. Only other Scorzonis are in Bologna, Italy where I have distant relatives.

Posted by: scorzi at June 17, 2009 8:43 AM

I make it onto the first google search page. Strangely enough it's the results of a hockey umpire test that I took when I was 10 - over 15 years ago!

Anyway, most of the others are in Norway and Sweden as these are the only countries where my first name is quite popular.

Posted by: getduffed at June 17, 2009 8:49 AM

Delayed reaction, but I have the same name (First, middle, and last) as some chic out in Cali who decided to give her 18 month old child marijuana. The hearing details and sentencing information all pops up. So yeah....awesome.

Posted by: Nimue at June 17, 2009 8:58 AM

Huh. Apparently, while I was under the impression that I was a singer from Australia with a fairly unique name, Google informs me that I'm an online teen drama series from Baltimore, a boxer from Wales and a hip-hop artist from LA.

My facebook comes up EIGHTH.

Posted by: Ed at June 17, 2009 9:08 AM

My full name brings up a ton of ancestry info, a consulting firm in Seattle, and the stats of a more sports-oriented Elizabeth than myself. However, my screen name (not this screen name, obviously; my other screen name) brings up nothing but 4 pages of me, myself and I.

Posted by: elizabeth at June 17, 2009 9:16 AM

I thought I had a fairly unusual name, but no, I see that I'm in San Diego,
Australia, and Irvine (where I'm an allergist/immunologist -- yay me) and, best
of all, I'm a Hungarian murderess who poisoned 26 young men and was hanged
for her crimes in 1882.

Posted by: Another Kate at June 17, 2009 9:16 AM

Fuck Google and its fake diction.

Posted by: Jay at June 17, 2009 9:17 AM

I keep everything private when I network and crap. My Facebook comes up, my graduation announcement from February comes up, some site I forgot I signed up for comes up, and then it begins to move into not me. My last name is very uncommon now. An image search only shows all of the suckers that are friends with me on Facebook and then a couple of pictures that are unrelated to me. Booooorrriinng.

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits at June 17, 2009 9:19 AM

When I google my nom de Pajiba, I get a lot of my comments here. The strange thing is that it has my comments listed and then the link takes you to an online store that sells vibrators. Or a tattoo shop. So that's odd.

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits at June 17, 2009 9:23 AM

Posted by: jim of the lower case at June 17, 2009 6:31 AM

my father's legal name was Jimmy.
damn improper lazy southerners.

Posted by: gp at June 17, 2009 9:40 AM

I am your source of news on the web, dishwashing detergeant, and the twilight that occurs before sunrise.

Maybe I need to think about a surname.

Posted by: dawn at June 17, 2009 9:45 AM

I am a five-year-old boy that was dropped to his death off a 14-floor building by two kids, age 10 and 11.

I am very depressing.

Posted by: Snath at June 17, 2009 9:51 AM

So, mostly I am from Australia and the UK (I'm not, I'm United Statesian), and have a bevy of boring jobs.

My last name is a noun/descriptive noun, so I am also a type of cheesy floral china (also Australian! wtf?). Whomever owns that shit undoubtedly also has a shelf full of Precious Moments figurines.

Posted by: HB at June 17, 2009 9:53 AM

Eh, I'm boring. There's just the Who's Who thread on the Pajiba Facebook page, and some work-related stuff.

Posted by: Kolby at June 17, 2009 9:54 AM

Strangely enough I do not come up on Facebook or anything until really far into the search results. That kind of makes me happy.

Posted by: Snath at June 17, 2009 10:01 AM

Figgy, Tell your mom she needs to stop with the shakycam and the nonstop jump-cut editing, that is soooo 2008.

And I see you have mouse ears. Means any second now you'll be a burned-out has-been dumped-on cracked-up whore with two kids.

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at June 17, 2009 10:17 AM

There was a woman on Trading Spouses with my exact name, who was a racist homophobic thundertwat. My roommate at the time and I actually watched that episode and decided that she's "Bizarro Julie."

That's who comes up for me. Funsies.

Posted by: Julie at June 17, 2009 10:18 AM

My image search brings up many pictures of Amanda Peet.

Whom I look exactly like.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at June 17, 2009 10:23 AM

I used to be a combination of Ang Lee and Ridley Scott. Now I am an English football defender for Cheltenham Town Football club. Also an editor for Lightstalkers and I was in Rwanda "while the shit was hitting the fan". So I am athletic and brave. Which is kind of awesome.

Posted by: Lee at June 17, 2009 10:24 AM

Both yasmin.com and yaz.com are selling birth control...

Posted by: Yasmin at June 17, 2009 10:31 AM

Woo, apparently I'm a porn star! Sweet.

Posted by: Kelly at June 17, 2009 10:47 AM

I apparently made the honor roll in high school. And this one's really me! Good to know, seven years later.

Posted by: hellcat at June 17, 2009 11:00 AM

There are more of me than I thought. When I did this a couple years ago, there weren't that many of us. Now, there are tons (thanks to Facebook and LinkedIn, I guess).

One of us is a therapist of some kind, a couple are lawyers (one of whom was part of an appeal in the Fourth Circuit in a gender discrimination suit), some are in marketing, teaching, etc. Kinda boring. None of the entries are me (I'm not gonna check all 370,000+ results. Maybe I'm down there in result #255,000 or something, but if no one else is gonna look that far, I'm not going to, either. No porn stars.

Posted by: Slash at June 17, 2009 11:30 AM

I am the main subject of the first 4 listings and 5 of the first 6. Mostly just Facebook and other groups of which I am or have been a member.
A lot of violent criminals have my first name as their middle name along with my last name. Weird.

Posted by: Kballs at June 17, 2009 11:52 AM

Oh come on!

First result: "I have only seen *insert my name* once on TV and was impressed with his ball getting ability."

What the fucking fuck?

Posted by: James at June 17, 2009 12:02 PM

I got stuff on myself from Facebook and Twitter (including something innocuous I tweeted, which has for some reason been put on some German blog). And my sister-in-law's listing on a massage and ethnic therapy directory.
I have a unique name, so I'm not going to find anything which isn't me or my relatives. Bit dull, really...

Posted by: Tarn at June 17, 2009 12:16 PM

Apparantly, I'm Knicks Director of Basketball Administration.

I also found an Amazon list that I don't remember making 8 years ago and my old website that I had no idea was still up. Awesome.

Posted by: jamiepants at June 17, 2009 1:40 PM

I swear, even if I do something really awesome with my life, whenever I google my name the only results will be about Terminator.

Posted by: Sarah C at June 17, 2009 1:49 PM

Lee: "I used to be a combination of Ang Lee and Ridley Scott
- Ang Scott? Ridley Lee? (sorry that causes me chuckles to say out loud...)

Anna von Beaverplatz: My image search brings up many pictures of Amanda Peet. Whom I look exactly like." Just when I thought you couldn't get any more awesome ...... Does that make me shallow? I got a thing for Amanda Peet.... I'm gonna go blush now...

Posted by: Odnon at June 17, 2009 4:23 PM

"I swear, even if I do something really awesome with my life, whenever I google my name the only results will be about Terminator."

Wanna trade surnames? I'd much rather be the lady who gets to fuck Kyle Reese instead of dumb old George Clooney. I'll even accept the Brian Austin Green iteration, although I'm really aiming for some Michael Biehn action.

Posted by: Sarina at June 17, 2009 4:47 PM

Hmm...a doctor for one of my duplicates. And an F-16 pilot for the other one.


No, not feeling inadequate at all, why?

Posted by: Dristan at June 17, 2009 11:19 PM

A character actor, an NBA'er, a British lord...but I bet none of them can juggle!

Plus video clips... but none of the allure or sophistication of dedicated civil-servantry!

Best drink to cry into?

Posted by: CertGen at June 18, 2009 1:38 PM